Iranian Hackers Exploiting VPN Flaws to Backdoor Organizations Worldwide

A new report published by cybersecurity researchers has unveiled evidence of Iranian state-sponsored hackers targeting dozens of companies and organizations in Israel and around the world over the past three years. Dubbed "Fox Kitten ," the cyber-espionage campaign is said to have been directed a...

Hundreds of Millions of PC Components Still Have Hackable Firmware

The lax security of supply chain firmware has been a known concern for years—with precious little progress being made...

Unspecified Vulnerability in Oracle Supply Chain AutoVue

Oracle Supply Chain Products Suite is a set of supply chain solutions from Oracle Oracle. The product provides value chain planning, value chain execution, product lifecycle management and other functions. An unspecified vulnerability exists in Oracle Supply Chain AutoVue. An attacker could explo...

Oracle Supply Chain Products Suite Demantra Demand Management Code Execution Vulnerability

Oracle Supply Chain Products Suite is a suite of supply chain solutions from Oracle Corporation. The product provides value chain planning, value chain execution, product lifecycle management, etc. Demantra Demand Management is one of the components used to manage supply chain demand. A code...

Huawei Controversy Highlights 5G Security Implications

The controversy over Huawei’s involvement in the 5G telecom gear market ratcheted up a notch this week. U.S. officials said they have evidence that the Chinese equipment giant has had access to backdoors inside mobile carrier networks for more than 10 years. Officials are trying to make the case...

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I'll be at RSA Conference 2020 in San Francisco. On Wednesday, February 26, at 2:50 PM, I'll be part of a panel on "How to Reduce Supply Chain Risk: Lessons from Efforts to Block Huawei." On Thursday, February 27, at 9:20 AM, I'm...

Manually moving backup files between Scale-Out Backup Repository extents

Extent Rebalance is Now Built-In to Veeam Backup & Replication This article was written prior to the release of Veeam Backup & Replication 12. While the procedure may still work in Veeam Backup & Replication 12 and higher, we strongly advise you to instead consider using the built-in rebalancing...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : ARM mbed TLS vulnerabilities (USN-4267-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4267-1 advisory. It was discovered that mbedtls has a bounds-check bypass through an integer overflow that can be used by an attacked to execute arbitrary code or cause a...

RSA Conference 2020—Empower your defenders with artificial intelligence and automation

The RSA Conference 2020 kicks off in less than three weeks, and the Microsoft Security team can’t wait. This is one of our most important annual events because it provides an invaluable opportunity for us to connect with customers, partners, and other security thought leaders. New ideas are...

Guarding against supply chain attacks—Part 2: Hardware risks

The challenge and benefit of technology today is that it’s entirely global in nature. This reality is brought into focus when companies assess their supply chains, and look for ways to identify, assess, and manage risks across the supply chain of an enterprise. Part 2 of the “Guarding against...

Rockstar Games: Image Injection vulnerability in www.rockstargames.com/IV/screens/1280x720Image.html

In this report, the researcher demonstrated a method to chain together separate vulnerabilities that, under certain conditions, could cause a user's Facebook Oauth tokens to leak via the Referer header. The specific vulnerability that was addressed in this report was the image injection component...

sLoad Malware Revamped as Powerful 'StarsLord' Loader

The sLoad malware downloader, a PowerShell-based trojan first spotted in May 2018, has a new, polished version that comes with “more powerful features, posing even higher risk,” Microsoft researchers are warning. After discovering it being used in several campaigns over the holidays, researchers...

Evaluating Your Security Controls? Be Sure to Ask the Right Questions

Testing security controls is the only way to know if they are truly defending your organization. With many different testing frameworks and tools to choose from, you have lots of options. But what do you specifically want to know? And how are the findings relevant to the threat landscape you face...

CVE-2020-2592

Vulnerability in the Oracle AutoVue product of Oracle Supply Chain component: Security. The supported version that is affected is 21.0.2. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle AutoVue. Successful attacks of this...

Buffer overflow

Vulnerability in the Oracle Demantra Demand Management product of Oracle Supply Chain component: Security. Supported versions that are affected are 12.2.4, 12.2.4.1, 12.2.5 and 12.2.5.1. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise...

CVE-2020-2592

Oracle AutoVue vulnerability CVE-2020-2592 affects version 21.0.2 of the Security component in Oracle AutoVue (Oracle Supply Chain). An unauthenticated, network-accessible attacker can exploit over HTTP to gain unauthorized read access to a subset of data. The PT-2020-1465 entry indicates this is...

CVE-2020-2557

Vulnerability in the Oracle Demantra Demand Management product of Oracle Supply Chain component: Security. Supported versions that are affected are 12.2.4, 12.2.4.1, 12.2.5 and 12.2.5.1. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise...

CVE-2020-2557

Oracle Demantra Demand Management (versions 12.2.4–12.2.5.1) is vulnerable due to insufficient access control in the Security component, allowing an unauthenticated attacker with network access over HTTP to compromise data. Successful attacks can result in unauthorized update, insert, or delete o...

CVE-2020-2557

Vulnerability in the Oracle Demantra Demand Management product of Oracle Supply Chain component: Security. Supported versions that are affected are 12.2.4, 12.2.4.1, 12.2.5 and 12.2.5.1. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise...

Oracle Ties Previous All-Time Patch High with January Updates

Oracle has patched 334 vulnerabilities across all of its product families in its January 2020 quarterly Critical Patch Update CPU. Out of these, 43 are critical/severe flaws carrying CVSS scores of 9.1 and above. The CPU ties for Oracle’s previous all-time high for number of patches issued, in Ju...