Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in OpenSSL affect IBM Cloud Manager

Summary OpenSSL vulnerabilities were disclosed on September 22 and 26, 2016 by the OpenSSL Project. OpenSSL is used by IBM Cloud Manager. IBM Cloud Manager has addressed the applicable CVEs. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2016-2177 DESCRIPTION: OpenSSL is vulnerable to a denial of service, caus...

Unspecified Vulnerability in IBM Security Identity Governance and Intelligence

IBM Security Identity Governance and Intelligence IGI is a suite of identity management and governance solutions from IBM in the United States. The product includes features such as lifecycle management, access risk assessment and identity management. A security vulnerability exists in IBM Securi...

Cybersecurity Certifications: Why They Matter and How to Know Which Ones To Pursue

Whether you’re just starting off in the cybersecurity field or are already working as a security professional, there are many certifications for you to consider across various specializations and difficulty levels. Not to mention certifications covering a range of disciplines and emerging securit...

CVE-2018-11454

A vulnerability has been identified in SIMATIC STEP 7 TIA Portal and WinCC TIA Portal V10, V11, V12 All versions, SIMATIC STEP 7 TIA Portal and WinCC TIA Portal V13 All versions V13 SP2 Update 2, SIMATIC STEP 7 TIA Portal and WinCC TIA Portal V14 All versions V14 SP1 Update 6, SIMATIC STEP 7 TIA...

ThreatList: Financial Services Firms Lag in Patching Habits

Almost half 45 percent of financial services firms in a recent survey have reported a data breach in the last two years – with many of those attacks being completely avoidable if known vulnerabilities were patched. In a Ponemon Institute survey of nearly 3,000 cybersecurity professionals at...

FreeBSD CPU Resource Consumption Vulnerability

FreeBSD is a set of Unix-like free operating systems in the FreeBSD project, headed by the Core Team team, and is an important branch of Unix-like systems that have evolved through BSD, 386BSD, and 4.4BSD. A security vulnerability exists in FreeBSD versions prior to 11.2-RELEASE-p1,...

Threat Identity...The First Line of Defense

Last quarter, we discussed zero trust and identity in regard to remote application access. This focus was primarily looking at enterprise users seeking to gain access to applications on a network where there are no boundaries: The internet. In the concept of zero trust, the internet is considered...

Security Bulletin: IBM Spectrum Scale Object Protocols functionality is affected by security vulnerabilities in OpenStack (CVE-2015-1852 and CVE-2015-7546)

Summary IBM Spectrum Scale Object Protocols functionality is affected by security vulnerabilities in OpenStack that could allow: - a man-in-the-middle attack, caused by an error in the api-paste.ini configuration file. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability using a specially-crafted...

Steam Bans Developer After Outcry Over Cryptomining, Scam Items

The popular Steam online gaming platform has pulled a simple, 2D game from its library, after it was found to be consuming an unusual amount of processing power on gamers’ machines. Steam owner Valve booted the game, “Abstractism,” after players lodged complaints about the game chewing up process...

NCCIC Webinar Series on Russian Government Cyber Activity

NCCIC is holding a webinar on Russian government cyber activity against critical infrastructure as detailed in NCCIC Alert TA18-074A today from 1–2:30 p.m. ET. The webinar will feature NCCIC subject matter experts discussing recent cybersecurity incidents, mitigation techniques, and resources tha...

CVE-2017-12171

A regression was found in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 version of httpd 2.2.15-60, causing comments in the "Allow" and "Deny" configuration lines to be parsed incorrectly. A web administrator could unintentionally allow any client to access a restricted HTTP resource...

Race condition

A race-condition flaw was discovered in openstack-neutron before 7.2.0-12.1, 8.x before 8.3.0-11.1, 9.x before 9.3.1-2.1, and 10.x before 10.0.2-1.1, where, following a minor overcloud update, neutron security groups were disabled. Specifically, the following were reset to 0:...

CVE-2017-7543

A race-condition flaw was discovered in openstack-neutron before 7.2.0-12.1, 8.x before 8.3.0-11.1, 9.x before 9.3.1-2.1, and 10.x before 10.0.2-1.1, where, following a minor overcloud update, neutron security groups were disabled. Specifically, the following were reset to 0:...

CVE-2017-7543

A race-condition flaw was discovered in openstack-neutron before 7.2.0-12.1, 8.x before 8.3.0-11.1, 9.x before 9.3.1-2.1, and 10.x before 10.0.2-1.1, where, following a minor overcloud update, neutron security groups were disabled. Specifically, the following were reset to 0:...

CVE-2018-10632

In Moxa NPort 5210, 5230, and 5232 versions 2.9 build 17030709 and prior, the amount of resources requested by a malicious actor are not restricted, allowing for a denial-of-service condition...

CVE-2018-1999012

FFmpeg before commit 9807d3976be0e92e4ece3b4b1701be894cd7c2e1 contains a CWE-835: Infinite loop vulnerability in pva format demuxer that can result in a Vulnerability that allows attackers to consume excessive amount of resources like CPU and RAM. This attack appear to be exploitable via speciall...

CVE-2018-1999012

FFmpeg before commit 9807d3976be0e92e4ece3b4b1701be894cd7c2e1 contains a CWE-835: Infinite loop vulnerability in pva format demuxer that can result in a Vulnerability that allows attackers to consume excessive amount of resources like CPU and RAM. This attack appear to be exploitable via speciall...

Scout2 - Security Auditing Tool For AWS Environments

Scout2 is a security tool that lets AWS administrators assess their environment's security posture. Using the AWS API, Scout2 gathers configuration data for manual inspection and highlights high-risk areas automatically. Rather than pouring through dozens of pages on the web, Scout2 supplies a...

Critical Authentication Flaws in Cisco Policy Suite Patched

Cisco has patched four critical security vulnerabilities surrounding a lack of authentication requirements in its Policy Suite for mobile carriers. These would allow remote attackers to potentially exfiltrate information, compromise wireless subscriber account information, meddle with databases o...

NCCIC Webinar Series on Russian Government Cyber Activity

NCCIC will conduct a series of webinars on Russian government cyber activity against critical infrastructure as detailed in NCCIC Alert TA18-074A, which will feature NCCIC subject matter experts discussing recent cybersecurity incidents, mitigation techniques, and resources that are available to...