Federal Agencies Face an Uphill Battle in Cyber-Preparedness

In the wake of the elimination of the federal cybersecurity czar position, the latest federal cybersecurity preparedness report from the Office of Management and Budget OMB and the Department of Homeland Security DHS shows that U.S. government is nowhere near ready for prime time when it comes to...

CVE-2018-1148

Nessus before 7.1.0 is vulnerable to a session fixation flaw caused by insufficient session management. An authenticated attacker could hijack a user session after a password change by leveraging an existing session ID. The connected sources confirm the affected product (Tenable Nessus), the vuln...

Now that you have a plan, it’s time to start deploying

This blog is part of a series that responds to common questions we receive from customers about deployment of Microsoft 365 security solutions. In this series, youll find context, answers, and guidance for deployment and driving adoption within your organization. Check out our last blog First...

How to Make Your Demo Environment Easy, Accessible...AND Secure

A common misconception I've heard in the field is that a tradeoff exists between easy access for applications and network security. For example, companies want to allow their sales team, partners, and prospects access into demo environments. With traditional access solutions, there is a question ...

First things first: Envisioning your security deployment

This blog post is part of a series that responds to common questions we receive from customers about deployment of Microsoft 365 Security solutions. In this series youll find context, answers, and guidance for deployment and driving adoption within your organization. Check out our last blog...

Microsoft Windows 10: Act as part of the operating system

The Act as part of the operating system policy setting determines whether a process can assume the identity of any user and thereby gain access to the resources that the user is authorized to access. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: win10actaspartofos.nasl 11532 2018-09-21 19:07:30Z cfischer $ Che...

When Preparing for GDPR, Don’t Neglect Public Cloud Security

With organizations aggressively moving workloads to public cloud platforms, such as Amazon’s AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft’s Azure, protecting these environments is critical for compliance with the EU's General Data Protection Regulation GDPR. These public cloud platforms are being used to pow...

How Can Manufacturing Companies Improve Network Access and Security?

The manufacturing industry faces complex challenges other sectors of the economy need not worry about. Manufacturers rely heavily on everything from positive global economic trends to laws that lift certain burdens. And companies involved with manufacturing consistently focus on increased...

Design/Logic Flaw

foreman-debug before version 1.15.0 is vulnerable to a flaw in foreman-debug's logging. An attacker with access to the foreman log file would be able to view passwords, allowing them to access those systems...

HashiCorp Terraform Amazon Web Services provider fixed password generation vulnerability

HashiCorp Terraform Amazon Web Services AWS provider is a program for interacting with AWS supported resources. A security vulnerability exists in the aws/resourceawsiamuserloginprofile.go file in HashiCorp Terraform AWS provider version 1.12.0 and earlier. A remote attacker can exploit this...

CVE-2018-9057

aws/resourceawsiamuserloginprofile.go in the HashiCorp Terraform Amazon Web Services AWS provider through v1.12.0 has an inappropriate PRNG algorithm and seeding, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain access by leveraging an IAM account that was provisioned with a weak password...

Best practices for securely moving workloads to Microsoft Azure

Azure is Microsofts cloud computing environment. It offers customers three primary service delivery models including infrastructure as a service IaaS, platform as a service PaaS, and software as a service SaaS. Adopting cloud technologies requires a shared responsibility model for security, with...

CVE-2018-7272

The REST APIs in ForgeRock AM before 5.5.0 include SSOToken IDs as part of the URL, which allows attackers to obtain sensitive information by finding an ID value in a log file...

RedHat Update for sssd RHSA-2017:3379-01

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

CVE-2017-8129

The UMA product with software V200R001 and V300R001 has a privilege elevation vulnerability due to insufficient validation or improper processing of parameters. An attacker could craft specific packets to exploit these vulnerabilities to gain elevated privileges...

Pursuing The Right to be Left Alone

The three pillars of privacy, defined in “The Right to Privacy” 4 Harvard L.R. 193 Dec 15, 1890, are 1 the right to know what information is gathered about you, 2 the right to know how it will be used, and 3 the right to be left alone. The European Union has incorporated these principles into the...

Prowler - Tool for AWS Security Assessment, Auditing And Hardening

Tool based on AWS-CLI commands for AWS account security assessment and hardening, following guidelines of the CIS Amazon Web Services Foundations Benchmark 1.1 Features It covers hardening and security best practices for all AWS regions related to: Identity and Access Management 24 checks Logging...

Zeus - AWS EC2 / S3 Auditing & Hardening Tool

Zeus is a powerful tool for AWS EC2 / S3 best hardening practices. It checks security settings according to the profiles the user creates and changes them to recommended settings based on the CIS AWS Benchmark source at request of the user. Identity and Access Management Avoid the use of the "roo...

AWS Auditing & Hardening Tool: Zeus

Zeus is a powerful tool for AWS EC2 / S3 / CloudTrail / CloudWatch / KMS best hardening practices. It checks security settings according to the profiles the user creates and changes them to recommended settings based on the CIS AWS Benchmark source at request of the user. Identity and Access...

Oracle Identity Manager Remote Vulnerability (CNVD-2017-06024)

Oracle Identity Manager is an enterprise identity management system that automates the management of user access to IT resources within your organization. A remote security vulnerability exists in Oracle Identity Manager, which can be exploited by remote attackers to compromise system...