by | Dec 16, 2022 | Uncategorized
GitHub on Thursday said it is making available its secret scanning service to all public repositories on the code hosting platform for free. “Secret scanning alerts notify you directly about leaked secrets in your code,” the company said, adding it’s...
by | Dec 16, 2022 | Uncategorized
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency within the Department of Commerce, announced Thursday that it’s formally retiring the SHA-1 cryptographic algorithm. SHA-1, short for Secure Hash Algorithm 1, is a 27-year-old hash...
by | Dec 16, 2022 | Uncategorized
Microsoft on Thursday flagged a cross-platform botnet that’s primarily designed to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against private Minecraft servers. Called MCCrash, the botnet is characterized by a unique spreading mechanism that allows it...
by | Dec 16, 2022 | Uncategorized
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added two vulnerabilities impacting Veeam Backup & Replication software to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the wild. The now-patched...
by | Dec 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
Microsoft has revised the severity of a security vulnerability it originally patched in September 2022, upgrading it to “Critical” after it emerged that it could be exploited to achieve remote code execution. Tracked as CVE-2022-37958 (CVSS score: 8.1),...
