The Advantages and Risks of Serverless Computing

Organizations are increasingly embracing serverless computing for its convenience and cost-effectiveness. But many IT teams are blindly embracing this innovation in cloud technology without consulting their security peers. As a result, we can expect to see a growing number of cyber-attacks in thi...

How the Edge Improves Microservices

Microservice architecture has transformed the way we develop and operate our applications. Microservices aren't a technology or a programming language. Instead, they create a structure for designing and building applications based on the idea that the individual functions of a website should...

Smart DNS for the New Network: Optimizing Content Delivery

This is the third in a series of blog posts that will discuss how smart DNS resolvers can enhance ongoing internet service provider ISP and mobile network operator MNO network transformation efforts, such as the transition to 5G, better integration of Wi-Fi, and new network designs that optimize...

Multiple Kepware Product Buffer Error Vulnerabilities

Kepware Kepserverex is a software application from Kepware USA that communicates with a wide range of industrial equipment. The software supports more than 150 communication protocols and supports the delivery of reliable, real-time data to organizations through a single platform. A buffer error...

New 5G Network Flaws Let Attackers Track Users' Locations and Steal Data

As 5G networks are being gradually rolled out in major cities across the world, an analysis of its network architecture has revealed a number of potential weaknesses that could be exploited to carry out a slew of cyber assaults, including denial-of-service DoS attacks to deprive subscribers of...

IBM AIX and VIOS License Issues Vulnerability

IBM AIX is an open standards-based UNIX operating system developed by IBM for the IBM Power architecture.IBM VIOS is a virtual IO server. An authorization issue vulnerability exists in IBM AIX and VIOS, which allows local attackers to exploit the vulnerability with the ksu user command to gain ro...

ALPINE-CVE-2020-29566

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.14.x. When they require assistance from the device model, x86 HVM guests must be temporarily de-scheduled. The device model will signal Xen when it has completed its operation, via an event channel, so that the relevant vCPU is rescheduled. If the device...

DEBIAN-CVE-2020-29567

An issue was discovered in Xen 4.14.x. When moving IRQs between CPUs to distribute the load of IRQ handling, IRQ vectors are dynamically allocated and de-allocated on the relevant CPUs. De-allocation has to happen when certain constraints are met. If these conditions are not met when first checke...

UBUNTU-CVE-2020-29566

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.14.x. When they require assistance from the device model, x86 HVM guests must be temporarily de-scheduled. The device model will signal Xen when it has completed its operation, via an event channel, so that the relevant vCPU is rescheduled. If the device...

CVE-2019-19283

A vulnerability has been identified in XHQ All Versions 6.1. The application's web server could expose non-sensitive information about the server's architecture. This could allow an attacker to adapt further attacks to the version in place...

CVE-2019-19283: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

A vulnerability has been identified in XHQ All Versions 6.1. The application's web server could expose non-sensitive information about the server's architecture. This could allow an attacker to adapt further attacks to the version in place...

CVE-2020-26970

When reading SMTP server status codes, Thunderbird writes an integer value to a position on the stack that is intended to contain just one byte. Depending on processor architecture and stack layout, this leads to stack corruption that may be exploitable. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird...

Microsoft DirectX Security Vulnerability

Microsoft Directx is a tool from Microsoft that is designed to fix Windows anomalies. This software repair tool automatically updates C++ components and fixes the 0xc000007b problem exception. A security vulnerability exists in Microsoft Directx. The following products and versions are affected:...

UBUNTU-CVE-2020-29573

sysdeps/i386/ldbl2mpn.c in the GNU C Library aka glibc or libc6 before 2.23 on x86 targets has a stack-based buffer overflow if the input to any of the printf family of functions is an 80-bit long double with a non-canonical bit pattern, as seen when passing a...

hw: Fast forward store predictor

A flaw was found in the CPU microarchitecture where a local attacker is able to abuse a timing issue which may allow them to infer internal architectural state from previous executions on the CPU...

Evolution of Emotet: From Banking Trojan to Malware Distributor

Emotet is one of the most dangerous and widespread malware threats active today. Ever since its discovery in 2014—when Emotet was a standard credential stealer and banking Trojan, the malware has evolved into a modular, polymorphic platform for distributing other kinds of computer viruses. Being...

Key layers for developing a Smarter SOC with CyberProof-managed Microsoft Azure security services

This blog post is part of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association MISA guest blog series. Learn more about MISA here. Security teams are struggling to reduce the time to detect and respond to threats due to the complexity and volume of alerts being generated from multiple security...

Securing Cloud and Container Workloads: A View From the Trenches

Almost 15 years after Amazon launched AWS, public cloud platforms have become extraordinarily sophisticated and feature-rich, as well as wildly popular, creating a world of security and compliance challenges that gets more complex by the day, said Badri Raghunathan​, Qualys product management...

Empowering employees to securely work from anywhere with an internet-first model and Zero Trust

Like many this year, our Microsoft workforce had to quickly transition to a work from the home model in response to COVID-19. While nobody could have predicted the world’s current state, it has provided a very real-world test of the investments we have made implementing a Zero Trust security mode...

hw: Fast forward store predictor

A flaw was found in the CPU microarchitecture where a local attacker is able to abuse a timing issue which may allow them to infer internal architectural state from previous executions on the CPU...