CISO and Security Vendor Relationships are Good for a Laugh in New Comic Videos

It’s not easy being a CISO. One could say “intense” might be the perfect descriptor for the CISO work environment. Tasked with the unenviable job of keeping the organization safe, carrying the burden of failed protection and taking hits for successful breaches, CISOs can never rest. They are...

Security Bulletin: IBM Cloud Private for Data is affected by a user impersonation vulnerability in PySpark.

Summary When using Open Source Apache PySpark, it’s possible for a different local user to connect to the Spark application and impersonate the user running the Spark application. This affects versions 1.x, 2.0.x, 2.1.x, 2.2.0 to 2.2.2, and 2.3.0 to 2.3.1. Vulnerability Details CVE-ID:...

CVE-2019-10202 vulnerabilities

Vulnerabilities for packages: hadoop-fips...

Information Disclosure

spark-core is vulnerable to information disclosure. The vulnerability exists as it leaves data unencrypted on local disk...

GHSA-FP5J-3FPF-MHJ5 Sensitive data written to disk unencrypted in Spark

Prior to Spark 2.3.3, in certain situations Spark would write user data to local disk unencrypted, even if spark.io.encryption.enabled=true. This includes cached blocks that are fetched to disk controlled by spark.maxRemoteBlockSizeFetchToMem; in SparkR, using parallelize; in Pyspark, using...

Sensitive data written to disk unencrypted in Spark

Prior to Spark 2.3.3, in certain situations Spark would write user data to local disk unencrypted, even if spark.io.encryption.enabled=true. This includes cached blocks that are fetched to disk controlled by spark.maxRemoteBlockSizeFetchToMem; in SparkR, using parallelize; in Pyspark, using...

CVE-2019-10099

Prior to Spark 2.3.3, in certain situations Spark would write user data to local disk unencrypted, even if spark.io.encryption.enabled=true. This includes cached blocks that are fetched to disk controlled by spark.maxRemoteBlockSizeFetchToMem; in SparkR, using parallelize; in Pyspark, using...

CVE-2019-10099

Prior to Spark 2.3.3, in certain situations Spark would write user data to local disk unencrypted, even if spark.io.encryption.enabled=true. This includes cached blocks that are fetched to disk controlled by spark.maxRemoteBlockSizeFetchToMem; in SparkR, using parallelize; in Pyspark, using...

PYSEC-2019-114

Prior to Spark 2.3.3, in certain situations Spark would write user data to local disk unencrypted, even if spark.io.encryption.enabled=true. This includes cached blocks that are fetched to disk controlled by spark.maxRemoteBlockSizeFetchToMem; in SparkR, using parallelize; in Pyspark, using...

Code injection

Prior to Spark 2.3.3, in certain situations Spark would write user data to local disk unencrypted, even if spark.io.encryption.enabled=true. This includes cached blocks that are fetched to disk controlled by spark.maxRemoteBlockSizeFetchToMem; in SparkR, using parallelize; in Pyspark, using...

PYSEC-2019-44

Prior to Spark 2.3.3, in certain situations Spark would write user data to local disk unencrypted, even if spark.io.encryption.enabled=true. This includes cached blocks that are fetched to disk controlled by spark.maxRemoteBlockSizeFetchToMem; in SparkR, using parallelize; in Pyspark, using...

CVE-2019-10099

Prior to Spark 2.3.3, in certain situations Spark would write user data to local disk unencrypted, even if spark.io.encryption.enabled=true. This includes cached blocks that are fetched to disk controlled by spark.maxRemoteBlockSizeFetchToMem; in SparkR, using parallelize; in Pyspark, using...

CVE-2019-10099

CVE-2019-10099 affects Apache Spark deployments running versions prior to 2.3.3. In certain scenarios, Spark could write user data to local disk unencrypted despite spark.io.encryption.enabled=true. The issue encompasses cached blocks written to disk (controlled by spark.maxRemoteBlockSizeFetchTo...

CVE-2019-10099

Prior to Spark 2.3.3, in certain situations Spark would write user data to local disk unencrypted, even if spark.io.encryption.enabled=true. This includes cached blocks that are fetched to disk controlled by spark.maxRemoteBlockSizeFetchToMem; in SparkR, using parallelize; in Pyspark, using...

PT-2019-11428

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Apache Spark versions prior to 2.3.3 Description: The issue allows user data to be written to local disk unencrypted, despite having spark.io.encryption.enabled set to true. This occurs in specific situations, including when cached blocks are...

PT-2019-20133

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Apache Spark versions prior to 2.3.3 Description The issue arises when Apache Spark writes user data to local disk unencrypted, despite having spark.io.encryption.enabled set to true. This occurs in specific situations, including when cached...

CVE-2019-10099: Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information

Prior to Spark 2.3.3, in certain situations Spark would write user data to local disk unencrypted, even if spark.io.encryption.enabled=true. This includes cached blocks that are fetched to disk controlled by spark.maxRemoteBlockSizeFetchToMem; in SparkR, using parallelize; in Pyspark, using...

HELK - The Hunting ELK

The Hunting ELK or simply the HELK is one of the first open source hunt platforms with advanced analytics capabilities such as SQL declarative language, graphing, structured streaming, and even machine learning via Jupyter notebooks and Apache Spark over an ELK stack. This project was developed...

New OTT Service Changing How New Zealanders Watch Sports

Communications service providers are looking for new ways to gain an edge in today's competitive market. In sports-crazed New Zealand, one of the country's largest telecom providers just launched an all-sports video service to attract new subscribers. Spark Sport is a new over-the-top OTT offerin...

CVE-2017-9326

The keystore password for the Spark History Server may be exposed in unsecured files under the /var/run/cloudera-scm-agent directory managed by Cloudera Manager. The keystore file itself is not exposed...