Smart lighting security

Smart lighting systems create great opportunity for improved efficiency, cost savings and easy management. The long lifespan and low power requirement of LED luminaires and lamps means that it’s worth investing in replacing older fluorescent and incandescent lighting. RJ45 connections delivering...

Emerging Edge Computing Use Cases

The first rule of edge compute thought leadership is: don't overuse the term edge. Over the course of my blog series on the topic, I have defined the edge, explained edge computing, and discussed the economics of edge computing. There have also been a few articles in which I've discussed how...

USN-4689-2: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

USN-4689-1 fixed vulnerabilities in the NVIDIA graphics drivers. This update provides the corresponding updates for the NVIDIA Linux DKMS kernel modules. Original advisory details: It was discovered that the NVIDIA GPU display driver for the Linux kernel contained a vulnerability that allowed...

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...

Undetectable Linux Malware Targeting Docker Servers With Exposed APIs

Cybersecurity researchers today uncovered a completely undetectable Linux malware that exploits undocumented techniques to stay under the radar and targets publicly accessible Docker servers hosted with popular cloud platforms, including AWS, Azure, and Alibaba Cloud. Docker is a popular...

Countdown to Black Hat: Top 10 Sessions to Attend — #1

Black Hat USA 2019 offers a packed and impressive lineup of research briefings and hands-on training courses for the 19,000-plus security pros expected to attend this year’s event. The training sessions provide both offensive and defensive skills that security pros can use to tackle critical...

ESPCMS suffers from a code execution vulnerability (CNVD-2018-26936)

ESPCMS is developed by PHP+MySQL and is able to run major mainstream cloud platforms. ESPCMS has a code execution vulnerability that can be exploited by attackers to gain control of the web server...

ESPCMS has an xss vulnerability

ESPCMS is developed by PHP+MySQL and is able to run major mainstream cloud platforms. ESPCMS has an xss vulnerability that can be exploited by attackers to obtain the administrator COOKIE...

Supported Hypervisors for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (MCS) and Citrix Provisioning (PVS)

Citrix is committed to ensuring that our products function with the latest partner hypervisor offering, such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Nutanix Cloud Clusters on AWS, Nutanix Cloud Clusters on Azure, VMware Cloud on AWS, Azure VMware Solution, Google Cloud VMware Engine,...

CISO series: Secure your privileged administrative accounts with a phased roadmap

In my role, I often meet with CISOs and security architects who are updating their security strategy to meet the challenges of continuously evolving attacker techniques and cloud platforms. A frequent topic is prioritizing security for their highest value assets, both the assets that have the mos...

Privacy Questions Raised as Tech Giants Join Forces on Data Portability

A veritable who’s who of tech giants from Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter, went public last week with a partnership on a standards initiative called the Data Transfer Project DTP, built to enable data portability between cloud platforms. But security researchers believe the project’s...

Data Pours from Cloud—And ‘The Enemy is Us’

Accenture, Verizon, Dow Jones and Deep Root Analytics are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the millions of private records and sensitive enterprise data exposed on cloud backends this year. And the problem is getting worse not better. “The enemy is us,” said Chris Vickery, director of...

Securing Public Clouds for Digital Transformation Success

As organizations seek digital transformation benefits and aggressively move workloads to public cloud platforms, InfoSec teams must support their business units’ efforts by adapting and properly protecting these environments. This may sound surprising to those who think that, when you use a publi...