Rethinking IoT/OT Security to Mitigate Cyberthreats

We live in an exciting time. We’re in the midst of the fourth industrial revolution—first steam, followed by electricity, then computers, and, now, the Internet of Things. A few years ago, IoT seemed like a futuristic concept that was on the distant horizon. The idea that your fridge would be...

Unauthorized Access Vulnerability in ZKNet Attendance Management System of Beijing Zhongguancun Technology Development Co.

ZKNet Attendance Management System is a cloud service management platform for enterprises, governmental organizations and other industry sectors. Ltd. ZKNet Attendance Management System suffers from an unauthorized access vulnerability that can be exploited by attackers to obtain sensitive...

Adobe Prompts Users to Uninstall Flash Player As EOL Date Looms

With Flash Player’s Dec. 31, 2020 kill date quickly approaching, Adobe said that it will start prompting users to uninstall the software in the coming months. The End of Life EOL timeline has been a long time coming. Adobe first announced in July 2017 that it will no longer update or distribute...

Can Governments Defeat Nation-State Attacks on Critical Infrastructures?

For physical conflicts, we expect our government to protect us from nation-state adversaries. It turns out, though, that industrial enterprises are much better positioned to defeat most nation-state attacks on power plants, pipelines, and other critical infrastructures than governments are. For...

Secure Computing SnapGear Management Console SG560 3.1.5 Arbitrary File Read / Write

Secure Computing SnapGear Management Console SG560 v3.1.5 Arbitrary File Read/Write Vendor: Secure Computing Corp. Product web page: http://www.securecomputing.com Affected version: 3.1.5u1 Summary: The SG gateway appliance range provides Internet security and privacy of communications for small...

Secure Computing SnapGear Management Console SG560 v3.1.5 CSRF Add Super User

Summary The SG gateway appliance range provides Internet security and privacy of communications for small and medium enterprises, and branch offices. It simply and securely connects your office to the Internet, and with its robust stateful firewall, shields your computers from external threats...

Career Choice Tip: Cybercrime is Mostly Boring

When law enforcement agencies tout their latest cybercriminal arrest, the defendant is often cast as a bravado outlaw engaged in sophisticated, lucrative, even exciting activity. But new research suggests that as cybercrime has become dominated by pay-for-service offerings, the vast majority of...

Cloud Transformation and the Shared Security Model

For many organizations, the lure of the cloud is very strong. Large enterprises usually have several justifications for adopting cloud-based services including preserving capital, adding scalability to applications, and minimizing IT staffing needs. Small- to medium-sized organizations often look...

How to gain 24/7 detection and response coverage with Microsoft Defender ATP

This blog post is part of the Microsoft Intelligence Security Association guest blog series. To learn more about MISA, go...

COVID-19 and the Perfect Security Storm

The global pandemic has resulted in a dramatic shift to home working. This has created a perfect security storm that has dramatically increased the security risk for enterprises. The best worst-case scenario is that a single device used by an employee working from home is compromised, and sensiti...

Consumerization: a better way to answer cybersecurity challenges

A version of this article originally appeared in Forbes on February 12, 2020. Consumerization: The specific impact that consumer-originated technologies can have on enterprises. Gartner More and more, enterprises are coming to understand that they need to adopt the agile processes and product...

File Inclusion Vulnerability in DM Website System

DM enterprise building system is developed by php + mysql a set of specialized in small and medium-sized enterprise website construction of open source cms. DM website builder system has a file inclusion vulnerability , attackers can use the vulnerability to obtain web server privileges...

Threat spotlight: RobbinHood ransomware takes the driver’s seat

Despite their name, the RobbinHood cybercriminal gang is not stealing from the rich to give to the poor. Instead, these ransomware developers are more like big game hunters—attacking enterprise organizations and critical infrastructure and keeping all the spoils for themselves. In 2019, the...

4 Best Free Online Security Tools for SMEs in 2020

Cyberattacks on small and midsized companies in 2019 cost $200,000 per company on average, mercilessly putting many of them out of business, says CNBC in its analysis of a recent Accenture report. In light of the global cybersecurity skills shortage, the number is set to soar in 2020. Solely in t...

This Isn't the Phishing Your First Boss Knew

Phishing has been around for nearly as long as email has, and the perception that phishing tactics have not evolved persists. Many people believe we are still in the era of the easy-to-spot "Nigerian prince" emails, shown below. Underneath that, we see a highly creative, yet not any more...

CVE-2019-11464

CVE-2019-11464 affects Couchbase Server Views REST API (port 8092), where security headers were not included in versions 5.5.0 and 5.1.2. The issue is that headers such as X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options, X-Permitted-Cross-Domain-Policies, and X-XSS-Protection were missing in responses. T...

CVE-2019-11464

Some enterprises require that REST API endpoints include security-related headers in REST responses. Headers such as X-Frame-Options and X-Content-Type-Options are generally advisable, however some information security professionals additionally look for X-Permitted-Cross-Domain-Policies and...

Corporate IoT - a path to intrusion

Several sources estimate that by the year 2020 some 50 billion IoT devices will be deployed worldwide. IoT devices are purposefully designed to connect to a network and many are simply connected to the internet with little management or oversight. Such devices still must be identifiable,...

Rules-Based Policy Approaches Need to Go

Enterprises are making tremendous investments in their digital transformations, and no wonder: Increasingly, those who can more rapidly part from old, manual and antiquated ways of managing technology and shift to new ways of thinking will come out on top. That’s especially true when it comes to...

Breach at Cloud Solution Provider PCM Inc.

A digital intrusion at PCM Inc., a major U.S.-based cloud solution provider, allowed hackers to access email and file sharing systems for some of the company's clients, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. El Segundo, Calif. based PCM NASDAQ:PCMI is a provider of technology products, services and solutio...