Insights

Today, CISA published guidance on How Manufacturers Can Protect Customers by Eliminating Default Passwords as a part of our new Secure by Design (SbD) Alert series. This SbD Alert urges technology manufacturers to proactively eliminate the risk of default password exploitation by implementing principles one and three of the joint guidance, Shifting the Balance of Cybersecurity Risk: Principles and Approaches for Secure by Design Software: Take ownership of customer security outcomes. Build organizational structure and…

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FortiGuard has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in multiple FortiGuard products. A cyber threat actor could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. CISA encourages users and administrators to review the following advisories and apply necessary updates: FG-IR-23-196: Double free in cache management FG-IR-22-038: FortiMail, FortiNDR, FortiRecorder, FortiSwitch, FortiVoice – Cross-site scripting forgery (CSRF) in HTTPd CLI console FG-IR-23-138: FortiOS, FortiProxy – Format String Bug in HTTPSd

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CISA released seventeen Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on December 14, 2023. These advisories provide timely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits surrounding ICS. ICSA-23-348-01 Cambium ePMP 5GHz Force 300-25 Radio  ICSA-23-348-02 Johnson Controls Kantech Gen1 ioSmart ICSA-23-348-03 Siemens User Management Component (UMC) ICSA-23-348-04 Siemens LOGO! and SIPLUS LOGO! ICSA-23-348-05 Siemens SIMATIC and SIPLUS Products ICSA-23-348-06 Siemens OPC UA Implementation in SINUMERIK ONE and SINUMERIK MC ICSA-23-348-07 Siemens SIMATIC STEP 7 (TIA Portal)…

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Today, CISA—along with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), National Security Agency (NSA), Polish Military Counterintelligence Service (SKW), CERT Polska (CERT.PL), and the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)—released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA), Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Exploiting JetBrains TeamCity CVE Globally. Since September 2023, Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR)-affiliated cyber actors (also known as Advanced Persistent Threat 29 (APT 29), the Dukes, CozyBear, and NOBELIUM/Midnight Blizzard) have been targeting servers hosting JetBrains…

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The Apache Software Foundation has released security updates to address a vulnerability (CVE-2023-50164) in Struts 2. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to take control of an affected system. Users and administrators are encouraged to review the Apache Security Bulletin and upgrade to Struts 2.5.33 or Struts 6.3.0.2 or greater.

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Today, CISA released the draft Secure Cloud Business Applications (SCuBA) Google Workspace (GWS) Secure Configuration Baselines and the associated assessment tool ScubaGoggles for public comment. The draft baselines offer minimum viable security configurations for nine GWS services: Groups for Business, Google Calendar, Google Common Controls, Google Classroom, Google Meet, Gmail, Google Chat, Google Drive and Docs, and Google Sites. The ScubaGoggles tool assesses GWS tenants’ compliance against the baselines.    Federal agencies and other organizations are invited…

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Microsoft has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in multiple products. A cyber threat actor could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. CISA encourages users and administrators to review Microsoft’s December Security Update Guide and apply the necessary updates.

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