Monthly Archives: May 2019

Microsoft wants to improve routing security

The Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS) initiative, supported by the Internet Society, announced that Microsoft has joined the program whose primary objective is to reduce the most common threats to the Internet’s routing system. Routing security is vital to the future and stability of the Internet. Last year alone, there were 12,600 routing outages or incidents such as route hijacking and leaks that led to large-scale Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, stolen … More ? The post Microsoft wants to improve routing security appeared first on Help Net Security .

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Attackers actively exploiting Atlassian Confluence and Oracle WebLogic flaws

Attackers are actively exploiting recently fixed vulnerabilities in Oracle WebLogic and the Widget Connector macro in Atlassian Confluence to deliver ransomware, mine cryptocurrency and make the compromised machines participate in DDoS attacks. The Oracle WebLogic attacks CVE-2019-2725 is a deserialization remote command execution vulnerability that affects all Oracle WebLogic versions that have two specific components enabled. It was publicly revealed on April 21 and Oracle published an out-of-band security fix for it on April 25. … More ? The post Attackers actively exploiting Atlassian Confluence and Oracle WebLogic flaws appeared first on Help Net Security .

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