Securing Elections

Technology can do a lot more to make our elections more secure and reliable, and to ensure that participation in the democratic process is available to all. There are three parts to this process. First, the voter registration process can be improved. The whole process can be streamlined. People...

The NSA Confirms It: Russia Hacked French Election ‘Infrastructure’

NSA Director Michael Rogers provides the first US government confirmation that Russia successfully compromised elements of the French election. The post The NSA Confirms It: Russia Hacked French Election ‘Infrastructure’ appeared first on WIRED...

HandBrake for Mac Compromised with Proton Spyware

The handlers of the open source HandBrake video transcoder are warning anyone who recently downloaded the Mac version of the software that they’re likely infected with malware. HandBrake warned users on Saturday of a compromise of one of its mirror download servers, and said anyone who grabbed th...

Akamai IT Challenge - 100 apps on EAA in 100 days

About a month or so ago I shared a quick video interview with Joe DeFelice. Joe is a Sr. Director Enterprise Security & Infrastructure Engineering here at Akamai. In the video Joe outlines a few of the major initiatives he and the team are working on, including moving towards eliminating the VPN...

CVE-2016-0382

The IBM Tealeaf Consumer Experience 8.7, 8.8, and 9.0 portal exposes some of its operational state in a form that may be accidentally captured and exposed by network infrastructure components such as IIS. IBM X-Force ID: 112356...

CVE-2016-0382

The IBM Tealeaf Consumer Experience 8.7, 8.8, and 9.0 portal exposes some of its operational state in a form that may be accidentally captured and exposed by network infrastructure components such as IIS. IBM X-Force ID: 112356...

CVE-2016-0382

The IBM Tealeaf Consumer Experience 8.7, 8.8, and 9.0 portal exposes some of its operational state in a form that may be accidentally captured and exposed by network infrastructure components such as IIS. IBM X-Force ID: 112356...

CVE-2016-0382

The CVE-2016-0382 entry applies to IBM Tealeaf Customer Experience (Consumer Experience) versions 8.7 through 9.0.2, where the portal exposes some of its operational state in a form that may be accidentally captured and exposed by network infrastructure components such as IIS. The root cause is i...

openSUSE Security Update : virtualbox (openSUSE-2017-533)

This update for virtualbox to version 5.1.22 fixes the following issues : These security issues were fixed bsc1034854 : - CVE-2017-3561: Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox component of Oracle Virtualization subcomponent: Core. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker...

Security update for virtualbox (important)

This update to virtualbox 5.0.40 fixes the following issues: These security issues were fixed bsc1034854: - CVE-2017-3513: Vulnerability in the Oracle VM VirtualBox component of Oracle Virtualization subcomponent: Core. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with logon...

Advantech B+B SmartWorx MESR901

CVSS v3 9.8 ATTENTION: Remotely exploitable/low skill level to exploit. Vendor: Advantech B+B SmartWorx Equipment: MESR901 Vulnerability: Use of Client-Side Authentication AFFECTED PRODUCTS The following versions of MESR901, a Modbus gateway, are affected: MESR901 firmware versions 1.5.2 and prio...

CyberVision Kaa IoT Platform

CVSS v3 6.3 ATTENTION: Remotely exploitable/low skill level to exploit. Vendor: CyberVision Equipment: Kaa IoT Platform Vulnerability: Code Injection AFFECTED PRODUCTS The following version of Kaa IoT Platform, a middleware platform, is affected: Kaa IoT Platform, Version 0.7.4, and possibly othe...

Oracle FLEXCUBE Universal Banking Unauthorized Operation Vulnerability

Oracle Financial Services Applications is a suite of financial services software from Oracle that combines core banking, online banking, and property management.Oracle FLEXCUBE Universal Banking is one of the real-time, online coverage of retail, group...Oracle FLEXCUBE Universal Banking is a...

Oracle FLEXCUBE Universal Banking Denial of Service Vulnerability

Oracle Financial Services Applications is a suite of financial services software from Oracle that combines core banking, online banking, and property management.Oracle FLEXCUBE Universal Banking is one of the real-time, online coverage of retail, group...Oracle FLEXCUBE Universal Banking is a...

Oracle FLEXCUBE Enterprise Limits and Collateral Management Remote Vulnerability (CNVD-2017-06282)

Oracle Financial Services Applications is Oracle's suite of financial services software that combines core banking, online banking, and property management.Oracle FLEXCUBE Enterprise Limits and Collateral Oracle FLEXCUBE Enterprise Limits and Collateral Management is one of the components used to...

Oracle FLEXCUBE Universal Banking Remote Vulnerability (CNVD-2017-06280)

Oracle Financial Services Applications is a suite of financial services software from Oracle that combines core banking, online banking, and property management.Oracle FLEXCUBE Universal Banking is one of the real-time, online coverage of retail, group...Oracle FLEXCUBE Universal Banking is a...

Save the Internet: FCC Unveils Plan to Rollback Net-Neutrality Rules

After crushing a set of privacy rules on ISPs that restrict them from sharing your online data with third parties without your consent, President Donald Trump's newly appointed FCC chairman Ajit Pai has announced the first move in its efforts to kill off Net Neutrality. The US Federal...

Vulnerability subscriptions in terms of business

The question is: do we really need an employee in organization that deals with vulnerabilities in infrastructure on a full-time basis? Since this is similar to what I do for living, I would naturally say that yes, it is necessary. But as person, who makes security automation, I can say that there...

Recursive DNS - The Achilles Heel Of Advanced Threats

We all know what happens whenever anyone or anything tries to access a resource on the Internet. It all starts with a DNS request that translates a URL www.akamai.com into an IP address 104.97.77.24: Now if we dive a little deeper into the DNS request flow we can see the requester make a request ...

Cisco Prime Infrastructure Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability (CNVD-2017-06698)

Cisco Prime Infrastructure PI is a set of Cisco Prime LAN Management Solution LMS and Cisco Prime Network Control System NCS technologies for wireless management. solution. A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in the Web framework code in Cisco PI that stems from the program failing to...