Zero Trust Security Architectures - Software Defined Perimeter

By Jano van Deventer and Andrew Terranova This is Part 3 of a 5 part blog series. Jump to Part 1: Introduction Jump to Part 2: Network Micro-Segmentation Jump to Part 4: Identity Aware Proxy Jump to Part 5: Akamai's Approach to Zero Trust Introduction In the first part of this blog series, we...

A week in security (September 17 – 23)

Last week, we took a look at a low level spam campaign on Twitter, explored the signs of falling victim to phishing, and examined a massive WordPress compromise. We also explained some SASL vulnerabilities and covered a breaking Emotet spam campaign. Other cybersecurity news: NewEgg attacked by...

How to evolve your enterprise network security to a zero trust architecture

In the land behind the firewall, build a fortress in the cloud. Let me explain. When I first started working in IT more than twenty five years ago, laptops and mobile phones were for the privileged few. Most people typically stayed in one place when they were online, in most cases using a desktop...

Peer-to-Peer Crypto-Exchanges: A Haven for Money Laundering

The need to launder money is omnipresent in the criminal world, and lately, a new way of doing it has come to the fore: peer-to-peer cryptocurrency exchanges. These exchanges offer one-to-one relationships and transactions; buyers and sellers of virtual currency sign-up with their location...

Security Bulletin: IBM UrbanCode Deploy Agents Don't Verify Server Identity (CVE-2016-0271)

Summary Mutual authentication in IBM UrbanCode Deploy ensures that unknown agents cannot connect to the server over JMS. However, if a trusted agent is compromised, it can impersonate the server and send work to other agents. Agents do not verify the identity of the server over either HTTP or JMS...

Code injection

In Philips Alice 6 System version R8.0.2 or prior, when an actor claims to have a given identity, the software does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct. This weakness can lead to the exposure of resources or functionality to unintended actors, possibly providing attackers...

CVE-2018-5451

In Philips Alice 6 System version R8.0.2 or prior, when an actor claims to have a given identity, the software does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct. This weakness can lead to the exposure of resources or functionality to unintended actors, possibly providing attackers...

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74cms frontend has a logical design flaw

74cms is a free + open source professional recruitment system based on PHP + MYSQL as the core development. 74cms front-end there is a logical design vulnerability. The vulnerability is due to the foreground of the password recovery function fails to correctly verify the identity of the visitor...

CVE-2017-1264

IBM Security Guardium 10.0 does not prove or insufficiently proves that the actors identity is correct which can lead to exposure of resources or functionality to unintended actors. IBM X-Force ID: 124739...

CVE-2017-1264

IBM Security Guardium 10.0 does not prove or insufficiently proves that the actors identity is correct which can lead to exposure of resources or functionality to unintended actors. IBM X-Force ID: 124739...

Code injection

IBM Security Guardium 10.0 does not prove or insufficiently proves that the actors identity is correct which can lead to exposure of resources or functionality to unintended actors. IBM X-Force ID: 124739...

IBM Security Guardium Information Disclosure Vulnerability (CNVD-2017-15926)

IBM Security Guardium is a suite of platforms from IBM in the United States that provide data protection capabilities. The platform includes easy UI customization, report management and discovery and a streamlined audit process builder. An information disclosure vulnerability exists in IBM Securi...

Google Adds Security Key Enforcement to G Suite Apps

Google on Wednesday pumped more life into the use of physical keys as a second form of authentication when it added Security Key enforcement support to G Suite. Admins inside enterprises managing deployments of the suite of cloud-based productivity apps, formerly known as Google Apps, can now...

OAuth2. 0 deploy properly, billions of Android Apps account memory leak risk-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

The University of Hong Kong, three security researchers have found that many support single sign-on App no the correct deployment of OAuth2. 0 authentication Protocol, the attacker can use this vulnerability to remotely login to any user's App account. Ronghai Yang, Wing Cheong Lau and Tianyu Liu...

324,000 Financial Records with CVV Numbers Stolen From A Payment Gateway

Around 324,000 users have likely had their payment records stolen either from payment processor BlueSnap or its customer Regpack; however, neither of the company has admitted a data breach. BlueSnap is a payment provider which allows websites to take payments from customers by offering merchant...

Session fixation

The agents in IBM UrbanCode Deploy 6.x before 6.0.1.14, 6.1.x before 6.1.3.3, and 6.2.x before 6.2.1.1 do not verify a server's identity in a JMS session or an HTTP session, which allows local users to obtain root access to arbitrary agents via unspecified vectors...

The vulnerability of the Android operating system allows a perpetrator to bypass the identity verification process by sending a short SMS message.

The vulnerability of the checkDestination function in the Android operating system is related to deficiencies in access control for certain functions. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to bypass the identity verification process by sending a short SMS message using a speciall...

Updated java-1.7.0-openjdk package fixes security vulnerabilities

Multiple flaws were discovered in the 2D, CORBA, JMX, Libraries and RMI components in OpenJDK. An untrusted Java application or applet could use these flaws to bypass Java sandbox restrictions CVE-2015-4760, CVE-2015-2628, CVE-2015-4731, CVE-2015-2590, CVE-2015-4732, CVE-2015-4733. A flaw was fou...

Amazon Linux AMI : java-1.8.0-openjdk (ALAS-2015-571) (Bar Mitzvah) (Logjam)

Multiple flaws were discovered in the 2D, CORBA, JMX, Libraries and RMI components in OpenJDK. An untrusted Java application or applet could use these flaws to bypass Java sandbox restrictions. CVE-2015-4760 , CVE-2015-2628 , CVE-2015-4731 , CVE-2015-2590 , CVE-2015-4732 , CVE-2015-4733 A flaw wa...