[Dark Reading] 5 Cybersecurity Tips for Higher Education Institutions

Serious flaw affecting major BGP implementations can be exploited to cause prolonged internet outages, but several vendors have not patched it.

Discover critical Linux kernel vulnerabilities fixed in Ubuntu's USN-6250-1 update. Stay secure! #LinuxSecurity #CVEFixes #UbuntuUpdate

Tavis Ormandy, a researcher with Google Information Security, posted today about a new vulnerability he independently found in AMD's Zen 2 processors. The 'Zenbleed' vulnerability spans the entire Zen 2 product stack, including AMD's EPYC data center processors and the Ryzen 3000/4000/5000 CPUs.

Kevin Mitnick, probably the world's most-famous computer hacker – and subsequently writer, public speaker, and security consultant – has succumbed to pancreatic cancer. He was 59.

The Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU) has discovered a remote code execution vulnerability in OpenSSH’s forwarded ssh-agent. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to potentially execute arbitrary commands on vulnerable OpenSSH’s forwarded ssh-agent.