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Extra, Extra, VERT Reads All About It: Cybersecurity News for the Week of August 22, 2022
All of us at Tripwire’s Vulnerability Exposure and Research Team (VERT) are constantly looking out for interesting stories and developments in the infosec world. Here’s what cybersecurity news stood out to us ...
Extra, Extra, VERT Reads All About It: Cybersecurity News for the Week of June 20, 2022
All of us at Tripwire’s Vulnerability Exposure and Research Team (VERT) are constantly looking out for interesting stories and developments in the infosec world. Here’s what cybersecurity news stood out to us ...
Security Researchers Awarded over $250,000 for Reporting 55 Vulnerabilities in Apple’s Bug Bounty Program
A comprehensive three-month analysis of Apple’s online services has netted a team of security researchers a $288,500 reward after reporting critical vulnerabilities as part of its bug bounty program. In total, the ...
Tripwire Patch Priority Index for August 2020
Tripwire‘s August 2020 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together important vulnerabilities from Microsoft, Adobe, and Apple. Up first on the patch priority list this month are patches for Microsoft and Apple for ...
Cybercriminals Are Infiltrating Netgear Routers with Ancient Attack Methods
It would be heartening to think that cybersecurity has advanced since the 1990s, but some things never change. Vulnerabilities that some of us first saw in 1996 are still with us. If ...
Tripwire Patch Priority Index for July 2020
Tripwire’s July 2020 Patch Priority Index (PPI) brings together important vulnerabilities from Microsoft, F5 Networks, Cisco, and Oracle. Up first on the patch priority list this month are patches for F5 Networks ...
How any Instagram account could be hacked in less than 10 minutes
A security researcher has been awarded $30,000 after discovering a serious vulnerability that could potentially have put any Instagram account at risk of being hacked. Following a recent increase in rewards offered ...
Drupal Patches Highly Critical Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Websites based on the Drupal content management system might be affected by a highly critical vulnerability that could result in remote code execution. The vulnerability affects websites running Drupal 8 with RESTful ...
Adobe Reader and Acrobat Get Patches for Two Critical Flaws
Adobe Systems released new security patches for Adobe Reader and Acrobat to fix two critical vulnerabilities that could allow hackers to execute malicious code on computers. Both flaws were reported privately by ...
Zero-Day Exploit Published for VM Escape Flaw in VirtualBox
A security researcher disclosed a yet unpatched zero-day vulnerability in the popular VirtualBox virtualization software that can be exploited from a guest operating system to break out of the virtual machine and ...
