CISA joint advisory on access control. Are you still missing MFA?

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has issued a joint advisory with the cyber security organisations from the UK, New Zealand, Netherlands and Canada listing ten regularly exploited weak security controls, poor configurations, and bad practices that allow threat actors to compromise networks. Here is the article: Weak Security …

Silent Linux malware

The BPFdoor malware has been undetected in the wild for more than five years – infecting Linux and Solaris systems. The malware can give remote access to the shell and complete control to a compromised system. BPFdoor: Stealthy Linux malware bypasses firewalls for remote access (bleepingcomputer.com) The twist with this …

You really have got to check your WatchGuard devices – care more about them than WatchGuard does!

WatchGuard – a market leader in security devices – appears to have kept a significant vulnerability secret – although it did patch the issue. WatchGuard failed to explicitly disclose critical flaw exploited by Russian hackers | Ars Technica If they patched the issue, then surely everything is fine. Well no. …