Addressing the Video Quality and Performance Measurement Gap with Quality of Performance (QoP) Metrics

Ubiquity of Digital Video Means Meeting Viewers' Quality Expectations Digital video viewership is on an aggressive growth course. Globally, consumers will spend 84 minutes a day watching online video in 2020, up 25% from 2018i, and digital video viewership will increase from 35% in 2019 to more...

The vulnerability of Microsoft SharePoint Server, SharePoint Foundation, and SharePoint Enterprise Server relates to the lack of protective measures for website structures, allowing attackers to execute cross-site scripting attacks.

The vulnerability of Microsoft SharePoint Server, SharePoint Foundation, and SharePoint Enterprise Server is related to the lack of measures taken to protect the structure of web pages. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to perform cross-site scripting attacks using a speciall...

Why SecOps is (Still) the Future

Editor’s Note: Sam Bocetta, a guest author on the VMware Carbon Black blog, is a freelance journalist specializing in U.S. diplomacy and national security, with emphases on technology trends in cyber warfare, cyber defense, and cryptography. SecOps is not a new idea. Unfortunately, however, it is...

Why SecOps is (Still) the Future

Editor’s Note: Sam Bocetta, a guest author on the VMware Carbon Black blog, is a freelance journalist specializing in U.S. diplomacy and national security, with emphases on technology trends in cyber warfare, cyber defense, and cryptography. SecOps is not a new idea. Unfortunately, however, it is...

PT-2020-12973 · Inductive Automation · Ignition 7 Gateway +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Ignition 8 Gateway versions prior to 8.0.10 Ignition 7 Gateway versions prior to 7.9.14 Description: The issue results from the lack of proper validation of user-supplied data, which can result in deserialization of untrusted data, allowing a...

What’s Coming in 2020: An RSA Recap

VMWare Carbon Black recently published our Outlook 2020 Threat Report largely fueled by the work of our amazing Threat Analysis Unit. Greg Foss @Heinzarelli and Andrew Costis @0x4143 did some in-depth research on Malware samples seen in 2019. As part of RSA, Greg and I had the chance to present o...

Automated and Scalable Audit Workflows with Qualys Security Assessment Questionnaire

Risk and compliance management is a multi-faceted domain with concentrated endeavors towards reducing unacceptable risk potential that could disrupt business, or otherwise negatively impact business performance. IT GRC Governance, Risk and Compliance comprises many tasks related to business and I...

MediaTek Bug Actively Exploited, Affects Millions of Android Devices

Google has addressed a high-severity flaw in MediaTek’s Command Queue driver that developers said affects millions of devices – and which has an exploit already circulating in the wild. Also in its March 2020 Android Security bulletin, issued this week, Google disclosed and patched a critical...

RSAC 2020: GM's Transportation Future Hinges on Cybersecurity

SAN FRANCISCO — General Motors is working on self-driving cars, cars that monitor heart rates and other vital functions, zero-emission vehicles and more – all underpinned by exceedingly complex coding and relying on ubiquitous connectivity. But there’s a problem. The cyber-talent gap is hitting t...

Why managed service providers (MSP) are critical for business continuity

With the threat landscape becoming more hostile to businesses, small- and medium-sized businesses SMBs are often finding it difficult to cope. Hence, they turn to managed service providers MSPs for help, not only to keep their businesses going—the concept known as business continuity—but also to...

Pen Testing Ships. A year in review

Partially driven by the upcoming inclusion of Cyber Security by the IMO International Maritime Organisation, 2019 was a really busy year for maritime security testing at PTP. What can we all learn from a year of evaluating the security of ships? We’ve been involved in all sorts of ship testing,...

CVE-2019-0219

A website running in the InAppBrowser webview on Android could execute arbitrary JavaScript in the main application's webview using a specially crafted gap-iab: URI...

EUVD-2020-0969

A website running in the InAppBrowser webview on Android could execute arbitrary JavaScript in the main application's webview using a specially crafted gap-iab: URI...

UBUNTU-CVE-2019-13763

Insufficient policy enforcement in payments in Google Chrome prior to 79.0.3945.79 allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to leak cross-origin data via a crafted HTML page...

UBUNTU-CVE-2019-13697

Insufficient policy enforcement in performance APIs in Google Chrome prior to 77.0.3865.120 allowed a remote attacker to leak cross-origin data via a crafted HTML page...

Download: The Comprehensive Compliance Guide

A large part of the CISO/CIO responsibility is ensuring compliance standards are met. As one of the main drivers of security product purchase and implementation, regulation comes in many different shapes and sizes. Some standards provide clear consequences for failure to meet them. Others provide...

MSPs Can Now Provide Managed Detection and Response with Cynet 360

Today, managed detection and response MDR is a rapidly growing market segment, actively pursued by some 27 percent of organizations, according to April 2019 numbers released by ESG Research. According to the same, another 11 percent of organizations plan to pursue MDR in the future. The Cynet 360...

Real-Time Phishing Protections

In my previous blogs, I wrote about how phishing is no longer just an email problem, how the industrialization of phishing is being driven by the easy availability and low cost of phishing toolkits, and how current phishing defenses are being bypassed by attackers. In this post, I'm going to...

Are students prepared for real-world cyber curveballs?

With a projected “skills gap” numbering in the millions for open cyber headcount, educating a diverse workforce is critical to corporate and national cyber defense moving forward. However, are today’s students getting the preparation they need to do the cybersecurity work of tomorrow? To help...

CVE-2017-18476

Leech Protect in cPanel before 62.0.4 does not protect certain directories SEC-205...