Tax time again: IT security for accounting firms

As the end of another busy tax season approaches, it is important for accounting firms to remember their obligations related to data security. Accounting firms maintain a significant amount of data on behalf of their own employees and clients. These firms house financial records, tax information,...

Privacy in 2019: 6 Basic Steps to Keep Yourself Protected

By John Mason 2019 has barely started, and indications show that this year could very well be one of the worst for Internet users as far as privacy and data security is concerned. As HackRead has reported, below are some of the biggest privacy breaches already exposed this year: Security...

CVE-2019-9862

The CVE-2019-9862 entry concerns ABUS Secvest wireless alarm system FUAA50000 (version 3.01.01) when used with Secvest remote controls FUBE50014/FUBE50015. The root cause is the lack of encrypted signal transmission, which allows an attacker to eavesdrop sensitive data in cleartext (for example, ...

The Five Most Startling Statistics from this 2019 Global Survey of 1,200 Cybersecurity Pros [Infographic]

For those of us in the security industry, the annual Cyberthreat Defense Report is a gold mine of insights into the minds of IT security professionals, including what threats keep them up at night, and how they plan to defend against them. The 6th edition of the report from the CyberEdge Group wa...

CVE-2019-7611

CVE-2019-7611 is documented in IBM Tivoli Netcool Impact advisories as a vulnerability in Elasticsearch shipped with Netcool Impact. The issue arises when Field/Document Level Security is disabled and certain endpoints (_aliases, _shrink, _split) are used, allowing an attacker to bypass permissio...

Privacy Regulations Needed for Next-Gen Cars

Driverless automobiles, long-haul trucks and military transport vehicles are on a fast track for wide deployment over the next five to 10 years. That much is clear. Vehicle manufacturers are all in, and innovation is racing forward. Meanwhile, captains of industry and political leaders are eager ...

CVE-2019-9742

gdwfpcd.sys in G Data Total Security before 2019-02-22 allows an attacker to bypass ACLs because Interpreted Device Characteristics lacks FILEDEVICESECUREOPEN and therefore files and directories "inside" the \.\gdwfpcd device are not properly protected, leading to unintended impersonation or...

RSA Conference 2019: NIST's Privacy Framework Starts to Take Shape

Data privacy has been thrust into the limelight with the passage of the General Data Protection Regulation in Europe last year and a string of high-profile consumer privacy snafus. The National Institute of Standards and Technology has plans to help companies address data privacy with the...

OOP CMS BLOG 1.0 - Multiple SQL Injection

OOP CMS BLOG 1.0 - Multiple SQL Injection Exploit Title: OOP CMS BLOG 1.0 - SQL Injection Exploit Author: Mr Winst0n Author E-mail: [email protected] Discovery Date: March 1, 2019 Vendor Homepage: http://zsoft.com.bd/ Software Link :...

Don’t Let Security Needs Halt Your Digital Transformation. Imperva FlexProtect Offers Agile Security for any Enterprise.

Is your enterprise in the midst of a digital transformation? Of course it is. Doing business in today’s global marketplace is more competitive than ever. Automating your business processes and infusing them with always-on, real-time applications and other cutting-edge technology is key to keeping...

How to Attack and Defend a Prosthetic Arm

The IoT world has long since grown beyond the now-ubiquitous smartwatches, smartphones, smart coffee machines, cars capable of sending tweets and Facebook posts and other stuff like fridges that send spam. Today's IoT world now boasts state-of-the-art solutions that quite literally help people...

[ASA-201902-27] elasticsearch: privilege escalation

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201902-27 ========================================== Severity: High Date : 2019-02-25 CVE-ID : CVE-2019-7611 Package : elasticsearch Type : privilege escalation Remote : Yes Link : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-912 Summary ======= The package elasticsearch...

Imperva Makes Major Expansion in Application Security

When Imperva announced in 2018 it would acquire the application security solution provider Prevoty, a company I co-founded with Julien Bellanger, I knew it would be a win-win for our industry. Prevoty’s flagship product, Autonomous Application Protection, is the most mature, market-tested runtime...

Forensics and the Internet of Things (IoT)

Today, the Internet of Things IoT means that billions of devices are connected to the Internet. People and organizations are looking to connect devices more frequently for automation, simplification, and the feature advantages the IoT delivers. Items such as smoke detectors, glasses, watches,...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: [████████] Reflected XSS

Hi! I found reflected XSS in ███. This was due to the fact that the page did not have the necessary filtering of incoming parameters. Request POST /█████/Directorate-of-Human-Resources/ HTTP/1.1 Content-Length: 4643 Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=-----BoundaryUXGIMHUKLO Referer:...

The vulnerability of the COM.MICROSOFT.WEBSERVICE component in the LibreOffice office software package allows a hacker to gain access to protected information.

The vulnerability of the COM.MICROSOFT.WEBSERVICE component in the LibreOffice office software package is related to deficiencies in the management of registration data. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor, operating remotely, to gain access to protected information through ...

How Hospitals Can Tie Cost Reduction to a Solid Data Security Program

When I have conversations with hospitals and other organizations subject to HIPAA, one of the first questions asked is "if I have a data breach, will OCR fine me, and if so, how much?" Many organizations decide to gamble: they opt to save time and money by not implementing a robust information ri...

Part 1: Mobile Banking and Buying – The Good and the Bad

Banking and buying with your mobile device is powerful and convenient—and in some ways safer than using your bank card. You can check your balance, make secure payments, deposit checks, and transfer funds. You can even connect your debit or credit card to Apple or Google Pay or another payment...

A Cybersecurity and Cloud Innovator – and a Great Partner

Imperva has long been a cybersecurity leader, recognized by the likes of Gartner and Forrester Research for the capabilities of our application and data security solutions. For more than 6,000 business customers, we are their champion in the daily fight to secure data and applications. To ensure...

How Machine Learning can Expose and Illustrate Network Threats

Although machine learning algorithms have been around for years, additional use cases are being discovered and applied all the time, particularly when it comes to network and data security. As years have passed, the skills and sophisticated approaches being utilized by hackers have risen in...