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Long Before Colonial Pipeline, Red Flags Foreshadowed Hack

“There’s a lack of imagination or… anticipation about the next move that hackers will make," warned investigative journalist Kim Zetter during Black Hat this week.

Colonial Pipeline, Black Hat

Krebs: ‘We’ve Over-Fetishized the APT Threat’

Former CISA director Chris Krebs said at Black Hat that the community may have focused too much on APT groups in recent years.

Black Hat, Government

After Log4j, Efforts to ‘Uplift’ Open Source Ecosystem Continue

At Black Hat USA this week, Cyber Safety Review Board members tasked with looking at key lessons learned from Log4j talked about continued security issues facing the open source community.

Log4j

Microsoft Fixes Known, Exploited Flaw in Windows Diagnostic Tool

The flaw was first reported to Microsoft in 2019, but at the time it said it did not consider the issue to be a vulnerability.

Microsoft, Windows

Exploit Available for Critical VMware Bug CVE-2022-31656

A researchers has released a proof-of-concept exploit for CVE-2022-31656, a critical authentication bypass in VMware ONE Access.

Vmware