Customer data & marketing operations: Keeping your data safe on the journey to GDPR compliance

Emails. Web forms. Events. Oh my! These marketing tactics are all designed to gather, store, and evolve relationships with your prospects, customers, and partners. Often times, they are the first point of contact for your organization from the outside world—and they all feed into your marketing...

CVE-2018-2824

Affected product/component: Oracle Hospitality Simphony, Enterprise Management Console (EMC). Vulnerability details: A vulnerability exists in Simphony with affected versions 2.8, 2.9 and 2.10. It is exploitable by a low-privilege attacker who can access the system over HTTP, potentially compromi...

Oblivious DNS

Interesting idea: ...we present Oblivious DNS ODNS, which is a new design of the DNS ecosystem that allows current DNS servers to remain unchanged and increases privacy for data in motion and at rest. In the ODNS system, both the client is modified with a local resolver, and there is a new...

Indication of Compromise: Another Key Practice for GDPR Compliance

In this ongoing blog series on preparing for complying with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation GDPR, we’ve explained the importance of having solid, foundational security practices like asset management and threat prioritization. Today, we’ll discuss how another such practice can help...

AMD Rolls Out Spectre Fixes

AMD said that CPU firmware and Windows 10 patches are now available to safeguard its products against the Spectre security flaw. Mark Papermaster, senior vice president and chief technology officer at AMD, said in a Tuesday post that Spectre fixes are available for AMD customers, who can download...

Sharing the Journey to GDPR Compliance

Customer data is everything at Trend Micro. As a global cybersecurity leader, protecting customer data is what we do for a living, which is why it’s important for us to put into practice what we talk to our customers about. As a demonstration of our commitment to protecting our millions of...

Dell EMC Avamar And Integrated Data Protection Appliance Invalid Access Control

Exploit Title: Dell EMC Avamar and Integrated Data Protection Appliance Installation Manager Missing Access Control Vulnerability DSA-2018-025 Date: 24/11/2017 Exploit Author: SlidingWindow Vendor Homepage: https://store.Dell EMC.com/en-us/AVAMAR-PRODUCTS/Dell-DELL...

Dell EMC Avamar and Integrated Data Protection Appliance Installation Manager - Invalid Access Control

Dell EMC Avamar and Integrated Data Protection Appliance Installation Manager - Invalid Access Control Exploit Title: Dell EMC Avamar and Integrated Data Protection Appliance Installation Manager Missing Access Control Vulnerability DSA-2018-025 Date: 24/11/2017 Exploit Author: SlidingWindow Vend...

CVE-2018-1217

Avamar Installation Manager in Dell EMC Avamar Server 7.3.1, 7.4.1, and 7.5.0, and Dell EMC Integrated Data Protection Appliance 2.0 and 2.1, is affected by a missing access control check vulnerability which could potentially allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to read or change the Local...

Improper access control

Avamar Installation Manager in Dell EMC Avamar Server 7.3.1, 7.4.1, and 7.5.0, and Dell EMC Integrated Data Protection Appliance 2.0 and 2.1, is affected by a missing access control check vulnerability which could potentially allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to read or change the Local...

CVE-2018-1217

Dell EMC Avamar/Integrated Data Protection Appliance Installation Manager (LDLS) contains a missing access control vulnerability (CVE-2018-1217) affecting Avamar Server 7.3.1, 7.4.1, 7.5.0 and IDS/AVE Appliance 2.0/2.1. A remote unauthenticated attacker could read or modify the Local Download Ser...

Dell EMC Avamar / Integrated Data Protection Missing Access Control Vulnerability

The Dell EMC Avamar Installation Manager component, within Dell EMC Avamar Server and Integrated Data Protection Appliance, is affected by a missing access control vulnerability. Dell EMC Avamar Server versions 7.3.1, 7.4.1, 7.50 and Dell EMC Integrated Data Protection Appliance versions 2.0 and...

Streamline Compliance with SWIFT Customer Security Program Requirements

Transferring money from our bank accounts has never been easier than it is today. With a single click on our smartphones, we can transfer money from a bank account in New York to an account at a different bank in the Netherlands. This advancement is largely a result of the fluent communication...

Put FIM in Your GDPR Toolbox

File integrity monitoring, like other foundational security practices such as vulnerability management, helps organizations comply with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation GDPR. FIM specifically provides security controls in three key areas for GDPR: Ensuring integrity of data stored in...

Panerabread.com breach could have impacted millions

Customers who signed up for a Panerabread.com account in order to order fast-casual baked goods may want to guard their dough. Security researcher Brian Krebs reported yesterday that the website for the bakery chain leaked millions of customer records, including names, emails, physical addresses,...

Under Armour Reports Massive Breach of 150 Million MyFitnessPal Accounts

UPDATE Fitness apparel firm Under Armour said 150 million users of its MyFitnessPal app are victims in a breach exposing user names, email addresses and hashed passwords. The company said personal identifiable information such as credit card numbers and social security numbers were not part of th...

Tax Guidance as Deadline Approaches

As this year's April 17 tax deadline approaches, NCCIC/US-CERT offers taxpayers guidance to help protect their personal, financial, and tax information. Hackers can take advantage of taxpayers by using social engineering scams to attempt to steal personally identifiable information. NCCIC...

Facebook Cracks Down On Data Misuse With Expanded Bug Bounty Program

Facebook said in the coming weeks it will expand its bug bounty program in an attempt to crackdown on data misuse by third-party app developers. The company’s bug bounty program, first started in 2011, prompts researchers to find vulnerabilities on the social media platform – but now will be...

What Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica problem means for your data

As you may already know, there's been a security meltdown at Facebook, thanks to a company called Cambridge Analytica and Donald Trump. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg insists it wasn't a breach, which is technically true. But that doesn't change the fact that the data of 50 million users was obtain...

Path traversal

Dell EMC iDRAC7/iDRAC8, versions prior to 2.52.52.52, contain a path traversal vulnerability in its Web server's URI parser which could be used to obtain specific sensitive data without authentication. A remote unauthenticated attacker may be able to read configuration settings from the iDRAC by...