Labs report: Malicious AI is coming—is the security world ready?

Imagine a world in which artificial intelligence has gone rogue—the robots have revolted against their masters and have now enslaved all of humanity. There's no more natural beauty in the world and everything is awful. Get that out of your system? Good. The reality of malicious AI, at least in th...

5 Keys to Improve Your Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity isn't easy. If there was a product or service you could buy that would just magically solve all of your cybersecurity problems, everyone would buy that thing, and we could all rest easy. However, that is not the way it works. Technology continues to evolve. Cyber attackers adapt and...

Cisco Unified Intelligence Center Monitoring Panel Data Compromise

The vulnerability of the monitoring panel for creating Cisco Unified Intelligence Center reports is related to improper control of resource identifiers. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to compromise the confidentiality and integrity of the protected information by usin...

Data, Surveillance, and the AI Arms Race

According to foreign policy experts and the defense establishment, the United States is caught in an artificial intelligence arms race with China -- one with serious implications for national security. The conventional version of this story suggests that the United States is at a disadvantage...

Code injection

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform Administration Console, versions 4.2, 4.3, module BILogon/appService.jsp is reflecting requested parameter errMsg into response content without sanitation. This could be used by an attacker to build a special url that execute custom JavaScript co...

TRISIS Group, Known for Physical Destruction, Targets U.S. Electric Companies

XENOTIME, the APT group behind the TRISIS industrial control system ICS event, has expanded its focus beyond the oil and gas industries, according to researchers. The group has recently been seen probing the networks of electric utility organizations in the U.S. and elsewhere – perhaps a precurso...

Computers and Video Surveillance

It used to be that surveillance cameras were passive. Maybe they just recorded, and no one looked at the video unless they needed to. Maybe a bored guard watched a dozen different screens, scanning for something interesting. In either case, the video was only stored for a few days because storage...

CVE-2019-0303: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform Administration Console, versions 4.2, 4.3, module BILogon/appService.jsp is reflecting requested parameter errMsg into response content without sanitation. This could be used by an attacker to build a special url that execute custom JavaScript co...

PT-2019-4582

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence Platform versions 4.2, 4.3 Description The issue exists due to the lack of neutralization of special elements in the BILogon/appService.jsp module. This could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitra...

Integrating Threat and Vulnerability Management with Patch Management: The (Feasible) Quantum Leap

The rise of sophisticated attacks combined with the security-skills shortage have driven many organizations to go back to basics and review their processes for vulnerability and patch management. The approach is definitely a winning one, given that shrinking and managing the vulnerability surface...

AI Isn't Good Enough When Lives Are on the Line, Experts Warn

LONDON, UK – With the infosec community eyeing artificial intelligence as the next big frontier for cyber defense, experts here at Infosecurity Europe on Tuesday warned that several challenges in how AI processes and interprets data need to first be fleshed out before widespread adoption. AI, in...

How to become a better writer with Wordeep using artificial intelligence

By Owais Sultan Wordeep uses Artificial Intelligence to improve what you write. Writing may seem to be an easy task to overcome, but it is definitely not for the faint-hearted. No one can even master writing overnight, and it may take someone years to master it. You also have to consider the fact...

Oracle E-Business Suite Interaction Center Intelligence Information Disclosure

The vulnerability of the Interaction Center Intelligence component of the Oracle E-Business Suite automation system for enterprises is related to deficiencies in access control. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a malicious actor, operating remotely, to gain access to confidential...

AI, the Mandatory Element of 5G Mobile Security

THE HAGUE, Netherlands – Artificial intelligence will be a requirement for securing carrier 5G networks – which is shaping up to be a technology juggernaut that presents unique challenges unlike any ever seen in the world of telecom until now. That was the assessment at the GSMA Mobile 360 Securi...

Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in IBM Java SDK (January 2019) affecting IBM Application Delivery Intelligence for IBM Z V5.1.0, V5.0.5 and V5.0.4

Summary Multiple vulnerabilities are identified in IBM® SDK Java™ Technology Edition Version 1.7 and Version 1.8 that are used by IBM Application Delivery Intelligence for IBM Z V5.1.0, V5.0.5, and V5.0.4 respectively. These issues were disclosed as part of the IBM Java SDK updates in January 201...

Data Exchange Layer Platform Information Disclosure

The vulnerability of the Data Exchange Layer Platform, a messaging application between applications, and the Threat Intelligence Exchange Server, a threat protection system, is related to the lack of protection for operational data. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow attackers to gain access...

The 5 Conversations I want to have at CB Connect 2019

In a few weeks, I’ll be attending CB Connect in my hometown of San Diego, CA. If you’ve read my earlier blogs, you know I’m passionate about this event because it brings together some of the best and brightest in the security space to network and collaborate on solving some of our industry’s...

Security Bulletin: A Security Vulnerability has been Identified in Websphere Application Server Shipped with Predictive Customer Intelligence (CVE-2019-4279)

Summary Websphere Application Server is shipped with Predictive Customer Intelligence. Information about a security vulnerability affecting Websphere Application Server has been published in a security bulletin. Vulnerability Details Please consult the security bulletin Security Bulletin: Remote...

Sharing Threat Intelligence: Time for an Overhaul

Most organizations don’t really have a good way of sharing threat-related data outside of their own industry verticals. Sure, there are Information Sharing and Analysis Centers ISACs; i.e. FS-ISACs for the financial-services industry. But the information still tends to stay in industry-specific...

Threat Intelligence – What It Is and Why You Need It

Threat intelligence is a broad term. Some might think it refers to having information about what threats are out there. But in the evolved world of cybersecurity, threat intelligence is actually a verb. Cybersecurity threat intelligence is the ability to take closed-source or open-source data fro...