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Guarding the gates: a look at critical infrastructure security in 2023

CIO

Uncovering the domestic and foreign threats to critical infrastructure Critical infrastructure refers to the physical and virtual systems and assets so vital to our society that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on security, national economic stability, public health, or safety.

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More on the PAN-OS CVE-2024-3400

Palo Alto Networks

Further, we explored workarounds and threat prevention signatures and determined the exact combination of configurations that made the system vulnerable to a compromise. The second bug (trusting that the files were system-generated) used the filenames as part of a command. How Was It Exploited? What Else Is Palo Alto Networks Doing?

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CVE-2023-4966 (CitrixBleed): Invalidate Active or Persistent Sessions To Prevent Further Compromise

Tenable

Researchers including Kevin Beaumont, who has been instrumental in sounding the alarm around CitrixBleed , have observed the theft of session tokens from vulnerable systems that have been leveraged post patch. Identifying affected systems Customers can utilize the plugins available for CVE-2023-4966 to identify vulnerable devices.

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Microsoft’s May 2024 Patch Tuesday Addresses 59 CVEs (CVE-2024-30051, CVE-2024-30040)

Tenable

A local attacker with a presence on a vulnerable system could exploit this vulnerability to gain SYSTEM privileges. Researchers at Kaspersky have linked this zero-day vulnerability to QakBot and other malware. Once exploited, an attacker could execute code on the target system. Discovery of this flaw is unattributed.

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CVE-2023-2868: Barracuda and FBI Recommend Replacing Email Security Gateway (ESG) Devices Immediately

Tenable

Analysis CVE-2023-2868 is a remote command injection vulnerability in Barracuda ESG appliances due to improper handling of emails with attachments. Mandiant refers to this group as UNC4841. These additional malware families are known as SKIPJACK and FOXTROT / FOXGLOVE.

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Enterprise IT moves forward — cautiously — with generative AI

CIO

Normally Cenkl reviews résumés and searches by skills tags to find the right people for a project. And over at used car retailer CarMax, they’ve been using generative AI for over a year, leveraging OpenAI’s APIs to consolidate customer review text to summaries that are more manageable and readable. That’s incredibly powerful.”

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What is Incident Response?

xmatters

When a service is down, a system is failing, or a security issue is in the midst of occurring, organizations need a solid incident response process to get up and running again. The term refers to the steps the organization takes to mitigate the incident’s consequences. What is Incident Response? The Anatomy of Incident Response.