CVE-2021-21620

A cross-site request forgery CSRF vulnerability in Jenkins Claim Plugin 2.18.1 and earlier allows attackers to change claims...

K&R insurance. Kidnap and Ransom(ware)

Businesses are increasingly getting insurance cover for cyber liability incidents. Whilst cover was traditionally focussed on US-style 3rd party losses relating to data breaches, claims are accelerating in the 1st party / ransomware and business interruption arena. Ransomware claims are growing s...

Data Breach Exposes 1.6 Million Jobless Claims Filed in the Washington State

The Office of the Washington State Auditor SAO on Monday said it's investigating a security incident that resulted in the compromise of personal information of more than 1.6 million people who filed for unemployment claims in the state in 2020. The SAO blamed the breach on a software vulnerabilit...

Data Breach Exposes 1.6 Million Jobless Claims Filed in the Washington State

The Office of the Washington State Auditor SAO on Monday said it's investigating a security incident that resulted in the compromise of personal information of more than 1.6 million people who filed for unemployment claims in the state in 2020. The SAO blamed the breach on a software vulnerabilit...

Top Cyber Attacks of 2020

With so much of the world transitioning to working, shopping, studying, and streaming online during the coronavirus pandemic, cybercriminals now have access to a larger base of potential victims than ever before. "Zoombomb" became the new photobomb—hackers would gain access to a private meeting o...

PT-2021-1610 · Microsoft · Bot Framework Sdk

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Bot Framework SDK versions prior to the fixed version Description: The vulnerability is related to the lack of protection of service data in the Bot Framework SDK. It may allow a remote attacker to gain unauthorized access to protected...

Code injection

In Kubernetes clusters using Ceph RBD as a storage provisioner, with logging level of at least 4, Ceph RBD admin secrets can be written to logs. This occurs in kube-controller-manager's logs during provisioning of Ceph RBD persistent claims. This affects v1.19.3, v1.18.10, v1.17.13...

CVE-2020-8566 Ceph RBD adminSecrets exposed in logs when loglevel >= 4

In Kubernetes clusters using Ceph RBD as a storage provisioner, with logging level of at least 4, Ceph RBD admin secrets can be written to logs. This occurs in kube-controller-manager's logs during provisioning of Ceph RBD persistent claims. This affects v1.19.3, v1.18.10, v1.17.13...

Inclusion of Sensitive Information in Log Files

In Kubernetes clusters using Ceph RBD as a storage provisioner, with logging level of at least 4, Ceph RBD admin secrets can be written to logs. This occurs in kube-controller-manager's logs during provisioning of Ceph RBD persistent claims...

Not Even William Barr Buys Trump’s Election Nonsense

The attorney general has long been one of the president’s chief apologists. Not this time...

More on the Security of the 2020 US Election

Last week I signed on to two joint letters about the security of the 2020 election. The first was as one of 59 election security experts, basically saying that while the election seems to have been both secure and accurate voter suppression notwithstanding, we still need to work to secure our...

Zoom Takes on Zoom-Bombers Following FTC Settlement

Zoom has once again upped its security controls to prevent “Zoom-bombing” and other cyberattacks on meetings. The news comes less than a week after Zoom settled with the Federal Trade Commission over false encryption claims. Two of the new features allow moderators to act as “club bouncers,” givi...

Trump Pushed 11 False Claims About Voting in 8 Minutes During the Debate

The president’s assault on electoral integrity threatens to undermine the democratic process. We unpack each falsehood, mischaracterization, and lie...

One Data Scientist’s Quest to Quash Misinformation

Sara-Jayne Terp uses the tools of cybersecurity to track false claims like they’re malware. Her goal: Stop dangerous lies from hacking our beliefs...

Hacked Data Broker Accounts Fueled Phony COVID Loans, Unemployment Claims

A group of thieves thought to be responsible for collecting millions in fraudulent small business loans and unemployment insurance benefits from COVID-19 economic relief efforts gathered personal data on people and businesses they were impersonating by leveraging several compromised accounts at a...

The vulnerability of the Claims component in the Oracle Trade Management application allows a perpetrator to gain unauthorized access to protected information.

The vulnerability of the Claims component in Oracle Trade Management is related to deficiencies in access control. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker, operating remotely, to gain unauthorized access to protected information via the HTTP network protocol...

Fraudulent Unemployment, COVID-19 Relief Claims Earn BEC Gang Millions

An infamous business email compromise BEC gang has submitted hundreds of fraudulent claims with state-level U.S. unemployment websites and coronavirus relief funds. Researchers who tracked the fraudulent activity said cybercriminals may have made millions so far from the fraudulent activity. Behi...

CVE-2020-4461

IBM Security Access Manager Appliance 9.0.7.1 could allow an authenticated user to bypass security by allowing idtoken claims manipulation without verification. IBM X-Force ID: 181481...

Design/Logic Flaw

IBM Security Access Manager Appliance 9.0.7.1 could allow an authenticated user to bypass security by allowing idtoken claims manipulation without verification. IBM X-Force ID: 181481...

From Bugs to Zoombombing: How to Stay Safe in Online Meetings

The COVID-19 pandemic, along with social distancing, has done many things to alter our lives. But in one respect it has merely accelerated a process begun many years ago. We were all spending more and more time online before the virus struck. But now, forced to work, study and socialize at home,...