The federal government’s cybersecurity policies are falling into place just in time to be stalled again

Welcome to this weeks edition of the Threat Source newsletter. Last week, the Biden administration released its formal roadmap for its national cybersecurity initiative meant to encourage greater investment in cybersecurity and strengthen the U.S.s critical infrastructure security and more. The...

Showcasing SecOps Metrics That Matter

This year, new rules from the Security and Exchange Commission SEC about board-level expertise, risk management, and public disclosures will take effect. The European Union is updating its regulations, as well. To meet these new requirements, organizations will need to explain to shareholders...

Friday Squid Blogging: Peruvian Squid-Fishing Regulation Drives Chinese Fleets Away

A Peruvian oversight law has the opposite effect: Peru in 2020 began requiring any foreign fishing boat entering its ports to use a vessel monitoring system allowing its activities to be tracked in real time 24 hours a day. The equipment, which tracks a vessels geographic position and fishing...

AI to Aid Democracy

Theres good reason to fear that AI systems like ChatGPT and GPT4 will harm democracy. Public debate may be overwhelmed by industrial quantities of autogenerated argument. People might fall down political rabbit holes, taken in by superficially convincing bullshit, or obsessed by folies à deux...

The vulnerability of the Docker Desktop platform for developing and delivering container applications lies in its improper protection of an alternative path, allowing a attacker to execute arbitrary code.

The vulnerability of the Docker Desktop platform for developing and delivering container applications is related to the lack of measures taken at the management level to clean up data. Exploiting this vulnerability allows an attacker to execute arbitrary commands...

CVE-2022-42331

x86: speculative vulnerability in 32bit SYSCALL path Due to an oversight in the very original Spectre/Meltdown security work XSA-254, one entrypath performs its speculation-safety actions too late. In some configurations, there is an unprotected RET instruction which can be attacked with a variet...

SEC cyber risk management rule—a security and compliance opportunity

In my practice as a Microsoft Global Black Belt, I focus on the technical and business enablement aspects of protecting organizations from cyber threats with tools like Microsoft 365 Defender, Microsoft Purview and Microsoft Sentinel. In my role as a board member for another publicly traded...

SEC cyber risk management rule—a security and compliance opportunity

In my practice as a Microsoft Global Black Belt, I focus on the technical and business enablement aspects of protecting organizations from cyber threats with tools like Microsoft 365 Defender, Microsoft Purview and Microsoft Sentinel. In my role as a board member for another publicly traded...

SLASH LOGIC INAPPROPRIATELY IMPLEMENTED

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact The slash logic in the protocol has overlooked the following two issues: slashminipoolIndex is only called when avaxTotalRewardAmt is equal to 0 which forgoes all other low performing instances even if the node operator has only brought in 1 wei of AVAX...

kernel: inet: fully convert sk->sk_rx_dst to RCU rules

A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the TCP IP protocol in the Linux Kernel, where a delete operation of the RCU-protected pointer is supposed to clear the pointer before the callrcu/synchronizercu guarding the actual memory freeing. This flaw allows a local attacker to crash the system o...

Semrush: Exposure of service tokens to webpack bundle

Service tokens were exposed in a webpack bundle during the build process due to environment variables being accidentally included in the webpack configuration file. A review found no evidence the exposed tokens were used by unauthorized parties...

Prepare Your Organization for Compliance with the NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation

Cyberattacks are on the rise, with bad actors accelerating their nefarious exfiltration of valuable and confidential data from financial institutions, Federal agencies, healthcare organizations, and more. According to an IBM study, the Financial Services industry saw an increase in the cost of da...

IT security: An opportunity to raise corporate governance scores

What is a corporate governance score? Corporate governance scoring is increasingly important to boards of directors, executive leadership, and the investment community. If we want to enlist the support of a stakeholder, we have to talk about the things that are important to them. Sales revenue is...

IT security: An opportunity to raise corporate governance scores

What is a corporate governance score? Corporate governance scoring is increasingly important to boards of directors, executive leadership, and the investment community. If we want to enlist the support of a stakeholder, we have to talk about the things that are important to them. Sales revenue is...

Collateral limit can be bypassed in auction

Lines of code Vulnerability details Collateral limit could be bypassed, allowing more collateral to be auctioned concurrently than intended by governance. // There is a limit on how much collateral can be concurrently put at auction, but it is a soft limit. // If the limit has been surpassed, no...

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 102 — Mozilla

A malicious website that could create a popup could have resized the popup to overlay the address bar with its own content, resulting in potential user confusion or spoofing attacks. This bug only affects Firefox for Linux. Other operating systems are unaffected. Session history navigations may...

Unspecified Vulnerability in IBM QRadar SIEM (CNVD-2022-33845)

IBM QRadar SIEM is an IBM USA solution that utilizes security intelligence to protect assets and information from advanced threats. The solution provides oversight of the entire scope of the IT architecture, generates detailed reports on data access and user activity, and more. IBM QRadar SIEM ha...

IBM QRadar SIEM Information Disclosure Vulnerability (CNVD-2022-34982)

IBM QRadar SIEM is an IBM USA solution that utilizes security intelligence to protect assets and information from advanced threats. The solution provides oversight of the entire scope of the IT architecture, generates detailed reports on data access and user activity, and more. An information...

Security Architect Guide – Job Description and How to Become

Introduction In the steadily changing field of online protection, companies need thoroughly prepared staff to assist them with staying aware of their developing security needs. Associations that neglect to focus on these web security wind up paying the consequences for it. Things being what they...

Missing of _userUpdate in unwrapFor in WJLP.sol

Handle UncleGrandpa925 Vulnerability details Impact Users' rewards in Wrapped JLP will be miscalculated. Hackers can exploit this to steal users' rewards. All WJLP's unwrapFor transactions will trigger the bug. Location Function unwrapFor in WJLP.sol Explanation of the bug So the nature of this...