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Tax Season Ushers in Quickbooks Data-Theft Spike
Quickbooks malware targets tax data for attackers to sell and use in phishing scams.
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Cisco Warns of Critical Auth-Bypass Security Flaw
Cisco also stomped out a critical security flaw affecting its Nexus 3000 Series Switches and Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches.
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VMWare Patches Critical RCE Flaw in vCenter Server
The vulnerability, one of three patched by the company this week, could allow threat actors to breach the external perimeter of a data center or leverage backdoors already installed to take over a system.
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Mozilla Releases Security Updates for Thunderbird, Firefox ESR, and Firefox
Original release date: February 24, 2021 Mozilla has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities in Thunderbird 78.8, Firefox ESR 78.8, and Firefox 86. An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. CISA encourages users and administrators to review the Mozilla security advisories and apply the necessary updates. This…
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VMware Releases Multiple Security Updates
Original release date: February 24, 2021 VMware has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities–CVE-2021-21972, CVE-2021-21973, CVE-2021-21974—ESXi, vCenter Server, and Cloud Foundation. A remote attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. CISA encourages users and administrators to review VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2021-0002 and apply the necessary updates. This…
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Nvidia’s Anti-Cryptomining Chip May Not Discourage Attacks
The hotly anticipated ray-tracing, advanced gaming graphics chip will throttle Ethereum mining.
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Daycare Webcam Service Exposes 12,000 User Accounts
NurseryCam suspends service across 40 daycare centers until a security fix is in place.
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CISA Releases Joint Cybersecurity Advisory on Exploitation of Accellion File Transfer Appliance
Original release date: February 24, 2021 The cybersecurity authorities of Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, the United Kingdom, and the United States have released Joint Cybersecurity Advisory AA21-055A: Exploitation of Accellion File Transfer Appliance. Cyber actors worldwide have exploited vulnerabilities in Accellion File Transfer Appliance to attack multiple federal, and state, local, tribal, and territorial government…
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AA21-055A: Exploitation of Accellion File Transfer Appliance
Original release date: February 24, 2021 Summary This joint advisory is the result of a collaborative effort by the cybersecurity authorities of Australia,[1] New Zealand,[2] Singapore,[3] the United Kingdom,[4] and the United States.[5][6] These authorities are aware of cyber actors exploiting vulnerabilities in Accellion File Transfer Appliance (FTA).[7] This activity has impacted organizations globally, including…
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IBM Squashes Critical Remote Code-Execution Flaw
A critical-severity buffer-overflow flaw that affects IBM Integration Designer could allow remote attackers to execute code.