Better Together: Akamai Enhances Zero Trust Network Access with CrowdStrike

More than ever before, users and applications no longer reside at the office. Organizations are managing a mobile and globally distributed workforce that needs access to corporate systems, applications, and data from outside the traditional network perimeter. In addition, cyberattackers are...

Measuring & Improving Core Web Vitals

Google recently announced a proposed update to its search ranking algorithm: the Page Experience Update. This change, which launches in 2021, includes more performance signals in the ranking algorithm. A subtle but important feature of the update is that AMP will no longer be a requirement for...

Measuring and Improving Core Web Vitals

Google recently announced a proposed update to its search ranking algorithm: the Page Experience Update. This change, which launches in 2021, includes more performance signals in the ranking algorithm. A subtle but important feature of the update is that AMP will no longer be a requirement for...

kernel: possible to send arbitrary signals to a privileged (suidroot) parent process

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel loose validation of child/parent process identification handling while filtering signal handlers. A local attacker is able to abuse this flaw to bypass checks to send any signal to a privileged process...

Akamai Identified as a Leader Among Zero Trust Providers by Independent Research Firm

We are pleased to share that Akamai has been identified as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Zero Trust eXtended Ecosystem Platform Providers, Q3 2020. In the report, Forrester evaluated how each vendor's portfolio maps and delivers on specific components of the Zero Trust eXtended ZTX framework...

Rethinking Defensive Strategy at the Edge, Part 3: Strategies for Protective Action

Our three-part blog series, Re-thinking Defensive Strategy at the Edge, has been focusing on outlining a new defensive edge strategy for today's enterprise. We began with a discussion of data and indicators. Most recently, our second post focused on using risk signals and correlating them for...

Rethinking Defensive Strategy at the Edge, Part 2: Risk Signals as Security Controls

In the first post in our blog series Rethinking Defensive Strategy at the Edge, we began to outline why a new defensive edge strategy is needed for today's enterprise. As previously mentioned, the strategy enhances those in place and introduces another layer of defense that includes the following...

Rethinking Defensive Strategy at the Edge, Part 1: A Changing Landscape for Securing Users

In recent years, new enterprise remote access architectures and frameworks have been introduced, such as Zero Trust Access ZTA. Those concepts have driven changes in the way the network perimeter has been defined -- specifically, from the outside in, not the inside out. Access to applications and...

Mozilla: Use-After-Free when aborting an operation

When aborting an operation, such as a fetch, an abort signal may be deleted while alerting the objects to be notified. This results in a use-after-free and we presume that with enough effort it could have been exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR 68.12 and...

XDR: The Next Level of Prevention, Detection and Response [New Guide]

One new security technology we keep hearing about is Extended Detection and Response XDR. This new technology merges multiple prevention and detection technologies on a single platform to better understand threat signals so that you don't need to purchase, integrate, and manage various control an...

XDR: The Next Level of Prevention, Detection and Response [New Guide]

One new security technology we keep hearing about is Extended Detection and Response XDR. This new technology merges multiple prevention and detection technologies on a single platform to better understand threat signals so that you don't need to purchase, integrate, and manage various control an...

A week in security (August 3 – 9)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, on our Lock and Code podcast, we talked about identity and access management technology. We also wrote about business email compromises to score big, discussed how the Data Accountability and Transparency Act of 2020 looks beyond consent, and we analyzed how the...

New tool detects fake 4G cell phone towers

By Sudais Asif Dubbed Crocodile Hunter; the tool works by scanning for 4G signals. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: New tool detects fake 4G cell phone towers...

Trailer Power Line Communications

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 4.3 Vendor: Multiple Trailer and Brake Manufacturers Equipment: Power Line Communications Bus / PLC4TRUCKS / J2497 Vulnerability: Exposure of Sensitive Information Through Sent Data 2. RISK EVALUATION The National Motor Freight Traffic Association NMFTA and Assured...

Afternoon Cyber Tea: Cybersecurity & IoT: New risks and how to minimize them

Recently, Microsoft announced our acquisition of CyberX, a comprehensive network-based security platform with continuous threat monitoring and analytics. This solution builds upon our commitment to provide a unified IoT security solution that addresses connected devices spread across both...

Modernizing the security operations center to better secure a remote workforce

The response to COVID-19 has required many security operations centers SOCs to rethink how they protect their organizations. With so many employees working remotely, IT groups are routing more traffic directly to cloud apps, rather than through the network. In this model, traditional network...

The science behind Microsoft Threat Protection: Attack modeling for finding and stopping evasive ransomware

The linchpin of successful cyberattacks, exemplified by nation state-level attacks and human-operated ransomware, is their ability to find the path of least resistance and progressively move across a compromised network. Determining the full scope and impact of these attacks is one the most...

CVE-2020-12826

A signal access-control issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.6.5, aka CID-7395ea4e65c2. Because execid in include/linux/sched.h is only 32 bits, an integer overflow can interfere with a donotifyparent protection mechanism. A child process can send an arbitrary signal to a parent...

UBUNTU-CVE-2020-12826

A signal access-control issue was discovered in the Linux kernel before 5.6.5, aka CID-7395ea4e65c2. Because execid in include/linux/sched.h is only 32 bits, an integer overflow can interfere with a donotifyparent protection mechanism. A child process can send an arbitrary signal to a parent...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

kernel is vulnerable to denial of service. The vulnerability exists as a missing validation check was found in the Linux kernel's signals implementation. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to send signals via the sigqueueinfo system call, with the sicode set to SITKILL and with spoofe...