Algorithms, Alerts, and Akamai Threat Intelligence

Let me start by posing a question: If in one week security solution A produces 120 alerts and security solution B produces 45 alerts, which solution is providing you with more effective protection? The answer is: It depends. On the face of it, solution A appears to be more effective because it's...

Expert: IoT Botnets the Work of a ‘Vast Minority’

In December 2017, the U.S. Department of Justice announced indictments and guilty pleas by three men in the United States responsible for creating and using Mirai, a malware strain that enslaves poorly-secured "Internet of Things" or IoT devices like security cameras and digital video recorders f...

Why Stand-Alone IDPS Matters More Than Ever, and the 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant

First, What is IDPS and Why Do We Care? Intrusion Prevention Systems IPS emerged as an improvement on Intrusion Detection Systems IDS. IDS are out-of-band collectors of network traffic that analyze the information and provide alerts. The “eureka” of IPS was that instead of just alerting, why not...

Getting Back on the Field

Growing up as a foreign service brat, I was obsessed with security. Living in Guatemala in the 80s you had to adapt and become resilient as child. As there was no TV in our household, 10-year-old Tom began to tinker with my father’s computer and soon it became my oasis from the stress of living i...

F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager Man-in-the-Middle Attack Vulnerability

F5 BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager AFM is a firewall manager from F5 USA that scales to stop high-volume DDoS attacks that can overwhelm load balancers, firewalls, and even networks.The Configuration utility... A security vulnerability exists in the early access "user id" feature in F5 BIG-IP AF...

Unspecified Vulnerability in Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition Component (CNVD-2018-01733)

Oracle Fusion Middleware Oracle Fusion Middleware is a set of Oracle's business innovation platform for enterprise and cloud environments, which provides middleware, software collections, and other functionality.Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition is one of the business intelligence...

Researchers Uncover Government-Sponsored Mobile Hacking Group Operating Since 2012

A global mobile espionage campaign collecting a trove of sensitive personal information from victims since at least 2012 has accidentally revealed itself—thanks to an exposed server on the open internet. It's one of the first known examples of a successful large-scale hacking operation of mobile...

CVE-2018-2595

Vulnerability in the Hyperion BI+ component of Oracle Hyperion subcomponent: Foundation UI & Servlets. The supported version that is affected is 11.1.2.4. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Hyperion BI+. Successful attacks...

CVE-2017-10068

Vulnerability in the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition component of Oracle Fusion Middleware subcomponent: Analytics Web Dashboards. The supported version that is affected is 12.2.1.3.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to...

CVE-2017-10068

Vulnerability in the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition component of Oracle Fusion Middleware subcomponent: Analytics Web Dashboards. The supported version that is affected is 12.2.1.3.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to...

Buffer overflow

Vulnerability in the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition component of Oracle Fusion Middleware subcomponent: Analytics Web Dashboards. The supported version that is affected is 12.2.1.3.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to...

Design/Logic Flaw

Vulnerability in the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition component of Oracle Fusion Middleware subcomponent: BI Platform Security. Supported versions that are affected are 12.2.1.2.0 and 12.2.1.3.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access vi...

CVE-2018-2715

Vulnerability in the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition component of Oracle Fusion Middleware subcomponent: BI Platform Security. Supported versions that are affected are 12.2.1.2.0 and 12.2.1.3.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access vi...

CVE-2018-2715

Vulnerability in the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition component of Oracle Fusion Middleware subcomponent: BI Platform Security. Supported versions that are affected are 12.2.1.2.0 and 12.2.1.3.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access vi...

CVE-2017-10068

Vulnerability in the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition component of Oracle Fusion Middleware subcomponent: Analytics Web Dashboards. The supported version that is affected is 12.2.1.3.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to...

CVE-2018-2715

CVE-2018-2715 describes a vulnerability in the Oracle BI EE component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, specifically in the BI Platform Security subcomponent. Affected versions are stated as 12.2.1.2.0 and 12.2.1.3.0 . The issue is exploitable by a low-privileged attacker with network access via HTTP ...

The Botconf Experience

By Yohai Einav, Amir Asiaee, Ali Fakiri-Tabrizi and Alexey Sarychev Originally Posted on January 4, 2018 Earlier this month we took our show on the road, presenting some of our team's work at the Botconf conference in beautiful Montpellier, France. We could talk here for hours about the food, win...

Oracle Ships 237 Fixes in Latest Critical Patch Update

Oracle has shipped 237 patches for vulnerabilities impacting hundreds of product versions as part of its latest quarterly critical patch update. Product lines coming in for some of the most fixes include Oracle Financial Services Applications, with 34, Fusion Middleware with 27, MySQL with 25 and...

Unspecified Vulnerability in Oracle Fusion Middleware (CNVD-2018-02272)

Oracle Fusion Middleware Oracle Fusion Middleware is a set of Oracle's business innovation platform for enterprise and cloud environments, which provides middleware, software collections, and other functionality.Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition is one of the business intelligence...

January 16, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “NASA” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! January 16, 2018 - Headlines BlackBerry launches cybersecurity software for...