Cybersecurity Needs to Go Back to the Basics

This is part of our ongoing conversation about the worldwide challenges of working remotely. To stay up-to-date on the latest insights, refer to our live page for COVID-19: Cybersecurity Community Resources. This piece was co-authored with support from Optiv. Security teams have spent decades...

CVE-2020-3256

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Hosted Collaboration Mediation Fulfillment HCM-F Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to gain read access to information that is stored on an affected system. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need...

CVE-2020-3256 Cisco Hosted Collaboration Mediation Fulfillment XML External Expansion Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Hosted Collaboration Mediation Fulfillment HCM-F Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to gain read access to information that is stored on an affected system. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need...

Cisco Hosted Collaboration Mediation Fulfillment XML External Expansion Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Hosted Collaboration Mediation Fulfillment HCM-F Software could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to gain read access to information that is stored on an affected system. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need...

Denmark, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands and France SIGINT Alliance

This paper describes a SIGINT and code-breaking alliance between Denmark, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands and France called Maximator: Abstract: This article is first to report on the secret European five-partner sigint alliance Maximator that started in the late 1970s. It discloses the name...

Security Bulletin: Windows DLL injection vulnerability in IBM Java Runtime affects Collaboration and Deployment Services

Summary There is a Windows DLL injection vulnerability in IBM® Runtime Environment Java™ Version JRE71SR4FP15, JRE71SR4FP45 and JRE8SR5FP36 used by Collaboration and Deployment Services on windows platform. This issue was disclosed as part of the IBM Java SDK updates in January 2020. Vulnerabilit...

Microsoft Teams Impersonation Attacks Flood Inboxes

A convincing cyberattack that impersonates notifications from Microsoft Teams in order to steal the Office 365 credentials of employees is making the rounds, according to researchers. Two separate attacks have targeted as many as 50,000 different Teams users, according to findings from Abnormal...

Principles of a Cloud Migration – Security W5H – The When

If you have to ask yourself when to implement security, you probably need a time machine! Security is as important to your migration as the actual workload you are moving to the cloud. Read that again. It is essential to be planning and integrating security at every single layer of both...

Microsoft Office 365 Security Recommendations

Summary As organizations adapt or change their enterprise collaboration capabilities to meet “telework” requirements, many organizations are migrating to Microsoft Office 365 O365 and other cloud collaboration services. Due to the speed of these deployments, organizations may not be fully...

Applied ThreadFix: Security teams collaborating with development teams

Modern enterprises are distributed. Most ThreadFix deployments have stakeholders spanning development and security teams and those team members are spread around the globe. To support these distributed organizations, ThreadFix has a number of collaboration features that make teams more efficient...

Applied ThreadFix: Effective security team collaboration

Modern enterprises are distributed. Most ThreadFix deployments have stakeholders spanning development and security teams and those team members are spread around the globe. To support these distributed organizations, ThreadFix has a number of collaboration features that make teams more efficient...

How to transform your revolutionary idea into a reality: $100K Nokia Bell Labs Prize

Revolutionary ideas in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics don't occur every day. But when those "eureka" moments happen, we need to provide a forum to explore those ideas, judge them on their merits, and distinguish the extraordinary from the merely good. Once a year, Nokia Bell La...

CVE-2020-2885

Vulnerability in the Oracle Document Management and Collaboration product of Oracle E-Business Suite component: Attachments. Supported versions that are affected are 12.1.1-12.1.3 and 12.2.3-12.2.9. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to...

CVE-2020-2885

Vulnerability in the Oracle Document Management and Collaboration product of Oracle E-Business Suite component: Attachments. Supported versions that are affected are 12.1.1-12.1.3 and 12.2.3-12.2.9. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to...

CVE-2020-2885

CVE-2020-2885 affects Oracle E-Business Suite’s Document Management and Collaboration (Attachments) with affected versions 12.1.1–12.1.3 and 12.2.3–12.2.9. The vulnerability is exploitable by an unauthenticated attacker over HTTP with network access. Successful exploitation requires human interac...

MS15-081: Description of the security update for Word 2016: October 13, 2015

Resolves vulnerabilities in Office that could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Microsoft Office file.SummaryThis security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office that could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Microsoft Office...

The Results Are In: Defender Confidence Is On The Rise

Recently, I spent two weeks traveling across Europe talking with defenders, reporters, and leaders of security programs. While each country faces its own unique challenges and has its own needs, there were a few themes that were consistently present. Threat Outlook Report 2020. Naturally, we...

Secure Remote Endpoints from Vulnerabilities in Video Conferencing & Productivity Applications like Zoom

With millions working, learning and collaborating remotely due to COVID-19 challenges, there's an explosion of remote endpoints running Zoom and other collaboration and productivity applications such as Outlook, Teams, Webex, Slack, Office 365 and more. As remote endpoints are accessing...

Turning collaboration and customer engagement up with a strong identity approach

In these challenging times, it’s even more apparent that modern companies are managing a blended workforce that encompasses not only their full-time staff and customers but also their contractors, consultants, subsidiaries, suppliers, partners, and soon-to-be customers. Balancing friction-less...

Beyond Zoom: How Safe Are Slack and Other Collaboration Apps?

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to worsen, remote-collaboration platforms – now fixtures in many workers’ “new normal” – are facing more scrutiny. Popular video-conferencing app Zoom may currently be in the cybersecurity hot seat, but other collaboration tools, such as Slack, Trello, WebEx...