The vulnerability of the management tools for virtual infrastructure, such as VMware vCenter Server and VMware ESXi hypervisor, is related to incorrect session duration settings, allowing attackers to gain unauthorized access to protected information.

The vulnerability of the management tools for virtual infrastructure, such as VMware vCenter Server and VMware ESXi hypervisor, is related to incorrect session duration settings. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor, operating remotely, to gain unauthorized access to protecte...

Oil-and-Gas APT Pivots to U.S. Power Plants.

A known APT group with ties to the Iran-linked APT33, dubbed Magnallium, has expanded its targeting from the global oil-and-gas industry to specifically include electric companies in North America. That’s according to a report from Dragos, released Thursday, which noted that the discovery is part...

IR & Forensics in the Cloud

More and more organisations are moving their business to the cloud. This makes securing data and being able to respond effectively to incidents in cloud environments an important topic. Having the skills on hand to properly collect digital forensics data in response to a legal dispute or during a...

What the continued escalation of tensions in the Middle East means for security

Cisco Talos works with many organizations around the world, monitoring and protecting against sophisticated threats every day. As such, we are watching the current state of events in the Middle East very closely for our customers and partners who may be impacted by the ongoing situation. We are...

The New Year Calls for a Change in the OT Industry’s State of Security

In 2014, a Western European steel mill suffered serious damage from a phishing attack that penetrated its IT and Operational Technology OT networks the software and hardware dedicated to monitoring and controlling physical devices where attackers gained control of plant equipment. In 2018, 74% of...

Mozilla Releases Security Updates for Firefox and Firefox ESR

Mozilla has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in Firefox and Firefox ESR. An attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA encourages users and administrators to review the...

Cisco Releases Security Updates

Cisco has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities in Data Center Network Manager DCNM. A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. For updates addressing lower severity vulnerabilities see the Cisco Security Advisories webpage...

Bitdefender Command Injection Vulnerability

BitDefender is a world-renowned antivirus program. Bitdefender has a command injection vulnerability that can be exploited by an attacker to execute system commands by mimicking an infrastructure server...

Release of New CISA Insights on Increased Geopolitical Tensions and Threats

Stakeholders, Today, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA issued a CISA Insights document entitled, “Increased Geopolitical Tensions and Threats” pertaining to the increased tension with Iran. You can read the new CISA Insights at CISA.gov/insights. As the Nation’s risk...

CVE-2018-2755

Vulnerability in the MySQL Server component of Oracle MySQL subcomponent: Server: Replication. Supported versions that are affected are 5.5.59 and prior, 5.6.39 and prior and 5.7.21 and prior. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with logon to the infrastructure wher...

Exploring VBO365 backups: Understanding Different Restore Scopes

Challenge You can explore backups in three different scopes: Backup Job , Organization , All organizations. Consider the following organizations added to the Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 backup infrastructure; each of these organizations uses its own backup repository to store data: Organizatio...

Multiple Vulnerabilities in Hitachi Command Suite and Hitachi Infrastructure Analytics Advisor

Overview Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Hitachi Command Suite and Hitachi Infrastructure Analytics Advisor. We would like to thank Piotr Madej ING Tech Poland for reporting the relevant issues. Impact Regarding the impact of the vulnerability, please refer to the vendor advisory...

Kernel update: Virtuozzo ReadyKernel patch 94.0 for Virtuozzo 7.0 and Virtuozzo Infrastructure Platform 3.0

The cumulative Virtuozzo ReadyKernel patch was updated with stability fixes. The patch applies to the kernels 3.10.0-957.12.2.vz7.96.21 Virtuozzo 7.0.11 and Virtuozzo Infrastructure Platform 3.0, 3.10.0-1062.4.2.vz7.116.6 Virtuozzo 7.0.12, 3.10.0-1062.4.2.vz7.116.7 Virtuozzo 7.0.12 HF1...

CVE-2019-5108

An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the Linux kernel prior to mainline 5.3. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by triggering AP to send IAPP location updates for stations before the required authentication process has completed. This could lead to different...

Denial of service

An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the Linux kernel prior to mainline 5.3. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by triggering AP to send IAPP location updates for stations before the required authentication process has completed. This could lead to different...

CVE-2019-5108

An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the Linux kernel prior to mainline 5.3. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by triggering AP to send IAPP location updates for stations before the required authentication process has completed. This could lead to different...

CVE-2019-5108

An exploitable denial-of-service vulnerability exists in the Linux kernel prior to mainline 5.3. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by triggering AP to send IAPP location updates for stations before the required authentication process has completed. This could lead to different...

Inspecting TLS Web Traffic - Part 3

In the second part of this blog, I covered how HTTPS web content inspection is provided in Akamai's Enterprise Threat Protector ETP service using ETP proxy. In this final blog post I want to provide information about how Akamai generates, distributes and controls access to private keys including...

CVE-2019-2969

Vulnerability in the MySQL Server product of Oracle MySQL component: Client programs. Supported versions that are affected are 5.6.44 and prior, 5.7.26 and prior and 8.0.16 and prior. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with logon to the infrastructure where MySQL...

SCOM - EOL and Alternatives

Citrix Systems, Inc. announces End of Maintenance EOM and End of Life EOL milestones for the following Citrix SCOM Management Packs. The milestones are provided in accordance with the guidelines established by the Citrix Product Lifecycle Support Policy . Citrix SCOM Management Pack| Notice of...