Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Citrix ADC and Gateway, the most severe of which could allow for Authentication Bypass. Citrix ADC and Gateway is an Application Delivery Controller and a gateway service to products respectively. Successful exploitation of the most severe of these vulnerabilities could result in Authentication Bypass. A malicious actor may be able to obtain administrative access. Depending on the permission associated with the application running the exploit, an attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data.
For enterprises that handle credit card data, which means just about every consumer-facing company, payment processing is a mission-critical system that requires the highest levels of security.
The volume of transactions conducted with general purpose credit cards (American Express, Discover, Mastercard, Visa, UnionPay in China, and JCB in Japan) totaled $581 billion in 2021, up 24.5% year-over-year, according to the Nilson Report.
However, credit card issuers, merchants, banks, and third-party transaction processors lost $28.58 billion to credit card fraud in 2020, which comes to nearly 7 cents per $100 in purchase volume. And the Nilson Report projects credit card losses will exceed $400 billion over the next 10 years.
Graham offers some security and privacy advice for those exodusing Twitter to Mastodon, and Carole slams the door shut on a notorious scammer with a huge Instagram following.
All this and more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning “Smashing Security” podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault.
Multiple security issues were discovered in Chromium, which could result
in the execution of arbitrary code, denial of service or information
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