Isaiah WashingtonFollowFeb 6·8 min readby Isaiah Washington$3B+ lost to smart-contract exploits in 2022 (Chainalysis) exposes the immaturity of the security landscape and the underuse...
A high-severity vulnerability (CVE-2022-23529) has been discovered in the popular JsonWebToken (JWT) open source encryption project, which could be used by attackers to achieve...
Unpatched software is a computer code containing known security weaknesses. Unpatched vulnerabilities refer to weaknesses that allow attackers to leverage a known security bug that has not been patched by running malicious code. Software vendors write additions to the codes, known as "patches," when they come to know about these application vulnerabilities to secure these weaknesses.
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Popular cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has a white hat hacker to thank after he discovered a potential security flaw that could have resulted in devastating losses for customers. Coinbase Could Have Been Stuck in a Rut The security engineer who discovered the problem goes by the name Tree of Alpha. A real name is unknown at...
Researchers have revealed details of a now-patched high-severity security vulnerability in Apache Cassandra that, if left unaddressed, could be abused to gain remote code execution on affected installations. "This Apache security vulnerability is easy to exploit and has the potential to wreak havoc on systems, but luckily only manifests in non-default configurations of Cassandra," Omer Kaspi,
Several vulnerabilities, including some that have been rated “critical,” were found in the past months in Moxa’s MXview industrial network management software.
The popular continuous-delivery platform has a path-traversal bug (CVE-2022-24348) that could allow cyberattackers to hop from one application ecosystem to another.
Network-attached storage (NAS) solutions manufacturer QNAP on Wednesday warned users of a DeadBolt ransomware campaign targeting their devices, encouraging them to correctly secure any Internet-facing NAS and routers.