Insights

Original release date: November 3, 2022 Cisco has released security updates for vulnerabilities affecting multiple products. A remote attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. For updates addressing lower severity vulnerabilities, see the Cisco Security Advisories page. CISA encourages users and administrators to review the advisories and apply the necessary updates. This product is provided subject to this Notification and this Privacy & Use policy.

Read More

Original release date: November 3, 2022 Apple has released a security update to address vulnerabilities in Xcode. A remote attacker could exploit one of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) encourages users and administrators to review the Apple security page for Xcode 14.1 and apply the necessary update. This product is provided subject to this Notification and this Privacy & Use policy.

Read More

Original release date: November 1, 2022 OpenSSL has released a security advisory to address two vulnerabilities, CVE-2022-3602 and CVE-2022-3786, affecting OpenSSL versions 3.0.0 through 3.0.6. Both CVE-2022-3602 and CVE-2022-3786 can cause a denial of service. According to OpenSSL, a cyber threat actor leveraging CVE-2022-3786, “can craft a malicious email address to overflow four attacker-controlled bytes on the stack. This buffer overflow could result in a crash (causing a denial of service) or potentially remote code…

Read More

Original release date: November 1, 2022 Today, CISA officially upgraded to Traffic Light Protocol (TLP) 2.0, which facilitates greater information sharing and collaboration. CISA made this upgrade in accordance with the recommendation from the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams to upgrade to TLP 2.0 by January 2023. Key TLP 2.0 updates: TLP 2.0 changes TLP:WHITE to TLP:CLEAR. TLP 2.0 adds the designation TLP:AMBER+STRICT, which instructs the recipient to keep the information strictly within…

Read More

Original release date: November 1, 2022 CISA released one Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisory on November 1, 2022. This advisory provides timely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits surrounding ICS. CISA encourages users and administrators to review the newly released ICS advisory for technical details and mitigations: ICSA-22-221-01 Mitsubishi Electric Multiple Factory Automation Products (Update C) This product is provided subject to this Notification and this Privacy & Use policy.

Read More

Original release date: October 31, 2022 CISA has released two fact sheets to highlight threats against accounts and systems using certain forms of multifactor authentication (MFA). CISA strongly urges all organizations to implement phishing-resistant MFA to protect against phishing and other known cyber threats. If an organization using mobile push-notification-based MFA is unable to implement phishing-resistant MFA, CISA recommends using number matching to mitigate MFA fatigue. Although number matching is not as strong as phishing-resistant…

Read More

Original release date: October 28, 2022 CISA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) have released Understanding and Responding to Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks to provide organizations proactive steps to reduce the likelihood and impact of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The guidance is for both network defenders and leaders to help them understand and respond to DDoS attacks, which can cost an organization time, money, and reputational damage.…

Read More

Original release date: October 28, 2022 VMware has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities in VMware Cloud Foundation. A remote attacker could exploit one of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. CISA encourages users and administrators to review VMware Security Advisory VMSA-2022-002 and apply the necessary updates and workarounds. This product is provided subject to this Notification and this Privacy & Use policy.

Read More