Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The OpenSSH client vulnerability (CVE-2025-26465) allows an attack to succeed regardless of the VerifyHostKeyDNS setting, without user interaction or reliance on SSHFP DNS records. Introduced in December 2014 (OpenSSH 6.8p1), this flaw remained active, with FreeBSD enabling VerifyHostKeyDNS by default from 2013 to 2023, increasing exposure.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 25, 2022

A few days later, IT systems started malfunctioning with ransom messages following. The system administrator did not configure standard security controls when installing the server in question. Meanwhile, the suspect server was connected to the CDOT domain with an administrator account and the internet.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Longtime network and system administrator Jack Daniel is a technology community activist, mentor, and storyteller. Tabriz has led Google Chrome’s security since 2013, which extends to managing Product, Engineering, and UX today. Denial-of-Suez attack. Jack Daniel | @jack_daniel. Parisa Tabriz | @laparisa.

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