Security Fundamentals Are Key To Successful Cloud Migration

Earlier I wrote about the importance of patching, or more accurately the importance of transferring the need to patch & the associated risk to someone else by using their cloud security service. While patching definitely falls into the security fundamentals category it remains as relevant as ever...

Prevent the impact of a Linux worm by updating Exim (CVE-2019-10149)

This week, MSRC confirmed the presence of an active Linux worm leveraging a critical Remote Code Execution RCE vulnerability, CVE-2019-10149, in Linux Exim email servers running Exim version 4.87 to 4.91. Microsoft Azure infrastructure and Services are not affected; only customer’s Linux IaaS...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform provides the facilities for building a private or public infrastructure-as-a-service IaaS cloud running on commonly available physical hardware. This update addresses the following issues: This package rebases mariadb-galera to 5.5.42, fixing an issue...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform provides the facilities for building a private or public infrastructure-as-a-service IaaS cloud running on commonly available physical hardware. Changes to the ceph component: In the previous version, launching of nova instances resulted in nova-compute...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform provides the facilities for building a private or public infrastructure-as-a-service IaaS cloud running on commonly available physical hardware. Changes to the ceph component: In the previous version, launching of nova instances resulted in nova-compute...

Information Disclosure

Red Hat CloudForms is an on-premise hybrid cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service IaaS product that lets you create and manage private and public clouds. This update fixes bugs in and adds enhancements to the System Engine packages, and upgrades the system to CloudForms 1.1. This update also fixes the...

8 Tips and Best Practices to Build a Solid Cloud Migration Strategy for 2019

Here are eight fool-proof practices that can help you move your workloads to the cloud. A quick look at cloud migration. Cloud migration involves moving an organization’s data storage and IT operations to a cloud network. Cloud computing services are hosted in a multi-tenant environment and can b...

The AWS Cloud Security Issues You Don’t Want to Ignore

AWS is the biggest name in IaaS, but the shared responsibility model leaves you open to risk. A full approach to AWS cloud security can fill the gap...

CVE-2019-3780

Cloud Foundry Container Runtime, versions prior to 0.28.0, deploys K8s worker nodes that contains a configuration file with IAAS credentials. A malicious user with access to the k8s nodes can obtain IAAS credentials allowing the user to escalate privileges to gain access to the IAAS account...

CVE-2019-3780

Cloud Foundry Container Runtime, versions prior to 0.28.0, deploys K8s worker nodes that contains a configuration file with IAAS credentials. A malicious user with access to the k8s nodes can obtain IAAS credentials allowing the user to escalate privileges to gain access to the IAAS account...

Design/Logic Flaw

Cloud Foundry Container Runtime, versions prior to 0.28.0, deploys K8s worker nodes that contains a configuration file with IAAS credentials. A malicious user with access to the k8s nodes can obtain IAAS credentials allowing the user to escalate privileges to gain access to the IAAS account...

CVE-2019-3780 Cloud Foundry Container Runtime Leaks IAAS Credentials

Cloud Foundry Container Runtime, versions prior to 0.28.0, deploys K8s worker nodes that contains a configuration file with IAAS credentials. A malicious user with access to the k8s nodes can obtain IAAS credentials allowing the user to escalate privileges to gain access to the IAAS account...

CVE-2019-3780

CVE-2019-3780 affects Cloud Foundry Container Runtime (CFCR) prior to v0.28.0. The vulnerability arises because worker nodes deployed by CFCR contain a configuration file with IAAS credentials, enabling a user with node access to obtain those credentials and escalate privileges within the IAAS ac...

'Cloudborne' IaaS Attack Allows Persistent Backdoors in the Cloud

An attack scenario affecting various cloud providers could allow an attacker to implant persistent backdoors for data theft into bare-metal cloud servers, which would be able to remain intact as the cloud infrastructure moves from customer to customer. This opens the door to a wide array of attac...

CVE-2019-3780: Cloud Foundry Container Runtime Leaks IAAS Credentials | Cloud Foundry

Severity Critical Vendor Cloud Foundry Foundation Affected Cloud Foundry Products and Versions Cloud Foundry Container Runtime CFCR All versions prior to v0.28.0 Description Cloud Foundry Container Runtime, versions prior to 0.28.0, deploys K8s worker nodes that contains a configuration file with...

The Cloud in 2019: Current Uses and Emerging Risks

In the current tech landscape, one would be hard-pressed to find an organization that operates without the help of cloud environments and capabilities. From data storage and document sharing to enabling remote access and communication, the cloud represents the most critical linchpin of today's...

Imperva and Amazon Partner to Help Mitigate Risks Associated With Cloud Migration

Helping our customers reduce the risks associated with migrating to the cloud, and preventing availability and security incidents, has been a major development focus for Imperva over the last several years. Why the partnership matters Although cloud service providers take a host of IT management...

Qualys Broadens Security Offerings for Azure

Qualys is expanding its security and compliance capabilities for Microsoft Azure, by adding protection for the on-premises Azure Stack and extending capabilities for public cloud deployments. By using Qualys’ platform to defend hybrid IT environments, organizations get a unified view of their...

CVE-2018-15763

Pivotal Container Service, versions prior to 1.2.0, contains an information disclosure vulnerability which exposes IaaS credentials to application logs. A malicious user with access to application logs may be able to obtain IaaS credentials and perform actions using these credentials...

Information disclosure

Pivotal Container Service, versions prior to 1.2.0, contains an information disclosure vulnerability which exposes IaaS credentials to application logs. A malicious user with access to application logs may be able to obtain IaaS credentials and perform actions using these credentials...