CVE-2018-1206: Use of Hard-coded Credentials

Dell EMC Data Protection Advisor versions prior to 6.3 Patch 159 and Dell EMC Data Protection Advisor versions prior to 6.4 Patch 110 contain a hardcoded database account with administrative privileges. The affected account is "apollosuperuser." An attacker with local access to the server where D...

PT-2018-10978

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Dell EMC Data Protection Advisor versions prior to 6.3 Patch 159 Dell EMC Data Protection Advisor versions prior to 6.4 Patch 110 Description The issue concerns a hardcoded database account with administrative privileges, specifically the...

GDPR: The Stakes Are High and Time Is of the Essence

With the General Data Protection Regulation GDPR going into effect in under three months, the countdown clock is fast approaching zero for organizations worldwide that handle personal data of EU residents. GDPR is a very broad and wide-ranging regulation that requires organizations to obtain a lo...

Building an incident response program: creating the framework

In part one of our series, our overview of Building an incident response plan, we discussed what regulations organizations will need to meet in order to address incident/breach response protocols laid out in the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation GDPR. This week, we’ll talk to you about step...

How to Ensure Data Protection Regulation Compliance in Your Company

By Ryan De Souza Data protection has never been more important, and keeping up This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: How to Ensure Data Protection Regulation Compliance in Your Company...

EMC Avamar Backup Authentication Bypass

The vulnerabilities of the EMC Avamar backup system, the EMC NetWorker backup and recovery system, and the EMC Integrated Data Protection Appliance are related to deficiencies in authentication procedures. Exploiting these vulnerabilities allows a malicious actor to bypass authentication procedur...

The Sixth Question(s) Today’s CEOs Should Ask (& Know the Answers To)

In a previous blog, we discussed Commander’s Intent for CEOs and introduced 10 questions CEOs should be asking their teams. In this blog series, I am going to take a deeper dive into each question and break them down one at a time. We will discuss why CEOs should care about each question and the...

Apple Moves iCloud Data and Encryption Keys for Chinese Users to China

Apple has finally agreed to open a new Chinese data center next month to comply with the country's latest controversial data protection law. Apple will now move the cryptographic keys of its Chinese iCloud users in data centers run by a state-owned company called Cloud Big Data Industrial...

MembersApp SAP NetWeaver Disclosure

The vulnerability of the MembersApp component of the SAP NetWeaver software integration platform is related to insufficient data protection. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to obtain user information such as listing user names by taking advantage of the temporary difference...

New EU Privacy Law May Weaken Security

Companies around the globe are scrambling to comply with new European privacy regulations that take effect a little more than three months from now. But many security experts are worried that the changes being ushered in by the rush to adhere to the law may make it more difficult to track down...

Can Consumers' Online Data Be Protected?

Everything online is hackable. This is true for Equifax's data and the federal Office of Personal Management's data, which was hacked in 2015. If information is on a computer connected to the Internet, it is vulnerable. But just because everything is hackable doesn't mean everything will be hacke...

Microsoft Intune App PIN Bypass

COMPASS SECURITY ADVISORY https://www.compass-security.com/research/advisories/ Product: Microsoft Intune 1 Vendor: Microsoft CSNC ID: CSNC-2017-027 Subject: App PIN Bypass Risk: Medium Effect: Locally exploitable Author: Stephan Sekula Date: 31.08.2017 Introduction: ------------- Define a mobile...

Secure VPN Services — Get 91% Off On Lifetime Subscriptions

Since most of us rely upon the Internet for day-to-day activities, hacking and spying have become a prime concern today, and so have online security and privacy. The governments across the world have been found to be conducting mass surveillance and then there are hackers and cybercriminals who a...

Countdown to GDPR: For GDPR Compliance, Web App Security Is a Must

With web and mobile apps becoming a preferred vector for data breaches, organizations must include application security in their plans for complying with the EU's General Data Protection Regulation GDPR. First discussed in the 1990s and turned into law in 2016, GDPR goes into effect in May of thi...

GDPR and Breach Detection: How to Ask the Right Questions to Meet the GDPR Breach Notification Rule

It is now less than four months before the General Data Protection Regulation GDPR becomes effective. This new data regulation of the European Union is designed to provide individuals with rights and protections over their personal data collected by business around the world. It aims to unify dat...

Data Privacy in the Age of IoT

On Data Privacy Day, January 28th, we should have all taken a few moments to think more carefully about safeguarding our personal data, staying safe online, and improving our privacy habits. Just what does that mean in the age of IoT — the Internet of Things? In previous years, cyber threats most...

EMC Data Protection Advisor Application Service Static Credentials Authentication Bypass (CVE-2017-8013)

A static credentials authentication bypass vulnerability exists in the EMC Data Protection Advisor Application service...

SA163: OpenSSH Vulnerability October 2017

SUMMARY Symantec Network Protection products using affected versions of OpenSSH are susceptible to a security vulnerability. A remote attacker with read-only access to an SFTP server can create a large number of zero-length files and deplete the target's hard disk space. AFFECTED PRODUCTS The...

Popular Sonic the HedgeHog Apps at Risk of Leaking User Data to Unverified Servers

Three Sonic the Hedgehog games for Android, downloaded over 100 million times, are at risk of leaking user geolocation and other personal device data to suspicious servers, putting users at risk of man-in-the-middle attacks and similar type vulnerabilities, according to security experts. The game...

Security Strategies for DevOps, APIs, Containers and Microservices

More and more IT professionals see DevSecOps, a practice which integrates security measures earlier in the development process to improve production code quality, as a mainstay for future application development. Much of this stems from the growing trend towards speeding up application developmen...