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How to leverage accountability to ensure sustainable enterprise data security
As post-pandemic economic recovery continues to drive rapid acceleration in digital transformation, documented data breaches and service disruptions caused by cybercriminal activity have become an unwelcome part of our daily news feed. In spite of the regulations and compliance requirements that...
Why You’re Not Making the Leap from Compliance to a Database Security Strategy
Gartner strongly recommends that the concept of “big data strategy” should be replaced with “making big data part of our everyday strategy.” Technology has created a database activity explosion for most enterprises and made traditional agent-based data logging, monitoring, and auditing far too...
SNMP – Simply Not My Problem. Or is it?
TL;DR: Use SNMPv3; long gone is default community strings, hello complex passwords! Remove from the internet, if required, implement a VPN solution to restrict access to only authorised parties. SNMP is a protocol used for the remote management of devices on a network. By remote, we mean access...
MITRE ATT&CK® mappings released for built-in Azure security controls
The Security Stack Mappings for Azure research project was published today, introducing a library of mappings that link built-in Azure security controls to the MITRE ATT&CK® techniques they mitigate against. Microsoft once again worked with the Center for Threat-Informed Defense and other Center...
MITRE ATT&CK® mappings released for built-in Azure security controls
The Security Stack Mappings for Azure research project was published today, introducing a library of mappings that link built-in Azure security controls to the MITRE ATT&CK® techniques they mitigate against. Microsoft once again worked with the Center for Threat-Informed Defense and other Center...
Deploying EFBs securely
It may come as a surprise to some to discover that electronic flight bag security at airlines is often quite variable. Whilst some use an MDM, a lot don’t. Of those who do, PINs are often weak. Some airlines actively encourage pilots to use their devices for personal use. We’ve heard stories of a...
Getting a persistent shell on a 747 IFE
TL:DR The Coronavirus pandemic has hit the airline industry hard. One sad consequence was early retirement of most of the 747 passenger fleet. This does however create opportunities for aviation security research, as airframes are parked up before parting out in breakers yards. This 747 was flyin...
How to Implement Secure and Compliant IaC
Success lies in security True separation of developer and security teams is becoming a thing of the past. Today’s cloud environments enable deployments at previously unheard-of speed and scale; there simply isn’t time to build infrastructure, then code, then hand it all off for security...
Why now is the time to make database security a priority
Today, fast-growing organizations are generating data at a breakneck pace, and building up diverse database environments in order to store and share data more effectively. While these activities are the sign of a thriving business, governing and securing all this data rarely meets the pace of new...
Plaintext password leak in Apache Superset
In the course of work on the open source project it was discovered that authenticated users running queries against Hive and Presto database engines could access information via a number of templated fields including the contents of query description metadata database, the hashed version of the...
GHSA-77PW-C3J2-5FC8 Plaintext password leak in Apache Superset
In the course of work on the open source project it was discovered that authenticated users running queries against Hive and Presto database engines could access information via a number of templated fields including the contents of query description metadata database, the hashed version of the...
“BadAlloc” – Memory allocation vulnerabilities could affect wide range of IoT and OT devices in industrial, medical, and enterprise networks
Microsoft’s Section 52, the Azure Defender for IoT security research group, recently uncovered a series of critical memory allocation vulnerabilities in IoT and OT devices that adversaries could exploit to bypass security controls in order to execute malicious code or cause a system crash. These...
“BadAlloc” – Memory allocation vulnerabilities could affect wide range of IoT and OT devices in industrial, medical, and enterprise networks
Microsoft’s Section 52, the Azure Defender for IoT security research group, recently uncovered a series of critical memory allocation vulnerabilities in IoT and OT devices that adversaries could exploit to bypass security controls in order to execute malicious code or cause a system crash. These...
The vulnerability of the Hyper-V hardware virtualization system for Microsoft Windows operating systems allows a hacker to circumvent existing security restrictions.
The vulnerability of the Hyper-V hardware virtualization technology in Microsoft Windows operating systems is related to insecure management of privileges. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to circumvent existing security restrictions through the configuration of Router Guard...
Amazon Linux 2 : squid (ALAS-2021-1631)
The version of squid installed on the remote host is prior to 3.5.20-17. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2021-1631 advisory. A flaw was found in squid. Due to improper validation while parsing the request URI, squid is vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling...
How the Work-From-Home Shift Impacts SaaS Security
The data is in. According to IBM Security's 2020 Cost of a Data Breach Report, there is a 50% increase in cloud usage for enterprises across all industries. The number of threats targeting cloud services, predominantly collaboration services like Office 365, has increased 630%. Moreover, 75% of...
How the Work-From-Home Shift Impacts SaaS Security
The data is in. According to IBM Security's 2020 Cost of a Data Breach Report, there is a 50% increase in cloud usage for enterprises across all industries. The number of threats targeting cloud services, predominantly collaboration services like Office 365, has increased 630%. Moreover, 75% of...
A Quick Look Into Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM)
The cloud security solutions market is growing rapidly, and there are many types of solutions to support your specific business needs. But figuring out the right tool—let alone the right type of tool—can be difficult. Gartner has five security archetypes that fall under the broader cloud security...
Wi-Fi Devices as Physical Object Sensors
The new 802.11bf standard will turn Wi-Fi devices into object sensors: In three years or so, the Wi-Fi specification is scheduled to get an upgrade that will turn wireless devices into sensors capable of gathering data about the people and objects bathed in their signals. "When 802.11bf will be...
Squid 2.x < 4.14 / 5.x < 5.0.5 (SQUID-2020:11)
According to its banner, the version of Squid running on the remote host is 2.x prior to 4.14 or 5.x prior to 5.0.5. It is, therefore, affected by an HTTP request smuggling vulnerability due to improper input validation. This occurs for certain uriwhitespace in configuration settings. This proble...