Patch Your FireFox Browser

Patch your Firefox browser. Security advisories have just been released for Mozilla Firefox about a number of vulnerabilities that could allow for arbitrary code execution. Some of those security issues include Firefox for Android may open third-party apps without a...

GitHub Rolling Out Mandatory 2FA from This Week

GitHub has begun a gradual roll out of requiring active developers to enable two-factor authentication on their accounts. This is part of the company’s move towards securing the supply chain by moving away from basic password-based authentication. In addition to...

Brute Force Attacks Against Popular Web Services

Researchers at Palo Alto Networks have spotted a brute force botnet malware that are targeting web servers running phpMyAdmin, MySQL, FTP and Postgres services. The Golang based botnet will attempt to brute force accounts with weak or default passwords. Once it has...

Optus Breach Due to Skilled Cyber Criminal

The Sydney Morning Herald has reported that the chief executive of Optus has maintained that the cyberattack on her organisation in September last year was perpetrated by a skilled cybercriminal. She said that the attacker had knowledge of Optus’ systems and cycled...

Top 10 Open Source Software Risks of 2023

Endor Labs, in collaboration with 20 CISOs and technology veterans have identified the top 10 open source risks of 2023. They are: 1. Known vulnerabilities. – Where developers accidentally introduce a component that contains vulnerable code 2. Compromise of...

Android March Updates Addresses Two Critical Vulnerabilities

Google has released its March 2023 security updates for Android. The update addresses 60 flaws including two critical-severity remote code execution vulnerabilities. The two flaws are tracked as CVE-2023-20951 and CVE-2023-20954. Google is currently withholding...