Decoupling for Security

This is an excerpt from a longer paper. You can read the whole thing complete with sidebars and illustrations here. Our message is simple: it is possible to get the best of both worlds. We can and should get the benefits of the cloud while taking security back into our own hands. Here we outline ...

kernel: drm/ttm: Fix a NULL pointer dereference

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: drm/ttm: Fix a NULL pointer dereference The LRU mechanism may look up a resource in the process of being removed from an object. The locking rules here are a bit unclear but it looks currently like res-bo assignment is protected ...

What is Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) ?

Trust No One, Secure Everything: Unpacking Zero Trust Architecture In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, the traditional approach of building a robust wall around your network and trusting everything inside it is no longer sufficient. The rise of cloud computing, remote work, and mobil...

Breaking the Chain of Data Access: The Importance of Separating Human and Application Users

Data, the lifeblood of any organization, relies on the database as its beating heart. As a result, businesses invest heavily in designing and monitoring all access to it. In traditional literature, there are two types of users: administrative users, who manage the entire lifecycle of a database...

PT-2023-36348 · Unknown · Graphql Mesh

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: GraphQL Mesh affected versions not specified Description: GraphQL Mesh is a framework and gateway for GraphQL Federation and non-GraphQL Federation subgraphs, non-GraphQL services, and databases. When a user transforms on the root level or...

Implementing the Least Privilege Principle to Safeguard Your Assets

By Owais Sultan The least privilege principle is a crucial concept in cybersecurity that involves granting users the minimum level of… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Implementing the Least Privilege Principle to Safeguard Your Assets...

OESA-2023-1505 bind security update

BIND Berkeley Internet Name Domain is an implementation of the DNS Domain Name System protocols. Security Fixes: Every named instance configured to run as a recursive resolver maintains a cache database holding the responses to the queries it has recently sent to authoritative servers. The size...

Secrets, Secrets Are No Fun. Secrets, Secrets (Stored in Plain Text Files) Hurt Someone

Secrets are meant to be hidden or, at the very least, only known to a specific and limited set of individuals or systems. Otherwise, they aren't really secrets. In personal life, a secret revealed can damage relationships, lead to social stigma, or, at the very least, be embarrassing. In a...

MITRE Unveils Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses of 2023: Are You at Risk?

MITRE has released its annual list of the Top 25 "most dangerous software weaknesses" for the year 2023. "These weaknesses lead to serious vulnerabilities in software," the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA said. "An attacker can often exploit these vulnerabilities to tak...

Detect and Prioritize Identity-Related Cloud Risk with InsightCloudSec

In modern cloud environments, roles and permissions are assigned not just to human users, but to machines, resources and services, as well. The massive scale of cloud environments leads to teams potentially managing millions of distinct identities. As a result, security teams often struggle to...

CVE-2023-28047: Least Privilege Violation

Dell Display Manager, versions 2.1.0 and prior, contains an arbitrary file or folder creation vulnerability during installation. A local low privilege attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to the execution of arbitrary code on the operating system with high privileges...

AlienFox Malware Targets API Keys and Secrets from AWS, Google, and Microsoft Cloud Services

A new "comprehensive toolset" called AlienFox is being distributed on Telegram as a way for threat actors to harvest credentials from API keys and secrets from popular cloud service providers. "The spread of AlienFox represents an unreported trend towards attacking more minimal cloud services,...

CIEM is Required for Cloud Security and IAM Providers to Compete: Gartner® Report

In an ongoing effort to help security organizations stay competitive, we’re pleased to offer this complimentary Gartner® report, Emerging Tech: CIEM Is Required for Cloud Security and IAM Providers to Compete. The research in the report demonstrates the need for Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement...

SUSE CVE-2010-3833

MySQL 5.0 before 5.0.92, 5.1 before 5.1.51, and 5.5 before 5.5.6 does not properly propagate type errors, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service server crash via crafted arguments to extreme-value functions such as 1 LEAST and 2 GREATEST, related to KILLBADDATA and a "CREATE...

SUSE CVE-2010-3838

MySQL 5.0 before 5.0.92, 5.1 before 5.1.51, and 5.5 before 5.5.6 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service server crash via a query that uses the 1 GREATEST or 2 LEAST function with a mixed list of numeric and LONGBLOB arguments, which is not properly handled when the...

SUSE CVE-2017-6314

The makeavailableatleast function in io-tiff.c in gdk-pixbuf allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service infinite loop via a large TIFF file...

PT-2023-1394 · Argo Cd · Argo Cd

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Argo CD versions 2.6.0-rc1 through 2.6.0 Description: The issue is related to an output sanitization bug in Argo CD, which leaks repository access credentials in error messages. These error messages are visible to the user and are logged. The...

New Microsoft Azure Vulnerability Uncovered — EmojiDeploy for RCE Attacks

A new critical remote code execution RCE flaw discovered impacting multiple services related to Microsoft Azure could be exploited by a malicious actor to completely take control of a targeted application. "The vulnerability is achieved through CSRF cross-site request forgery on the ubiquitous SC...

Why Do User Permissions Matter for SaaS Security?

Earlier this year, threat actors infiltrated Mailchimp, the popular SaaS email marketing platform. They viewed over 300 Mailchimp customer accounts and exported audience data from 102 of them. The breach was preceded by a successful phishing attempt and led to malicious attacks against Mailchimp'...

Why Do User Permissions Matter for SaaS Security?

Earlier this year, threat actors infiltrated Mailchimp, the popular SaaS email marketing platform. They viewed over 300 Mailchimp customer accounts and exported audience data from 102 of them. The breach was preceded by a successful phishing attempt and led to malicious attacks against Mailchimp'...