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April 22, 2025

ConfusedComposer: A Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Impacting GCP Composer

Tenable Research discovered a privilege-escalation vulnerability in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) that is now fixed and which we dubbed ConfusedComposer. The vulnerability could have allowed an identity with permission (composer.environments.update) to edit a Cloud Composer environment to escalate privileges to the default Cloud Build service account. The default Cloud Build service account includes permissions to Cloud Build itself, as well as to Cloud Storage, Artifact Registry, and more.

December 16, 2022

Cybersecurity Snapshot: Phishing Scams, Salary Trends, Metaverse Risks, Log4J Poll

Get the latest on worrisome phishing stats; businesses’ embrace of the metaverse, come what may; a (small) improvement in CISO job stability; the compensation cost of security leaders; and more!...


December 13, 2022

Microsoft’s December 2022 Patch Tuesday Addresses 48 CVEs (CVE-2022-44698)

Microsoft addresses 48 CVEs including two zero-day vulnerabilities, one that has been exploited in the wild (CVE-2022-44698) and one that was publicly disclosed prior to a patch being available (CVE-2022-44710)....


December 13, 2022

CVE-2022-27518: Unauthenticated RCE in Citrix ADC and Gateway

Citrix has patched a critical remote code execution vulnerability in its Gateway and ADC products. This vulnerability has reportedly been exploited as a zero day; organizations should patch urgently....


December 13, 2022

How To Assess the Cybersecurity Preparedness of IT Service Providers and MSPs

Improperly evaluating the cybersecurity capabilities of prospective IT service providers and managed service providers (MSPs) can put your organization's data and systems at risk. A new guide from CompTIA can help you ask the right questions....


December 12, 2022

CVE-2022-42475: Fortinet Patches Zero Day in FortiOS SSL VPNs

Fortinet has patched a zero day buffer overflow in FortiOS that could lead to remote code execution. There has been a report of active exploitation and organizations should patch urgently....


December 12, 2022

What Happens When the Metaverse Enters Your Attack Surface?

Tenable polled 1,500 cybersecurity, IT and DevOps professionals about their top concerns in the nascent virtual reality worlds of the metaverse. Here's what we found out....


December 12, 2022

Tenable Cyber Watch: Shift Left Challenges, Anti-Ransomware Efforts, Quantum Risks and CISO Anxiety

Beat the Monday blues with cyber news you can use | Shift-left efforts falling short. The White House’s war on ransomware. Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about CISOs. The quantum computing risk for critical infrastructure. Don’t miss the latest episode of the Tenable Cyber Watch. The weekl...


December 9, 2022

Cybersecurity Snapshot: Log4j Anniversary, CI/CD Risks, Infostealers, Email Attacks, OT Security

Get the latest on the anniversary of the Log4j crisis; OWASP’s top CI/CD risks; a surge of infostealer malware; the fund transfer fraud — business email compromise connection; and more! ...


December 8, 2022

Cloud Security: 5 Key Takeaways from the SANS DevSecOps Survey

A recent SANS Institute report finds that DevSecOps teams are improving their tooling, processes and techniques, but their organizations’ increasingly hybrid and multi-cloud IT environments are getting harder to secure. Check out key highlights from the “SANS 2022 DevSecOps Survey.”...


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