Security Leftovers
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2023-07-19 [Older] Cyber Resilience Act & Free Software: Parliament waters down its own position
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Microsoft 365 Breach Risk Widens to Millions of Azure AD Apps
China-linked APT actors could have single-hop access to the gamut of Microsoft cloud services and apps, including SharePoint, Teams, and OneDrive, among many others.
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Azure breach: Microsoft okays Wiz post on continued danger, then denies it
The company is mentioned in that same post as having checked the content for technical accuracy. Shir Tamari, a researcher from cloud security firm Wiz, said very clearly: "..we want to thank the Microsoft team for working closely with us on this blog and helping us ensure it is technically accurate."
Microsoft's obfuscation was made to the CIA-funded site, The Record. The software giant has not put out any official post on this. While some others have pointed out the company's double-speak on the issue, no American tech site has written it up and focused on the fact that Microsoft is saying one thing now, having said precisely the opposite earlier.
The Record quotes a Microsoft spokesperson as saying: "Many of the claims made in this blog are speculative and not evidence-based. We’ve also recently expanded security logging availability, making it free for more customers by default, to help enterprises manage an increasingly complex threat landscape.”
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Meet the Finalists for the 2023 Pwnie Awards
Hosts Sophia d'Antoine and Ian Roos presented the list at Summercon in Brooklyn, where they also handed out a surprise Lifetime Achievement Award.
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Linux Kernel DoS, Privilege Escalation Bugs Fixed
Multiple significant security vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel, including a remotely exploitable null pointer dereference flaw in the networking protocol (CVE-2023-3338), use-after-free vulnerabilities in kernel's netfilter subsystem in net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c (CVE-2023-3390) and nft_chain_lookup_byid() (CVE-2023-31248), and an out-of-bounds read/write vulnerability (CVE-2023-35001). These bugs are easy to exploit and pose a severe risk to your system's confidentiality, integrity, and availability. As a result, they have received a National Vulnerability Database severity rating of ''High''.