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Oct 22, 2026Splunk and SolarWinds this week released patches for multiple vulnerabilities, including flaws leading to code execution, privilege escalation, denial-of-service (DoS), and information disclosure. On Wednesday, Splunk rolled out security updates for...
Oct 22, 2026Websites around the globe have gone dark after a serious vulnerability was found in a computer language used to build much of the world wide web. Belgian, Dutch, Finnish, French and German sites were among those that governments took down temporaril...
Oct 22, 2026All websites using the common programming language should update to the latest security patch. One of the two major issues impacting web security this morning has had a ripple effect. In the wake of an announcement from the PHP Foundation that it wa...
Oct 22, 2026Critical vulnerabilities in the PHP web scripting language could allow hackers to take control of any website running the widely used software, PHP's developers said on Wednesday, as they released emergency updates that sent website owners scrambling...
Oct 22, 2026An Indian company's serious error in creating high-level encryption certificates has prompted major web browsers to block the certificates before hackers can use them to spoof websites. The issue involves intermediate certificates created by the Ind...
Oct 22, 2026High-severity flaws are exploited faster; ransomware remains the dominant threat; the US is the world's most targeted country, and attacks increasingly involve the use of AI (but largely manually rather than autonomously). Rapid7's threat analysis f...
Oct 22, 2026Eight intermediate certificates issued by Indian certificate authority eMudhra were secured with private keys so weak that anyone could recover them from the public certificates in under a second. On its website, the company highlights that it has i...
Oct 22, 2026The tech world is racing to implement fixes after the discovery of critical security vulnerabilities in software used to power much of the internet. The software, known as PHP, is an open-source programming language widely used to power websites and...
Oct 21, 2026GitLab released fixes on October 21 for a flaw that lets an attacker run code on a self-managed server without logging in, and it affects every version of the software going back to 7.0, released in 2014. The fix matters even for administrators who ...
Oct 21, 2026Hackers compromised the infrastructure of Onamae Desktop Cloud, a popular provider of VPS services in Japan, and installed malware on up to 26,739 customers' servers. The company confirmed on October 20 that an unauthorized third party installed "ma...
Oct 21, 2026Security teams are scrambling to remediate two critical PHP vulnerabilities following leaked details and reports of exploitation attempts. A pair of critical vulnerabilities tied to open source scripting language PHP appear to have significant conse...
Oct 21, 2026Research finds that, among respondents experiencing data loss, only 16% said DLP blocked their most significant incidents before data left the organization. ### October 21, 2026 ### PRESS RELEASE SEATTLE — (BUSINESS WIRE) — Data loss preve...