CVE-2023-52458 block: add check that partition length needs to be aligned with block size

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: block: add check that partition length needs to be aligned with block size Before calling add partition or resize partition, there is no check on whether the length is aligned with the logical block size. If the logical block siz...

S4x23 Review Part 3: Healthcare Cybersecurity Sessions

This article focuses on the healthcare sector. Over the past two years, the healthcare sector has been in a constant state of emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and as widely reported in the media, it has also been threatened by cyberattacks such as ransomware...

GSD-2022-1005982 btrfs: raid56: don't trust any cached sector in __raid56_parity_recover()

btrfs: raid56: don't trust any cached sector in raid56parityrecover This is an automated ID intended to aid in discovery of potential security vulnerabilities. The actual impact and attack plausibility have not yet been proven. This ID is fixed in Linux Kernel version v5.4.211 by commit...

Healthcare Enterprises Share Risk Reduction Insight

Healthcare organizations are subject to strict regulations, including data security and privacy. Three enterprises discuss risk reduction within a sector where a data leak could prove disastrous...

Threat Source newsletter (Aug. 22)

Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week. A lot of people may think that cyber insurance is this new, unexplored field that carries a lot of questions. But did you know that thes...

Threat Source newsletter (Aug. 15)

Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week. Sorry we missed you last week, we were all away at Hacker Summer Camp. If you missed us at Black Hat, we have a roundup up on the blog o...

Threat Source newsletter (June 20, 2019)

Newsletter compiled by Jonathan Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week. This week, we disclosed two vulnerabilities in KCodes’ NetUSB kernel module contains that could allow an attacker to inappropriatel...

Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows job displays warning: Partition exceeds disk layout

Challenge A Veeam Agent for Microsoft Windows backup job displays the following warning: Partition exceeds disk layout by bytes This warning may be accompanied by the error: Error: The drive cannot find the sector requested. Asynchronous read operation failed Failed to upload disk. Agent failed t...

Week in Security: Toorcon and SecTor Wrap-up, Bugs and Stuxnet Stances

Autumn conferences grabbed the headlines this week as presentations at the Toorcon Conference in San Diego and SecTor in Toronto wrapped up October, with revelations about the vulnerability of social networking sessions and critical infrastructure headlining. In San Diego, talks at Toorcon came...