IBM Buys "Red Hat" Open-Source Software Company for $34 Billion

It's been quite a year for the open source platforms. Earlier this year, Microsoft acquired popular code repository hosting service GitHub for $7.5 billion, and now IBM has just announced the biggest open-source business deal ever. IBM today confirmed that it would be acquiring open source Linux...

IBM Buys "Red Hat" Open-Source Software Company for $34 Billion

It's been quite a year for the open source platforms. Earlier this year, Microsoft acquired popular code repository hosting service GitHub for $7.5 billion, and now IBM has just announced the biggest open-source business deal ever. IBM today confirmed that it would be acquiring open source Linux...

Have Network, Need Network Security Monitoring

I have been associated with network security monitoring my entire cybersecurity career, so I am obviously biased towards network-centric security strategies and technologies. I also work for a network security monitoring company Corelight, but I am not writing this post in any corporate capacity...

ServersCheck Monitoring Software 14.3.3 SQL Injection Vulnerability

Exploit for multiple platform in category web applications + Credits: John Page aka hyp3rlinx + Website: hyp3rlinx.altervista.org + Source: http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/CVE-2018-18550-SERVERSCHECK-MONITORING-SOFTWARE-SQL-INJECTION.txt + ISR: ApparitionSec Greetz: Greetz: indoushka |...

ServersCheck Monitoring Software 14.3.3 Cross Site Scripting

Credits: John Page aka hyp3rlinx + Website: hyp3rlinx.altervista.org + Source: http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/CVE-2018-18551-SERVERSCHECK-MONITORING-SOFTWARE-CROSS-SITE-SCRIPTING.txt + ISR: ApparitionSec Greetz: Greetz: indoushka | Eduardo B. Vendor www.serverscheck.com Product...

Important: Red Hat Bug Fix Advisory: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 RPM Release Advisory

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11, 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...

How Shared Pools of Cloud Computing Power Are Changing the Way Attackers Operate

The transformation from racks of physical hardware hosting sites and services to cloud computing has provided organizations with better flexibility and reduced costs. Attackers have seen the benefits to this model and are also taking advantage of cloud computing to make more money, evade detectio...

CVE-2018-15427

A vulnerability in Cisco Video Surveillance Manager VSM Software running on certain Cisco Connected Safety and Security Unified Computing System UCS platforms could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to log in to an affected system by using the root account, which has default, static user...

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

An update for openstack-nova is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9.0 Mitaka. 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...

Ignite 2018 highlights: password-less sign-in, confidential computing, new threat protection, and more

What a week it was in Orlando! Ignite is always a biggie, and this one was no exception. For all of us here at Microsoft who get to work on security, spending time with customers to learn how you are using our security products today and to share new innovations to come is a highlight. At this...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: OpenShift Container Platform 3.6 security and bug fix update

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform release 3.6.173.0.130 is now available with updates to packages that fix one security issue and several bugs. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which...

Apache Hadoop YARN ResourceManager Web Interface

The web interface for Hadoop YARN ResourceManager was detected on the remote host. This interface can be used to monitor and assign resources for application execution. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid117616; scriptversion"1.4";...

Debian: Security Advisory (DLA-1506-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Quantum Computing and Cryptography

Quantum computing is a new way of computing -- one that could allow humankind to perform computations that are simply impossible using today's computing technologies. It allows for very fast searching, something that would break some of the encryption algorithms we use today. And it allows us to...

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...

CVE-2018-12168: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

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...