Upcoming Speaking Engagements

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: Ill be part of a European Internet Forum virtual debate on June 17, 2021. The topic is "Decrypting the encryption debate: How to ensure public safety with a privacy-preserving and secure Internet?" I’m speaking at the all-online...

Mozilla Says Google's New Ad Tech—FLoC—Doesn't Protect User Privacy

Google's upcoming plans to replace third-party cookies with a less invasive ad targeted mechanism have a number of issues that could defeat its privacy objectives and allow for significant linkability of user behavior, possibly even identifying individual users. "FLoC is premised on a compelling...

Crypto-Mining Attacks Targeting Kubernetes Clusters via Kubeflow Instances

Cybersecurity researchers on Tuesday disclosed a new large-scale campaign targeting Kubeflow deployments to run malicious cryptocurrency mining containers. The campaign involved deploying TensorFlow pods on Kubernetes clusters, with the pods running legitimate TensorFlow images from the official...

A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the am53c974 SCSI host bus adapter emulation of QEMU in versions before 6.0.0 during the handling of the 'Information Transfer' command (CMD_TI). This flaw allows a privileged guest user to crash the QEMU process on the host resulting in a denial of service or potential code execution with the privileges of the QEMU process.

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SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2019:3338-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 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...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2019:14052-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 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...

Xen 信息泄露漏洞

Xen is an open source virtual machine monitor product from the University of Cambridge, UK. The product enables different and incompatible operating systems to run on the same computer and supports runtime migration to ensure uptime and avoid downtime. An information disclosure vulnerability exis...

PT-2024-11268 · Linux +1 · Linux Kernel +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions prior to 5.13.0 Description: The issue is related to the KVM: x86 component of the Linux kernel, where a bug existed since the tracepoint was added, but was recently exposed by a new check in tracing to detect exactly th...

Cambridge Xen 安全漏洞

Xen is an open source virtual machine monitor product from the University of Cambridge, UK. The product enables different and incompatible operating systems to run on the same computer and supports runtime migration to ensure uptime and avoid downtime. A security vulnerability exists in XEN that...

Weak Password Vulnerability in Hybrid Alarm Receiver at Honeywell (China) Co.

Ltd. is part of Honeywell International, a diversified, high-tech advanced manufacturing company with a turnover of $38 billion. A weak password vulnerability exists in Honeywell China Limited's Hybrid Answering Machine, which can be exploited by attackers to obtain sensitive information...

CVE-2020-1750

A flaw was found in the machine-config-operator that causes an OpenShift node to become unresponsive when a container consumes a large amount of memory. An attacker could use this flaw to deny access to schedule new pods in the OpenShift cluster. This was fixed in openshift/machine-config-operato...

CVE-2020-1750

A flaw was found in the machine-config-operator that causes an OpenShift node to become unresponsive when a container consumes a large amount of memory. An attacker could use this flaw to deny access to schedule new pods in the OpenShift cluster. This was fixed in openshift/machine-config-operato...

Code injection

A flaw was found in the machine-config-operator that causes an OpenShift node to become unresponsive when a container consumes a large amount of memory. An attacker could use this flaw to deny access to schedule new pods in the OpenShift cluster. This was fixed in openshift/machine-config-operato...

CVE-2020-1750

CVE-2020-1750 affects the OpenShift machine-config-operator. A memory stress scenario could render a node unresponsive and block scheduling of new pods. Affected releases were fixed in openshift/machine-config-operator versions 4.4.3, 4.3.25, and 4.2.36. Remediation is to upgrade to one of these ...

The Supreme Court Narrowed the CFAA

In a 6-3 ruling, the Supreme Court just narrowed the scope of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act: In a ruling delivered today, the court sided with Van Buren and overturned his 18-month conviction. In a 37-page opinion written and delivered by Justice Amy Coney Barrett, the court explained that the...

Security Bulletin: IBM Waston Machine Learning Acclerator is affected by a Python vulnerability

Summary There is a vulnerability in Python used by IBM Watson Machine Learning Accelerator. IBM Watson Machine Learning Accelerator havs addressed the applicable CVE, CVE-2021-3177 by upgrade python to version 3.7.10 Vulnerability Details Refer to the security bulletins listed in the...

CVE-2020-35514

An insecure modification flaw in the /etc/kubernetes/kubeconfig file was found in OpenShift. This flaw allows an attacker with access to a running container which mounts /etc/kubernetes or has local access to the node, to copy this kubeconfig file and attempt to add their own node to the OpenShif...

kernel: userspace applications can misuse the KVM API to cause a write of 16 bytes at an offset up to 32 GB from vcpu->run

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. The value of internal.ndata, in the KVM API, is mapped to an array index, which can be updated by a user process at anytime which could lead to an out-of-bounds write. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data integrity and system availability...

Exploit for CVE-2021-28476

CVE-2021-28476: a guest-to-host "Microsoft Hyper-V Remote Code...

Building Multilayered Security for Modern Threats

Considering recent announcements of major attacks caused by external malicious actors, including a ransomware attack on a U.S. gasoline pipeline, the need for increased security posture is as important as ever, and multilayered security remains the key. With rampant ransomware attacks and other...