SAP Landscape Management Information Disclosure Vulnerability

SAP Landscape Management is a management tool that enables SAP foundation administrators to automate SAP system operations, including end-to-end SAP system replication or refresh operations. An unspecified information disclosure vulnerability exists in SAP Landscape Management. This vulnerability...

QSC 2018 Mumbai Finds Qualys at the Forefront of Digital Transformation Security

Qualys Security Conference 2018, held in Mumbai on May 10, fortified Qualys’ stand as the leader in securing Digital Transformation in the current global IT landscape. In his keynote, “Our Journey into the Cloud: The Qualys Platform and Architecture”, Qualys Vice President of Product Management...

SAP NetWeaver System Landscape Directory Information Disclosure Vulnerability

SAP NetWeaver is the German SAP SAP company's set of service-oriented integrated application platform. The platform provides a development and runtime environment for SAP applications. An information disclosure vulnerability exists in SAP NetWeaver System Landscape Directory. An attacker could...

Misconfigured Reverse Proxy Servers Spill Credentials

Researchers have created a proof-of-concept attack that allows unauthenticated adversaries to extract user credentials from misconfigured reverse proxy servers in order to delete, manipulate or extract data from websites and applications. The proof-of-concept PoC attack targets major cloud...

One Year After WannaCry: A Fundamentally Changed Threat Landscape

It’s been one year this week since the ransomware known as WannaCry infected more than 200,000 machines in 150 countries, causing billions of dollars in damages and grinding global business to a halt. The speed and scale of the attack – helped along by leaked National Security Agency hacking tool...

This Week in Security News: Zippy’s and Flynn

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, Hawaii-based restaurant Zippy’s suffered a POS data breach. In addition, Uber executive John Flynn argued that user expectations on data...

The New Mobile Threat Landscape, circa 2017 to 2018

Submitted by Ian Grutze If mobile threats diversified and expanded in 2016, they matured in 2017. Mobile ransomware continued to rear its head, burgeoning into the platform’s most prevalent threat. Simple screen lockers, for instance, evolved into file-encrypting malware, some of which even seeme...

Automated Bots Growing Tool For Hackers

SAN FRANCISCO – The use of automated bots is becoming more prevalent for novice attackers as tools become more available, researchers found. A honeypot experiment, detailed by Cybereason at this year’s RSA Conference, showed the commoditization of using bots to perform low-level tasks. The honeyp...

Tapping the intelligent cloud to make security better and easier

There has been a distinct shift in my conversations with customers over the last year. Most have gone from asking can we still keep our assets secure as we adopt cloud services?, to declaring, we are adopting cloud services in order to improve our security posture. The driving factor is generally...

What's New with Prolexic

There have been two constants in DDoS over the last 10+ years: an ever-changing threat landscape and continuous growth in attack sizes. Akamai's Prolexic platform has stood the test of time, but we are continuing to invest in ways to make our customers' experience more valuable and relevant. I'm...

Securing Modern Web Applications: Threats and Types of Attacks

Web Application Firewalls are the most advanced firewall capabilities available to IT teams. Deploying the appropriate WAF is important, especially these days when the security threat landscape is changing so rapidly. In a previous post, we introduced Web Application Firewalls: Securing Modern We...

Microsoft to deliver new products and strategies for security innovation at 2018 RSA Conference

At the 2018 RSA Conference, our senior leaders will dissect modern cyber defense strategies, and reveal new products to detect and block cyber attacks when they happen. Our objective is to arm business, government and consumers with deeply integrated intelligence and threat protection capabilitie...

Your new friend, KLara

While doing threat research, teams need a lot of tools and systems to aid their hunting efforts – from systems storing Passive DNS data and automated malware classification to systems allowing researchers to pattern-match a large volume of data in a relatively short period of time. These tools ar...

Filling the gaps in international law is essential to making cyberspace a safer place

A month ago, on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, Microsoft organized an expert workshop to discuss gaps in international law as it applies to cyberspace. We were fortunate enough to bring together twenty leading stakeholders, including international legal experts, United Nations...

Web Application Firewalls: The Definitive Primer

Firewalls have traditionally been focused on network layer traffic. As attacks have evolved, however, they have climbed the ladder of the Open Systems Interconnection OSI model. Web Application Firewalls WAFs have developed as a result, not only to track network traffic but also to understand...

Threat Landscape for Industrial Automation Systems in H2 2017

For many years, Kaspersky Lab experts have been uncovering and researching cyberthreats that target a variety of information systems – those of commercial and government organizations, banks, telecoms operators, industrial enterprises, and individual users. In this report, Kaspersky Lab Industria...

Q4 2017 Global DDoS Threat Landscape Report

Today we are releasing our latest Global DDoS Threat Landscape Report, a statistical analysis of 5,055 network and application layer DDoS attacks mitigated by Imperva Incapsula services during Q4 2017. In Q4, the number of application layer attacks nearly doubled, just as the number of network...

Excerpts from Moving Endpoint Security to the Predictive Cloud: Simplified Operations

Carbon Black recently published a whitepaper on the reasons and benefits of moving endpoint security to the cloud; this is the first excerpt from that guide, which you can find here. For more information about how the Cb Predictive Security Cloud, Carbon Black's comprehensive endpoint protection...

SAP NetWeaver System Landscape Directory Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

SAP NetWeaver is a service-oriented, integrated application platform from SAP that provides a development and runtime environment for SAP applications. The platform provides a development and runtime environment for SAP applications, and the System Landscape Directory SLD is one of the components...

CVE-2018-2368

CVE-2018-2368 affects SAP NetWeaver System Landscape Directory (SLD) and LM-CORE versions 7.10, 7.20, 7.30, 7.31, 7.40, where functions that require user identity perform no authentication checks. The connected documents corroborate an authentication bypass vulnerability impacting SAP NetWeaver S...