Reliable electricity is essential to the convenience of modern life, and also functions as a crucial contribution to America’s economy and level of comfort. Yet citizens take it for granted, rarely thinking about it much.

On Tuesday, March 7, 2023, Fortinet published a security advisory detailing an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability affecting FortiOS and FortiProxy (CVE-2023-25610). The vulnerability was internally discovered by Fortinet, and exploitation has not been observed in the wild at this time. A proof of concept (PoC) exploit has not been published publicly for this vulnerability at this time.

Kubernetes is an open source orchestration platform for containerized workflows. It is the best way to manage – or orchestrate – large clusters of containers at scale. Sometimes abbreviated as K8s, Kubernetes helps you efficiently manage clusters of hosts running Linux containers. In the age of containers, Kubernetes has become a popular open source project and key building block for modern tech infrastructure.

A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. For a daily selection see our twitter feed at #ionCube24. An unfortunate (aren’t they all?) breach at Acer. With the the UEFI rootkit discovery last week, I wonder if they were poking around for another vendor implementation?