GSD-2021-1000277 Drivers: hv: vmbus: Increase wait time for VMbus unload

Drivers: hv: vmbus: Increase wait time for VMbus unload This is an automated ID intended to aid in discovery of potential security vulnerabilities. The actual impact and attack plausibility have not yet been proven. This ID is fixed in Linux Kernel version v5.12.4 by commit...

GSD-2021-1000305 async_xor: increase src_offs when dropping destination page

asyncxor: increase srcoffs when dropping destination page This is an automated ID intended to aid in discovery of potential security vulnerabilities. The actual impact and attack plausibility have not yet been proven. This ID is fixed in Linux Kernel version v5.12.4 by commit...

UVI-2021-1000430 Drivers: hv: vmbus: Increase wait time for VMbus unload

Drivers: hv: vmbus: Increase wait time for VMbus unload This is an automated ID intended to aid in discovery of potential security vulnerabilities. The actual impact and attack plausibility have not yet been proven. This ID is fixed in Linux Kernel version v5.4.119 by commit...

GSD-2021-1000430 Drivers: hv: vmbus: Increase wait time for VMbus unload

Drivers: hv: vmbus: Increase wait time for VMbus unload This is an automated ID intended to aid in discovery of potential security vulnerabilities. The actual impact and attack plausibility have not yet been proven. This ID is fixed in Linux Kernel version v5.4.119 by commit...

stir to self

Handle gpersoon Vulnerability details Impact The function stir of Cauldron.sol can be manipulated when from == to. In that case the balance of "to" is increased while the balance of "from" isn't decreased. This is due to the fact that a temporary variable is used and the balance of "to" overwrite...

Russian Hydra DarkNet Market Made Over $1.3 Billion in 2020

Russian-language dark web marketplace Hydra has emerged as a hotspot for illicit activities, pulling in a whopping $1.37 billion worth of cryptocurrencies in 2020, up from $9.4 million in 2016, marking a staggering 624% year-over-year jump over a three-year period from 2018 to 2020. "Further...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2017:1915-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2019:2601-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

COVID-Related Threats, PowerShell Attacks Lead Malware Surge

Surging numbers of COVID-themed attacks, PowerShell trojans, along with the SolarWinds compromise and the continued spread of Sunburst malware were major contributors to a massive spike in the number of observed attacks in the wild during the last half of 2020, which McAfee’s said averaged 588...

Why Banks Are Still A Top Target For DDoS Attacks

The financial services sector is still a prime target for cyber criminals and it has been widely reported that in 2020 financial institutions came under attack more than ever before. According to Boston Consulting Group research, financial service firms are up to 300 times more likely to experien...

Bad Bot Traffic on Healthcare Websites Rises 372% As Vaccines Become Available Globally

Nations around the world are racing to acquire COVID-19 vaccines and assemble digital infrastructure and web applications to enable appointment booking. As they do this, Imperva Research Labs has monitored a staggering 372% increase in bad bot traffic on healthcare websites globally since Septemb...

Why do companies fail to stop breaches despite soaring IT security investment?

Let's first take a look back at 2020! Adding to the list of difficulties that surfaced last year, 2020 was also grim for personal data protection, as it has marked a new record number of leaked credentials and PI data. A whopping 20 billion records were stolen in a single year, increasing 66% fro...

OPENSUSE-SU-2021:0272-1 Security update for rclone

This update for rclone fixes the following issues: rclone was updated to version 1.53.3: Bug Fixes - Fix incorrect use of math/rand instead of crypto/rand CVE-2020-28924 boo1179005 Nick Craig-Wood - Check https://github.com/rclone/passwordcheck for a tool check for weak passwords generated by...

What’s New in InsightAppSec and tCell: Q4 2020 in Review

It’s crazy to believe 2020 has come to an end, and we’re sure we’re not alone in our excitement for 2021! Without a doubt, 2020 has presented some challenges for us all in the security world, as many companies quickly adopted a work-from-home model and pivoted from an in-store experience quickly ...

SUSE-SU-2021:0048-1 Security update for python-defusedxml, python-freezegun, python-pkgconfig, python-python3-saml, python-xmlsec

This update for python-defusedxml, python-freezegun, python-pkgconfig, python-python3-saml, python-xmlsec fixes the following issues: - Update to 0.6.0 - Increase test coverage. - Add badges to README. - Test on Python 3.7 stable and 3.8-dev - Drop support for Python 3.4 - No longer pass html...

2021 Cybersecurity Trends: Bigger Budgets, Endpoint Emphasis and Cloud

After shrinking in 2020, cybersecurity budgets in 2021 climb higher than pre-pandemic limits. Authentication, cloud data protection and application monitoring will top the list of CISO budget and cybersecurity priorities. According to experts, these are just a few of the themes to dominate the ye...

Citrix Provisioning Services Boot Degradation With Cylance Protect

1. Target Device TD boot times increase when Cylance Protect 2.1 is installed within the vDisk. The boot delay is after the OS has been delivered to the Target Device and is now resident in RAM. This is after our Target has transitioned from Single IO to Multi IO mode in a BIOS based TD...

Dark Web Pricing Skyrockets for Microsoft RDP Servers, Payment-Card Data

Cybercriminals are vying for Remote Desktop Protocol RDP access, stolen payment cards and DDoS-for-Hire services, based on a recent analysis of underground marketplace pricing. During the COVID-19 pandemic, cybercriminals have profited with “increasingly advantageous positions to benefit from the...

Streaming Traffic Peaks on Election Night

Preliminary data shows live news streaming traffic peaked at approximately 18 Tbps on Akamai's Intelligent Edge platform during coverage of the U.S. Presidential Election on November 3rd. That's roughly 5X greater than traffic on a typical day and more than double the 7.5 Tbps peak we observed...

Stuck Inside, the World Turns to Online Gaming

In my line of work, we talk a lot about traffic trends. They're usually predictable and based around certain events: a major trailer launch, Black Friday in the U.S, the Olympics. But the COVID-19 pandemic has derailed all expectations for 2020, and has itself become a noteworthy event, driving i...