Security Drift – The Silent Killer

Global spending on cybersecurity products and services is predicted to exceed $1 trillion during the period of five years, between 2017 to 2021, with different analysts predicting the Compound Annual Growth Rate CAGR at anywhere between 8 to 15%. It is not surprising to see this growth in spendin...

More Insights on The Global DDoS Threat Landscape

Recently, edge services product manager David Elmaleh and Imperva Research Labs’ data scientist Johnathan Azaria shared their DDoS knowledge in a live BrightTalk webinar about the current threat landscape and what you need to do to ensure you are adequately prepared. David and Johnathan not only...

Bad Bot Report 2020: Bad Bots Strike Back

The 7th Annual Bad Bot Report is now available from Imperva. Prepared by data from Imperva’s Threat Research Lab, it provides a comprehensive look at the bad bot landscape and the impact of this malicious traffic across multiple industries. Bad bot traffic rose to 24.1%, it’s highest proportion...

Financial Cyberthreats in 2019

Methodology Financial cyberthreats are malicious programs that target users of services such as online banking, e-money, and cryptocurrency, or that attempt to gain access to financial organizations and their infrastructure. These threats are usually accompanied by spam and phishing activities,...

SAP Landscape Management Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

SAP Landscape Management is a centralized SAP product management system from SAP. The system is used to centrally manage and configure SAP software systems running in physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructures. A security vulnerability exists in SAP Landscape Management version 3.0 and SAP...

CVE-2020-6236

SAP Landscape Management, version 3.0, and SAP Adaptive Extensions, version 1.0, allows an attacker with admingroup privileges to change ownership and permissions including S-user ID bit s-bit of arbitrary files remotely. This results in the possibility to execute these files as root user from a...

CVE-2020-6236

SAP Landscape Management, version 3.0, and SAP Adaptive Extensions, version 1.0, allows an attacker with admingroup privileges to change ownership and permissions including S-user ID bit s-bit of arbitrary files remotely. This results in the possibility to execute these files as root user from a...

Privilege escalation

SAP Landscape Management, version 3.0, and SAP Adaptive Extensions, version 1.0, allows an attacker with admingroup privileges to change ownership and permissions including S-user ID bit s-bit of arbitrary files remotely. This results in the possibility to execute these files as root user from a...

CVE-2020-6236

CVE-2020-6236 affects SAP Landscape Management v3.0 and SAP Adaptive Extensions v1.0. An attacker with admin_group privileges can remotely change ownership and permissions (including S-user ID bit) of arbitrary files, enabling execution of those files as root from a non-root context and causing p...

CVE-2020-6236

SAP Landscape Management, version 3.0, and SAP Adaptive Extensions, version 1.0, allows an attacker with admingroup privileges to change ownership and permissions including S-user ID bit s-bit of arbitrary files remotely. This results in the possibility to execute these files as root user from a...

Secure Remote Working During COVID-19 — Checklist for CISOs

Coronavirus crisis introduces a heavy burden on the CISOs with the collective impact of a mass transition to working remotely coupled with a surge of cyberattacks that strive to monetize the general chaos. Security vendors, unintendedly, contribute to this burden by a relentless generation of noi...

Key Findings from the 2020 Cyberthreat Defense Report

The new 2020 Cyberthreat Defense Report CDR released this week. Now in its seventh year, the annual report provides a look at how global cybersecurity professionals perceive threats and plan to defend against them. The CDR enables cybersecurity professionals to benchmark their company’s security...

Defender Behavior in 2019

Security is a team sport, or at least it should be. Given the constant behavior evolution we see from attackers and the vast IT footprint attackers can target, IT and security teams clearly face an uphill battle. Whereas attackers only have to be right once to succeed, defenders must be right 100...

Akamai's Prolexic Platform Completes Fifth Generation Upgrade

Akamai introduces new enhancements today to its Prolexic Routed purpose-built DDoS scrubbing service that reflect the changing nature of the threat landscape and capitalize on cloud functionality to enable maximum customer flexibility using newer deployment models. For anyone worried about DDoS...

How CISOs Should Prepare for Coronavirus Related Cybersecurity Threats

The Coronavirus is hitting hard on the world's economy, creating a high volume of uncertainty within organizations. Cybersecurity firm Cynet today revealed new data, showing that the Coronavirus now has a significant impact on information security and that the crisis is actively exploited by thre...

The Ultimate Security Budget Excel Template

Sound security budget planning and execution are essential for the CIO’s/CISO’s success. Now, for the first time, The Ultimate Security Budget Plan & Track Excel template download here provides security executives a clear and intuitive tool to keep track of planned vs. actual spend, ensuring that...

The Ultimate Security Budget Excel Template

Sound security budget planning and execution are essential for the CIO’s/CISO’s success. Now, for the first time, The Ultimate Security Budget Plan & Track Excel template download here provides security executives a clear and intuitive tool to keep track of planned vs. actual spend, ensuring that...

Microsoft Patches 26 Critical Bugs in Big March Update

Microsoft tackled 115 bug fixes as part of its March Patch Tuesday update – 26 rated critical and 88 rated medium severity. The bugs patched span its product catalog, from Azure DevOps to Windows 10. This month’s haul is notable in its quantity and that there are only a few stand-out bugs causing...

Firefox Bug Opens iPhone AirPods to Third-Party Snooping

Five high-severity bugs were fixed in the Firefox web browser with the release of version 74 by the Mozilla Foundation on Tuesday. In addition, Mozilla reported a quirky moderate-severity flaw that allows hackers to target iPhone users and collect data tied to connected AirPods, if in use. In...

SAP Landscape Management Input Validation Error Vulnerability

SAP Landscape Management is a centralized SAP product management system from SAP. The system is used to centrally manage and configure SAP software systems running in physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructures. An input validation error vulnerability exists in SAP Landscape Management. An...