CVE-2021-39653

In TBD of TBD, there is a possible way to boot with a hidden debug policy due to a missing warning to the user. This could lead to local escalation of privilege after preparing the device, hiding the warning, and passing the phone to a new user, with no additional execution privileges needed. Use...

Adopting a Zero Trust approach throughout the lifecycle of data

Instead of believing everything behind the corporate firewall is safe, the Zero Trust model assumes breach and verifies each request as though it originates from an uncontrolled network. Regardless of where the request originates or what resource it accesses, Zero Trust teaches us to “never trust...

Exploit for Path Traversal in Microsoft

CVE-2021-40444-POC An attempt to reproduce Microsoft MSHTML Re...

Exploit for Path Traversal in Vmware Cloud_Foundation

CVE-2021-22005-metasploit the metasploit scriptPOC/EXP about...

Holiday Readiness: What You Should Be Thinking About Four Months Out

Written by: Michael Hansen This is a blog series about Akamai solutions that can help you manage the surge of traffic both good and bad that will be hitting the retail industry during the holiday season. The beginning of August is upon us, and if you haven't already started thinking about the...

Exploit for Server-Side Request Forgery in Microsoft

ProxyLogon-CVE-2021-26855-metasploit CVE-2021-26855 proxyLogon...

Google Cloud Certifications — Get Prep Courses and Practice Tests at 95% Discount

As cloud computing continues to grow, Google Cloud is quickly becoming one of the most popular solutions. However, relatively few engineers know this platform well. This leaves the door open for aspiring IT professionals who take the official exams. The Google Cloud Certifications Practice Tests ...

Two months of Black Fridays?

Black Friday began in the U.S. as a way to funnel Thanksgiving holiday free time into a day of wanton gift shopping. It later spread globally as a retailer promotional blitz to kick off the holiday shopping season. Enter: Black Friday, 2020 style. In early September, many retailers, including Hom...

Preparing for Holiday Traffic During COVID-19

We are headed into an unprecedented holiday season as COVID-19 continues to impact the world. For many, this means changing traditions and celebrating without family nearby. For Akamai, it means preparing to support our customers in a holiday commerce season of opportunities and challenges like...

Preparing the Edge for a Big Year in Live Streaming

Next year is shaping up to be a big one for live streaming. Typically characteristic of even years, when many major international sporting events take place, 2021 looks like it could defy the trend. Akamai is predicting an unprecedented surge in live streaming that will start in late 2020 and...

When The Going Gets Tough – R&D Calls With Customers – Doing It Right!

Several years ago, I joined the development team of a new product within Imperva. I discovered that direct interaction between us developers and our customers was much more frequent than on more mature products - customer calls are an invaluable tool when developing from scratch. However, these...

How Financial Apps Get You to Spend More and Question Less

You should never invest without fully understanding the risks, but tax prep and stock trading services often obfuscate the things you really need to know...

P2PE v3.0 – Why organizations should prepare now

The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council PCI SSC published version 3.0 of the Point-To-Point Encryption P2PE standard back in December 2019. The new version simplifies and adds flexibility to the process for component and solution providers to validate their P2PE products for cardhold...

Case Study: How Incident Response Companies Choose IR Tools

Many companies today have developed a Cybersecurity Incident Response IR plan. It's a sound security practice to prepare a comprehensive IR plan to help the organization react to a sudden security incident in an orderly, rational manner. Otherwise, the organization will develop a plan while...

Ruby on Rails: XSS by file (Active Storage `Proxying`)

Hello, I've seen similar issues with 407319 and 429868 occur with Active Storage's new File serving strategies Proxying. Commit is https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/dfb5a82b259e134eac89784ac4ace0c44d1b4aee. ruby...

April 14, 2020—KB4550957 (Security-only update)

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Coronavirus Poll Results: Cyberattacks Ramp Up, WFH Prep Uneven

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to sweep the globe and Americans are told to isolate from others, many organizations are sending employees home to work. While most respondents in a Threatpost poll this week said they feel prepared from a security standpoint for this transition, a fifth of them...

How CISOs Should Prepare for Coronavirus Related Cybersecurity Threats

The Coronavirus is hitting hard on the world's economy, creating a high volume of uncertainty within organizations. Cybersecurity firm Cynet today revealed new data, showing that the Coronavirus now has a significant impact on information security and that the crisis is actively exploited by thre...

March 10, 2020—KB4541504 (Security-only update)

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Security Bulletin: Open Source Apache CXF Vulnerablities affect IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager (TADDM) (CVE-2018-8039)

Summary Vulnerabilities in Open Source Apache CXF affect IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager Vulnerability Details CVE-ID: CVE-2018-8039 DESCRIPTION: Apache CXF could allow a remote attacker to conduct a man-in-the-middle attack. The TLS hostname verification does not work correct...