RIPS 3.1: TeamCity, LDAP and JSP Support

Compliance Management Compliance to industry standards is a major topic in todays product development strategies. We revised our compliance tab that now provides an efficient overview of all violations against industry standard requirements that were found during RIPS code analysis. Developers ca...

Free Cynet Threat Assessment for Mid-sized and Large Organizations

If you cannot see what’s happening in your network, your ability to make smart security decisions will suffer. Many vendors offer threat assessment options, but they usually require an investment of time and resources. One vendor out there – Cynet – is offering a no-cost threat assessment to...

How gamers can protect against increasing cyberthreats

A few years ago, cybersecurity scryers predicted that the video gaming industry would be the next big target of cybercriminals. Whether this will come true in the future or not, the average gamer may have little to no idea of what awaits them, much less be prepared for it. In fact, while generall...

Cynet Offers Free Threat Assessment for Mid-Sized and Large Organizations

Visibility into an environment attack surface is the fundamental cornerstone to sound security decision making. However, the standard process of 3rd party threat assessment as practiced today is both time consuming and expensive. Cynet changes the rules of the game with a free threat assessment...

Facebook’s plain text misstep, and other password sins

Two days after an article by Brian Krebs disclosed that hundreds of millions of Facebook account passwords had been stored in plain text for years, Facebook released a statement indicating they hash and salt passwords, more or less in accordance with industry best practice. Plain text storage of...

Real World Examples Demonstrating the Need for Mature Threat Hunting

A recent article discussed the keys to becoming a level 4 maturity threat hunting program. This article will bring these concepts into the real world by discussing examples of attacks that required that high level of threat hunting maturity to find them and defend against them. The case studies...

Observations from RSA Conference, 2019

Last week, the 2019 RSA Conference was held with typical energy and exuberance in San Francisco. One of the largest cybersecurity industry conferences, it had over 700 exhibiting vendors not including another 50 in their Early Stage Expo area and over 500 sessions covering a wide range of current...

Privacy Regulations Needed for Next-Gen Cars

Driverless automobiles, long-haul trucks and military transport vehicles are on a fast track for wide deployment over the next five to 10 years. That much is clear. Vehicle manufacturers are all in, and innovation is racing forward. Meanwhile, captains of industry and political leaders are eager ...

Join Microsoft Security Response at the Product Security Operations forum at LocoMocoSec!

The MSRC is more than managing vulnerability reports, publishing Microsoft security updates, and defending the cloud. The MSRC is passionate about helping everyone improve internal engineering practices and supporting the defender community, and are excited to partner with Blackberry to host a...

RSA Wrap Up: It’s All About The People

RSA 2019 just finished and -- as always -- what a week it was. This year was a personal milestone for me, with the week culminating in my presentation with Gary Hayslip, CISO at WebRoot, titled: “Why the Role of the CISO Sucks and What We Should Do about It.” But, before we get to Friday morning ...

Intel Firmware Vulnerabilities - US

Lenovo Security Advisory: LEN-25085 Potential Impact: Privilege escalation, denial of service, information disclosure Severity: High Scope of Impact: Industry-wide CVE Identifier: CVE-2018-12201, CVE-2018-12202, CVE-2018-12203, CVE-2018-12204, CVE-2018-12205 Summary Description: Intel has disclos...

TianoCore EDK II BIOS Vulnerabilities - Lenovo Support US

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A $100,000 Commitment to Close the Gender Diversity Gap in Cybersecurity

Today as we celebrate International Women’s Day we’re filled with both admiration for strong women who inspire and a sense of responsibility to honor diversity in an industry that has traditionally been quite uniform, especially when it comes to gender. While we celebrate the achievements of wome...

This Week in Security News: IoT Threats and Risks

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about the threats and risks to complex IoT environments. Also, learn about new security challenges and risks the food production...

Carbon Black and Chronicle: Stronger Cybersecurity through Big Data and Analytics

This is another exciting day for cybersecurity professionals, for Carbon Black and for me personally. It’s also a very exciting way to kick of RSA 2019! Earlier today, we announced an exciting new integration with Chronicle Security to harness the power of big data and analytics. Our goal is to...

Security Bulletin: A security vulnerability has been identified in IBM WebSphere Application Server shipped with Asset and Service Management (CVE-2018-1767)

Summary IBM WebSphere Application Server is shipped as a component of Maximo Asset Management, Maximo Asset Management Essentials, Maximo Industry Solutions including Maximo for Energy Optimization, Maximo for Government, Maximo for Nuclear Power, Maximo for Transportation, Maximo for Life...

Security Bulletin: A security vulnerability has been identified in IBM DB2 shipped with IBM Maximo Asset Management (CVE-2018-1977)

Summary IBM DB2 is shipped as a component of IBM Maximo Asset Management. Information about the security vulnerability affecting IBM DB2 has been published in a security bulletin. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2018-1977 DESCRIPTION: IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows includes DB2 Connect Serv...

NVIDIA GeForce Experience Vulnerabilities - Lenovo Support US

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NVIDIA GeForce Experience Vulnerabilities - Lenovo Support US

Lenovo Security Advisory: LEN-25444 Potential Impact: Privilege escalation, information disclosure Severity: High Scope of Impact: Industry-wide CVE Identifier: CVE‑2018‑6263, CVE‑2018‑6265, CVE‑2018‑6266 Summary Description: NVIDIA has released a software update for GeForce Experience. This upda...

Microsoft to Kill Updates for Legacy OS Using SHA-1

Microsoft is in the process of phasing out use of the Secure Hash Algorithm 1 SHA-1 code-signing encryption to deliver Windows OS updates – announcing that customers running legacy OS versions will be required to have SHA-2 code-signing support installed on their devices by July 2019. No SHA-2...