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Google Project Zero: Vendors are Now Quicker at Fixing Zero-days Google’s Project Zero has published a report showing that organizations took less time to address the zero-day vulnerabilities that the team reported last year. As the data shows, the average period software vendors needed to issue security fixes reported by Project Zero last year was
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is establishing a framework for equitable sharing of scam losses or for the distribution of damages from scams among consumers and financial institutions. The regulator also stated on February 4, 2022, that it is working with the banking industry on “longer-term measures” to improve digital banking security. Legal experts
CISA Urges Orgs to Patch Actively Exploited Windows SeriousSAM Bug The U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added to the catalog of vulnerabilities another 15 security issues actively used in cyberattacks. CISA’s warning about these vulnerabilities serves as a wake-up call to all system administrators that they need to prioritize installing security updates
Microsoft Fixes Defender Flaw Letting Hackers Bypass Antivirus Scans Microsoft has recently addressed a weakness in the Microsoft Defender Antivirus on Windows that allowed attackers to plant and execute malicious payloads without triggering Defender’s malware detection engine. This security flaw [1, 2] affected the latest Windows 10 versions, and threat attackers could abuse it since at least 2014.