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Microsoft Fixes Six Actively Exploited Bugs

Overall, Microsoft fixed dozens of vulnerabilities in its August patch Tuesday updates.

Microsoft

Exploit Code Available For Critical Ivanti vTM Bug

Ivanti has fixed a critical-severity flaw in its Virtual Traffic Manager (vTM), which if exploited could enable attackers to bypass authentication and create a user with administrator privileges.

Vulnerability

Humans Are Bad at Risk Assessment, and Other Stories

Risk management is not one of humanity's strong points, but we can learn some lessons from our own real life experiences to apply to our security careers.

Risk Management

What We Learned at Black Hat 2024

Dennis Fisher and Lindsey O'Donnell-Welch reflect on their week in Las Vegas at Black Hat and discuss the talks they liked, including Moxie Marlinspike's keynote and the Google Project Zero retrospective, and the other topics they found interesting, including vulnerability exploitation versus social engineering and the AI ecosystem.

Video, Black Hat

FBI Disrupts Radar/Dispossessor Ransomware Group

The FBI has disrupted a ransomware operation called Radar/Dispossessor, which has targeted at least 43 companies by leveraging weak passwords with a lack of two-factor authentication.

Ransomware