Getting Insights into the Delivery Path of Media with Breadcrumbs

Problem Definition Media streaming typically involves three main components: a player, the origin, and a CDN. Typically, the content provider owns the player and the origin stack and hence is able to diagnose and troubleshoot issues, but the CDN for the most part is a black box. The player...

March 2020 - What's New in Delivery, Services and Support

Welcome to Day 3 of Akamai's March 2020 Release. Before we dive into today's new and exciting announcements, just a reminder of the week's schedule: Monday was Day 1 for security with enhancements to Bot Manager, Fast DNS, Kona Site Defender, Managed Security Service, Prolexic Routed, and Web...

Surge in online traffic increases risk to businesses

Imperva Research Labs has been monitoring the data across our thousands of customers since the outbreak of COVID-19. In reviewing anonymized data from our CyberThreat Index, we see new risks and several initial security implications from this pandemic for our customers and global businesses. We...

March 2020 -- What's New in Security, Part 2

Welcome to Akamai's March 2020 Release. As we covered yesterday, this release offers a week of product updates, with each day highlighting continued innovations across a different area of Akamai's portfolio: Monday and Tuesday feature two days of security updates. There's a lot going on in Akamai...

Security Bulletin: IBM Content Navigator includes the host IP address in an HTTP response.

Summary IBM Content Navigator has addressed the following vulnerability. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2020-4309 DESCRIPTION: IBM Content Navigator could disclose sensitive information to an unauthenticated user which could be used to aid in further attacks against the system. CVSS Base score:...

User Survey 2020 Report Shows Rapid Growth In Apache Pulsar Adoption

For the first time ever, the Apache Pulsar PMC team is publishing a user survey report. The 2020 Apache Pulsar User Survey Report reveals Pulsar's accelerating rate of global adoption, details how organizations are leveraging Pulsar to build real-time streaming applications, and highlights key...

Dell Digital Delivery Default Privilege Error Vulnerability

Dell Digital Delivery is a flexible new way to purchase customizable software that allows you to purchase software with your computer and then automatically download and install that software when you receive your computer. A default permission error vulnerability exists in Dell Digital Delivery...

CVE-2020-5342

Dell Digital Delivery versions prior to 3.5.2015 contain an incorrect default permissions vulnerability. A locally authenticated low-privileged malicious user could exploit this vulnerability to run an arbitrary executable with administrative privileges on the affected system...

CVE-2020-5342

Dell Digital Delivery versions prior to 3.5.2015 contain an incorrect default permissions vulnerability. A locally authenticated low-privileged malicious user could exploit this vulnerability to run an arbitrary executable with administrative privileges on the affected system...

Design/Logic Flaw

Dell Digital Delivery versions prior to 3.5.2015 contain an incorrect default permissions vulnerability. A locally authenticated low-privileged malicious user could exploit this vulnerability to run an arbitrary executable with administrative privileges on the affected system...

CVE-2020-5342

Dell Digital Delivery versions prior to 3.5.2015 contain an incorrect default permissions vulnerability. A locally authenticated low-privileged malicious user could exploit this vulnerability to run an arbitrary executable with administrative privileges on the affected system...

CVE-2020-5342

Dell Digital Delivery prior to version 3.5.2015 contains an incorrect default permissions vulnerability. A locally authenticated, low-privileged user could exploit this to run an arbitrary executable with administrative privileges on the affected system. Affected products/versions are stated in t...

CVE-2020-5342

Dell Digital Delivery versions prior to 3.5.2015 contain an incorrect default permissions vulnerability. A locally authenticated low-privileged malicious user could exploit this vulnerability to run an arbitrary executable with administrative privileges on the affected system...

Updated http-parser packages fix security vulnerability

http-parser has been updated to fix a security issue. HTTP request smuggling in Node.js 10, 12, and 13 causes malicious payload delivery when transfer-encoding is malformed VE-2019-15605...

Vxscan

This is a Python script called Vxscan, which is a comprehensive scanning tool for sensitive file detection, WAF/CDN identification, port scanning, fingerprint/service identification, operating system identification, weak password detection, POC scanning, SQL injection, and other functions. The...

Introducing Akamai Edge DNS

At Akamai, we live by the motto "Intelligent Security Starts at the Edge," which is why we're excited to announce that we are changing the name of our authoritative DNS service from Fast DNS to Edge DNS. If you are an existing Fast DNS customer, rest assured that for now, this is purely a name...

Design/Logic Flaw

A vulnerability in the malware detection functionality in Cisco Advanced Malware Protection AMP in Cisco AsyncOS Software for Cisco Email Security Appliances ESAs could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to exhaust resources on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to insufficient...

Fraudsters cloak credit card skimmer with fake content delivery network, ngrok server

Threat actors love to abuse legitimate brands and infrastructure—this, we know. Last year we exposed how web skimmers had found their way onto Amazon's Cloudfront content delivery network CDN via insecure S3 buckets. Now, we discovered scammers pretending to be CDNs while exfiltrating data and...

Ring Makes 2-Factor Authentication Mandatory Following Recent Hacks

Smart doorbells and cameras bring a great sense of security to your home, especially when you're away, but even a thought that someone could be spying on you through the same surveillance system would shiver up your spine. Following several recent reports of hackers gaining access to people's...

Security Bulletin: IBM Cloud Private is vulnerable to an IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty vulnerability (CVE-2019-4663)

Summary IBM Cloud Private is vulnerable to an IBM WebSphere Application Server Liberty vulnerability Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2019-4663 DESCRIPTION: IBM WebSphere Application Server - Liberty is vulnerable to cross-site scripting. This vulnerability allows users to embed arbitrary...