Security Bulletin: IBM Cognos BI 8.4 Partial Denial of Service Vulnerability

Abstract A malicious IBM Cognos BI 8.4 user is able to send a crafted request to the Cognos server which triggers high CPU utilization that may cause a partial denial of service condition due to CPU consumption. This vulnerability can only be exploited by authenticated users, and is not applicabl...

The Log4j Vulnerability Puts Pressure on the Security World

It’s not my intention to be alarmist about the Log4j vulnerability CVE-2021-44228, known as Log4Shell, but this one is pretty bad. First of all, Log4j is a ubiquitous logging library that is very widely used by millions of computers. Second, the director of the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure...

How to Fail at Corporate Fraud

Working with forensics experts from the FBI, Ernst & Young’s Fraud Investigation and Dispute Services Practice developed a piece of linguistic, fraud-monitoring software that identified language commonly used among employees engaged in corporate malfeasance. The accounting giant plans to offer...