Predicting the Future of the SOC Analyst

I’ve been a SOC Analyst for four years now and was a desktop support engineer before that. When I first started as a SOC Analyst it was an exciting change. I was going to help protect the company and resolve suspicious incidents before they turned into breaches. The reality of my day-to-day was n...

suvidhacenters.com Improper Access Control vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-1160474 Following coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspa. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspb. notified the website...

RevenueWire to pay $6.7 million to settle FTC charges

What can you do as a scammer when no legitimate payment provider wants to process your payments anymore? Or, what if you are growing sick and tired of these same payment providers reimbursing disgruntled customers who claim that your products didn't fix computers, like—you know—you said they woul...

Hackers Exploit Critical Flaw in Ghost Platform with Cryptojacking Attack

Hackers targeted the publishing platform Ghost over the weekend, launching a cryptojacking attack against its servers that led to widespread outages. The attack stemmed from the exploit of critical vulnerabilities in SaltStack, used in Ghost’s server management infrastructure. Ghost is a free,...

Hackers Breach LineageOS, Ghost, DigiCert Servers Using SaltStack Vulnerability

Days after cybersecurity researchers sounded the alarm over two critical vulnerabilities in the SaltStack configuration framework, a hacking campaign has already begun exploiting the flaws to breach servers of LineageOS, Ghost, and DigiCert. Tracked as CVE-2020-11651 and CVE-2020-11652, the...

virginiaveterinarycenters.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-1155166 Security Researcher geeknik Helped patch 8815 vulnerabilities Received 8 Coordinated Disclosure badges Received 20 recommendations , a holder of 8 badges for responsible and coordinated disclosure, found a security vulnerability affecting...

SaltStack Patches Critical Vulnerabilities in Salt

SaltStack has released a security update to address critical vulnerabilities affecting Salt versions prior to 2019.2.4 and 3000.2. Salt is an open-source remote task and configuration management framework widely used in data centers and cloud servers. A remote attacker could exploit these...

Salt Bugs Allow Full RCE as Root on Cloud Servers

The open-source Salt management framework contains high-severity security vulnerabilities that allow full remote code execution as root on servers in data centers and cloud environments. And in-the-wild attacks are expected imminently. According to F-Secure researchers, the framework, authored by...

How to Migrate Data Centers with Azure Migrate

Previously, migrating your servers to the cloud was a huge undertaking, but with Azure Migrate, you get services to discover, assess, and migrate your server. See how you can utilize these tools to make your cloud journey a little less daunting...

Webinar — Autonomous Breach Protection: The New Security Paradigm Shift

Organizations today struggle with multi-product security stacks, that are expensive to purchase and maintain and also require a highly skilled security team to manually integrate and operate. The current Coronavirus crisis that has imposed a strict quarantine on organizations and security teams...

The effects of climate change on cybersecurity

Outside the coronavirus pandemic and its related healthcare and economic fallout, climate change and cybersecurity are seen by many as the two most urgent problems facing our planet now and in the near future. They are two distinct and separate problems, to be sure. There are some areas, however,...

LVI Attacks: New Intel CPU Vulnerability Puts Data Centers At Risk

It appears there is no end in sight to the hardware level security vulnerabilities in Intel processors, as well as to the endless 'performance killing' patches that resolve them. Modern Intel CPUs have now been found vulnerable to a new attack that involves reversely exploiting Meltdown-type data...

LVI Attacks: New Intel CPU Vulnerability Puts Data Centers At Risk

It appears there is no end in sight to the hardware level security vulnerabilities in Intel processors, as well as to the endless 'performance killing' patches that resolve them. Modern Intel CPUs have now been found vulnerable to a new attack that involves reversely exploiting Meltdown-type data...

Cisco Webex Centers CVE-2020-3116 Denial of Service Vulnerability

Description Cisco Webex Centers is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this issue to cause a denial-of-service condition. This issue is being tracked by Cisco Bug IDs CSCvr16379, CSCvr16383 and CSCvr16386. Technologies Affected Cisco WebEx Event Center Cisco WebEx...

fitness-centers.focus.tv Cross Site Scripting vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-1031174 Security Researcher devl00p Helped patch 2996 vulnerabilities Received 10 Coordinated Disclosure badges Received 15 recommendations , a holder of 10 badges for responsible and coordinated disclosure, found a security vulnerability affecting fitness-centers.focus.tv...

Would ‘Medicare for All’ help secure health data?

DISCLAIMER: This post is not partisan, but rather focuses on risk assessment based on history and what threats we are facing in the future. We do not endorse any healthcare plan style in any way, outside of examining its data security risk. For many folks, the term ‘Healthcare for All’ brings up ...

CVE-2019-15987 Cisco WebEx Centers Username Enumeration Information Disclosure Vulnerability

A vulnerability in web interface of the Cisco Webex Event Center, Cisco Webex Meeting Center, Cisco Webex Support Center, and Cisco Webex Training Center could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to guess account usernames. The vulnerability is due to missing CAPTCHA protection in certain...

Cisco Webex Centers CVE-2019-15987 Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Description Cisco Webex Centers are prone to an information-disclosure vulnerability. Attackers can exploit this issue to obtain sensitive information that may aid in further attacks. This issue is being tracked by Cisco Bug IDs CSCvq81213 and CSCvq81230. Cisco Webex Event Center, Cisco Webex...

Walk/Don't Walk: Secure, Intelligent Application Access with Enhanced Security Signals

Digital business transformation has meant a continued shift in the way organizations think about secure access. The focus on security has moved away from data centers and toward users. Workforce productivity, flexibility, and application performance are driving the demand to give users...

Akamai's Innovation and Collaboration In Renewable Energy

The energy footprint of the IT sector is estimated at 7% of global electricity consumption, according to Greenpeace International. And, although the data center and colocation industry is a small segment of the IT sector, it represents a large portion of its power consumption. By 2020, the power...