Improve cyber supply chain risk management with Microsoft Azure

For years, Microsoft has tracked threat actors exploiting federal cyber supply chain vulnerabilities. Supply chain attacks target software developers, systems integrators, and technology companies. Tactics often include obtaining source code, build processes, or update mechanisms to compromise...

When can we get rid of passwords for good?

Or perhaps I should have asked, "Can we ever get rid of passwords for good?" The security world knows passwords are a problem. Products ship with default passwords that are never changed. People reuse old passwords or adopt easy-to-guess passwords that hackers easily defeat via brute force. Or...

Maximizing Onboarding: Giving managers the skills for success

Managing teams come with challenges as well as rewards. Managers drive individual and team performance, and the best managers drive employee connection and engagement. Akamai believes that employees are our biggest asset; by effectively and efficiently integrating them into the...

Design/Logic Flaw

Clear text credentials are used to access managers app in Tomcat in Micro Focus Service Manager product versions 9.30, 9.31, 9.32, 9.33, 9.34, 9.35, 9.40, 9.41, 9.50, 9.51, 9.52, 9.60, 9.61, 9.62. The vulnerability could be exploited to allow sensitive data exposure...

PT-2019-12465

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Micro Focus Service Manager versions 9.30 through 9.62 Description The issue concerns the use of clear text credentials to access the managers app in Tomcat, potentially allowing sensitive data exposure. Recommendations For versions 9.30 throu...

68% of Overwhelmed IT Managers Say They Can't Keep Up with Cyberattacks

IT managers feel overwhelmed by the volume of cyberattack attempts, with most of them admitting that successful hacks of their company networks are becoming the norm. That’s according to a research report The Impossible Puzzle of Cybersecurity, released Friday. In a survey of 3,100 IT managers...

Risks of Password Managers

Stuart Schechter writes about the security risks of using a password manager. It's a good piece, and nicely discusses the trade-offs around password managers: which one to choose, which passwords to store in it, and so on. My own Password Safe is mentioned. My particular choices about security an...

Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) Side Channel Vulnerabilities - Lenovo Support US

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Microarchitectural Data Sampling (MDS) Side Channel Vulnerabilities - US

Lenovo Security Advisory: LEN-26696 Potential Impact: Information disclosure Severity: Medium Scope of Impact: Industry-wide CVE Identifier: CVE-2018-12126 - Microarchitectural Store Buffer Data Sampling MSBDS CVE-2018-12127 - Microarchitectural Load Port Data Sampling MLPDS CVE-2018-12130 -...

iCULeak - Tool To Find And Extract Credentials From Phone Configuration Files Hosted On Cisco CUCM

Tool to find and extract credentials from phone configuration files in environments managed by Cisco's CUCM Call Manager. When using Cisco's CUCM Call Manager, phone configuration files are stored on a TFTP server. These phone configuration files quite frequently contain sensitive data, including...

CVE-2019-3808

A flaw was found in Moodle versions 3.6 to 3.6.1, 3.5 to 3.5.3, 3.4 to 3.4.6, 3.1 to 3.1.15 and earlier unsupported versions. The 'manage groups' capability did not have the 'XSS risk' flag assigned to it, but does have that access in certain places. Note that the capability is intended for use b...

UBUNTU-CVE-2019-3808

A flaw was found in Moodle versions 3.6 to 3.6.1, 3.5 to 3.5.3, 3.4 to 3.4.6, 3.1 to 3.1.15 and earlier unsupported versions. The 'manage groups' capability did not have the 'XSS risk' flag assigned to it, but does have that access in certain places. Note that the capability is intended for use b...

Design/Logic Flaw

A flaw was found in Moodle versions 3.6 to 3.6.1, 3.5 to 3.5.3, 3.4 to 3.4.6, 3.1 to 3.1.15 and earlier unsupported versions. The 'manage groups' capability did not have the 'XSS risk' flag assigned to it, but does have that access in certain places. Note that the capability is intended for use b...

CVE-2019-3808

A flaw was found in Moodle versions 3.6 to 3.6.1, 3.5 to 3.5.3, 3.4 to 3.4.6, 3.1 to 3.1.15 and earlier unsupported versions. The 'manage groups' capability did not have the 'XSS risk' flag assigned to it, but does have that access in certain places. Note that the capability is intended for use b...

8x8: Cross-site Scripting (XSS) - Reflected

The password reset page of the managers portal of VCC reflected input of the tenant parameter without proper encoding considerations. Just wanted to disclose as it's my first ever report on h1...

Threatpost Data: Password Managers Are Worth the Risk, Readers Say

Despite a high-profile memory-related vulnerability in password managers capturing headlines last week, a recent Threatpost poll found that 84 percent of respondents use password managers – while only 10 percent said they don’t due to security risks. There have been vulnerabilities found before i...

On the Security of Password Managers

There's new research on the security of password managers, specifically 1Password, Dashlane, KeePass, and Lastpass. This work specifically looks at password leakage on the host computer. That is, does the password manager accidentally leave plaintext copies of the password lying around memory? Al...

Threatpost News Wrap Podcast For Feb. 22

Threatpost editors Lindsey O’Donnell and Tom Spring discuss the biggest news of the week ended Feb. 22, including a report about flaws in password managers, and a 19-year-old flaw found in WinRAR. The Threatpost team also discussed an upcoming webinar on Feb. 27 at 2 p.m. ET. Patrick Hevesi of...

Threatpost Poll: Are Password Managers Too Risky?

Do you use a password manager? Or do you think they pose too much of a risk, holding all the keys to the kingdom? Weigh in with our poll, below. A little background: There have been vulnerabilities found before in this kind of software, which is meant to take the headache out of remembering...

Password Manager Firms Blast Back at ‘Leaky Password’ Revelations

Secure password firms 1Password, Dashlane, KeePass and LastPass are blasting a research report that highlights how a local adversary can crack open and steal passwords stored by the utilities. The uproar began Tuesday when lead researcher, Adrian Bednarek with Independent Security Evaluators ISE,...