In cybersecurity, three key terms are vulnerability, threat and risk. Often they’re tossed around interchangeably, but they have a specific relationship to one another..

On November 1, OpenSSL v3.0.7 was released, patching two new high-severity vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-3602 and CVE-2022-3786. The new vulnerabilities have been dubbed by the community as “Spooky SSL,” although the name is not recognized by the OpenSSL team. CVE-2022-3602 was originally discovered by a researcher known as Polar Bear, while CVE-2022-3786 was found during the analysis of the first vulnerability by Viktor Dukhovni.

On October 28th, 2022, ConnectWise disclosed a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability affecting ConnectWise Recover (version 2.9.7 and earlier) and R1Soft Server Backup Manager (version 6.16.3 and earlier). A threat actor could leverage an authentication bypass vulnerability in these products (CVE-2022-36537) to leak server private key files, software licenses, and system configuration files and ultimately achieve RCE as the system superuser.

Vulnerability management can be more than just running scans and sorting by Common Vulnerability Scoring System scores! Take your program to the next level by adding a threat-based approach to vulnerability management by combining the hacker mindset with cyber threat intelligence. With so many vulnerabilities published daily, having a team knowledgeable with the latest threats can help IT teams quickly identify assets that require expedited remediation.

OpenSSL released version 3.0.7 with security fixes for High Severity vulnerabilities CVE-2022-3786 & CVE-2022-3602 discussed here. Here's how to know if you're affected and what to do if you are.

The OpenSSL Project team announced two HIGH severity vulnerabilities (CVE-2022-3602, CVE-2022-3786) on October 25, which affect all OpenSSL v3 versions up to 3.0.6. These vulnerabilities are remediated in version 3.0.7 which was released November 1. OpenSSL 1.X versions are unaffected by the vulnerabilities.

In 2022, AWS (Amazon Web Services) remains one of the dominant cloud platforms and continues to be recognized as a leader in Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services. AWS accounts for 34% of the cloud infrastructure service providers, so many organizations today have either all, most, or at least some of their infrastructure on AWS.

When building applications in Java, we highly depend on external libraries and frameworks. And each Java package that is imported likely also depends on more libraries. This means that the amount of Java packages included in your application is often not really transparent. As a developer, these nested (transitive) dependencies create the problem that you probably do not know all the libraries you are actually using.

Last week, the OpenSSL Project announced that on Tuesday, November 1, 2022 1300-1700 (UTC), they will release OpenSSL version 3.0.7 to address a critical CVE.

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