MDR Vendor Must-Haves, Part 1: Deep Observation of Real-Time Endpoint Data

This blog post is part of an ongoing series about evaluating Managed Detection and Response MDR providers. For more insights, check out our guide, “10 Things Your MDR Service Must Do.” Assessing Managed Detection and Response MDR vendors is no easy task. However, evaluating each based on...

CopperStealer Malware Targets Facebook and Instagram Business Accounts

A malware that until now has gone undocumented has been quietly hijacking online accounts of advertisers and users of Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Google and other web giants since July 2019 and then using them for nefarious activity, researchers have found. Dubbed CopperStealer, the malware acts...

Easy SMS Hijacking

Vice is reporting on a cell phone vulnerability caused by commercial SMS services. One of the things these services permit is text message forwarding. It turns out that with a little bit of anonymous money -- in this case, $16 off an anonymous prepaid credit card -- and a few lies, you can forwar...

Remote CDFTrace Error: Failed to manage the CDFControl remote service

When capturing a remote CDF Trace using CDFControl, you might receive the following error message: “Failed to manage the CDFControl remote service!” OR "Failed to enumerate Citrix providers from the specified host."...

Security Bulletin: A security vulnerability has been identified in IBM WebSphere Application Server shipped with Asset and Service Management (CVE-2021-20353)

Summary IBM WebSphere Application Server is shipped as a component of Maximo Asset Management, Maximo Industry Solutions including Maximo for Nuclear Power, Maximo for Transportation, Maximo for Life Sciences, Maximo for Oil and Gas, and Maximo for Utilities, Maximo Adapter for Primavera,...

Security Bulletin: A security vulnerability has been identified in IBM WebSphere Application Server shipped with Asset and Service Management (CVE-2021-20354)

Summary IBM WebSphere Application Server is shipped as a component of Maximo Asset Management, Maximo Industry Solutions including Maximo for Nuclear Power, Maximo for Transportation, Maximo for Life Sciences, Maximo for Oil and Gas, and Maximo for Utilities, Maximo Adapter for Primavera,...

Can security and compliance for managed database services be simple?

Actual Tech Media recently released a new entry in its Gorilla Guide series for IT professionals, focused on simplifying security and compliance for Database as a Service DBaaS. The Gorilla Guide To® Securing Database as a Service DBaaS features Imperva Cloud Data Security as a solution to help...

Managed Service Provider? Watch This Video to Learn about Autonomous XDR

As managed security service providers, you're always on the lookout for new platforms. One that can generate further business, enables you to scale easily without investing in more human resources and provides that value immediately. In the meanwhile, your clients are constantly demanding more...

Managed Service Provider? Watch This Video to Learn about Autonomous XDR

As managed security service providers, you're always on the lookout for new platforms. One that can generate further business, enables you to scale easily without investing in more human resources and provides that value immediately. In the meanwhile, your clients are constantly demanding more...

Hackers Exploit IT Monitoring Tool Centreon to Target Several French Entities

Russia-linked state-sponsored threat actor known as Sandworm has been linked to a three-year-long stealthy operation to hack targets by exploiting an IT monitoring tool called Centreon. The intrusion campaign — which breached "several French entities" — is said to have started in late 2017 and...

Virtuozzo Hybrid Infrastructure 4.5 (4.5.0-284)

In this release, Virtuozzo Hybrid Infrastructure provides a wide range of new features that enhance the end-user experience and service providers' interoperability. The improvements cover compute services, networking, storage core, monitoring, and the administrative user interface. Additionally,...

CVE-2021-21291

CVE-2021-21291: OAuth2 Proxy (open-source reverse proxy) before v7.0.0 had a vulnerability in the whitelist-domain feature where a domain matched for redirects could be broader than intended (e.g., .example.com could match example.com and badexample.com). This could allow unintended redirects. Im...

OAuth2 Proxy Input Validation Error Vulnerability

OAuth2 Proxy is a reverse proxy that provides authentication with Google, Github, or other providers. A security vulnerability exists in OAuth2 Proxy that stems from allowing domains that end in a manner similar to the expected domain to be used as redirects...

Hezbollah Hacker Group Targeted Telecoms, Hosting, ISPs Worldwide

A "persistent attacker group" with alleged ties to Hezbollah has retooled its malware arsenal with a new version of a remote access Trojan RAT to break into companies worldwide and extract valuable information. In a new report published by the ClearSky research team on Thursday, the Israeli...

CVE-2021-21272

A flaw was found in oras. The directory support feature allows the downloaded gzipped tarballs to be automatically extracted to the user-specified directory where the tarball can have symbolic links and hard links. A well-crafted tarball or tarballs allow malicious artifact providers linking,...

CVE-2021-21272

ORAS is open source software which enables a way to push OCI Artifacts to OCI Conformant registries. ORAS is both a CLI for initial testing and a Go Module. In ORAS from version 0.4.0 and before version 0.9.0, there is a "zip-slip" vulnerability. The directory support feature allows the downloade...

Smart DNS for the New Network Edge: Emerging Requirements for DNS Encryption

This blog post -- the fourth in a series -- will discuss how smart DNS resolvers can enhance ongoing ISP and MNO network transformation efforts, such as the transition to 5G, better integration of Wi-Fi, and new network designs that optimize the edge to improve service delivery and network...

CISA Updates Alert and Releases Supplemental Guidance on Emergency Directive for SolarWinds Orion Compromise

CISA has updated AA20-352A: Advanced Persistent Threat Compromise of Government Agencies, Critical Infrastructure, and Private Sector Organizations, originally released December 17. This update states that CISA has evidence of, and is currently investigating, initial access vectors in addition to...

Security Bulletin: A security vulnerability has been identified in IBM WebSphere Application Server shipped with Asset and Service Management (CVE-2020-4782)

Summary IBM WebSphere Application Server is shipped as a component of Maximo Asset Management, Maximo Asset Management Essentials, Maximo Industry Solutions including Maximo for Energy Optimization, Maximo for Government, Maximo for Nuclear Power, Maximo for Transportation, Maximo for Life...

VideoBytes: Ryuk Ransomware Targeting US Hospitals

Hello Folks! In this Videobyte, we’re talking about why hospitals are being targeted by the Ryuk ransomware, what tricks they are using to pull this off and what their motivations might be. Ryuk ransomware is being spread to hospitals using targeted phishing emails that infect systems with the...