Autoscaling Wallarm Nodes in AWS, GCP, and Azure

Newly updated Wallarm Node images now natively support autoscaling capabilities in AWS, GCP, and Azure. Updated images are already available in cloud provider marketplaces and can rely on the native auto-scaling to adjust the number of nodes based on traffic, CPU load, and other parameters. What ...

Ransomware Bites Dental Data Backup Firm

PerCSoft, a Wisconsin-based company that manages a remote data backup service relied upon by hundreds of dental offices across the country, is struggling to restore access to client systems after falling victim to a ransomware attack. West Allis, Wis.-based PerCSoft is a cloud management provider...

Sql injection

SaltStack Salt 2018.3, 2019.2 is affected by: SQL Injection. The impact is: An attacker could escalate privileges on MySQL server deployed by cloud provider. It leads to RCE. The component is: The mysql.userchpass function from the MySQL module for Salt. The attack vector is: specially crafted...

PYSEC-2019-119

SaltStack Salt 2018.3, 2019.2 is affected by: SQL Injection. The impact is: An attacker could escalate privileges on MySQL server deployed by cloud provider. It leads to RCE. The component is: The mysql.userchpass function from the MySQL module for Salt. The attack vector is: specially crafted...

Know Your Limitations

At the end of the 1973 Clint Eastwood movie Magnum Force, after Dirty Harry watches his corrupt police captain explode in a car, he says "a man's got to know his limitations." I thought of this quote today as the debate rages about compromising municipalities and other information...

Microsoft’s Cyber Defense Operations Center shares best practices

Today, a single breach, physical or virtual, can cause millions of dollars of damage to an organization and potentially billions in financial losses to the global economy. Each week seems to bring a new disclosure of a cybersecurity breach somewhere in the world. As we look at the current state o...

Release Information for Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4

More Recent Version Available Please find the latest version of Veeam Backup & Replication here: Veeam Downloads - Latest Version Challenge Release information for Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4 Cause Please confirm that you are running version 9.0 Update 2 build 9.0.0.1715 or later prio...

Exploit for CVE-2018-1002105

CVE-2018-1002105 Test utility that checks a cluster for the h...

Qualys Cloud Platform 2.35 New Features

This release of the Qualys Cloud Platform version 2.35 includes updates and new features for AssetView, Cloud Agent, Security Assessment Questionnaire, and Web Application Scanning, highlights as follows. Note: this post has been edited after publishing to remove the Rule-Based Method to...

Huayang Jutai's "one network, one office" platform has unauthorized access vulnerability

Huayang Jutai is a cloud computing total solution provider and cloud service provider. Huayang Jutai's "One Network, One Office" platform for examination and approval services is vulnerable to unauthorized access. An attacker can exploit the vulnerability to gain unauthorized access to sensitive...

GitLab: GitLab's GitHub integration is vulnerable to SSRF vulnerability

The GitHub service is vulnerable to a SSRF vulnerability. An attacker may be able to leverage this to make arbitrary POST requests in a GitLab instance's internal network. It can also be used to connect to cloud provider's instance metadata API, which may result in the ability to execute commands...

CVE-2016-9592

openshift before versions 3.3.1.11, 3.2.1.23, 3.4 is vulnerable to a flaw when a volume fails to detach, which causes the delete operation to fail with 'VolumeInUse' error. Since the delete operation is retried every 30 seconds for each volume, this could lead to a denial of service attack as the...

CVE-2016-9592

openshift before versions 3.3.1.11, 3.2.1.23, 3.4 is vulnerable to a flaw when a volume fails to detach, which causes the delete operation to fail with 'VolumeInUse' error. Since the delete operation is retried every 30 seconds for each volume, this could lead to a denial of service attack as the...

Design/Logic Flaw

openshift before versions 3.3.1.11, 3.2.1.23, 3.4 is vulnerable to a flaw when a volume fails to detach, which causes the delete operation to fail with 'VolumeInUse' error. Since the delete operation is retried every 30 seconds for each volume, this could lead to a denial of service attack as the...

CVE-2016-9592: Improper Cleanup on Thrown Exception

openshift before versions 3.3.1.11, 3.2.1.23, 3.4 is vulnerable to a flaw when a volume fails to detach, which causes the delete operation to fail with 'VolumeInUse' error. Since the delete operation is retried every 30 seconds for each volume, this could lead to a denial of service attack as the...

Sleuthing the Cloud: The Challenges of Forensics in Cloud Environments

More and more companies are embracing Cloud computing for the practicality, efficiency, and economy of outsourcing the housing, maintenance, and monitoring of applications and their associated infrastructure to a third-party provider. As the Cloud becomes more the norm than the exception, there i...

Cloud Migration Checklist for Application and Data Security

In the final post of our series on cloud migration, we’ve put together a list of strategic and immediate considerations as you plan to migrate your business to the cloud. From a high-altitude viewpoint, cloud security is based on a model of “shared responsibility” in which the concern for securit...

CVE-2017-1002100

Default access permissions for Persistent Volumes PVs created by the Kubernetes Azure cloud provider in versions 1.6.0 to 1.6.5 are set to "container" which exposes a URI that can be accessed without authentication on the public internet. Access to the URI string requires privileged access to the...

CVE-2017-1002100: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Default access permissions for Persistent Volumes PVs created by the Kubernetes Azure cloud provider in versions 1.6.0 to 1.6.5 are set to "container" which exposes a URI that can be accessed without authentication on the public internet. Access to the URI string requires privileged access to the...

CVE-2016-9592

A flaw was found where a volume fails to detach, which causes the delete operation to fail with 'VolumeInUse' error. Since the delete operation is retried every 30 seconds for each volume, this could lead to a denial of service attack as the number of API requests being sent to the cloud-provider...