A prominent cybersecurity executive is calling on the U.S. government to resist the urge to match China’s reported mandates around early vulnerability disclosure, warning that such a move would “meaningfully and dramatically increase the risk” of zero-day flaws landing in the wrong hands.
Lenovo Patches UEFI Code Execution Vulnerability Affecting Many Laptops
Lenovo has released a security advisory to inform customers that more than 70 of its laptops are affected by a UEFI/BIOS vulnerability that can lead to arbitrary code execution.
DLL Hijacking Flaw Fixed in Microsoft Azure Site Recovery
Microsoft’s massive Patch Tuesday rollout this month included fixes for multiple high-severity vulnerabilities impacting the Azure Site Recovery service.
Microsoft Releases Open Source Toolkit for Generating SBOMs
Software giant Microsoft has open-sourced its internal tool for generating SBOMs (software bill of materials) as part of a move to help organizations be more transparent about supply chain relationships between components used when building a software product.
Microsoft Patch Tuesday: 84 Windows Vulns, Including Already-Exploited Zero-Day
Microsoft has issued an urgent Patch Tuesday bulletin to warn of in-the-wild zero-day exploitation of a privilege escalation flaw in the Windows operating system.
Adobe Patch Tuesday: Critical Flaws in Acrobat, Reader, Photoshop
Software maker Adobe has rolled out a major security update for its flagship Acrobat and Reader products to fix at least 22 documented vulnerabilities, some serious enough to cause arbitrary code execution attacks.
Free Decryptors Released for AstraLocker Ransomware
Cybersecurity firm Emsisoft has released free decryptor tools for AstraLocker, a “smash-and-grab” ransomware family that was recently retired.
Microsoft Confirms Temporary Rollback of Macro Blocking Feature
Microsoft has confirmed that the recent rollback of a feature related to the blocking of internet macros in its Office suite is only temporary.
OpenSSL Patches Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
OpenSSL has issued an urgent advisory to warn of a memory corruption vulnerability that exposes servers to remote code execution attacks.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-2274, was introduced in OpenSSL 3.0.4 and could potentially allow malicious hackers to launch remote code attacks on unpatched SSL/TLS server side devices.
Marriott Confirms Small-Scale Data Breach
International hotel chain Marriott has confirmed that an unknown threat actor has accessed data on a computer at one of its hotels.












