Unauthorized Access Vulnerability in Cisco IP Phone CP-8845

cisco generally refers to Cisco. Cisco is a leading global provider of networking solutions. An unauthorized access vulnerability exists in Cisco IP Phone CP-8845, which can be exploited by an attacker to gain unauthorized access to sensitive information and perform unauthorized operations, among...

Lessons Learned from 100 Data Breaches: Part 4, Trends in Average Volumes of Stolen Records

Imperva research shows an increase in the volume of data stolen every year. In 2020, we started to see more and more breaches that exfiltrate records in billions. Based on the analysis of thousands of data breach details published on dbdigest, we made calculations on the raw data and found some...

Ukraine Police Arrest Cyber Criminals Behind Clop Ransomware Attacks

Ukrainian law enforcement officials on Wednesday announced the arrest of the Clop ransomware gang, adding it disrupted the infrastructure employed in attacks targeting victims worldwide since at least 2019. As part of an international operation between the National Police of Ukraine and authoriti...

Lessons Learned from 100 Data Breaches: Part 3, Securing Public Cloud Services

In the first two parts of this series, we gained insight into what specific types of data get stolen and what the root causes of breaches are, based on data breach information that Imperva’s Security Labs’ gathered, studied, and analyzed over the last ten years. You can get the full report, Lesso...

Analysis of 100 Data Breaches: Part 2, What are the root causes of breaches?

As we discussed in Part 1 of this series, Imperva’s Security Labs continuously monitor cyber threat levels around the world and report on them. In the last post, we reported the breakdown of the specific types of data that get stolen and explained what organizations needed to do to mitigate the...

Application Layer is Still the Front Door for Data Breaches

By Terry Ray, SVP and Fellow, Imperva Each year, the number of data breaches grows by 30% while the number of records compromised increases by an average of 224%. 2021 is far from over, but we’re already on pace for another record-setting year. In fact, Imperva research finds that more records we...

Lessons Learned from 100 Data Breaches: Part 1, What Specific Types of Data Get Stolen?

As part of Imperva’s Security Labs’ ongoing efforts to monitor and report on the current Application and Data Security Threat landscape, we studied and analyzed over 100 of the largest and best-known data breaches of the last decade. Download the full report, Lessons Learned From Analyzing 100 Da...

Why adopt a data-centric solution for data privacy?

Enterprises understand the importance of having access to their consumers personal information. This data enables them to more easily build personal relationships with their audiences, using what they know about that audience to provide tailored experiences and recommendations. The internet has...

Kill chains: Part 1→Strategic and operational value

It really is a good thing The term “kill chain” sounds extremely harsh. Almost as if after something is killed, it gets moved down the chain to be killed again. How dramatic! Indeed, the original definition was to describe how an enemy combatant of the military might attack; that is, the steps th...

Unauthorized Access Vulnerability in Electronic Evidence Management Platform of Shenzhen Police Wing Intelligent Technology Co.

hereinafter referred to as the police wing is China's law enforcement recorder industry leader, set R & D, manufacturing, sales, service in one, focusing on law enforcement departments to provide law enforcement recorder as the core, including the police wing of the mobile law enforcement...

Firejail: Privilege escalation

Background A SUID program that reduces the risk of security breaches by restricting the running environment of untrusted applications using Linux namespaces and seccomp-bpf. Description It was discovered that a flaw in Firejail’s OverlayFS code allowed restricted programs to escape sandbox. Impac...

Insider threats: If it can happen to the FBI, it can happen to you

If you’re worried about the risk of insider threats, you’re not alone. It can affect anyone, even the FBI. A federal grand jury has just charged a former intelligence analyst with stealing confidential files from 2004 to 2017. That’s an incredible 13 years of “What are you doing with that pile of...

Amazon Linux 2 : kernel (ALAS-2021-1636)

The version of kernel installed on the remote host is prior to 4.14.232-176.381. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2021-1636 advisory. 2024-05-23: CVE-2021-46909 was added to this advisory. 2024-05-23: CVE-2021-46974 was added to this advisory...

Why FIDO2 Is the Answer to Better Security

A groundbreaking increase in security incidents is affecting governments around the world. In light of this, the United States issued a formal order to implement a robust set of security measures designed to improve the security of federal systems. In his most recent executive order, President...

2021 Attacker Dwell Time Trends and Best Defenses

Cyberattacks have shifted from the usual smash-and-grab type of heists to stealthier campaigns where hackers silently camp out on networks for long periods, stealing anything they can get their hands on. Called attacker dwell time, this is part of an adversarial approach that has become even more...

23 Android Apps Expose Over 100,000,000 Users' Personal Data

Misconfigurations in multiple Android apps leaked sensitive data of more than 100 million users, potentially making them a lucrative target for malicious actors. "By not following best-practices when configuring and integrating third-party cloud-services into applications, millions of users'...

“Have I been pwnd?”– What is it and what to do when you *are* pwned

Adobe. Yahoo!. The US Department of Energy DoE. The New York Times. What these names have in common is that they have all experienced at least one breach in 2013—the year when threat actors started targeting organizations across industries to either steal data for profit or leak them to "teach...

Can Nanotech Secure IoT Devices From the Inside-Out?

Another day, another incident of internet-of-things IoT gadgets falling flat on their faces and spilling users’ privacy, if not getting hooked into a botnet, used for cryptomining or opening a network backdoor that allows intruders to move laterally through a network. It’s only Wednesday, but...

The vulnerability of the JAPI component of the Hyperion Analytic Provider Services software allows a perpetrator to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of the protected information.

The vulnerability of the JAPI component of the Hyperion Analytic Provider Services software exists due to insufficient verification of input data. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of the protected information...

Gig Workers Being Paid $500 for Payroll Passwords

Fintech startup Argyle, a financial-services platform aimed at gig workers, is working to replace credit scores assigned by bureaus like Equifax. But closer security analysis hints that Argyle could be just the latest incarnation of an ongoing data-collection campaign, paying people to give up...