Product update: Virtuozzo Automator 7.0 Update 2 Hotfix 2 (VA MN: 7.0.2-403, VA Agent: 7.0.2-189)

This hotfix for Virtuozzo Automator 7.0.2 provides stability and usability bug fixes. Vulnerability id: PVA-37045 The Management Node did not recognize bonded network during VLAN creation. Vulnerability id: PVA-37041 Could not create virtual network for a VLAN created by the Virtuozzo installer...

WordPress All-in-One WP Migration Plugin Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

WordPress is a set of WordPress Software Foundation's blogging platform developed using the PHP language, which supports personal blog sites on servers with PHP and MySQL. A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in the WordPress All-in-One WP Migration plugin. An attacker can exploit this...

Move Securely to the Cloud: WAF Requirements and Deployment Options

Moving to the cloud has become an overwhelmingly popular trend even among organizations that were at first reluctant to make the move. Wherever you are in your cloud migration plan, it can take time, sometimes years, and often starts with first moving peripheral workloads to the cloud while leavi...

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 -...