Google Launches Backstory — A New Cyber Security Tool for Businesses

Google's one-year-old cybersecurity venture Chronicle today announced its first commercial product, called Backstory , a cloud-based enterprise-level threat analytics platform that has been designed to help companies quickly investigate incidents, pinpoint vulnerabilities and hunt for potential...

Google Launches Backstory — A New Cyber Security Tool for Businesses

Google's one-year-old cybersecurity venture Chronicle today announced its first commercial product, called Backstory, a cloud-based enterprise-level threat analytics platform that has been designed to help companies quickly investigate incidents, pinpoint vulnerabilities and hunt for potential...

Bot Manager: Staying Ahead of the Bot Landscape

Akamai launched Bot Manager three years ago. Since then, the bot landscape has continued to evolve and we've introduced a number of improvements to our bot detections to stay ahead of it. These included browser fingerprinting and behavioral anomaly detection, as well constantly refining our core...

This Week in Security News: Malware and Machine Learning

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about an infectious miner-malware and how malware can hide form AV Solutions. Also, understand how to use machine learning to detect...

Securing the future of AI and machine learning at Microsoft

Artificial intelligence AI and machine learning are making a big impact on how people work, socialize, and live their lives. As consumption of products and services built around AI and machine learning increases, specialized actions must be undertaken to safeguard not only your customers and thei...

Prepare to Defend Your Network Against Swarm-as-a-Service

The digital world we now inhabit creates unprecedented opportunities – both for good and for ill. One of these possibilities is swarm-based tools that can be used to either attack or defend the network. This possibility, or set of possibilities, has arisen due to dramatic advances in swarm-based...

[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: moodle-3.5.4-1.fc29

Moodle is a course management system CMS - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators crea te effective online learning communities...

[SECURITY] Fedora 28 Update: moodle-3.4.7-1.fc28

Moodle is a course management system CMS - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators crea te effective online learning communities...

How Machine Learning can Expose and Illustrate Network Threats

Although machine learning algorithms have been around for years, additional use cases are being discovered and applied all the time, particularly when it comes to network and data security. As years have passed, the skills and sophisticated approaches being utilized by hackers have risen in...

Partner Perspectives: Beyond SIEM: Carbon Black + JASK Connected

Oren Arar is the Head of Alliances for JASK. The real-time integration of JASK & Carbon Black provides high-value alerts and extended contextual investigation insights to our joint customers, all within a cloud-native environment. Background The JASK Autonomous Security Operations Center ASOC...

Kibana ESA-2018-06

X-Pack Machine Learning versions before 6.2.4 and 5.6.9 had a cross- site scripting XSS vulnerability. Users with manageml permissions could create jobs containing malicious data as part of their configuration that could allow the attacker to obtain sensitive information from or perform destructi...

Elasticsearch ESA-2018-19

Elasticsearch Security versions 6.5.0 and 6.5.1 contain an XXE flaw in Machine Learnings findfilestructure API. If a policy allowing external network access has been added to Elasticsearchs Java Security Manager then an attacker could send a specially crafted request capable of leaking content of...

#OTTuesday: AI Destined for Big Role in Entertainment

After years of hype, AI is finally making headway in industries like manufacturing, medicine and transportation -- and it's beginning to play a supporting role in media & entertainment. AkamaiTV's Paul Jackson chatted with Peter Chave, Principal Architect here at Akamai, to learn how AI is steppi...

Machine Learning to Detect Software Vulnerabilities

No one doubts that artificial intelligence AI and machine learning ML will transform cybersecurity. We just don't know how, or when. While the literature generally focuses on the different uses of AI by attackers and defenders ­ and the resultant arms race between the two ­ I want to talk about...

unCAPTCHA AI Cracks Google reCAPTCHAs with 90% Accuracy

unCAPTCHA, an artificial intelligence-based automated system designed at the University of Maryland, has been updated to break Google’s latest audio-based reCAPTCHA challenges with an accuracy rate of 90 percent. Google has been working on refining and strengthening reCAPTCHA for years, a Turing...

the-learning-tree.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-713813 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| the-learning-tree.com Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| hidden until disclosure Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:|...

Hackathon is over: Here are our winners!

A few weeks ago Wallarm has launched a hackathon to create a machine learning / AI model to detect attacks among normal web requests. The competition was run on Kaggle as InClass. In this competition, Kagglers were asked to develop models that identify injections among neutral input vectors using...

CVE-2018-17247

Elasticsearch Security versions 6.5.0 and 6.5.1 contain an XXE flaw in Machine Learning's findfilestructure API. If a policy allowing external network access has been added to Elasticsearch's Java Security Manager then an attacker could send a specially crafted request capable of leaking content ...

CVE-2018-17247

Elasticsearch Security versions 6.5.0 and 6.5.1 contain an XXE flaw in Machine Learning's findfilestructure API. If a policy allowing external network access has been added to Elasticsearch's Java Security Manager then an attacker could send a specially crafted request capable of leaking content ...

Information disclosure

Elasticsearch Security versions 6.5.0 and 6.5.1 contain an XXE flaw in Machine Learning's findfilestructure API. If a policy allowing external network access has been added to Elasticsearch's Java Security Manager then an attacker could send a specially crafted request capable of leaking content ...