Grab: [growth.grab.com] Reflected XSS via Base64-encoded "q" param on "my.html" Valentine's microsite

Hi, An encoded injection in the q parameter on my.html can be used to reflect JavaScript in the growth.grab.com context. This microsite creates a "Grab's Valentine" card for a driver over the past year, and carries its data in Base64 format. Proof of concept Please visit the following URL, scroll...

Security update for openssl-steam (important)

This update for openssl-steam fixes the following issues: - Merged changes from upstream openssl Factory rev 137 into this fork for Steam. Updated to openssl 1.0.2k: CVE-2016-7055: Montgomery multiplication may produce incorrect results boo1009528 CVE-2016-7056: ECSDA P-256 timing attack key...

Carbon Black’s Victor Baez Recognized as a 2018 CRN Channel Chief

CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Victor Baez, Vice President, WW Channels of Carbon Black, to its prestigious list of 2018 Channel Chiefs. The executives on this annual list represent top leaders in the IT channel who excel at driving growth and revenue in their organization throug...

Addressing Innumeracy in Reporting

Anyone involved in cybersecurity reporting needs a strong sense of numeracy, or mathematical literacy. I see two sorts of examples of innumeracy repeatedly in the media. The first involves the time value of money. Recently CNN claimed Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos was the "richest person in history" and...

The Second 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...

Carbon Black 2017 Threat Report: Non-Malware Attacks and Ransomware Continue to Own the Spotlight

As the calendar shifted from December 2016 to January 2017, the prospect of a large-scale cyberattack loomed. Questions over the possible hacking of the 2016 U.S. presidential election swirled and businesses faced a growing attack vector in ransomware. In 2016, ransomware was estimated to be an...

Database Security at Cloud Scale

The biggest challenge to data security is the sheer volume and pace of data growth. More so even than the shift from relational data to unstructured or the migration of data to the cloud. “Cloud scale” is usually used to refer to technical items like data center size and operations or networks an...

Cache file size of "Cache on device RAM with overflow on hard disk" is growing faster than "Cache on device hard disk"

Cache file size of "Cache on device RAM with overflow on hard disk" is growing faster than "Cache on device hard disk"...

What to expect for this year's Black Friday and Cyber Monday

Last year during holidays, US online sales surpassed $122 billion. This represented a 12 percent increase over the previous year. But beyond the overall growth, what's more interesting is that sales at physical stores dropped by 10 percent, the result of ongoing consumer comfort with and adoption...

Deliver secure digital experiences using Akamai Cloud Delivery Platform - Part 2

In the first part of this blog series, we discussed how you can leverage Akamai Cloud Delivery Platform, the world's largest and most trusted cloud delivery platform, to achieve the scalability, availability, reliability and performance needed to deliver superior digital experiences and maximize...

Here’s Why You Should Consider A Career In Cybersecurity

The need for more technologists with cybersecurity skills is undeniable. That may be an awkward way to phrase it, but it’s a better representation that “cybersecurity professionals.” In today’s world, everyone who works on and with technology needs to be aware of cybersecurity challenges. This we...

Bargains and brotherhood: The underground Digital Souks of the Middle East

The release of our report “Digital Souks: A glimpse into the Middle Eastern and North African underground” marks the 12th in our Cybercriminal Underground Economy Series CUES. Having previously published several papers covering the Japanese, French, German, North American, Chinese, Russian and...

Taking the Fight Where It Belongs

This Guest blog was written by Robert Mahowald, a Group Vice President at IDC who leads IDC's Worldwide Applications research practice, in addition to co-leading IDC's Cloud Services: Global Overview program. A surprising set of facts emerged from the most recent quarterly installment of IDC's...

Five reasons you need to join an MSP program… today!

Managed service providers MSPs offer a broad set of services to their customers, including configuring, managing, maintaining, monitoring and securing increasingly complex IT environments. In addition, they also have a business to run, employees to manage, technician utilization to monitor, profi...

Critical: kernel

Issue Overview: An issue was discovered in the size of the stack guard page on Linux, specifically a 4k stack guard page is not sufficiently large and can be jmp'ed over, this affects Linux Kernel versions 4.11.5 and earlier the stackguard page was introduced in 2010. CVE-2017-1000364 The...

Shortening Your DCAP Short List: Five Critical Things to Consider for a Data-Centric Audit and Protection Solution

Exponential data growth. You’ve heard it many times before, but it’s still the most accurate way to describe the enormous and growing amount of data that businesses generate and collect today. It’s this growth that is driving today’s enterprises to revisit their strategies for data security and...

Five Reasons Why I Joined Wallarm

By Johan Nordstrom The question of “what made you change jobs?” may be old, but the answer with my move to Wallarm is new and clear. I have a vision how to address the dynamic threat landscape of today and Wallarm’s innovative approach to security is in line with these ideas. In my 30 years caree...

Internet Bug Bounty: OCSP Status Request extension unbounded memory growth (CVE-2016-6304)

A malicious client can send an excessively large OCSP Status Request extension. If that client continually requests renegotiation, sending a large OCSP Status Request extension each time, then there will be unbounded memory growth on the server. This will eventually lead to a Denial Of Service...

RHEL 6 : openssl (RHSA-2016:2802)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2016:2802 advisory. - openssl: OCSP Status Request extension unbounded memory growth CVE-2016-6304 Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied...

Lobbyists Press Trump to Support Strong Encryption, Surveillance Reform

A lobbying organization that includes some of the Internet’s most valuable entities made a plea to President-Elect Donald Trump to support the expansion of strong encryption and reform government surveillance activities. The Internet Association on Monday sent a letter to Trump’s transition team...