Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

What if the very core of your company—the digital ecosystem you painstakingly built—is under attack? If an invisible enemy gets illegal access and begins manipulating data or disrupting essential processes, your entire organization could be paralyzed in an instant. Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerabilities have this terrifying reality. RCEs are the holy grail for hackers, allowing them to run arbitrary commands on a target machine.

On January 14, 2025, the CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) published a security advisory detailing multiple vulnerabilities impacting Rsync. The most severe vulnerability is CVE-2024-12084, a critical severity heap buffer overflow vulnerability in the Rsync daemon which can lead to out-of-bounds writes in the buffer.

Starting a security program can be challenging for some organizations, especially running a mature program across a large business. Resourcing, lack of organization, and not having a clear remediation strategy are key aspects to the failure of some programs, which can all result in severe breaches of businesses. I’ll walk through seven steps that will help ensure your program is a success and also give a quick overview of how Outpost24’s Managed Services can support your efforts.

On January 14, 2025, Fortinet published a security advisory for CVE-2024-55591, an authentication bypass using an alternate path or channel vulnerability in FortiOS and FortiProxy. A remote threat actor can craft requests to the Node.js websocket module to gain super-admin privileges.

Mitel’s MiCollab Unified Communications solutions are widely used by businesses to streamline communications. However, two critical vulnerabilities, CVE-2024-35286 and CVE-2024-41713, have been identified across several versions of Mitel MiCollab. CVE-2024-35286 has been identified in versions 9.8.0.33 and earlier and CVE-2024-41713 has been identified in versions 9.8 SP1 FP2 (9.8.1.201) and earlier.

Snyk is the trusted partner for financial services companies, empowering them to modernize application security while safeguarding critical infrastructure. Backed by industry leaders, we are committed to exceeding expectations, driving innovation, and redefining security for financial services. This is one of the reasons Snyk was recently inducted into JPMorgan Chase’s Hall of Innovation, for our central role in helping them to build the future of banking securely.

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, securing software systems has never been more critical. Cyber threats continue to exploit systemic vulnerabilities in widely used technologies, leading to widespread damage and disruption. That said, the United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) helped shape best practices for the technology industry with their Secure-by-Design pledge.

TL;DR: The new EU cybersecurity directive, NIS2, is already reshaping how software suppliers do business through stricter vulnerability management requirements in procurement contracts. This shift is gaining momentum, and more companies will need to adapt. Aikido helps automate compliance reporting and vulnerability tracking to meet these new demands. Start your free compliance journey here, or read on to understand what this means for your business.