Five Eyes alliance lists 2021’s top vulnerabilities

A cybersecurity advisory issued by members of the ‘Five Eyes’ intelligence alliance lists the most-exploited vulnerabilities of 2021.

The Five Eyes consists of the US, UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. Over recent weeks, cybersecurity authorities from the normally secretive alliance have issued a number of joint statements amid increasing global threats.

According to the alliance, here were the top 15 “routinely exploited” vulnerabilities in...

28 April 2022 | Hacking & Security

Spring4Shell vulnerability could have ‘a larger impact’ than Log4j

A newly-discovered zero-day vulnerability known as Spring4Shell could have “a larger impact” than Log4j.

Log4j made waves in recent months as the vulnerability in the popular open-source logging library enabled attackers to break into systems, steal passwords and logins, extract data, and infect networks with malicious software.

However, attention is now shifting to the Spring4Shell exploit.

Spring4Shell is a zero-day remote code execution (RCE)...

31 March 2022 | Frameworks

Google wants to increase government collaboration to secure open-source

Google says that it wants to increase government collaboration to help secure open-source after participating in a White House summit.

On Thursday, Google participated in the White House Open Source Software Security Summit with the aim of building on its “work with the Administration to strengthen America’s collective cybersecurity through critical areas like open-source software.”

The past year has been particularly bad for open-source security problems, with...

14 January 2022 | Hacking & Security