New Report on Police Decryption Capabilities

There is a new report on police decryption capabilities: specifically, mobile device forensic tools MDFTs. Short summary: its not just the FBI that can do it. This report documents the widespread adoption of MDFTs by law enforcement in the United States. Based on 110 public records requests to...

CISO Spotlight: How diversity of data (and people) defeats today’s cyber threats

This year, we have seen five significant security paradigm shifts in our industry. This includes the acknowledgment that the greater the diversity of our data sets, the better the AI and machine learning outcomes. This diversity gives us an advantage over our cyber adversaries and improves our...

ReQuest Serious Play Media Player 3.0 File Disclosure / Path Traversal

ReQuest Serious Play Media Player 3.0 Directory Traversal File Disclosure Vulnerability Vendor: ReQuest Serious Play LLC Product web page: http://www.request.com Affected version: 3.0.0 2.1.0.831 1.5.2.822 1.5.2.821 1.5.1.820 Summary: With the MediaPlayer, ReQuest delivers video content and...

Computing at the Edge

Welcome to the Akamai October 2020 Update - a week of product updates, new features, and innovations. We'll be highlighting a different area of our portfolio each day this week. In today's post, we look at our enhanced edge computing capabilities and how they help developers more effectively and...

Debian DLA-2395-1 : libvirt security update

A double free vulnerability was discovered in libvirt, a toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities of recent versions of Linux and other OSes. For Debian 9 stretch, this problem has been fixed in version 3.0.0-4+deb9u5. We recommend that you upgrade your libvirt packages. For the...

Microsoft delivers unified SIEM and XDR to modernize security operations

The threat landscape continues to increase in both complexity and the level of sophistication of the attacks we observe. Attackers target the most vulnerable resources in an organization and then traverse laterally to target high-value assets. No longer can you expect to stay safe by protecting...

Enable secure remote work, address regulations and uncover new risks with Microsoft Compliance

As we talk with a broad range of customers in the current environment, we hear some consistent challenges businesses are facing. With so many remote workers, people are creating, sharing, and storing data in new ways, which fosters productivity, but can also introduce new risks. A recent Microsof...

OPENSUSE-SU-2020:1478-1 Security update for fossil

This update for fossil fixes the following issues: - fossil 2.12.1: CVE-2020-24614: Remote authenticated users with check-in or administrative privileges could have executed arbitrary code boo1175760 Security fix in the 'fossil git export' command. New 'safety-net' features were added to prevent...

FBI warns of ProLock ransomware with enhanced capabilities

By Zara Khan The FBI issues a second alert asking private and government entities to vary of ProLock ransomware. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: FBI warns of ProLock ransomware with enhanced capabilities...

CVE-2020-3629

u'Stack out of bound issue occurs when making query to DSP capabilities due to wrong assumption was made on determining the buffer size for the DSP attributes' in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music,...

CVE-2020-3629

u'Stack out of bound issue occurs when making query to DSP capabilities due to wrong assumption was made on determining the buffer size for the DSP attributes' in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdragon Mobile, Snapdragon Voice & Music,...

CVE-2020-3629

The CVE-2020-3629 issue affects Qualcomm Snapdragon line (DSP query path) where a stack out-of-bounds occurs due to an incorrect assumption in buffer-size calculation for DSP attributes. Affected: Snapdragon Auto, Compute, Consumer IoT, Industrial IoT, Mobile, Voice & Music, Wearables; devices in...

CVE-2020-14386

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. Memory corruption can be exploited to gain root privileges from unprivileged processes. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability. Mitigation If the CAPNETRAW capability disabled by...

API: The Unsung Hero of the DevOps Revolution

Watch this session to dive into the capabilities of APIs, as well as how organizations have used APIs to solve problems and add security to their value stream...

RHEL 8 : Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.4.2 security update on RHEL 8 (Important) (RHSA-2020:3497)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:3497 advisory. Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.4 is a standalone server, based on the Keycloak project, that provides authentication and standards-based single...

CVE-2020-1380

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that the scripting engine handles objects in memory in Internet Explorer. The vulnerability could corrupt memory in such a way that an attacker could execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user. An attacker who successfully...

The NSA on the Risks of Exposing Location Data

The NSA has issued an advisory on the risks of location data. Mitigations reduce, but do not eliminate, location tracking risks in mobile devices. Most users rely on features disabled by such mitigations, making such safeguards impractical. Users should be aware of these risks and take action bas...

Docker Privileged Container Escape

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework POC modified from https://blog.trailofbits.com/2019/07/19/understanding-docker-container-escapes/ class MetasploitModule 'Docker Privileged Container Escape',...

BlackBerry Phone Cracked

Australia is reporting that a BlackBerry device has been cracked after five years: An encrypted BlackBerry device that was cracked five years after it was first seized by police is poised to be the key piece of evidence in one of the state's longest-running drug importation investigations. In...

Apple Security Research Device Program Draws Mixed Reactions

Apple’s long anticipated Security Research Device program has launched, giving select security researchers access to testable iPhones that will make it easier for them to find iOS vulnerabilities. The program offers security researchers specially configured iPhones with shell access, and special...