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Single point of software failure could hamstring 15K car dealerships for days

Enlarge / Ford Mustang Mach E electric vehicles are offered for sale at a dealership on June 5, 2024, in Chicago, Illinois. Scott Olson / Getty Images reader comments 97 CDK Global touts itself as an all-in-one software-as-a-service solution that is “trusted by nearly 15,000 dealer locations.” One connection, over an always-on VPN to CDK’s… Read More »

Ivanti CEO pledges to “fundamentally transform” its hard-hit security model

Getty Images reader comments 36 Ivanti, the remote-access company whose remote-access products have been battered by severe exploits in recent months, has pledged a “new era,” one that “fundamentally transforms the Ivanti security operating model” backed by “a significant investment” and full board support. CEO Jeff Abbott’s open letter promises to revamp “core engineering, security,… Read More »

Actively exploited 0-days in Ivanti VPN are letting hackers backdoor networks

reader comments 3 Unknown threat actors are actively targeting two critical zero-day vulnerabilities that allow them to bypass two-factor authentication and execute malicious code inside networks that use a widely used virtual private network appliance sold by Ivanti, researchers said Wednesday. Ivanti reported bare-bones details concerning the zero-days in posts published on Wednesday that urged… Read More »

Fortinet says hackers exploited critical vulnerability to infect VPN customers

reader comments 25 with 0 posters participating Share this story An unknown threat actor abused a critical vulnerability in Fortinet’s FortiOS SSL-VPN to infect government and government-related organizations with advanced custom-made malware, the company said in an autopsy report on Wednesday. Tracked as ​​CVE-2022-42475, the vulnerability is a heap-based buffer overflow that allows hackers to… Read More »

iOS VPNs have leaked traffic for more than 2 years, researcher claims

Getty Images reader comments 41 with 29 posters participating, including story author Share this story A security researcher says that Apple’s iOS devices don’t fully route all network traffic through VPNs as a user might expect, a potential security issue the device maker has known about for years. Michael Horowitz, a longtime computer security blogger… Read More »

Film studios sue “no logs” VPN provider for $10 million

Enlarge / Your at-home entertainment studio. reader comments 74 with 59 posters participating Share this story Dozens of movie production companies sued LiquidVPN this year over the VPN provider’s marketing efforts that could be perceived as promoting piracy. These companies, which are now seeking $10 million in damages, claim that the “no log” policy of LiquidVPN… Read More »

New WireGuardNT shatters throughput ceilings on Windows

Enlarge / Forget bendable mobile phones—we’re holding out for working mobile phone plushies. reader comments 26 with 21 posters participating, including story author Share this story The WireGuard VPN project announced a major milestone for its Windows users today—an all-new, kernel-mode implementation of the VPN protocol called WireGuardNT. The new implementation allows for massively improved throughput… Read More »