4 Principles For Hybrid Cloud Success

The future is cloud. At this point in it’s evolution it’s undeniable. The questions facing organizations now are “how much?” and “how fast?” How do you map out a reasonable path to a cloud deployment? Few organizations will be 100 percent cloud and most will take years to migrate existing assets...

CyberSecurity Report: Threat Landscape Gets More Sophisticated

Destruction of service. Get acquainted with this newly-minted term, and with its acronym — DeOS. It’s a particularly disturbing type of cyber attack InfoSec teams may face regularly in the not too distant future. That’s one of the main findings featured in the Cisco 2017 Midyear Cybersecurity...

Superior and safe user experiences with the Akamai Cloud Delivery Platform

Your customers are unique and they all expect fast, secure, personalized digital experiences. They are spread across the world, in regions of varying network connectivity, utilize a plethora of devices and screen sizes - making it challenging to deliver your experiences. By delivering 95 Exabytes...

Static Versus Dynamic Data Masking

Most participants in the trench warfare of IT security agree that the best way to protect data is to apply a layered approach to security. Data masking is a security and privacy enhancing technology recommended by industry analysts as a must-have data protection layer. While terminology varies...

Windows NSA Information Assurance: Locklevel

Windows NSA Information Assurance LOCKLEVEL was a rapidly built prototype that demonstrates a method for scoring how well Windows systems have implemented some of the NSA Information Assurance top 10 mitigation strategies . This prototype is being shared to encourage industry adoption of these...

Balance traffic intelligently by leveraging Application Layer (Layer 7) and DNS Layer (Layer 3) logic

Gaining new customers and retaining existing ones is at the core of every business. In the past few years, two major trends have emerged in this drive towards customer centricity To meet the ever increasing customer demands, most modern digital applications leverage microservice architecture to...

The State of the Internet: A Decade of Change

The State of the Internet Report is growing up - with this issue, it enters its tenth year of publication. Over time, it has matured in many ways, including its length, design, and the content it includes. Looking back at that first issue all 17 pages of it, for the first quarter of 2008, we find...

Simple Vulnerability Remediation Collaboration with InsightVM

Many security groups today use ticketing systems that were originally designed for IT or developers, and are usually ill-suited to their vulnerability management needs. Even more commonly, teams simply rely on spreadsheets and unwieldy reports. On the other end of the spectrum, some security team...

Chrome Universal XSS using document.adoptNode (CVE-2015-6770)

VULNERABILITY DETAILS From /thirdparty/WebKit/Source/core/dom/Document.cpp: PassRefPtrWillBeRawPtr Document::adoptNodePassRefPtrWillBeRawPtr source, ExceptionState& exceptionState EventQueueScope scope; switch source-nodeType ... default: ... if source-parentNode...

Nine Years of Better Broadband

One of the questions I am frequently asked about the State of the Internet is how things are changing - what are the trends we see in the data? As we've just closed out the ninth year of publication of the Connectivity report, I thought that it would be a good time to take look back and see just...

HTTPS Hits 50 Percent Traffic Milestone

This week HTTPS hit another big milestone. According to a two-week survey of telemetry data from the Mozilla Firefox browser, 50 percent of page loads used HTTPS. “For the first time, the running average crested the 50 percent HTTPS page load mark,” said Sarah Gran, director of communications for...

Mozilla: Use-after-free while manipulating DOM events and audio elements (MFSA 2016-94, MFSA 2016-95)

Use-after-free while manipulating DOM events and removing audio elements due to errors in the handling of node adoption. This vulnerability affects Firefox 50.1, Firefox ESR 45.6, and Thunderbird 45.6...

CVE-2016-9899

Use-after-free while manipulating DOM events and removing audio elements due to errors in the handling of node adoption. This vulnerability affects Firefox 50.1, Firefox ESR 45.6, and Thunderbird 45.6...

CVE-2016-9899

Use-after-free while manipulating DOM events and removing audio elements due to errors in the handling of node adoption. This vulnerability affects Firefox 50.1, Firefox ESR 45.6, and Thunderbird 45.6...

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-9899

Use-after-free while manipulating DOM events and removing audio elements due to errors in the handling of node adoption. This vulnerability affects Firefox 50.1, Firefox ESR 45.6, and Thunderbird 45.6...

Let's Encrypt Celebrates Big HTTPS Milestone

Certificate authority Let’s Encrypt is celebrating a major milestone in the young nonprofit’s existence issuing its 5 millionth certificate this month. Let’s Encrypt launched to the general public just seven months ago. “Our goal is to get the entire web 100 percent HTTPS,” said Josh Aas, executi...

Rapid7 Measures Internet's Unsecured Services

A recent Internet scan threw a bucket of cold water on the notion that wonky, unsecured services have been significantly reduced from the Internet. “Today’s Internet in 2016 looks like the 1996 Internet, which is a little depressing,” said Rapid7 security research manager Tod Beardsley. Beardsley...

Google Chrome TreeScope::adoptIfNeeded function homology policy bypass vulnerability

Blink is the United States Google Google Inc. and Norway Opens Opera Software company jointly developed a set of browser layout engine rendering engine. A same-origin policy bypass vulnerability exists in the 'TreeScope::adoptIfNeeded' function in the WebKit/Source/core/dom/TreeScope.cpp file in...

CVE-2016-1667

The TreeScope::adoptIfNeeded function in WebKit/Source/core/dom/TreeScope.cpp in the DOM implementation in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 50.0.2661.102, does not prevent script execution during node-adoption operations, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy via a...

CVE-2016-1667

The TreeScope::adoptIfNeeded function in WebKit/Source/core/dom/TreeScope.cpp in the DOM implementation in Blink, as used in Google Chrome before 50.0.2661.102, does not prevent script execution during node-adoption operations, which allows remote attackers to bypass the Same Origin Policy via a...