Average Cost of Breach Goes Down, For the First Time Ever

NEW YORK–The global average cost of a data breach last year dropped 11.4 percent from 2015 to $3.6 million. The reduction is attributed mostly to a strong U.S. dollar, with wins also offset by a 1.8 percent increase in the size of breaches in 2016. The numbers come from Peter Allor, senior cyber...

Trump's Cybersecurity Executive Order Under Fire

NEW YORK–President Donald Trump’s Cybersecurity Executive Order needs an overhaul, specifically a shift from planning and proposals to the pragmatic. According to Ed Amoroso, former AT&T CSO, there are dire consequences to the U.S. critical infrastructure if the U.S. government pursues its curren...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat OpenStack Platform director security update

An update is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8.0 Liberty. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from t...

rhosp-director: libvirtd is deployed with no authentication

A design flaw issue was found in the Red Hat OpenStack Platform director use of TripleO to enable libvirtd based live-migration. Libvirtd is deployed by default by director listening on 0.0.0.0 all interfaces with no-authentication or encryption. Anyone able to make a TCP connection to any comput...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat OpenStack Platform director security update

An update is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 7.0 Kilo. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the...

rhosp-director: libvirtd is deployed with no authentication

A design flaw issue was found in the Red Hat OpenStack Platform director use of TripleO to enable libvirtd based live-migration. Libvirtd is deployed by default by director listening on 0.0.0.0 all interfaces with no-authentication or encryption. Anyone able to make a TCP connection to any comput...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat OpenStack Platform director security update

An update is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9.0 Mitaka. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from th...

rhosp-director: libvirtd is deployed with no authentication

A design flaw issue was found in the Red Hat OpenStack Platform director use of TripleO to enable libvirtd based live-migration. Libvirtd is deployed by default by director listening on 0.0.0.0 all interfaces with no-authentication or encryption. Anyone able to make a TCP connection to any comput...

Risk of 'Destructive Cyber Attacks' Prompts Microsoft to Update XP Again

Fearing destructive attacks precipitated by the availability of the nation-state exploits in the wild that spawned the WannaCry outbreak, Microsoft today announced that its Patch Tuesday updates would include fixes for older versions of Windows, including XP. The move is unusual and mimics a...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: qemu-kvm-rhev security and bug fix update

An update for qemu-kvm-rhev is now available for RHEV 3.X Hypervisor and Agents for RHEL-7 and RHEV 4.X RHEV-H and Agents for RHEL-7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a...

Difference between Fast Clone and Full Clone

Q : When using Machine Creation Services to create a Machine Catalog containing desktop OS VMs, you can now choose whether MCS provisions thin fast copy clones or thick full copy clones. What's the difference between them? Ans Since Machine Creation Services MCS was first released in XenDesktop...

Product update: Virtuozzo 7.0 Update 4 Hotfix 2 (7.0.4-1101)

The new update for Virtuozzo 7.0.4 provides a stability bug fix. Vulnerability id: PSBM-66628 Potential VM disk image corruption on VM migration...

Metasploit Wrapup

It has only been one week since the last wrapup, so it's not like much could have happened, right? Wrong! Misery Loves Company After last week's excitement with Metasploit's version of ETERNALBLUE AKA the Wannacry vulnerability, this week SAMBA had its own "Hold My Beer" moment with the disclosur...

Product update: Virtuozzo 7.0 Update 4 Hotfix 1 (7.0.4-1091)

The new update for Virtuozzo 7.0.4 provides stability and usability bug fixes. Vulnerability id: PSBM-66625, PSBM-66445 guest.fs counters were reported in kilobytes for containers and in bytes for virtual machines. Vulnerability id: PSBM-66556 Backup location changed to default after update to...

CVE-2017-2637

A design flaw issue was found in the Red Hat OpenStack Platform director use of TripleO to enable libvirtd based live-migration. Libvirtd is deployed by default by director listening on 0.0.0.0 all interfaces with no-authentication or encryption. Anyone able to make a TCP connection to any comput...

rhosp-director: libvirtd is deployed with no authentication

A design flaw issue was found in the Red Hat OpenStack Platform director use of TripleO to enable libvirtd based live-migration. Libvirtd is deployed by default by director listening on 0.0.0.0 all interfaces with no-authentication or encryption. Anyone able to make a TCP connection to any comput...

openSUSE Security Update : qemu (openSUSE-2017-589)

This update for qemu fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2017-2620: In CIRRUSBLTMODEMEMSYSSRC mode the bitblit copy routine cirrusbitbltcputovideo failed to check the memory region, allowing for an out-of-bounds write that allows for privilege escalation bsc1024972 -...

Announcement: End-of-life Metasploit 32-bit versions

Rapid7 announced the end of life of Metasploit Pro 32-bit versions for both Windows and Linux operating systems on July 5th, 2017. This announcement applies to all editions: Metasploit Pro, Metasploit Express and Metasploit Community. After this date Metasploit 32-bit platforms will not receive...

Microsoft Makes it Official, Cuts off SHA-1 Support in IE, Edge

Lost in yesterday’s shuffle of emergency updates and regularly scheduled monthly patches was Microsoft’s announcement that it was officially cutting off SHA-1 support in Internet Explorer 11 and Edge. Going forward, both browsers will block webpages signed with a SHA-1 TLS or SSL certificate from...

udadmin -list -a shows incorrect license usage for XenMobile

After migrating from MDM 9 to XMS 10.X used license count exceeds the expected limit If you verify the checked out licenses using udadmin tool in licensing server, you should see licenses checked out for Used ID's as well as usernames. Steps: 1. Run the following command to change the directory t...