Serious Security: The Samba logon bug caused by outdated crypto
Samba, simply put, is a super-useful, mega-popular, open-source reimplementation of the networking protocols used in Microsoft Windows, and …
File Systems
Samba addressed multiple high-severity vulnerabilities
Samba released updates to address multiple vulnerabilities that can be exploited to take control of impacted systems. Samba released …
Samba Issues Security Updates to Patch Multiple High-Severity Vulnerabilities
Samba has released software updates to remediate multiple vulnerabilities that, if successfully exploited, could allow an attacker to take …
Threat Actors Use Malicious File Systems to Scale Crypto-Mining Operations
Threat actors have been observed using an open-source tool called PRoot to increase the scope of their operations to several Linux …
How bad actors are utilizing the InterPlanetary File Systems (IPFS)
With the continued rise in adoption of cloud services, bad actors are utilizing the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) as a new playing …
36% of orgs expose insecure FTP protocol to the internet, and some still use Telnet
A significant percentage of organizations expose insecure or highly sensitive protocols, including SMB, SSH, and Telnet, to the public …
1,000s of Phishing Attacks Blast Off From InterPlanetary File System
The peer-to-peer network IPFS offers an ingenious base for cyberattacks and is seeing a stratospheric increase in malicious …
Critical Samba bug could let anyone become Domain Admin – patch now!
Samba is a widely-used open source toolkit that not only makes it easy for Linux and Unix computers to talk to Windows networks, but also …
Western Digital fixes critical bug giving root on My Cloud NAS devices
Western Digital has fixed a critical severity vulnerability that enabled attackers to gain remote code execution with root privileges on …
Western Digital patches Samba bug giving root on My Cloud devices
Western Digital has fixed a critical severity vulnerability that enabled attackers to gain remote code execution with root privileges on …
Week in review: Samba vulnerability, phishing kits bypassing MFA, Patch Tuesday forecast
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles and interviews: February 2022 Patch Tuesday …
Remote code execution vulnerability in Samba due to macOS interop module
An exploit in Samba 4 allowed remote code as root due to a bug in its support for Mac clients. It’s fixed in 4.13.17, 4.14.12 and 4.15.5, …
CVSS 9.9-Rated Samba Bug Requires Immediate Patching
A critical vulnerability in a popular open-source networking protocol could allow attackers to execute code with root privileges unless …
Samba ‘Fruit’ Bug Allows RCE, Full Root User Access
A critical severity vulnerability in the Samba platform could allow attackers to gain remote code execution with root privileges on …