Gootkit RAT Using SEO to Distribute Malware Through Compromised Sites

A framework notorious for delivering a banking Trojan has received a facelift to deploy a wider range of malware, including ransomware payloads. "The Gootkit malware family has been around more than half a decade – a mature Trojan with functionality centered around banking credential theft," Soph...

RUSTSEC-2021-0050 swap_index can write out of bounds and return uninitialized memory

swapindex takes an iterator and swaps the items with their corresponding indexes. It reserves capacity and sets the length of the vector based on the .len method of the iterator. If the len returned by the iterator is larger than the actual number of elements yielded, then swapindex creates a...

StackVec::extend can write out of bounds when size_hint is incorrect

StackVec::extend used the lower and upper bounds from an Iterator's sizehint to determine how many items to push into the stack based vector. If the sizehint implementation returned a lower bound that was larger than the upper bound, StackVec would write out of bounds and overwrite memory on the...

Optimizing for Performance, One Hire at a Time: Part 1

It's a lot of fun to imagine and design the best team. As managers, it's rare that we get to build a team from the ground up and all at once...

Leveraging the Cost Optimization Pillar for Well-Architected Environments

In this article, we will explore the Cost Optimization pillar of the AWS Well-Architected Framework, examining best practices for designing processes that make it possible to go to market and optimize costs early on...

Arbitrium-RAT - A Cross-Platform, Fully Undetectable Remote Access Trojan, To Control Android, Windows And Linux

Arbitrium is a cross-platform is a remote access trojan RAT, Fully UnDetectable FUD, It allows you to control Android, Windows and Linux and doesn't require any firewall exceptions or port forwarding. It gives access to the local networks, you can use the targets as a HTTP proxy and access Router...

Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in IBM Java affects IBM Decision Optimization Center (CVE-2020-14779)

Summary There is a vulnerability in IBM® Java™ versions 7 & 8 used by IBM Decision Optimization Center. IBM Decision Optimization Center has addressed the applicable CVE. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2020-14779 DESCRIPTION: An unspecified vulnerability in Java SE related to the Serialization...

OPENSUSE-SU-2021:0165-1 Security update for virtualbox

This update for virtualbox fixes the following issues: Version update to 6.1.18 released January 19 2021 This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: - Nested VM: Fixed hangs when executing SMP nested-guests under certain conditions on Intel hosts bug 19315, 19561 -...

Identity governance: The power of “Why not?”

Innovation requires the courage to take risks and the leadership skills to show others that risks are worth taking. That’s why I love working with people like Joe Dadzie, a partner group program manager in identity governance. Joe has a long history of championing disruptive technology...

Sustainability at Akamai: An Efficient Platform Powered by Energy Aggregation

If I had a dollar for every time I heard "2020 was an unprecedented year", I could fund a clean energy project myself. And while we're tired of hearing it, it's true. Among the pandemic, U.S. presidential election, social justice movements, the finalization of Brexit, and many other new and...

Lumax Classic suffers from dll hijacking vulnerability (CNVD-2021-09953)

LU Master is a well-known free system tool software in China, providing free hardware authenticity identification, stability guarantee, system performance improvement, LU Master has hardware detection, hardware testing, system optimization, energy saving and cooling, driver installation, driver a...

CVE-2021-2060

Vulnerability in the MySQL Server product of Oracle MySQL component: Server: Optimizer. Supported versions that are affected are 5.6.50 and prior, 5.7.32 and prior and 8.0.22 and prior. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows high privileged attacker with network access via multiple protocols to...

The vulnerability of JIT optimization in Firefox browsers, related to access to data without type control, allows attackers to gain access to confidential data, compromise its integrity, and cause service failures.

The vulnerability of JIT optimization in Firefox browsers relates to access to data without type control. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a remote attacker to gain access to confidential data, compromise its integrity, and cause service interruptions...

Building Faster AMD64 Memset Routines

Over the past several years, Microsoft has rolled out several changes that result in more memory being zeroed. These mitigations include: The InitAll mitigation which zeros most stack variables Switching most Microsoft kernel code over to the ExAllocatePool2/ExAllocatePool3 API’s which zero memor...

Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilites affect IBM Jazz Foundation and IBM Engineering products.

Summary There are multiple vulnerabilities that are used by IBM Jazz Team Server affecting the following IBM Jazz Team Server based Applications: Engineering Lifecycle Management ELM, IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next DOORS Next, IBM Engineering Lifecycle Optimization - Engineeri...

Smart DNS for the New Network Edge: Emerging Requirements for DNS Encryption

This blog post -- the fourth in a series -- will discuss how smart DNS resolvers can enhance ongoing ISP and MNO network transformation efforts, such as the transition to 5G, better integration of Wi-Fi, and new network designs that optimize the edge to improve service delivery and network...

Smart DNS: Emerging Requirements for DNS Encryption

This blog post -- the fourth in a series -- will discuss how smart DNS resolvers can enhance ongoing ISP and MNO network transformation efforts, such as the transition to 5G, better integration of Wi-Fi, and new network designs that optimize the edge to improve service delivery and network...

How the Edge Improves Microservices

Microservice architecture has transformed the way we develop and operate our applications. Microservices aren't a technology or a programming language. Instead, they create a structure for designing and building applications based on the idea that the individual functions of a website should...

CVE-2020-15294

Compiler Optimization Removal or Modification of Security-critical Code vulnerability in IntPeParseUnwindData results in multiple dereferences to the same pointer. If the pointer is located in memory-mapped from the guest space, this may cause a race-condition where the generated code would...

Race condition

Compiler Optimization Removal or Modification of Security-critical Code vulnerability in IntPeParseUnwindData results in multiple dereferences to the same pointer. If the pointer is located in memory-mapped from the guest space, this may cause a race-condition where the generated code would...