Welcome to TheCyberThrone cybersecurity week in review will be posted covering the important security happenings. This review is for the week ending Saturday, July 20, 2024.
CrowdStrike Strikes Microsoft – Aftermath
CrowdStrike a major cybersecurity platform, is facing an outage. Many users across India, Japan, Canada, Australia and many other countries have been affected by the issue.
The Blue Screen of Death (BSOD), officially known as stop error by Microsoft, is a critical system error on Windows operating systems. It indicates a severe issue that requires urgent fix. When a system experiences BSOD, all operations are halted to prevent further damage, often resulting in the loss of unsaved work. Despite its seemingly small nature, the blue screen of death is a significant problem, ranked closely to cyber issues like malware or ransomware………
Atlassian fixes High Severity Vulnerabilities -CVE-2024-21686 & CVE-2024-21687
Atlassian has released patches for two high-severity vulnerabilities affecting its widely used products, Bamboo and Confluence. These security flaws have the potential to compromise sensitive data and disrupt operations for organizations relying on these platforms……..
Apache Linkis fixes Several Vulnerabilities
Apache Linkis has released security updates to address three vulnerabilities in its DataSource module. These vulnerabilities, could allow attackers to read arbitrary files, execute remote code, and perform JNDI injection attacks……..
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Cisco fixes Critical Vulnerability -CVE-2024-20419
Cisco has released a patch for critical vulnerability in Cisco Smart Software Manager On-Prem (Cisco SSM On-Prem) license servers that allow attackers to change any user’s password.
The vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-20419 with a CVSS score of 10 is due to an improper implementation in the password-change process. Threat actors can trigger the vulnerability by sending specially crafted HTTP requests to vulnerable devices…..
Decoding CrowdStrike Technical details on the outage
On Saturday, CrowdStrike said a bad “sensor configuration update” in its Falcon cybersecurity platform was to blame for a massive global computer outage. The disastrous patch knocked approximately 8.5 million Windows devices offline, paralyzing airlines, hospitals, and financial institutions globally.
The CrowdStrike Falcon cloud managed platform is a unified set of cloud-delivered technologies that prevent all types of attacks. It has several core functions that include antivirus, endpoint detection and response, cyber threat intelligence, managed threat hunting abilities, and security hygiene.,……
This brings end of this week in review security coverage. Thanks for visiting TheCyberThrone. If you like us please follow us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram
