How much security is enough?

According to a prominent Soviet science fiction writer, beauty is a fine line, a razors edge between two opposites locked in a never-ending battle. Today, we would put it less poetically as an ideal compromise between contradictions. An elegant, or beautiful, design is one that allows reaching th...

Sharing Netflix, Disney+, other passwords is illegal, according to new guidance

The Intellectual Property Office IPO, the UK government body overseeing intellectual property rights in the UK, has quietly released new guidance on piracy and online counterfeit goods. This campaign is a joint effort between IPO and Meta, Facebooks parent company. The general issue on piracy is...

Adult popunder campaign used in mainstream ad fraud scheme

This blog post was authored by Jerome Segura Online advertising is a multi billion dollar industry with projected spending to reach over 600 billion U.S. dollars for 2022. It's not surprising that criminals are trying their hardest to abuse this ecosystem in any way that they can. One of the...

Careful Workload Placement Can Create Cloud Cost Savings

Optimizing the cost-effectiveness of cloud infrastructure requires the careful placement of workloads in the environments best suited to their execution...

Do more with less with Microsoft Security—3 strategies to get you started

Relentless bad actors, evolving attack tactics, and numerous surfaces and endpoints that attackers may try to exploit. With the average cost of a data breach reaching an all-time high of USD4.35 million in 2022,1 protecting your people and data from adversaries is more important than ever. Plus,...

Ten Reasons a Website Needs a CDN

Today’s website visitors expect a fast and efficient user experience with no delays or site performance issues. However, high traffic volumes and global reaching websites mean website managers are faced with the challenge of added latency and slow page load times, which can result in lost busines...

Use of transfer() instead of call() to send eth

Lines of code Vulnerability details Use of transfer instead of call to send eth Impact Use of transfer might render ETH impossible to withdraw because after istanbul hardfork, there is increases in the gas cost of the SLOAD operation and therefore breaks some existing smart contracts. Those...

Unbounded loop can run out of gas in withdraw and unstake operations

Lines of code Vulnerability details Unbounded loop can run out of gas in withdraw and unstake operations Impact There are no bounds on the number of orders in the loop, this can run out of gas due to cost of the operations that can vary by the time. Proof Of Concept function withdrawLPTokensLPTok...

Better Cloud Security Shouldn’t Require Bigger Budgets

Stretching what you’re given How can you do more when you’re constantly being given the same or less? When security budgets don’t match the pace of the cloud operations they’re tasked with securing, the only thing to do is become an expert in the stretch. It’s hard, and you might currently be und...

Contracts will not working correctly after February 2106. Vesting will be locked forever if withdrawn after February 2106.

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact Contracts will not working correctly after February 2106. Migration takes costs and is risky. You shouldn't pass on this work to future programmers. You should fix it in the first place. In case anything went wrong during migration, a big fund loss will...

ckb: Large dep group requires a lot of resources to process but the cost to commit the transaction is very low.

Impact When a transaction contains a dep group with many cells, the resources required to process it are not linear to the transaction size nor spent script cycles. Patches In 0.43.3, nodes drop the transactions relayed to them when they contain a dep group with more than 64 cells. They do not ba...

GHSA-9MFC-CHWF-7WHF ckb: Large dep group requires a lot of resources to process but the cost to commit the transaction is very low.

Impact When a transaction contains a dep group with many cells, the resources required to process it are not linear to the transaction size nor spent script cycles. Patches In 0.43.3, nodes drop the transactions relayed to them when they contain a dep group with more than 64 cells. They do not ba...

operator role it's handled in a way that can damage the protocol

Lines of code Vulnerability details operator role it's handled in a way that can damage the protocol Impact Same logic is being deployed several times, for maintainability is hardly recommended to not copy paste same logic many times but inherit it. Also there is an issue in BorrowController with...

MED: Some royalty ETH will be stuck in the Holographer contract forever.

Lines of code Vulnerability details Description PA1D.sol's payoutEth function is responsible for distributing ETH holdings in the Holographer. It uses this code: uint256 gasCost = 23300 length + length; uint256 balance = addressthis.balance; requirebalance - gasCost 10000, "PA1D: Not enough ETH t...

_payoutEth() calculates balance with an offset, always leaving dust ETH in the contract

Lines of code Vulnerability details Payout recipients can call getEthPayout to transfer the ETH balance of the contract to all payout recipients. This function makes an internal call to payoutEth, which sends the payment to the recipients based on their associated bp The issue is that the balance...

Upgraded Q -> M from 400 [1666366548697]

Judge has assessed an item in Issue 400 as Medium risk. The relevant finding follows: Use address.call instead of payable.transfer Avoid use of transfer to send ether since transfer sends a fixed amount of gas and future gas cost change may cause revert, The receiving contract will also revert if...

A Quick Guide for Small Cybersecurity Teams Looking to Invest in Cyber Insurance

In the world of insurance providers and policies, cyber insurance is a fairly new field. And many security teams are trying to wrap their heads around it. What is it and do they need it? And with what time will they spend researching how to integrate cyber insurance into their strategy? For small...

8 KB is not enough: why WAFs can’t protect APIs

WAFs were a top-notch security instrument a decade ago, but now they are not. They fail to protect APIs. Meanwhile, the number of API-specific vulnerabilities grew more than twofold in 2022. According to a report by Wallarm, many such vulnerabilities have critical severity, and 33% are immediatel...

Information Disclosure Vulnerability in TY-6201A of Sichuan Tianyi Kanghe Communication Co.

The TY-6201A is a cost-effective full-band Wi-Fi6-enabled wireless router. An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the TY-6201A of Sichuan Tianyi Kanghe Communication Co. which can be exploited by attackers to obtain sensitive information...

For Cost-Conscious Compliance Reporting, Rethink Your Data Retention Capability

Staffing costs required to generate reports for compliance audits are high, but the time required to generate the reports themselves is not necessarily to blame if you have suitable access to your data. Today, the cost to retain data is the real challenge in compliance reporting. In this post,...