NetRefer Chooses Imperva Incapsula WAF: A Case Study

Since 2005, companies have been using NetRefer’s performance marketing software to fully automate their affiliate programs. From enrollment through customer relationship management CRM, tracking, finance and rewards management and payments, NetRefer’s Unified Performance Marketing Platform...

Intel Active Management Technology, Intel Small Business Technology, and Intel Standard Manageability Remote Privilege Escalation - us

Lenovo Security Advisory: LEN-14963 Potential Impact: Remote or local exploitation of manageability features leading to unprivileged system access Severity: High Scope of Impact: Industry-Wide CVE Identifier: CVE-2017-5689 Summary Description: Intel manageability SKUs AMT, ISM, and SBT have a...

Cyber Engineering for 2018 and Beyond

2017 could be considered one of the most exciting or horrifying years in the technology industry. End-of-year statistics showed that the number of reported breaches in the business sector saw a 21% increase over the previous year, and headlines from all major news outlets were riddled with report...

Carbon Black’s Victor Baez Recognized as a 2018 CRN Channel Chief

CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Victor Baez, Vice President, WW Channels of Carbon Black, to its prestigious list of 2018 Channel Chiefs. The executives on this annual list represent top leaders in the IT channel who excel at driving growth and revenue in their organization throug...

February 15, 2018 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Ninja Turtles” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! February 15, 2018 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: JASK Announces Technolo...

Micheal McCollough Recognized as 2018 CRN® Channel Chief

This week, Micheal McCollough, Vice President, Global Channels, of Akamai was recognized and named as 2018 Channel Chief by CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company. The executives on this annual list represent top leaders in the IT channel who excel at driving growth and revenue in their organizatio...

A week in security (January 22 – January 28)

Last week on Labs, we analyzed a rogue app outbreak on Twitter, took a look at how Singapore's government is faring with network defense, and rolled out our 2017 State of Malware report. We also became visionaries in Gartner's Magic Quadrant report and explored a VR data mishap. Other news Man...

E.I Hi-Tech Professional Local Directory Script SQL Injection Vulnerability

E.I Hi-Tech Professional Local Directory Script is a set of PHP and MySQL based scripts for creating local directories from E.I Hi-Tech Technolgies, USA. A SQL injection vulnerability exists in version 1.0 of E.I Hi-Tech Professional Local Directory Script. A remote attacker can create a local...

Intel Halts Spectre/Meltdown Patching for Broadwell and Haswell Systems

Intel is advising OEMs and partners to halt patching for the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities amid numerous reports the updates are causing reboot issues on systems running the Broadwell and Haswell microprocessors. “We recommend that OEMs, cloud service providers, system manufacturers,...

This Week in Security News: Hackers and Ransoms

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, we saw discussion on the ransomware attacks plaguing institutions in the New Year, and emerging malware targeting Meltdown/Spectre patches...

Security Breaches Don't Affect Stock Price

Interesting research: "Long-term market implications of data breaches, not," by Russell Lange and Eric W. Burger. Abstract: This report assesses the impact disclosure of data breaches has on the total returns and volatility of the affected companies' stock, with a focus on the results relative to...

Lenovo Patches Networking OS Vulnerability Dating Back to 2004

Lenovo patched a flaw in its networking operating system dating back to 2004 that allowed attackers to perform an authentication bypass attack via a mechanism called “HP Backdoor.” If exploited, an attacker could gain admin-level access on affected switches, Lenovo said. The vulnerability is rate...

Local Privilege Escalation in Realtek Audio Driver - Lenovo Support US

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Local Privilege Escalation in Realtek Audio Driver - us

Lenovo Security Advisory: LEN-15759 Potential Impact: Local Privilege Escalation Severity: High Scope of Impact: Industry-Wide CVE Identifier: CVE-2017-3767 Summary Description: A local privilege escalation vulnerability was identified in the Realtek audio driver. An attacker with local privilege...

Skype Finally Adds End-to-End Encryption for Private Conversations

Good news for Skype users who are concerned about their privacy. Microsoft is collaborating with popular encrypted communication company Signal to bring end-to-end encryption support to Skype messenger. End-to-end encryption assured its users that no one, not even the company or server that...

[ASA-201801-10] intel-ucode: access restriction bypass

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201801-10 ========================================== Severity: High Date : 2018-01-10 CVE-ID : CVE-2017-5715 Package : intel-ucode Type : access restriction bypass Remote : No Link : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-582 Summary ======= The package intel-ucode...

RedHat Update for linux-firmware RHSA-2018:0014-01

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 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...

hw: cpu: speculative execution permission faults handling

An industry-wide issue was found in the way many modern microprocessor designs have implemented speculative execution of instructions a commonly used performance optimization. There are three primary variants of the issue which differ in the way the speculative execution can be exploited. Variant...

The First Question(s) Today’s CEOs Should Ask (& Know the Answers To)

In a previous blog, we discussed Commander's Intent for CEOs and introduced 10 questions CEOs should be asking their teams. In this blog series, I am going to take a deeper dive into each question and break them down one at a time. We will discuss why CEOs should care about each question and the...

Forever 21 Says PoS Systems Exposed Customer Data for 8 Months

Fashion retailer Forever 21 confirmed a breach made public in November resulted in the theft of credit card data belonging to an undisclosed number of customers. The company had stated that a lack of encryption used on some of its point-of-sales payment terminals could have resulted in unauthoriz...