CISO Spotlight: How diversity of data (and people) defeats today’s cyber threats

This year, we have seen five significant security paradigm shifts in our industry. This includes the acknowledgment that the greater the diversity of our data sets, the better the AI and machine learning outcomes. This diversity gives us an advantage over our cyber adversaries and improves our...

Microsoft Azure Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Microsoft Azure is an open enterprise-grade cloud computing platform. A security vulnerability exists in the way Microsoft Azure features authenticate access keys, which could be exploited by a remote attacker to submit a special request to invoke an HTTP feature without proper authorization...

KLA11973 Multiple vulnerabilites in Microsoft Azure

Multiple vulnerabilities were found in Microsoft Azure. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to gain privileges. Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities: 1. An elevation of privilege vulnerability in Network Watcher Agent Virtual Machine Extension for Linux can be exploited...

Microsoft Azure Flaws Open Admin Servers to Takeover

Researchers have disclosed two flaws in Microsoft’s Azure web hosting application service, App Services, which if exploited could enable an attacker to take over administrative servers. Azure App Services is an HTTP-based service for hosting web applications, and is available in both Microsoft...

Researchers Find Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Azure Cloud Service

As businesses are increasingly migrating to the cloud, securing the infrastructure has never been more important. Now according to the latest research, two security flaws in Microsoft's Azure App Services could have enabled a bad actor to carry out server-side request forgery SSRF attacks or...

90 days, 16 bugs, and an Azure Sphere Challenge

Cisco Talos reports 16 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Azure Sphere's sponsored research challenge. By Claudio Bozzato, Lilith --; and Dave McDaniel. On May 15, 2020, Microsoft kicked off the Azure Sphere Security Research Challenge, a three-month initiative aimed at finding bugs in Azure Sphere...

Who’s Behind Monday’s 14-State 911 Outage?

Emergency 911 systems were down for more than an hour on Monday in towns and cities across 14 U.S. states. The outages led many news outlets to speculate the problem was related to Microsofts Azure web services platform, which also was struggling with a widespread outage at the time. However,...

Microsoft Azure Sphere Normal World application PACKET_MMAP unsigned code execution vulnerability

Talos Vulnerability Report TALOS-2020-1134 Microsoft Azure Sphere Normal World application PACKETMMAP unsigned code execution vulnerability September 23, 2020 CVE Number None SUMMARY A code execution vulnerability exists in the normal world’s signed code execution functionality of Microsoft Azure...

Microsoft Azure Sphere Pluton SIGN_WITH_TENANT_ATTESTATION_KEY memory corruption vulnerability

Talos Vulnerability Report TALOS-2020-1139 Microsoft Azure Sphere Pluton SIGNWITHTENANTATTESTATIONKEY memory corruption vulnerability September 23, 2020 CVE Number None SUMMARY A memory corruption vulnerability exists in the Pluton SIGNWITHTENANTATTESTATIONKEY functionality of Microsoft Azure...

Using Restore to Microsoft Azure with ExpressRoute or site-to-site VPN connectivity to Azure

Challenge You may use Restore to Microsoft Azure for environments with ExpressRoute or site-to-site VPN connectivity to Azure. When using Azure Restore Proxy Appliance and helper appliances to perform the restore, they must have private IP addresses only. Solution Starting with Veeam Backup &...

Veeam Support For Azure FIles

This article provides information around Veeam Backup & Replication support for Microsoft Azure Files. Note that it is possible to protect Azure Files natively with Azure Files Policies in Veeam Plug-In for Microsoft Azure. This article specifically discusses using Veeam Backup & Replication in...

USN-4485-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Timothy Michaud discovered that the i915 graphics driver in the Linux kernel did not properly validate user memory locations for the i915gemexecbuffer2ioctl. A local attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. CVE-2018-20669 It was discovered that the...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Remote code execution, privilege escalation bugs in Microsoft Azure Sphere

Claudio Bozzato, Lilith and Dave McDaniel of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Blog by Jon Munshaw. Cisco Talos researchers recently discovered multiple vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s Azure Sphere, a cloud-connected and custom SoC platform designed specifically with IoT application...

Microsoft Azure Sphere uid_map UID uniqueness privilege escalation vulnerability

Summary A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the uidmap functionality of Microsoft Azure Sphere 20.06. A specially crafted uidmap file can cause multiple applications to get the same UID assigned, thus broadening the attack surface. An attacker can modify the uidmap file to trigger this...

Microsoft Azure Sphere Normal World application /proc/thread-self/mem unsigned code execution vulnerability

Summary A code execution vulnerability exists in the normal world’s signed code execution functionality of Microsoft Azure Sphere 20.07. A specially crafted shellcode can cause a process’ non-writable memory to be written. An attacker can execute a shellcode that modifies the program at runtime v...

Automate Virtual Machine Creation in Azure DevOps

See how you can enable more automation in your Microsoft® Azure® virtual machine infrastructure builds, deployments, and security implementation...

New Forrester study shows customers who deploy Microsoft Azure AD benefit from 123% ROI.

Over the past six months, organizations around the world have accelerated digital transformation efforts to rapidly enable a remote workforce. As more employees than ever access apps via their home networks, the corporate network perimeter has truly disappeared, making identity the control plane...

Trend Micro™ Deep Security™ 20 is Here

Chuck Losh, Solutions Architect, takes us through the deployment of Trend Micro™ Deep Security™ 20 software in Microsoft® Azure® and runs through how to connect the database element to the Azure SQL Database...

Threat Source newsletter for Aug. 6, 2020

Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Good afternoon, Talos readers. We spend a lot of time talking about what you should do to keep your data safe, and how other organizations should be prepared for the worst. But what happens if the worst happens to you? In the latest Beers with Talos episode, we...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Microsoft issues security update for Azure Sphere

Claudio Bozzato, Lilith and Dave McDaniel of Cisco Talos discovered these vulnerabilities. Blog by Jon Munshaw. Cisco Talos researchers recently discovered seven vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s Azure Sphere, a cloud-connected SoC platform designed specifically with IoT application security in mind...