DDoS Protection , Incident & Breach Response , Security Operations ISP Belnet Targeted by Waves of Attacks Doug Olenick (DougOlenick) • May 5, 2021 The websites of about 200 public and private entities in Belgium were knocked fully or partially offline Tuesday by a distributed denial-of-service attack against the publicly funded internet service…
Ethical hackers now have many more targets within the Defense Department, DOD officials announced. The department is expanding its Vulnerability Disclosure Program to include all publicly accessible DOD information systems. The program grew out of the success of the “Hack the Pentagon” initiative that began in 2016. That initiative enabled the Defense Digital Service…
21 nails in Exim mail server: Vulnerabilities enable ‘full remote unauthenticated code execution’, millions of servers at risk | IT Security News 5. May 2021 Nearly 4 million to be exact, say researchers Researchers at security biz Qualys discovered 21 vulnerabilities in Exim, a popular mail server, which can be chained to obtain “a full…
Governance & Risk Management , IT Risk Management , Patch Management Experts Stress Importance of Upgrading the Tool and Auditing Files Prajeet Nair (@prajeetspeaks) • May 5, 2021 A patch has been issued for a serious vulnerability that affects PHP Composer – a tool used to manage and install software dependencies in the…
There are a huge hidden number of coronavirus cases in rural India, the director of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics and Policy, Dr Ramanan Laxminarayan has said. The majority of India’s population live in rural areas where there are few medical facilities, he told BBC World News. “You won’t see long lines outside hospitals…
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi has not rejected coronavirus lockdowns but has left it to individual states to impose measures from curfews to full lockdowns, the national spokesperson for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Shaina Nana Chudasama, has said. “Each state is given the choice to decide whether they want to impose a curfew,…
From the data gathered so far, it’s estimated that hundreds of millions of Dell desktops, laptops, and tablets have received the driver containing the vulnerability through various BIOS updates. Collectively tracked as CVE-2021-21551, five flaws have been discovered in DBUtil, a driver from that Dell machines. Kasif Dekel, a security researcher at cybersecurity company SentinelOne,…
India’s opposition Congress party is calling for a full lockdown in order for the country to get on top of the current wave of coronavirus. Spokesman Pawan Khera said the government had ignored the warnings of experts and been too slow to react to the scale of the current epidemic. He told BBC World News:…
The maintainers of Exim have released patches to remediate as many as 21 security vulnerabilities in its software that could enable unauthenticated attackers to achieve complete remote code execution and gain root privileges. Collectively named ’21Nails,’ the flaws include 11 vulnerabilities that require local access to the server and 10 other weaknesses that could be…
Hardware maker has issued an update to fix multiple critical privilege escalation vulnerabilities that have gone undetected since 2009. Hundreds of millions of Dell laptops, notebooks, and tablets are at risk of compromise from a set of five high-severity flaws that have been undetected since at least 2009. The flaws allow an attacker who already has…
