Software Supply Chain Security

Securing the Software Supply Chain: Checkmarx One Expands its Offerings
The software supply chain is under siege. Threat actors increasingly exploit weaknesses in code repositories, dependencies and mismanaged secrets to infiltrate and disrupt software development processes. In response, organizations are turning to ...
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Microsoft Fixes Four 0-Days — One Exploited for SIX YEARS
Richi Jennings | | CVE-2024-38014, CVE-2024-38217, CVE-2024-38226, CVE-2024-43491, KB5043083, KB5043936, Mark of the Web, Microsoft, Microsoft Patch Tuesday September 2024, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Zero Day, Patch Tuesday, SB Blogwatch, Windows, Windows Update
Week B: Bugs begone! This month Redmond fixes 79 security flaws in Windows and other products ...
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Yikes, YubiKey Vulnerable — ‘EUCLEAK’ FIDO FAIL?
Richi Jennings | | CVE-2024-45678, ECDSA, EUCLEAK, FIDO, FIDO2, Infineon, Passkeys, SB Blogwatch, YSA-2024-03, Yubikey
USB MFA SCA😱: Infineon hardware and software blamed for timing side-channel attack on popular auth tokens ...
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China Cyberwar Coming? Versa’s Vice: Volt Typhoon’s Target
Richi Jennings | | CenturyLink, china, china espionage, China-linked Hackers, China-nexus cyber attacks, China-nexus cyber espionage, CVE-2024-39717, Lumen, Lumen Technologies, Peoples Republic of China, SB Blogwatch, Versa Director, Versa Neworks, VersaMem, Volt Typhoon
Xi whiz: Versa Networks criticized for swerving the blame ...
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Patch Tuesday not Done ’til LINUX Won’t Run?
Richi Jennings | | CVE-2022-2601, Dual boot, GRUB2 Bootloader Secure Boot Bypass, Linux, Microsoft, Microsoft Patch Tuesday August 2024, Microsoft Windows, Patch Tuesday, SB Blogwatch, SBAT, secure boot, Secure Boot Advanced Targeting, Windows
Redmond reboot redux: “Something has gone seriously wrong.” You can say that again, Microsoft ...
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August Patch Pileup: Microsoft’s Zero-Day Doozy Dump
Richi Jennings | | Adobe patch, august patch tuesday, CVE-2024-21302, CVE-2024-38106, CVE-2024-38107, CVE-2024-38178, CVE-2024-38189, CVE-2024-38193, CVE-2024-38199, CVE-2024-38200, CVE-2024-38202, CVE-2024-38213, Microsoft patch tuesday, Microsoft Patch Tuesday August 2024, Patch Tuesday, SB Blogwatch
See These CVEs: Patch Tuesday—ten zero-days, seven Critical vulns, zero time to waste ...
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WTH? DPRK WFH Ransomware Redux: 3rd Person Charged
Richi Jennings | | Andrew M., DPRK, Korea, Korean military, Korean ransomware, Matthew Isaac Knoot, North Korea, North Korean Hacking, North Korean Threat Actors, northkorea, Noth Korea, SB Blogwatch
North Korean army of remote IT workers enabled by Matthew Isaac Knoot, alleges DoJ ...
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CrowdStrike Sued? — Delta Dials David Boies
Richi Jennings | | CrowdStrike, CrowdStrike Falcon, CrowdStrike incident;, Delta Airlines, falcon, SB Blogwatch
Is Delta the First of Many? Airline calls in attorneys Boies Schiller Flexner to claw back its cash ...
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PKfail: 800+ Major PC Models have Insecure ‘Secure Boot’
Richi Jennings | | Binarly, BIOS, BIOS update, Certificate and Key Management, hardware supply chain, key management, Key Management Problem, PKfail, Private Key Management, SB Blogwatch, secure boot, UEFI, UEFI Failing, UEFI firmware, UEFI vulnerabilities, Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)
Big BIOS bother: Hundreds of PC models from vendors such as HP, Lenovo, Dell, Intel, Acer and Gigabyte shipped with useless boot protection—using private keys that aren’t private ...
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CrowdStrike Admits it Doesn’t ‘Canary’ Test all Updates
Richi Jennings | | canary deployment, CrowdStrike, CrowdStrike Falcon, CrowdStrike Falcon XDR, Downtime and outages, outage, Outage Investigation, SB Blogwatch
Corporate incompetence: Beleaguered security firm issues initial post-mortem on Friday’s faux pas ...
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