SSH Host Based Authentication

Introduction Are you an organization that manages or hosts a huge pool of resources on remote locations/servers? Well, host-based authority-validation technique is the most-suited way to manage the access and control rights related to your hardware and applications. Once implemented, this identit...

Being Naughty to See Who Was Nice: Machine Learning Attacks on Santa’s List

Editor’s note: We had planned to publish our Hacky Holidays blog series throughout December 2021 – but then Log4Shell happened, and we dropped everything to focus on this major vulnerability that impacted the entire cybersecurity community worldwide. Now that it’s 2022, we’re feeling in need of...

Analytics Are Essential for Effective Database Security

We have all heard the saying, “early detection is critical.” This is true in most aspects of our daily lives; in everything from medical diagnosis, automobile issues, a leaky roof, credit card fraud, etc. It should come as no surprise that this is especially true in the context of data security...

Why Data Security is crucial?

By Owais Sultan Whether you are working for a business, or you use the internet for personal use, protecting your data… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Why Data Security is crucial?...

Cyberattackers Hit Data of 80K Patients at Fertility Centers of Illinois

The protected health information of nearly 80,000 patients of Fertility Centers of Illinois FCI may have been pawed over by cyber intruders following a cyberattack. FCI runs four clinics across Illinois. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services HHS Office for Civil Rights’ da...

What is IP sniffing?

IP sniffers, also known as packet sniffers, network analyzers, or protocol analyzers, are tools which play an essential role in the monitoring of networks, and in troubleshooting network-related issues. In essence, IP sniffing is monitoring traffic over a TCP/IP network. IP sniffers intercept the...

2021 in Review, Part 3: 5 Things Security Professionals Were Discussing this Year

Today, everyone is talking about CVE-2021-44228, and with good reason. But before that, here were five of the issues that dominated virtual “water cooler talk” in 2021: 5. Data security in the cloud Champion heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson said, “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the...

What is SAML authentication ❓ How does it work ❓

Enterprises using various business apps have a tough time maintaining data’s secrecy and access grants as per user roles throughout the infrastructure landscape. SAML Security Assertion Markup Language shows up as a great aid at this front. Let’s see what is it, how it works, what are its...

CVE-2021-4135

A memory leak vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's eBPF for the Simulated networking device driver in the way user uses BPF for the device such that function nsimmapallocelem being called. A local user could use this flaw to get unauthorized access to some data...

Relay races, batons, and techniques: How to improve your cloud security posture

In 2008, the US 4x100m relay team was the favorite to win the gold medal at the Beijing Olympics. Not a massive surprise, considering that team included the second fastest athlete in history, Tyson Gay. It was a great shock though when the team blundered on the last exchange, dropping the baton,...

Build successful data security evaluation criteria with help from your peers

When you evaluate data security products it is imperative to have the end goal in sight. If you look forward 365 days from now, what is the best way to predict how your team will use the product so that you can communicate the value that it will provide? One approach is to examine operational...

CVE-2020-16155

CVE-2020-16155 affects CPAN::Checksums package 2.12 for Perl. The root cause is that the package does not uniquely define signed data, as described in multiple sources. The available documents confirm the existence of the issue but do not provide specifics on affected products beyond this Perl mo...

What is AES Advanced Encryption Standard ❓

In any case, AES cipher is the famous framework that aids in digital encoding facts making use of a maintained 128-digit, 192-piece, or 256-cycle symmetric encryption estimate from the Advanced Encryption Standard AES, additionally called FIPS 197. The AES is a PC protection general for obtaining...

The cost of data security – it’s not just about the numbers

Organizations striving to improve their security posture often find this a multi-faceted challenge. In addition to the security product evaluation itself, security budgets are tight and justification is a necessary step. Financial language, however, is not everyone’s forte - and fiscal presentati...

Information Disclosure ever after CVE-2020-14179/JRASERVER-71536

h3. Issue Summary Unauthorized access to data from the following API even if the public.access.disabled is enabled. /rest/api/2/projectCategory /rest/api/2/resolution /rest/menu/latest/admin h3. Steps to Reproduce - Install Jira 8.13.9 with H2 database - Create a project and some Project categori...

Command Execution Vulnerability in the Firewall of Beijing NetGuard Nebula Information Technology Co.

Beijing Nethub Information Technology Co., Ltd. was renamed from Lenovo Nethub Technology Beijing Co., Ltd. and its business covers network border security protection, application and data security protection, network-wide security risk management, professional security solutions and professional...

Retail Data Needs Better Security in a Contextual World

Do you remember the first time you made an online purchase? Me neither. I’ve made so many online purchases over the years, and I’ve probably made more in the past 18 months than in the past 5 years combined...

CVE-2021-40359

CVE-2021-40359 is a path traversal vulnerability in Siemens products (OpenPCS 7, SIMATIC BATCH, SIMATIC NET PC Software, SIMATIC PCS 7, SIMATIC Route Control, SIMATIC WinCC, etc.). The issue arises from improper neutralization of special elements in pathnames when downloading files, allowing an a...

Mozilla Firefox Security Advisory (MFSA2016-74) - Linux

This host is missing a security update for Mozilla Firefox. Copyright C 2021 Greenbone Networks GmbH 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-or-later This program is free software; y...

CVE-2021-22260

A stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability in the DataDog integration in all versions of GitLab CE/EE starting from 13.7 before 14.0.9, all versions starting from 14.1 before 14.1.4, and all versions starting from 14.2 before 14.2.2 allows an attacker to execute arbitrary JavaScript code on the...