What’s up with WhatsApp’s privacy policy?

WhatsApp has been in the news recently after changes to its privacy policy caused a surge of interest in rival messaging app Signal. Initial reports may have worried a lot of folks, leading to inevitable clarifications and corrections. But what, you may ask, actually happened? Is there a problem?...

CVE-2021-21250

OneDev is an all-in-one devops platform. In OneDev before version 4.0.3, there is a critical vulnerability which may lead to arbitrary file read. When BuildSpec is provided in XML format, the spec is processed by XmlBuildSpecMigrator.migratebuildSpecString; which processes the XML document withou...

EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.2.6 : qemu (EulerOS-SA-2021-1057)

According to the versions of the qemu packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - Quick Emulator Qemu built with the VirtFS, host directory sharing via Plan 9 File System9pfs support, is vulnerable to an improper...

Facebook’s Mandatory Data-Sharing Rules for WhatsApp Spark Ire

WhatsApp is asking users to accept a new privacy policy that will share all of their data with Facebook beginning Feb. 8, a move that has users sounding an alarm once again about the privacy of their information in the hands of the social media giant. The Facebook-owned messaging service already...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : java-1_8_0-ibm (SUSE-SU-2021:0032-1)

This update for java-180-ibm fixes the following issues : Update to Java 8.0 Service Refresh 6 Fix Pack 20 bsc1180063,bsc1177943 CVE-2020-14792 CVE-2020-14797 CVE-2020-14781 CVE-2020-14779 CVE-2020-14798 CVE-2020-14796 CVE-2020-14803 - Class libraries : - SOCKETADAPTOR$SOCKETINPUTSTREAM.READ is...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Virtualization security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An update for cockpit-ovirt, redhat-release-virtualization-host, redhat-virtualization-host, and v2v-conversion-host is now available for Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common...

AZL-25952 CVE-2020-8908 affecting package guava for versions less than 25.0-7

A temp directory creation vulnerability exists in all versions of Guava, allowing an attacker with access to the machine to potentially access data in a temporary directory created by the Guava API com.google.common.io.Files.createTempDir. By default, on unix-like systems, the created directory i...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : xen (SUSE-SU-2020:3414-1)

This update for xen fixes the following issues : Security issue fixed : CVE-2020-28368: Fixed the Intel RAPL sidechannel attack, aka PLATYPUS attack, aka XSA-351 bsc1178591. Non-security issues fixed : Updated to Xen 4.12.4 bug fix release bsc1027519. Fixed a panic during MSI cleanup on AMD...

Product update: Virtuozzo Hybrid Server 7.5 Hotfix 1 (7.5.0-589)

The Hotfix 1 for Virtuozzo Hybrid Server 7.5 provides stability and usability bug fixes. Vulnerability id: PSBM-108125 Virtuozzo Storage trial licenses ending in 2021 could be reported as invalid. Vulnerability id: PSBM-123396 Migrating a VM over Virtuozzo Storage could take a very long time...

A Look Ahead: 9 Cybersecurity Predictions for 2021

Following an unprecedented year, what’s to come for cybersecurity in 2021? The ripple effects of the global pandemic have created a new threat landscape. In March, 90% of CISOs we surveyed reported an increase in attack frequency. For many organizations, the key to survival amid COVID-19 has call...

Veeam Backup for Google Cloud Recovery/Migration Procedure

Challenge This article explains how to recover Veeam Backup for Google Cloud data in case the backup appliance gets corrupted and requires the data to be moved to a new instance as the data contains important information about restore points, repositories, policies and so on. Solution Recommended...

Low: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Virtualization security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An update is now available for Red Hat Virtualization Engine 4.4. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link...

Don’t Let These Top Cloud Myths Hamper Your Business Decision-Making

The cloud remains a dominant technology innovation well into its second decade of existence. However, after all this time, certain cloud computing myths still creep into the minds of CIOs and other denizens of the corner office. For example, some business decision-makers feel the cloud is simply ...

Workload Balancing 8.2.1 - For Citrix Hypervisor 8.2

Who Should Install This Update? This Workload Balancing virtual appliance update is for customers who use the Workload Balancing feature of Citrix Hypervisor 8.2. It constitutes the following deliverable: File Name| CitrixHypervisor-8.2.1-wlb.xva ---|--- Description| This file provides an updated...

Hotfix XS80E003 - For Citrix Hypervisor 8.0

Who Should Install This Hotfix? This is a hotfix for customers running Citrix Hypervisor 8.0. Information About this Hotfix Component| Details ---|--- Prerequisite| None Post-update tasks| Restart Host Content live patchable| No Baselines for Live Patch| N/A Revision History| Published on Jul 24,...

SUSE-SU-2020:3414-1 Security update for xen

This update for xen fixes the following issues: Security issue fixed: - CVE-2020-28368: Fixed the Intel RAPL sidechannel attack, aka PLATYPUS attack, aka XSA-351 bsc1178591. Non-security issues fixed: - Updated to Xen 4.12.4 bug fix release bsc1027519. - Fixed a panic during MSI cleanup on AMD...

Advanced Bot Protection Handling More Traffic Than Ever

It’s been six months since we launched the Advanced Bot Protection solution as fully integrated into Imperva’s Application Security platform. Previously, the Advanced Bot Protection solution lived on a separate platform, known as the ‘Distil’ platform, from our acquisition of Distil Networks...

Empowering employees to securely work from anywhere with an internet-first model and Zero Trust

Like many this year, our Microsoft workforce had to quickly transition to a work from the home model in response to COVID-19. While nobody could have predicted the world’s current state, it has provided a very real-world test of the investments we have made implementing a Zero Trust security mode...

Citrix App Layering 2.x: Unidesk Appliance Move Utility

Introduction Moving a Unidesk Cachepoint CP from one datastore to another using standard VMware tools is problematic because the layers created by the CP are non-persistent independent disks. If these are moved with a storage vMotion, they will be transformed into normal disks attached to the CP...

Session Recording Migration Tool

Description Use the Session Recording migration tool to facilitate the migration from SmartAuditor to Session Recording. The tool processes the SmartAuditor legacy recording files, and extracts and rebuilds metadata in the Session Recording Database to support the search and playback of the legac...