DDoS attacks are growing: What can businesses do?

Depending on the type and size of your organization, a DDoS Distributed Denial of Service attack can be anything from a small nuisance to something that can break your revenue stream and damage it permanently. A DDoS attack can cripple some online businesses for a period of time long enough to se...

The GDPR is Coming: We Shed Light on What’s Still Not Working

On May 25, the biggest shake-up to Europe’s data protection laws in almost a generation will finally take effect, after years of planning. For any US organization handling data on EU citizens, including service providers, it means you could face hefty fines of up to €20m $24.7m or 4% of global...

SchedMD Slurm SQL Injection Vulnerability

SchedMD Slurm is SchedMD's open source and highly scalable cluster management and job scheduling system for large and small Linux clusters. A security vulnerability exists in SchedMD Slurm versions prior to 17.02.10 and 17.11.x versions prior to 17.11.5. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability...

CVE-2017-18191

An issue was discovered in OpenStack Nova 15.x through 15.1.0 and 16.x through 16.1.1. By detaching and reattaching an encrypted volume, an attacker may access the underlying raw volume and corrupt the LUKS header, resulting in a denial of service attack on the compute host. The same code error...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-18191

An issue was discovered in OpenStack Nova 15.x through 15.1.0 and 16.x through 16.1.1. By detaching and reattaching an encrypted volume, an attacker may access the underlying raw volume and corrupt the LUKS header, resulting in a denial of service attack on the compute host. The same code error...

Design/Logic Flaw

An issue was discovered in OpenStack Nova 15.x through 15.1.0 and 16.x through 16.1.1. By detaching and reattaching an encrypted volume, an attacker may access the underlying raw volume and corrupt the LUKS header, resulting in a denial of service attack on the compute host. The same code error...

CVE-2017-18191

An issue was discovered in OpenStack Nova 15.x through 15.1.0 and 16.x through 16.1.1. By detaching and reattaching an encrypted volume, an attacker may access the underlying raw volume and corrupt the LUKS header, resulting in a denial of service attack on the compute host. The same code error...

CVE-2017-18191

CVE-2017-18191 - OpenStack Nova: In OpenStack Nova 15.x (up to 15.1.0) and 16.x (up to 16.1.1), detaching and reattaching an encrypted volume can allow an attacker to access the underlying raw volume and corrupt the LUKS header, causing a denial of service on the compute host (data loss is noted ...

Critical macOS Sierra disk image flaw leads to data loss

By Uzair Amir Apple and its much-hyped APFS or Apple File System have This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Critical macOS Sierra disk image flaw leads to data loss...

DNS: Exfiltration vs. Tunneling

The Internet was designed to share data, but sometimes the paths that enable it are blocked. When it comes to bad actors - that's a good thing. Most companies today have a Data Loss Prevention DLP policy to accompany their web proxies and firewalls. Some of them think this is the best way to stop...

CVE-2017-17186

Huawei DP300 V500R002C00, RP200 V500R002C00, V600R006C00, TE30 V100R001C10, V500R002C00, V600R006C00, TE40 V500R002C00, V600R006C00, TE50 V500R002C00, V600R006C00, TE60 V100R001C10, V500R002C00, V600R006C00 have a DoS vulnerability. Due to insufficient input validation, an authenticated, remote...

Security update for docker, docker-runc, containerd, golang-github-docker-libnetwork (important)

This update for docker, docker-runc, containerd, golang-github-docker-libnetwork fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed: - CVE-2017-16539: The DefaultLinuxSpec function in oci/defaults.go docker did not block /proc/scsi pathnames, which allowed attackers to trigger data loss when...

openSUSE Security Update : docker / docker-runc / containerd / etc (openSUSE-2018-152)

This update for docker, docker-runc, containerd, golang-github-docker-libnetwork fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed : - CVE-2017-16539: The DefaultLinuxSpec function in oci/defaults.go docker did not block /proc/scsi pathnames, which allowed attackers to trigger data loss when...

SUSE-SU-2018:0386-1 Version update for docker, docker-runc, containerd, golang-github-docker-libnetwork

This update for docker, docker-runc, containerd, golang-github-docker-libnetwork fixes several issues. These security issues were fixed: - CVE-2017-16539: The DefaultLinuxSpec function in oci/defaults.go docker did not block /proc/scsi pathnames, which allowed attackers to trigger data loss when...

Debian: Security Advisory (DLA-1119-1)

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...

Meltdown / Spectre: New Concerns Over Intel Patches, as Hackers Test Exploits

This week brought new developments in the Meltdown / Spectre saga, including more concerns about Intel’s buggy patches, and mounting evidence that hackers are trying to create exploits for the vulnerabilities. It seemed that after weeks of complaints and confusion, Intel’s issue had hit bottom an...

Three Reasons Why GDPR Encourages Pseudonymization

The General Data Protection Regulation GDPR is the European Union’s new data regulation designed to provide individuals with rights and protections over their personal data that is collected or created by businesses or government entities. It unifies data protection regulation across all member...

CVE-2017-16539

The DefaultLinuxSpec function in oci/defaults.go in Docker Moby through 17.03.2-ce does not block /proc/scsi pathnames, which allows attackers to trigger data loss when certain older Linux kernels are used by leveraging Docker container access to write a "scsi remove-single-device" line to...

Debian DSA-4041-1 : procmail - security update

Jakub Wilk reported a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in procmail's formail utility when processing specially crafted email headers. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause formail to crash, resulting in a denial of service or data loss. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network...

Minimize cybersecurity risk with Software Asset Management

This post is authored by Patama Chantaruck, General Manager of Worldwide Software Asset Management & Compliance. By 2021, worldwide cybercrime damage is expected to reach $6 trilliondouble what it cost businesses in 2015. Unapproved apps, unmanaged devices, poor password protection, and other...