The Shared Responsibility Model

I’m often asked what the biggest cyberthreats are in the cloud. When people pose that question, they seem to be expecting an answer on par with a Hollywood movie plot. The truth is far simpler. The number one threat in the cloud today is service misconfigurations. Despite the cloud’s clear...

Intimate Details on Healthcare Workers Exposed as Cloud Security Lags

Yet another non-password protected cloud database has come to light, this time exposing a raft of highly personal information on healthcare workers and traveling nurses – including drug tests and arrest records. The incident showcases the unfortunate reality that cloud data security remains a...

The vulnerability of the Cisco IOS XE command-line interface allows a attacker to compromise the integrity of the protected information.

The vulnerability of the Cisco IOS XE operating system’s command-line interface is related to security configuration errors. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow attackers to compromise the integrity of the protected information...

The vulnerabilities of Firefox and Firefox ESR browsers, as well as the Thunderbird email client, are related to security configuration errors, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary code.

The vulnerabilities of Firefox and Firefox ESR browsers, as well as the Thunderbird email client, are related to security configuration errors. Exploiting these vulnerabilities allows a malicious actor to execute arbitrary code by running a malicious executable file remotely...

Beyond The Standard CISO Cloud Security Guide

Verizon recently released a 5 step process for evaluating cloud security products and services to inform purchase decisions. That’s a fantastic tool for buyers to have. This is especially helpful because cloud discussions are almost always driven by business objectives to satisfy a cost and or...

Incident Response report 2018

Download full report PDF Introduction This report covers our team's incident response practices for the year 2018. We have thoroughly analyzed all the service requests, customer conversations and incident response deliverables to provide you an overview in numbers. The report includes statistics ...

Google Android System Information Disclosure Vulnerability (CNVD-2019-31049)

Android is a Linux-based open source operating system from Google and the Open Handset Alliance OHA in the U.S. System is one of the system components. There is an information disclosure vulnerability in System in Android Q. The vulnerability arises from errors in the configuration of a networked...

Google Android System Information Disclosure Vulnerability (CNVD-2019-31051)

Android is a Linux-based open source operating system from Google and the Open Handset Alliance OHA in the U.S. System is one of the system components. There is an information disclosure vulnerability in System in Android Q. The vulnerability arises from errors in the configuration of a networked...

Dow Jones Hammer - Protect The Cloud With The Power Of The cloud(AWS)

Dow Jones Hammer is a multi-account cloud security tool for AWS. It identifies misconfigurations and insecure data exposures within most popular AWS resources, across all regions and accounts. It has near real-time reporting capabilities e.g. JIRA, Slack to provide quick feedback to engineers and...

TOP 10 BEST PRACTICES FOR SECURING CLOUD WORKFLOWS

Cloud migration is a double-edged sword. While promising greater scalability, agility, and even new approaches to applications, it also introduces complexity--which means more security risk. Security vulnerabilities exposed in breach after breach have highlighted the risk that comes with the clou...

Ladders, SkyMed Leak Employment, Medical Data for Millions

Cloud storage misconfigurations continue to plague the data-privacy space, as evidenced by the new discovery of employment and health information for millions exposed on the web, wide open to any internet passerby. Two misconfigured cloud databases inadvertently leaked personally identifiable...

Firewall Misconfiguration

github.com/containernetworking/plugins contains firewall misconfigurations. The misconfiguration causes the HostPort/portmap rule to take precedence on matching incoming traffic even if there are earlier rules or better fitting rules in the iptables nat chains...

Facebook’s plain text misstep, and other password sins

Two days after an article by Brian Krebs disclosed that hundreds of millions of Facebook account passwords had been stored in plain text for years, Facebook released a statement indicating they hash and salt passwords, more or less in accordance with industry best practice. Plain text storage of...

Assess Vulnerabilities, Misconfigurations in AWS Golden AMI Pipelines

Today we’re starting a blog series focused on how to integrate Qualys solutions into DevSecOps for securing cloud infrastructures. In this initial post, we’ll discuss the importance of assessing vulnerabilities and misconfigurations on AWS pipelines. When developing golden Amazon Machine Images...

5 Popular Web Hosting Services Found Vulnerable to Multiple Flaws

A security researcher has discovered multiple one-click client-side vulnerabilities in the some of the world's most popular and widely-used web hosting companies that could have put millions of their customers as well as billions of their sites' visitors at risk of hacking. Independent researcher...

2018: A Banner Year for Breaches

Where to start? In 2018 the mantra became “another day, another data breach.” As a result, consumers and researchers alike are feeling “breach fatigue” and getting a bit numb to the headline. But the reality is, cybercriminals are going after personal information, credit card info and passwords...

ThreatList: One-Third of Firms Say Their Container Security Lags

Even as companies move to embrace cloud deployments and containers, most organizations with such deployments don’t feel prepared to adequately secure cloud-native applications. According to StackRox’ State of Container Security report, which polled about 230 respondents in the U.S., more than a...

DirtyCOW Bug Drives Attackers to A Backdoor in Vulnerable Drupal Web Servers

In this post we’ll unpack a short -- but no less serious -- attack that affected some Linux-based systems, on October 31. Throughout the campaign, the attacker used a chain of vulnerabilities including the infamous Drupalgeddon2 and DirtyCOW, and system misconfigurations to persistently infect...

Automating Incident Prevention and Response in AWS

Information security incidents can result in reputational damage, financial losses, or a loss of system functionality for organizations at any time. Because threats and attack vectors are growing rapidly, organizations must prepare to respond to incidents in real time. The incident response IR...

JoomScan 0.0.6 - OWASP Joomla Vulnerability Scanner Project

OWASP Joomla! Vulnerability Scanner JoomScan is an open source project, developed with the aim of automating the task of vulnerability detection and reliability assurance in Joomla CMS deployments. Implemented in Perl, this tool enables seamless and effortless scanning of Joomla installations,...