Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: grub2 security update

An update for grub2 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for ea...

glibc security and bug fix update

2.17-322.0.2 - merge RH el7 u9 errata patches with Oracle patches Review-exception: Simple merge - merge RH el7 u9 patches with Oracle patches Review-exception: Simple merge - Four patches to match 3rd patch bundle from Marvell - modify MIPS values in elf/elf.h - add sysdeps/aarch64/sys/ifunc.h -...

Description of Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1

Describes information about Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 SP1. Additionally, this article lists the fixed issues and added technology enhancements in Visual Studio 2010 SP1.NoticeSome of the downloads that are mentioned in this article are currently available on My.VisualStudio.com. This...

Code injection

An issue was discovered in uIP 1.0, as used in Contiki 3.0 and other products. The code that reassembles fragmented packets fails to properly validate the total length of an incoming packet specified in its IP header, as well as the fragmentation offset value specified in the IP header. By crafti...

CVE-2020-15437

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the Linux kernel’s UART 8250 functionality, in the way certain hardware architectures handled situations where default ports 0x2E8, 0x2F8, 0x3E8, 0x3F8 are not available. This flaw allows a local user to crash the system. The highest threat from this...

openSUSE Security Update : binutils (openSUSE-2020-1804)

This update for binutils fixes the following issues : binutils was updated to version 2.35. jscECO-2373 Update to binutils 2.35 : - The assembler can now produce DWARF-5 format line number tables. - Readelf now has a 'lint' mode to enable extra checks of the files it is processing. - Readelf will...

Three Cloud-First Akamai Initiatives to Support Your Cloud Journey

61% of organizations plan to focus on cloud migration this year. 93% have a multi-cloud strategy.1 This means that on average your organization is using 2.2 public clouds, multiplying your complexity and your costs. While the cloud has delivered on a lot of promises, it isn't getting simpler or...

ALERT! Hackers targeting IoT devices with a new P2P botnet malware

Cybersecurity researchers have taken the wraps off a new botnet hijacking Internet-connected smart devices in the wild to perform nefarious tasks, mostly DDoS attacks, and illicit cryptocurrency coin mining. Discovered by Qihoo 360's Netlab security team, the HEH Botnet — written in Go language a...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: qemu-kvm-ma security update

An update for qemu-kvm-ma is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fr...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: qemu-kvm security update

An update for qemu-kvm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 Advanced Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available fo...

UBUNTU-CVE-2020-25603

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.14.x. There are missing memory barriers when accessing/allocating an event channel. Event channels control structures can be accessed lockless as long as the port is considered to be valid. Such a sequence is missing an appropriate memory barrier e.g., smp...

[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: grub2-2.04-22.fc32

The GRand Unified Bootloader GRUB is a highly configurable and customizable bootloader with modular architecture. It supports a rich variety of kernel formats, file systems, computer architectures and hardware devices...

New Forrester study shows customers who deploy Microsoft Azure AD benefit from 123% ROI.

Over the past six months, organizations around the world have accelerated digital transformation efforts to rapidly enable a remote workforce. As more employees than ever access apps via their home networks, the corporate network perimeter has truly disappeared, making identity the control plane...

ALPINE-CVE-2020-15707

Integer overflows were discovered in the functions grubcmdinitrd and grubinitrdinit in the efilinux component of GRUB2, as shipped in Debian, Red Hat, and Ubuntu the functionality is not included in GRUB2 upstream, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow. These could be triggered by an extremely...

Thinking of a Cybersecurity Career? Read This

Thousands of people graduate from colleges and universities each year with cybersecurity or computer science degrees only to find employers are less than thrilled about their hands-on, foundational skills. Heres a look at a recent survey that identified some of the bigger skills gaps, and some...

[SECURITY] [DLA 2272-1] Debian 8 Long Term Support reaching end-of-life

The Debian Long Term Support LTS Team hereby announces that Debian 8 jessie support has reached its end-of-life on June 30, 2020, five years after its initial release on April 26, 2015. Debian will not provide further security updates for Debian 8. A subset of jessie packages will be supported by...

Add Ergonomic Security to Your CI/CD Pipeline

Wikipedia defines ergonomics as “the application of psychological and physiological principles to the engineering and design of products, processes, and systems. The goal … is to reduce human error, increase productivity, and enhance safety and comfort with a specific focus on the interaction...

Build in the Cloud with Confidence

The AWS Well-Architected Framework provides a consistent approach to building cloud architectures. Learn how to leverage consistent best practices and guidance for your architecture so you can focus on building great solutions in the cloud...

Using DAST to Expand DevOps Security Coverage

The state of application security is constantly evolving with changing web architectures and approaches. These changes are making security teams employ a wider range of techniques and toolsets to find vulnerabilities within their applications. Web and mobile applications each present their own...

Managing Vulnerabilities Introduced from Open Source Code Libraries

Modern development architectures are commonly based around open source components. Using open source components helps organizations lower their overall development cost while improving the time to market for new applications. Introducing these components however, can lead to serious consequences...