CVE-2017-8992

HPE CentralView Fraud Risk Management is affected by CVE-2017-8992, a remote privilege escalation in versions earlier than CV 6.1. The vulnerability is addressed in HF16 for CV 6.1 or later. Connected sources (NVD, CNVD) describe an elevation-of-privilege condition that can be triggered remotely,...

CVE-2017-8992

HPE has identified a remote privilege escalation vulnerability in HPE CentralView Fraud Risk Management earlier than version CV 6.1. This issue is resolved in HF16 for HPE CV 6.1 or subsequent version...

This Week in Security News: Facebook and Feds

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, Facebook’s chief security officer resigned as Facebook steps up its cybersecurity efforts. Also, Feds indicted three Ukrainians charged with...

A Quick-Start Introduction to Database Security: An Operational Approach

The recent SingHealth data breach incident exposed around 1.5 million patients’ records. In its aftermath, the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore published a set of security measures aimed at improving the protection of Personally Identifiable Information PII data. The recommended security measur...

How Cyber Insurance Changes the Conversation Around Risk

Premiums paid for cyber insurance could triple to more than $7.5 billion by 2020, according to consultancy PwC. Companies are waking up to the fact that cyber risk equals business risk. Ask FedEx’s European arm, shipping giant Maersk or any of the other major organizations knocked out of operatio...

QSC18 Virtual Edition: Vulnerability Risk Management

When vulnerability risk management is proactive, organizations don’t have to hurriedly react to attacks that exploit bugs for which patches are available, as happened with WannaCry. “The vast majority of WannaCry remediation took place as an emergency type process,” Jimmy Graham, a Qualys Directo...

Internet Safety Month: How to manage your child’s online presence

When you hear the term "reputation risk management," you might think of a buzzword used in the business sector. Reputation risk management is a term used to describe how companies identify potential risks that may harm their reputation and mitigate them before they blow off. As companies grow, so...

The Gartner CISO Playbook: Leveraging Effective Control in the Cloud

For as long as we can remember, the concept of control has rested comfortably in physical location and ownership. It’s simple, if you could see something or you knew exactly where it was, it would be easier to assume that you’d have some measure of control over its security. With the move to the...

Platypuses and Policies: Akamai's Approach to the GDPR and Information Security

Written by Meyer Potashman On May 25, 2018, the EU General Data Protection Regulation GDPR went into effect. In preparation, Akamai, like every other company that does business with or interacts in any way with individuals in the EU, needed to re-evaluate our approach to data protection and priva...

Updating your cybersecurity strategy to enable and accelerate digital transformation

This post is authored by Cyril Voisin, Chief Security Advisor, Enterprise Cybersecurity Group. Nowadays every company is becoming a digital company to some extent. Digital transformation changes the way business is done. For example, it puts more control into the hands of employees, who now deman...

GDPR Is Here: Assess Risk from Vendors and from Internal Teams

Organizations must manage risk from third parties such as contractors and suppliers, and from internal staffers and teams, as part of their compliance program for the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation GDPR. The need to manage vendor risk in particular is stressed repeatedly throughout the...

GDPR Is Here: Achieve Superior Data Breach Prevention and Detection with Qualys

Turned into law in 2016, the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation GDPR finally goes into effect this week, slapping strict requirements on millions of businesses and subjecting violators to severe penalties. The complex regulation applies to any organization worldwide -- not just in Europe --...

HackerOne: People who interviewed for HackerOne security analyst position can be enumerated and their personal email address may be exposed

Summary: It's possible to gather basic information on potential employees at the very least who interviewed via old sample reports not being removed from the program Description: This report is meant to provide awareness of potentially private data being accessed by potential candidates. When giv...

Don’t just add the Security “S” to your Managed Services

Expanding and putting more focus on your current security offerings is a great way to find new business opportunities. Adding the “S” is the easy part; just ask any managed service provider that views security as just a “checkbox” and offers one of the cheaper or RMM-integrated security offerings...

NIST Updates Cybersecurity Framework to Tackle Supply Chain Threats, Vulnerability Disclosure and More

Four years after the initial iteration was released, the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST has released version 1.1 of the Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity. The framework was developed to be a voluntary, risk-based framework to improve cybersecurity...

Security baselines should underpin efforts to manage cybersecurity risk across sectors

This post is authored byAngela McKay, Director of Cybersecurity Policy and Amanda Craig, Senior Cybersecurity Strategist, CELA. Organizations are leveraging technology to transform their operations, products, and services, and governments are increasingly focusing on how to enable such dynamic...

Streamline Compliance with SWIFT Customer Security Program Requirements

Transferring money from our bank accounts has never been easier than it is today. With a single click on our smartphones, we can transfer money from a bank account in New York to an account at a different bank in the Netherlands. This advancement is largely a result of the fluent communication...

Announcing: new British Standard for cyber risk and resilience

Technology is an integral part of the fabric of everyday life. There is almost no organization that does not rely on digital services in some way in order to survive. The opportunity that technology provides also brings with it more vulnerabilities and threats as organizations and data become mor...

The Eighth Question Today’s CEOs Should Ask (& Know the Answer To)

In a previous blog, we discussed Commander’s Intent for CEOs and introduced 10 questions CEOs should be asking their teams. In this blog series, I am going to take a deeper dive into each question and break them down one at a time. We will discuss why CEOs should care about each question and the...

My short review of “The Forrester Wave: Vulnerability Risk Management, Q1 2018”

Last week, March 14, Forrester presented new report about Vulnerability Risk Management VRM market. You can purchase it on official site for $2495 USD or get a free reprint on Rapid7 site. Thanks, Rapid7! I've read it and what to share my impressions. I was most surprised by the leaders of the...