5M WordPress Sites Running 'Contact Form 7' Plugin Open to Attack

A patch for the popular WordPress plugin called Contact Form 7 was released Thursday. It fixes a critical bug that allows an unauthenticated adversary to takeover a website running the plugin or possibly hijack the entire server hosting the site. The patch comes in the form of a 5.3.2 version...

Cloud workload security: Should you worry about it?

Due to the increasing use of the cloud, organizations find themselves dealing with hybrid environments and nebulous workloads to secure. Containerization and cloud-stored data have provided the industry with a new challenge. And while you can try to make the provider of cloud data storage...

How To Protect Your Kubernetes Cluster with Wallarm – part 1 of 3

Kubernetes clusters enable an organization to easily take advantage of containerization. While this is a huge asset, it also creates security issues. Many organizations lack visibility into the applications within their Kubernetes cluster and their attack surface. Within a Kubernetes cluster, an...

Explained: cloud-delivered security

As a counterpart to security for your assets in the cloud, you may also run into solutions that offer security from the cloud. These solutions are generally referred to as cloud-delivered security. Cloud-delivered security is sometimes called security-as-a-service which we will avoid here as it...

Smart Check Validated for New Bottlerocket OS

Containers provide a list of benefits to organizations that use them. They’re light, flexible, add consistency across the environment and operate in isolation. However, security concerns prevent some organizations from employing containers. This is despite containers having an extra layer of...

A week in security (December 2 – December 8)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we took a look at a new version of the IcedID Trojan, described web skimmers up to no good, and took a deep dive into containerization. We also explored a report bringing bad news for organizations and insider threats, and threw a spotlight on a video game phish...

Explained: What is containerization?

Containerization. Another one of those tech buzzwords folks love to say but often have no idea what it means. A better way to organize children's toys? The act of bringing tupperware out to dinner to safely transport home leftovers? Another name for Russian dolls? Containerization is, of course,...

APIs Ease Customer Interaction — and External Attacks. Here’s how to Protect Them.

To deliver seamless service experiences to our customers, businesses now rely heavily on application programming interfaces APIs. These are a non-negotiable aspect of the way we streamline the interactions and conversations we have with our customers, both internal and external. APIs are now so...

[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: docker-1.13.1-68.git47e2230.fc29

Docker is an open-source engine that automates the deployment of any application as a lightweight, portable, self-sufficient container that will run virtually anywhere. Docker containers can encapsulate any payload, and will run consistently on and between virtually any server. The same container...

Cloud, Containers, Orchestration Big Factors in BSIMM9

As software and applications increasingly head to the cloud, traditional enterprise software security initiatives are getting turned on their head. The push to the cloud, experts say, isn’t just taking applications and services off premises: It’s redefining how DevOps and traditional IT departmen...

CVE-2017-1002101

In Kubernetes versions 1.3.x, 1.4.x, 1.5.x, 1.6.x and prior to versions 1.7.14, 1.8.9 and 1.9.4 containers using subpath volume mounts with any volume type including non-privileged pods, subject to file permissions can access files/directories outside of the volume, including the host's filesyste...

Modern Network Coverage and Container Security in InsightVM

For a long time, the concept of "infrastructure" remained relatively unchanged: Firewalls, routers, servers, desktops, and so on make up the majority of your network. Yet over the last few years, the tides have begun to shift. Virtualization is now ubiquitous, giving employees tremendous leeway i...

Directory Traversal

github.com/docker/docker is vulnerable to directory traversal attacks. These attacks are possible by using a symlink attack in an image when respawning a container. It allows local users to escape containerization "mount namespace breakout" and file overwrite...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: docker-1.12.3-2.git91ae1d1.fc25

Docker is an open-source engine that automates the deployment of any application as a lightweight, portable, self-sufficient container that will run virtually anywhere. Docker containers can encapsulate any payload, and will run consistently on and between virtually any server. The same container...

New Release: Kali Linux for Docker — Deploy and Play!

The Developers of one of the most advanced open source operating system for penetration testing called 'KALI Linux' have made the operating system available for Docker-addicted system administrators. But, What’s Docker? Docker is a new open-source container technology, released in June 2014, that...

CVE-2015-3629

Libcontainer 1.6.0, as used in Docker Engine, allows local users to escape containerization "mount namespace breakout" and write to arbitrary file on the host system via a symlink attack in an image when respawning a container...

Design/Logic Flaw

Libcontainer 1.6.0, as used in Docker Engine, allows local users to escape containerization "mount namespace breakout" and write to arbitrary file on the host system via a symlink attack in an image when respawning a container...

CVE-2015-3629

Libcontainer 1.6.0, as used in Docker Engine, allows local users to escape containerization "mount namespace breakout" and write to arbitrary file on the host system via a symlink attack in an image when respawning a container...

CVE-2015-3629

CVE-2015-3629 : Affects Libcontainer 1.6.0, as used in Docker Engine. If a container is respawned, an attacker can perform a symlink attack to escape the container and write to arbitrary files on the host via the mount namespace, enabling local container breakout and host impact. The issue is doc...

CVE-2015-3629

Libcontainer 1.6.0, as used in Docker Engine, allows local users to escape containerization "mount namespace breakout" and write to arbitrary file on the host system via a symlink attack in an image when respawning a container...