New Cold Boot Attack Unlocks Disk Encryption On Nearly All Modern PCs

Security researchers have revealed a new attack to steal passwords, encryption keys and other sensitive information stored on most modern computers, even those with full disk encryption. The attack is a new variation of a traditional Cold Boot Attack, which is around since 2008 and lets attackers...

CVE-2018-12168

Privilege escalation in file permissions in Intel Computing Improvement Program before version 2.2.0.03942 may allow an authenticated user to potentially execute code as administrator via local access...

Privilege escalation

Privilege escalation in file permissions in Intel Computing Improvement Program before version 2.2.0.03942 may allow an authenticated user to potentially execute code as administrator via local access...

CVE-2018-12168

CVE-2018-12168 describes a privilege-escalation in Intel Computing Improvement Program before version 2.2.0.03942. An authenticated user on the local system could potentially execute code with Administrator privileges due to file-permission and access-control weaknesses. The NVD entry lists a HIG...

CVE-2018-12168

Privilege escalation in file permissions in Intel Computing Improvement Program before version 2.2.0.03942 may allow an authenticated user to potentially execute code as administrator via local access...

Intel® Driver & Support Assistant and Intel® Software Asset Manager Advisory

Summary: Potential security vulnerabilities in Intel® Driver & Support Assistant, Intel® Software Asset Manager and Intel® Computing Improvement Program may allow escalation of privilege. Intel is releasing Intel® Driver & Support Assistant updates to mitigate these potential vulnerabilities...

IBM Spectrum Symphony and Platform Symphony Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities

IBM Spectrum Symphony and Platform Symphony are both products of IBM Corporation in the U.S. IBM Spectrum Symphony is a suite of enterprise-class management software for running compute- and data-intensive distributed applications on shared grids.Platform Symphony is a set of SOA-based architectu...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: openstack-nova security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An update for openstack-nova is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12.0 Pike. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each...

Foreshadow Attacks — 3 New Intel CPU Side-Channel Flaws Discovered

2018 has been quite a tough year for Intel. While the chip-maker giant is still dealing with Meltdown and Spectre processor vulnerabilities, yet another major speculative execution flaw has been revealed in Intel's Core and Xeon lines of processors that may leave users vulnerable to cyber-attacks...

Low: Red Hat Bug Fix Advisory: OpenShift Container Platform 3.10 RPM Release Advisory

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.10, which fixes several bugs and includes various enhancements, is now available. Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is Red Hat's cloud computing Kubernetes application platform solution designed for on-premise or private cloud deployments. The OpenShift...

ALPINE-CVE-2016-9603

A heap buffer overflow flaw was found in QEMU's Cirrus CLGD 54xx VGA emulator's VNC display driver support before 2.9; the issue could occur when a VNC client attempted to update its display after a VGA operation is performed by a guest. A privileged user/process inside a guest could use this fla...

Apache, IBM Patch Critical Cloud Vulnerability

Apache and IBM have patched a critical vulnerability that allows attackers to replace a company’s serverless code with their own malicious script. Once running, the bad code could then be used for a range of nefarious tasks, including extracting confidential customer data such as passwords or...

Spectre Will Haunt Us For a Long Time

During a recent Congressional hearing, Senators voiced concerns about the ongoing Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities. While the technical details were predictably glossed over, most of the hearing focused on Intel informing Chinese partners about the flaws six months before they went public...

Scout2 - Security Auditing Tool For AWS Environments

Scout2 is a security tool that lets AWS administrators assess their environment's security posture. Using the AWS API, Scout2 gathers configuration data for manual inspection and highlights high-risk areas automatically. Rather than pouring through dozens of pages on the web, Scout2 supplies a...

Timehop Breach Impacts Personal Data of 21 Million Users

The personal data of millions of Timehop customers has been compromised after a hacker gained access to its cloud-based backend computing environment. Timehop, a service that plugs into users’ social media platforms and shows them memories from the past, disclosed the data breach on Sunday. The...

Why Do SOCs Look Like This?

When you hear the word "SOC," or the phrase "security operations center," what image comes to mind? Do you think of analyst sitting at desks, all facing forward, towards giant screens? Why is this? The following image is from the outstanding movie Apollo 13, a docudrama about the challenged 1970...

CVE-2018-0362

A vulnerability in BIOS authentication management of Cisco 5000 Series Enterprise Network Compute System and Cisco Unified Computing UCS E-Series Servers could allow an unauthenticated, local attacker to bypass the BIOS authentication and execute actions as an unprivileged user. The vulnerability...

CVE-2018-0362

The CVE-2018-0362 entry describes a vulnerability in BIOS authentication management for Cisco 5000 Series Enterprise Network Compute System (ENCS) and Cisco UCS E-Series Servers. A local, unauthenticated attacker could bypass BIOS authentication by submitting an empty password to the BIOS prompt,...

Driving data security is a shared responsibility, here’s how you can protect yourself

You're driving a long, dark road on a rainy night. If you're driving 20 miles over the speed limit and you don't step on the brakes when the car in front of you comes to a sudden stop, is it your fault or your car manufacturers fault if you rear-end the car that is in front of you? When we drive,...

CVE-2017-7801

A use-after-free vulnerability can occur while re-computing layout for a "marquee" element during window resizing where the updated style object is freed while still in use. This results in a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird 52.3, Firefox ESR 52.3, and Firefox...