Reuters reports that interest in acquiring U.S.-Japanese cybersecurity firm Trend Micro, which counts Microsoft, McAfee, CrowdStrike, and Palo Alto Networks as its competitors, has escalated among private equity firms in recent weeks.
Organizations developing software have been urged by the FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to eradicate buffer overflow vulnerabilities by implementing secure-by-design principles, The Register reports.
Hackread reports that Chinese Internet-of-Things grow light and agricultural software firm Mars Hydro had 1.17 TB of data containing 2.7 billion records inadvertently leaked by a misconfigured database.
Major Taiwanese printed circuit board manufacturer Unimicron had its systems claimed to be compromised in an attack by the newly emergent Sarcoma ransomware operation, which purportedly resulted in the theft of 377 GB of data, including SQL files, that would be exposed next week should the firm refuse to pay the demanded ransom, reports BleepingComputer.
Nearly 4,500 internet-exposed SonicWall firewalls were discovered by Bishop Fox researchers to be at risk of having their VPN sessions taken over in attacks exploiting a recently patched high-severity authentication bypass flaw within the SonicOS SSLVPN application, tracked as CVE-2024-53704, according to BleepingComputer.