Create Efficient Well-Architected Cloud Infrastructure

This article explores the Performance Efficiency pillar of the Amazon Web Services and Azure Well-Architected Framework. We will examine how to create performance efficiency in the compute, storage, database, and network elements of cloud infrastructures...

Design/Logic Flaw

Vulnerability in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Identity and Access Management product of Oracle Cloud Services. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with network access to compromise Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Identity and Access Management. Successful attacks of th...

CVE-2020-14874

Vulnerability in the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Identity and Access Management product of Oracle Cloud Services. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with network access to compromise Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Identity and Access Management. Successful attacks of th...

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Identity and Access Management Authorization Issues Vulnerability

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Identity and Access Management is a service from Oracle Corporation of America that provides identity and access capabilities to teams. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Identity and Access Management suffers from an authorization issue vulnerability that stems from an easil...

The Risky Business: Rapid7 Report Highlights Need for Improved Vulnerability Management Practices

Back in July, Rapid7 released its first-ever National / Industry / Cloud Exposure Report, otherwise known as “NICER.” This report had a big job: to assess not only the prevalence of known threats, but also to provide a geographic census of those threats. It tells the all-too-true story of...

Ex-Cisco Employee Convicted for Deleting 16K Webex Accounts

A man has been sentenced to two years in jail after being convicted of hacking Cisco’s Webex collaboration platform in an insider-threat case brought to the U.S. District Court in California. Sudhish Kasaba Ramesh, 31, admitted that he broke into Cisco’s cloud infrastructure in 2018, hosted on...

SolarWinds advanced cyberattack: What happened and what to do now

We learned more about the sophisticated attack first disclosed on December 8 when security firm FireEye reported it had been the victim of a state-sponsored adversary that stole Red Team assessment tools. On December 13 there was a new development when IT company SolarWinds announced it had been...

Attacks on industrial enterprises using RMS and TeamViewer: new data

Download full report PDF Executive Summary In summer 2019, Kaspersky ICS CERT identified a new wave of phishing emails containing various malicious attachments. The emails target companies and organizations from different sectors of the economy that are associated with industrial production in on...

October 13, 2020—KB4580327 (OS Build 10240.18725) - EXPIRED

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openSUSE Security Update : virtualbox (openSUSE-2020-1486)

This update for virtualbox fixes the following issues : Update to Oracle version 6.1.14a. This minor update enables the building of libvirt again. Version update to 6.1.14 released September 04 2020 by Oracle File 'fixvirtiobuild.patch' is added to fix a build problem. This is a maintenance...

Security update for virtualbox (moderate)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for virtualbox Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:1486-1 Rating: moderate References: 1114605 1174075 1174159 1175201 Cross-References: CVE-2020-14628 CVE-2020-14629 CVE-2020-14646 CVE-2020-14647 CVE-2020-14648 CVE-2020-14649 CVE-2020-14650 CVE-2020-14673...

Ex-Cisco Employee Pleads Guilty to Deleting 16K Webex Teams Accounts

A former Cisco Systems employee pleaded guilty this week to hacking into the networking company’s cloud infrastructure and deleting 16,000 Webex Teams accounts in 2018. Webex Teams is Cisco’s collaboration application for enterprises. In a plea agreement in a San Jose federal court, Sudhish Kasab...

August 11, 2020—KB4571746 (Security-only update)

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Introducing Imperva Cloud Data Security

We are excited to announce that our latest data security innovation is now available worldwide! Made for the cloud, Imperva Cloud Data Security CDS builds on our industry-leading application and data security solutions, providing an industry-first, complete cloud data SaaS security solution that...

June 9, 2020—KB4561649 (OS Build 10240.18608)

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June 9, 2020—KB4561621 (OS Build 17134.1550)

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Virtuozzo Hybrid Server 7.5 Update 1 Hotfix 2 (7.5.1-736)

The Hotfix 2 for Virtuozzo Hybrid Server 7.5 Update 1 provides a stability and usability bug fix. All customers that use CloudBlue Cloud Infrastructure Automation with Virtuozzo Hybrid Server 7.5 and newer are strongly recommended to install the hotfix. Vulnerability id: PSBM-125586 Cloud...

Is Cloud Computing Any Safer From Malicious Hackers?

Cloud computing has revolutionized the IT world, making it easier for companies to deploy infrastructure and applications and deliver their services to the public. The idea of not spending millions of dollars on equipment and facilities to host an on-premises data center is a very attractive...

Crooks Tap Google Firebase in Fresh Phishing Tactic

A series of phishing campaigns using Google Firebase storage URLs have surfaced, showing that cybercriminals continue to leverage the reputation of Google’s cloud infrastructure to dupe victims and skate by secure email gateways. Google Firebase is a mobile and web application development platfor...

Cloud Misconfig Mistakes Show Need For DevSecOps

Developers have become accustomed to deploying apps in data centers with what could be described as a “crunchy hard outer layer,” to keep their data center secure. But when it comes to the public cloud, “it just doesn’t exist that way,” said Ryan Olson, vice president of threat intelligence with...