The U.S. government’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday released the final version of its IPv6 security guidance for federal agencies.
CISA Releases Final IPv6 Security Guidance for Federal Agencies
Prolific Chinese APT Caught Using ‘MoonBounce’ UEFI Firmware Implant
Threat hunters at Kaspersky have spotted a well-known Chinese APT actor using an UEFI implant to maintain stealthy persistence across reboots, disk formatting or disk replacements.
Project Zero: Zoom Platform Missed ASLR Exploit Mitigation
A prominent security researcher poking around at the Zoom video conferencing platform found worrying signs the company failed to enable a decades-old anti-exploit mitigation, a blunder that greatly increased exposure to malicious hacker attacks.
Cloud Security Firm Polar Security Emerges From Stealth With $8.5 Million Seed Funding
Tel Aviv, Israel-based cloud security firm Polar Security has emerged from stealth with $8.5 million seed funding in a round led by Glilot Capital Partners with participation from IBI Tech Fund.
Multi-Factor Authentication Bypass Led to Box Account Takeover
A vulnerability in Box’s implementation of multi-factor authentication (MFA) allowed attackers to take over victim’s accounts without having access to the victim’s phone, according to new research from Varonis.
Cloud Detection and Response Firm Permiso Emerges From Stealth With $10M in Funding
Cloud infrastructure identity detection and response firm Permiso has emerged from stealth with $10 million seed funding. The company identifies and tracks human, machine, vendor and service provider identities in IaaS and PaaS infrastructures.
Details Published on AWS Flaws Leading to Data Leaks
Researchers at cloud security startup Orca Security have publicly documented a pair of vulnerabilities in AWS CloudFormation and AWS Glue that attackers could use to leak sensitive files or access other customers’ data.
FCC Chair Proposes New Policies for Carrier Data Breach Reporting
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel this week proposed updated policies around telecom providers’ reporting of data breaches.
Apple Patches iOS HomeKit Flaw After Researcher Warning
Apple has released an iOS security update with a fix for a persistent denial-of-service flaw in the HomeKit software framework but only after an independent researcher publicly criticized the company for ignoring his discovery.
Mozilla Patches High-Risk Firefox, Thunderbird Security Flaws
Mozilla has released Firefox 96 with patches for 18 security vulnerabilities affecting its flagship web browser and the Thunderbird mail program.
Of the newly patched security flaws, nine are rated high-severity while six carry a “medium-severity” rating.
