Security Bulletin: Confidential data exposure when restoring Microsoft Exchange mailboxes which have the same alias defined CVE-2015-4950

Summary In environments with duplicated mailbox aliases, FlashCopy Manager for Microsoft Exchange, Data Protection for Microsoft Exchange, and FastBack for Microsoft Exchange may open and restore the wrong mailbox. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2015-4950 DESCRIPTION: IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCo...

Security Bulletin: Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in the Data Protection for VMware GUI (CVE-2013-6713)

Summary In customer environments that utilize VMware restricted users, users of the Tivoli Storage Manager for Virtual Environments: Data Protection for VMware GUI can back up and restore VMs that they are not authorized to access. Vulnerability Details CVE ID: CVE-2013-6713 DESCRIPTION: In...

Monitoring Data & Data Access to Support Ongoing GDPR Compliance – Part III: Tools

The new European Union EU-wide General Data Protection Regulation GDPR was signed into law in late April 2016, and the compliance deadline came into effect on May 25, 2018. The Regulation is expansive and covers a variety of subject areas, provisions, and actions in the form of documented Article...

Platypuses and Policies: Akamai's Approach to the GDPR and Information Security

Written by Meyer Potashman On May 25, 2018, the EU General Data Protection Regulation GDPR went into effect. In preparation, Akamai, like every other company that does business with or interacts in any way with individuals in the EU, needed to re-evaluate our approach to data protection and priva...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID32960: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on June 11, 2018

Medium Alert ID: 58147 First Published: 2018 June 11 21:02 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID32960 may contain the following files: Name | Siz...

Tips for safe summer travels: your cybersecurity checklist

Summer is just around the corner in the Northern Hemisphere, and with it comes vacation plans for many. Those looking to take some time away from work and home are likely making plans to secure their home, have their pets taken care of, and tie up loose ends at work. But how about securing your...

GDPR: A Compliance Quagmire, for Now

The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation GDPR has gone into effect – but questions as to what compliance actually means are far from settled. While the GDPR is a European regulation, it affects any organization that handles data on E.U. citizens, whether they be customers or...

Malware analysis: decoding Emotet, part 2

In part two of our series on decoding Emotet, you can catch up on part 1 here, we'll cover analysis of the PowerShell code. Before we do that, however, it is a good idea to list some of the functions and calls that are used in the code for the execution. System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal: us...

GDPR Is Here: Put File Integrity Monitoring in Your Toolbox

In this latest post of our series on the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, we’ll explain how file integrity monitoring FIM can be crucial in helping organizations comply with this severe regulation. GDPR, which went into effect in May and applies to organizations worldwide that handle EU...

Virtualization-based security (VBS) memory enclaves: Data protection through isolation

The escalating sophistication of cyberattacks is marked by the increased use of kernel-level exploits that attempt to run malware with the highest privileges and evade security solutions and software sandboxes. Kernel exploits famously gave the WannaCry and Petya ransomware remote code execution...

Social Media Privacy Dominates Apple iOS 12, macOS Launches

Social media privacy is top of mind for Apple on the heels of the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica controversy. On Monday, Apple released the latest versions of its desktop and mobile operating systems at the Worldwide Developers Conference WWDC, which addresses a bevy of security and privacy concern...

A week in security (May 28 – June 3)

Last week on Labs, we talked about the significance of SEO poisoning in the world of search marketing, blackmail attempts against financial institutions in Canada, voice command flaws in smart assistants, survey and potential phishing scams on Instagram, and the latest changes in Office 365. We...

Leveraging Imperva Solutions for GDPR Compliance Part II: Pseudonymization

Down to the wire- the GDPR compliance deadline is here. It’s May 25 and the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation GDPR is live. As you know by now, the risk and potential costs associated with a failure to comply with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation GDPR are substantial. GDPR...

GDPR Is Here:  Assess the Security Configurations of Your IT Systems

In prior installments of this GDPR compliance blog series, we’ve discussed the importance of key security practices such as IT asset inventory and vulnerability management. Today, we’ll focus on another core component for GDPR: policy compliance. As we’ve stated before, to comply with the EU’s...

GDPR Is Here: Assess Risk from Vendors and from Internal Teams

Organizations must manage risk from third parties such as contractors and suppliers, and from internal staffers and teams, as part of their compliance program for the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation GDPR. The need to manage vendor risk in particular is stressed repeatedly throughout the...

QSC 2018 Mumbai Finds Qualys at the Forefront of Digital Transformation Security

Qualys Security Conference 2018, held in Mumbai on May 10, fortified Qualys’ stand as the leader in securing Digital Transformation in the current global IT landscape. In his keynote, “Our Journey into the Cloud: The Qualys Platform and Architecture”, Qualys Vice President of Product Management...

Akamai CEO Leighton Calls Cybersecurity 'Fantastic Growth Engine'

Akamai CEO and co-founder Tom Leighton discusses the company's cybersecurity and data protection business. He speaks with Caroline Hyde from the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art on Bloomberg Technology. Source: Bloomberg...

CVE-2018-1135

An issue was discovered in Moodle 3.x. Students who posted on forums and exported the posts to portfolios can download any stored Moodle file by changing the download URL...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of May 21, 2018

Not that I needed to the reminder, but the influx of emails with the subject line “Updates to our Privacy Policy” from companies that I deal with and some that I’ve never heard of! means that TODAY is the day! The General Data Protection Regulation GDPR has officially taken effect. Originally...

GDPR Compliance: Manage Procedural Risk Assessments with New GDPR Templates

The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation GDPR goes into effect today, imposing strict security requirements on any company worldwide that handles the personal data of EU residents. Qualys Security Assessment Questionnaire SAQ – a Qualys app that helps you with this type of procedural risk...