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Cisco issues urgent fixes for SD-WAN router flaws

Cisco has patched a clutch of high-priority vulnerabilities in its SD-WAN routes and their management software.

Heads up, Firefox users who rely on FTP: the browser is eliminating support for this venerable protocol.

This week the company made amends, issuing fixes for an unusually high CVE-level 41 vulnerabilities, 21 of which are rated critical.

Virtualisation company VMware patched two bugs this week that affected a large proportion of its client-side virtual machines.

Slack has fixed a bug that allowed attackers to hijack user accounts by tampering with their HTTP sessions.

The Tor browser has a bug that could allow JavaScript to execute on websites even when users think they’ve disabled it for maximum anonymity.

Good news for website admins: the ability to automatically update plugins and themes is being beta-tested for WordPress 5.5, due in August.

What’s the difference between a scheduled security update and one that’s out-of-band? In this case, it’s two days.

Open source bugs have skyrocketed, according to a report from WhiteSource, with XSS flaws account for a quarter of those bugs.

A month after shipping version 73 of its Firefox browser, Mozilla has released version 74 with a range of privacy and security enhancements.