CSRF vulnerability and missing permission check in jenkins-reviewbot allow SSRF

A missing permission check in a form validation method in jenkins-reviewbot allows users with Overall/Read permission to initiate a connection test to an attacker-specified URL with attacker-specified credentials. Additionally, the form validation method does not require POST requests, resulting ...

March Release: Q&A with Ari Weil

Shortly after Akamai announced the March 2019 Release with new features and capabilities across its security, performance and media product lines, Akamai's VP of Product Marketing, Ari Weil, took over Akamai's Twitter account for a live March Release Q&A. For those that missed the live event,...

What's New in Security - March 2019

Today, Akamai announced the March 2019 Release with new features and capabilities across its security, performance, and media product lines - with a focus on helping customers better manage their cloud migration initiatives. Within security, Akamai has made updates to every product line to help...

Bot Manager: Staying Ahead of the Bot Landscape

Akamai launched Bot Manager three years ago. Since then, the bot landscape has continued to evolve and we've introduced a number of improvements to our bot detections to stay ahead of it. These included browser fingerprinting and behavioral anomaly detection, as well constantly refining our core...

Simplifying Security Configuration: A UX Revamp Retrospective

With the March 2019 Release update, the Security Configuration User Interface UI evolution is now complete, and we hope it integrates more seamlessly into your online business. Over time, Akamai has added new products, features, and functionality to its security solutions to protect your web...

Joomla Jmail Breaker PHP Web Shell Backdoor

An attacker might upload a web shell backdoor to a Joomla Jmail service. A successful exploitation might allow the attacker to run arbitrary code, or use the server as a bot for further attacks...

Joomla Jmail Breaker Arbitrary File Upload

An attacker might use a web shell backdoor to upload arbitrary files using Joomla Jmail service. A successful exploitation might allow the attacker to run arbitrary code, or use the server as a bot for further attacks...

Rocket.Chat: Guest Privilege Escalation to admin group

The vulnerability allowed a guest user to escalate privileges to the admin group. The guest user first added themselves to the bot group, which had the "manage-own-integrations" permission. Using this, the user created a malicious integration script that added the user to the admin group. The...

JSP Web Shell Generic Backdoor

An attacker might upload a web shell backdoor to a JSP server. A successful exploitation might allow the attacker to run arbitrary code, or use the server as a bot for further attacks...

How to make Email Bot service in Python

First of all, why you may want to use such service? Despite the fact that currently there are so many different channels of communication including various messaging apps, Email is still a default and universal way to do it. Literally every enterprise service supports email notifications, even if...

State of the Internet, Volume 5, Issue 1

Is it too late to still say "Happy New Year?" We don't think so. We're kicking off 2019 with our first issue of the State of the Internet / Security. Goal setting is something that security teams around the world are doing right now. What are your team's goals? How do your goals align with the...

Securing Social / Locking Login / Armoring Authentication

Authentication might be the single biggest hazard for web security over the next decade. It's not that the fundamentals of authentication are particularly challenging; we've understood the basic principles behind password management, push-based authorization, and device certificates for some time...

Imperva Increases Self-Service Capability Fourfold with Custom Security Rules

Back in 2014, we introduced Rules previously IncapRules to give our customers advanced control over their application security. Today we’re putting even more of this custom tuning power in the hands of our customers by quadrupling the number of filters available via self-service. Rules Basics Rul...

Digital Identity, Digital Trust, Janrain and Akamai

Authentication on the World Wide Web is badly broken. We all know it, or at least sense it. Every web site or mobile app that we want to use asks us to register and set up yet another account with yet another username and password. With the typical end user having tens of online accounts, this...

Fedora 28 : mediawiki (2018-e022ecbc52)

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Releasenotes/1.29MediaWiki1.29.3 - T169545, CVE-2018-0503 SECURITY: $wgRateLimits entry for 'user' overrides 'newbie'. - T194605, CVE-2018-0505 SECURITY: BotPasswords can bypass CentralAuth's account lock. - T180551 Fix LanguageSrTest for language converter - T18055...

Akamai Received Top Scores in Gartner's New Report "Critical Capabilities for Cloud Web Application Firewalls Services"

Are you in the process of selecting a web application firewall WAF or thinking about whether your current solution is adequate? For many organizations selecting the right WAF to protect their business is not an easy task. The threat landscape is changing fast and hackers are very creative in thei...

Will good prevail over bad as bots battle for the internet?

By Ian Trump This is the third in a series of blog posts “on all things Bot” - The first two posts are available here and here. From bad to good and looking towards the future, Bots remain an information security issue which has the potential to impact all commercial and recreational online...

Spam and phishing in Q3 2018

Quarterly highlights Personal data in spam We have often said that personal data is candy on a stick to fraudsters and must be kept safe that is, not given out on dubious websites. It can be used to gain access to accounts and in targeted attacks and ransomware campaigns. In Q3, we registered a...

Telebix - An Application That Communicates With A Bot On The Telegram To Receive Commands And Send Information From An Infrastructure Monitored By Zabbix

Telebix is an application that communicates with a Bot on the Telegram to receive commands and send information from an infrastructure monitored by Zabbix, which also sends messages in real time if any problems occur in the infrastructure, it is totally written in Python with Shell Script and has...

Android Ad-Fraud Scheme

BuzzFeed is reporting on a scheme where fraudsters buy legitimate Android apps, track users' behavior in order to mimic it in a way that evades bot detectors, and then uses bots to perpetuate an ad-fraud scheme. After being provided with a list of the apps and websites connected to the scheme,...