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What do basketball teams, government agencies, and car manufacturers have in common? Each one has been breached, having confidential, proprietary, or private information stolen and exposed by insiders. In each case, the motivations and methods varied, but the risk remained the same: insiders have access to too much data with too few controls. Insider threats continue to prove difficult for

Intel has released fixes to close out a high-severity flaw codenamed Reptar that impacts its desktop, mobile, and server CPUs. Tracked as CVE-2023-23583 (CVSS score: 8.8), the issue has the potential to "allow escalation of privilege and/or information disclosure and/or denial of service via local access." Successful exploitation of the vulnerability could also permit a bypass of the CPU's

The Shareaholic plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via 'shareaholic' shortcode in versions up to, and including, 9.7.8 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with contributor-level and above permissions to inject arbitrary web scripts in pages that will execute whenever a user accesses an injected page.

The Forminator plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary file uploads due to insufficient blacklisting on the 'forminator_allowed_mime_types' function in versions up to, and including, 1.27.0. This makes it possible for authenticated attackers with administrator-level capabilities or above to upload arbitrary files on the affected site's server, but due to the htaccess configuration, remote code cannot be executed.

Microsoft has released fixes to address 63 security bugs in its software for the month of November 2023, including three vulnerabilities that have come under active exploitation in the wild. Of the 63 flaws, three are rated Critical, 56 are rated Important, and four are rated Moderate in severity. Two of them have been listed as publicly known at the time of the release. The updates are in

Out-of-bounds read in the firmware for some Intel(R) E810 Ethernet Controllers and Adapters before version 1.7.1 may allow an unauthenticated user to potentially enable denial of service via adjacent access.

Incorrect default permissions in some Intel Arc RGB Controller software before version 1.06 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access.

Improper access control in user mode driver for some Intel(R) Connectivity Performance Suite before version 2.1123.214.2 may allow unauthenticated user to potentially enable information disclosure via network access.

Improper input validation in some OpenVINO Model Server software before version 2022.3 for Intel Distribution of OpenVINO toolkit may allow an unauthenticated user to potentially enable denial of service via network access.

Exposure of sensitive information to an unauthorized actor in some Intel(R) Aptio* V UEFI Firmware Integrator Tools may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable information disclosure via local access.