Microsoft Joins Open Source Security Foundation

Microsoft has invested in the security of open source software for many years and today I’m excited to share that Microsoft is joining industry partners to create the Open Source Security Foundation OpenSSF, a new cross-industry collaboration hosted at the Linux Foundation. The OpenSSF brings...

Zoom Flaw Could Have Allowed Hackers To Crack Meeting Passcodes

A security issue in popular video conferencing platform Zoom was disclosed this week, which could have allowed attackers to crack private meeting passcodes and snoop in on video conferences. The problem, which has already been fixed, stems from Zoom not having any check against repeated incorrect...

Automation & Development – Why It’s Worth Investing in This Relationship

Good relationships will be stable whenever something goes wrong. But, if you don’t invest in your relationships, they won’t last long. Let’s take, for example, a little crisis that could happen - a bug is found in the field! … by a customer! “How did we miss it?” will be the question asked all...

Guiding principles of our identity strategy: staying ahead of evolving customer needs

Last June, when I shared the 5 principles driving a customer-obsessed identity strategy at Microsoft, many of you had embraced the idea of a boundaryless environment, but relatively few had implemented it in practice. A global pandemic made remote access essential and forced many of you to...

The vulnerability of the web interface of the content management software in the Prime Collaboration Provisioning network allows a hacker to execute arbitrary SQL queries.

The vulnerability in the web interface for managing content in the Prime Collaboration Provisioning network involves a lack of measures to protect the SQL query structure. Exploiting this vulnerability allows an attacker to execute arbitrary SQL queries remotely...

Enterprise Data Security: It’s Time to Flip the Established Approach

There’s an old saying when it comes to big undertakings: Don’t boil the ocean. Well, there’s hardly any bigger project in information security than trying to protect corporate data. But the reality is that too many organizations today are, in fact, “boiling the ocean” when it comes to their...

A New Flaw In Zoom Could Have Let Fraudsters Mimic Organisations

In a report shared with The Hacker News, researchers at cybersecurity firm CheckPoint today disclosed details of a minor but easy-to-exploit flaw they reported in Zoom, the highly popular and widely used video conferencing software. The latest Zoom flaw could have allowed attackers mimic an...

VulnCheck KEV: CVE-2019-9670

Synacor Zimbra Collaboration Suite ZCS contains an improper restriction of XML external entity XXE vulnerability in the mailboxd component...

Microsoft Warns on OAuth Attacks Against Cloud App Users

Against the backdrop of widespread remote working and the increased use of collaboration apps, attackers are ramping up application-based attacks that exploit OAuth 2.0, Microsoft is warning. OAuth is an open standard for access delegation, commonly used as a way for people to sign into services...

The Importance of Culture and Collaboration

I joined Akamai Japan in June 2020. Of course, having worked in technology for my whole career, I already knew of Akamai and our strong reputation. I knew it was an intelligent company, with impressive technology, and - above all - a great story that really inspired me...

Protecting your remote workforce from application-based attacks like consent phishing

The global pandemic has dramatically shifted how people work. As a result, organizations around the world have scaled up cloud services to support collaboration and productivity from home. We’re also seeing more apps leverage Microsoft’s identity platform to ensure seamless access and integrated...

Configuring a Windows Domain to Dynamically Analyze an Obfuscated Lateral Movement Tool

We recently encountered a large obfuscated malware sample that offered several interesting analysis challenges. It used virtualization that prevented us from producing a fully-deobfuscated memory dump for static analysis. Statically analyzing a large virtualized sample can take anywhere from...

CVE-2020-13653

An XSS vulnerability exists in the Webmail component of Zimbra Collaboration Suite before 8.8.15 Patch 11. It allows an attacker to inject executable JavaScript into the account name of a user's profile. The injected code can be reflected and executed when changing an e-mail signature...

CVE-2020-13653

Zimbra Collaboration Suite Webmail contains a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in versions before 8.8.15 Patch 11 and in 9.x before 9.0.0 Patch 4. The flaw allows an attacker to inject JavaScript into a user’s account name, which can be reflected and executed when changing an e‑mail signa...

Successful DevSecOps begins with a cultural shift

A successful DevSecOps approach fosters cohesive collaboration between Development, Security, and Operations teams for the cultivation of outcomes that improve security while also maintaining the goals of DevOps. Within DevSecOps, security is an additional foundational component in the process...

Shopify: increased privileges on staff account

staff on partners without a store management permit can have access to the collaboration shop steps for reproduction 1. Invite staff to partners without store management permission 2. accept the invitation and the staff has become a member of the partner 3. On the staff account, try to access the...

Publicly Available Tools Seen in Cyber Incidents Worldwide

Summary This report is a collaborative research effort by the cyber security authorities of five nations: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.12345 In it we highlight the use of five publicly available tools, which have been used for malicious purposes in...

The vulnerability of the update service for microprogramming software of Cisco TelePresence Collaboration Endpoint Software and the Cisco RoomOS operating system allows a hacker to modify the file system, trigger a service failure, or gain privileged access to the root file system.

The vulnerability of the software update service for Cisco TelePresence Collaboration Endpoint Software and the operating system Cisco RoomOS exists due to the lack of measures taken to neutralize special elements used in the operating system’s command set. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow...

SQL Injection Vulnerability in Smart Government OA Collaboration Platform

Intelligent government OA collaborative office platform is a set of independent research and development of collaborative office software, is specifically tailored for the government office of the new office software system. There is a SQL injection vulnerability in Smart Government OA...

CVE-2020-3336 Cisco TelePresence Collaboration Endpoint and RoomOS Software Command Injection Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the software upgrade process of Cisco TelePresence Collaboration Endpoint Software and Cisco RoomOS Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to modify the filesystem to cause a denial of service DoS or gain privileged access to the root filesystem. The vulnerabili...