Prepare to Defend Your Network Against Swarm-as-a-Service

The digital world we now inhabit creates unprecedented opportunities – both for good and for ill. One of these possibilities is swarm-based tools that can be used to either attack or defend the network. This possibility, or set of possibilities, has arisen due to dramatic advances in swarm-based...

Airbus Suffers Data Breach, Some Employees' Data Exposed

European airplane maker Airbus admitted yesterday a data breach of its "Commercial Aircraft business" information systems that allowed intruders to gain access to some of its employees' personal information. Though the company did not elaborate on the nature of the hack, it claimed that the...

Informing Your Security Posture: How Cybercriminals Blend into the Background

Maintaining protection over an enterprise's critical data, systems and assets is a continual uphill battle. Not only are chances good that the business's digital footprint is growing through new applications, but hackers are also constantly bolstering their capabilities to silently breach platfor...

2019 and Beyond: The (Expanded) RSAC Advisory Board Weighs in on What’s Next

Just when we thought we’d escaped 2018 without an attack on the scale of WannaCry, NotPetya or Equifax, we were struck by Marriott’s November news of a breach affecting 500 million guests and once again reminded that complacency is the enemy of cybersecurity. We were also reminded that predicting...

Oracle Hyperion Essbase Administration Services Unauthorized Access

The vulnerability of the EAS Console component of the Oracle Hyperion Essbase Administration Services service is related to access control deficiencies. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker, operating remotely, to gain unauthorized access to protected data using the HTTP protocol...

Millions of PCs Found Running Outdated Versions of Popular Software

It is 2019, and millions of computers still either have at least one outdated application installed or run outdated operating systems, making themselves vulnerable to online threats and known security vulnerabilities/exploits. Security vendor Avast has released its PC Trends Report 2019 revealing...

Google fined $57 million by France for lack of transparency and consent

The French data protection watchdog CNIL has issued its first fine of €50 million around $57 million under the European Union's new General Data Protection Regulation GDPR law that came into force in May last year. The fine has been levied on Google for "lack of transparency, inadequate informati...

A Twitter Bug Left Android Users' Private Tweets Exposed For 4 Years

Twitter just admitted that the social network accidentally revealed some Android users' protected tweets to the public for more than 4 years — a kind of privacy blunder that you'd typically expect from Facebook. When you sign up for Twitter, all your Tweets are public by default, allowing anyone ...

Linux subsystem Windows Privilege Escalation

The vulnerability of the Linux subsystem of the Windows operating system is related to the lack of protection for service data. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to gain access to protected information through a specially created application...

Microsoft Office suite lies

The vulnerability of the Microsoft Office suite is related to the lack of protection for operational data. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to read arbitrary files using a specially created file...

Linux kernel mincore disclosure

The vulnerability of the mincore function mm/mincore.c in the Linux operating system is related to the lack of protection for service data. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to disclose the protected information...

Luas data ransom: the hacker who cried wolf?

In a terrible start to the year for Irish tram firm Luas, their site was compromised a week ago and adorned with a stark ransom warning: Click to enlarge You are hacked. Some time ago I wrote that you have serious security holes. You didn’t reply. The next time someone talks to you, press the rep...

Imperva SecureSphere Native Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability

Imperva SecureSphere is a suite of high-performance, centralized data security protection and management products from US-based Imperva. The product provides unified auditing, reporting and logging of different SecureSphere products, visualization of security status and real-time monitoring of...

Graphics Device Interface Disclosure Protected Information

The vulnerability of the Graphics Device Interface GDI component in the Windows operating system is related to the lack of protection for service data. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to disclose protected information through a specially created application...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : php7 (SUSE-SU-2017:0899-1)

This update for php7 fixes the following issues: Security issue fixed : - CVE-2015-8994: code permission/sensitive data protection vulnerability bsc1027210. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has...

QRadar Advisor Information Disclosure

The vulnerability of the QRadar Advisor with Watson analytical security analysis tool is related to insufficient data protection. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor to disclose protected information...

Human Rights by Design

Good essay: "Advancing Human-Rights-By-Design In The Dual-Use Technology Industry," by Jonathon Penney, Sarah McKune, Lex Gill, and Ronald J. Deibert: But businesses can do far more than these basic measures. They could adopt a "human-rights-by-design" principle whereby they commit to designing...

IOBit Advanced SystemCare Disclosure

The vulnerability of the IOBit Advanced SystemCare optimization tool is related to insufficient data protection. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a hacker to disclose protected information...

Amazon sent 1,700 audio recordings of Alexa user to a stranger

By Waqas An Amazon customer in Germany under the European Union data protection law called GDPR General Data Protection Regulation requested the company to send all the data it stored on him but little did he know he was about to get his hands on a trove of 1,700 audio recordings of a stranger...

The challenges of adopting a consistent cybersecurity framework in the insurance industry

As hacking events have increased in number and severity, we in the cybersecurity community have united around common strategies that all organizations can implement to reduce their risk. Universal best practices provide organizations with many useful tools to protect their businesses. But what...