Tag: IOT

2022 Security Year in Review

What We Can Expect in 2023 Based on the Past Year’s Threat Landscape  As we gear up for the holidays and new year, it is that time of the year again to review this year’s security-related events and examine the themes for future security challenges we can expect in the coming year that may affect… Read more »

PolicyKit Vulnerability Exposed After 12 Years: Why You Need to Patch Your Linux Today

Security company Qualys has uncovered a truly dangerous memory corruption vulnerability in polkit’s pkexec, CVE-2021-4034, dubbed “PwnKit”. Polkit, formerly known as PolicyKit, is a systemd SUID-root program. It’s installed by default in every major Linux distribution, which means that tens of millions of devices are vulnerable to this easily-exploitable bug. What makes this flaw even… Read more »