More Biden Cybersecurity Nominations

News: President Biden announced key cybersecurity leadership nominations Monday, proposing Jen Easterly as the next head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and John "Chris" Inglis as the first ever national cyber director NCD. I know them both, and think theyre both good...

Hacking Operational Technology for Defense: Lessons Learned From OT Red Teaming Smart Meter Control Infrastructure

High-profile security incidents in the past decade have brought increased scrutiny to cyber security for operational technology OT. However, there is a continued perception across critical infrastructure organizations that OT networks are isolated from public networks—such as the Internet. In...

Improper Certificate Validation in Puppet

Previously, Puppet operated on a model that a node with a valid certificate was entitled to all information in the system and that a compromised certificate allowed access to everything in the infrastructure. When a node's catalog falls back to the default node, the catalog can be retrieved for a...

DEBIAN-CVE-2021-21392

Synapse is a Matrix reference homeserver written in python pypi package matrix-synapse. Matrix is an ecosystem for open federated Instant Messaging and VoIP. In Synapse before version 1.28.0 requests to user provided domains were not restricted to external IP addresses when transitional IPv6...

PYSEC-2021-25

Synapse is a Matrix reference homeserver written in python pypi package matrix-synapse. Matrix is an ecosystem for open federated Instant Messaging and VoIP. In Synapse before version 1.28.0 requests to user provided domains were not restricted to external IP addresses when transitional IPv6...

CVE-2021-21392

Synapse is a Matrix reference homeserver written in python pypi package matrix-synapse. Matrix is an ecosystem for open federated Instant Messaging and VoIP. In Synapse before version 1.28.0 requests to user provided domains were not restricted to external IP addresses when transitional IPv6...

CVE-2021-21392

Synapse (matrix-synapse) prior to version 1.28.0 is affected by a vulnerability where requests to user-provided domains could escape external IP restrictions on dual-stack networks due to transitional IPv6 addresses. This may allow outbound requests to internal infrastructure during federation, i...

Micro-Segmentation Security for the Hybrid Cloud with NVIDIA BlueField DPUs

Looking for software-defined yet hardware-accelerated data center infrastructure? And how NVIDIA Bluefield & Guardicore Centra can help...

SYNwall - A Zero-Configuration (IoT) Firewall

Zero config IoT firewall. SYNwall is a project built for the time being as a Linux Kernel Module, to implement a transparent and no-config/no-maintenance firewall. Basics Usually IoT devices are out of a central control, with low profile hardware, tough environmental conditions and...we have no...

[WHITEPAPER] How to Achieve CMMC Security Compliance for Your Business

For organizations that deal with the defense infrastructure – cybersecurity is more than just a buzzword. Recently the US Department of Defense DoD created a new certification process – the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certificate CMMC – to ensure that all its vendors and contractors follow...

Redcloud - Automated Red Team Infrastructure Deployement Using Docker

Redcloud is a powerful and user-friendly toolbox for deploying a fully featured Red Team Infrastructure using Docker. Harness the cloud's speed for your tools. Deploys in minutes. Use and manage it with its polished web interface. Ideal for your penetration tests, shooting ranges, red teaming and...

Weak password vulnerability in xbrother data center infrastructure monitoring

Ltd. is China's leading green and intelligent data center total solution provider, dedicated to making data centers simpler, safer, more efficient and energy-saving. In the fields of modular data center, monitoring and management, energy-saving transformation and remote operation and maintenance...

Kubernetes Namespaces Are Not as Secure as You Think

In a previous article, we described how the usage of namespaces in Kubernetes significantly simplifies the management of a Kubernetes cluster. However, managing multiple microservices on the same cluster comes with a security cost when not planned correctly. A common misconception around namespac...

Looking Back and Moving Forward With Rapid7’s Cloud Security Solution

This blog post was co-authored by Jamie Gale and Charles Stokes. Done with Q1 The DivvyCloud by Rapid7 team has had a busy and productive start to 2021, and we anticipate that the rest of this year will be equally exciting for our valued customers. In the first three months alone, we incorporated...

4 Steps to Container Lifecycle Security

Containers and Kubernetes have revolutionized developing, deploying, and scaling applications and infrastructure. Learn best practices for security across the container lifecycle, so you can guard your containers against attack...

Using Aviary to Analyze Post-Compromise Threat Activity in M365 Environments

Aviary is a new dashboard that CISA and partners developed to help visualize and analyze outputs from its Sparrow detection tool released in December 2020. Sparrow helps network defenders detect possible compromised accounts and applications in Azure/Microsoft O365 environments. CISA created...

A Quick Look Into Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM)

The cloud security solutions market is growing rapidly, and there are many types of solutions to support your specific business needs. But figuring out the right tool—let alone the right type of tool—can be difficult. Gartner has five security archetypes that fall under the broader cloud security...

A Quick Look Into Cloud Workload Protection Platforms (CWPPs)

The cloud security solutions market is growing rapidly, and there are many types of solutions to support your specific business needs. But figuring out the right tool—let alone the right type of tool—can be difficult. Gartner has five security archetypes that fall under the broader cloud security...

Crossing the Line: When Cyberattacks Become Acts of War

The Cold War concept isn’t outdated. In the decades since the fall of the Soviet Union, the battleground has simply shifted from conflicts between ideological proxy governments to cyberspace. And the opponents have grown from a few primary nations into a broad range of sovereign threat actors. Th...

CVE-2021-1892

Memory corruption due to improper input validation while processing IO control which is nonstandard in Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer Electronics Connectivity, Snapdragon Wired Infrastructure and Networking...