Get to Know Steve Povolny

Meet Steve Povolny Head of Advanced Threat Research for Trellix Threat Labs By Michael Alicea · May 17, 2022 At Trellix, we celebrate and champion our people. This week, I sat down with Steve Povolny, Head of Advanced Threat Research for Trellix Threat Labs. As he is one of the leading...

Cisco Firepower Threat Defense Denial of Service Vulnerability (CNVD-2022-43402)

Cisco Firepower Threat Defense is a set of unified software from Cisco that provides next-generation firewall services.Cisco Firepower Threat Defense is vulnerable to a denial-of-service vulnerability that could be exploited by an attacker to cause an affected device by sending a series of...

Cisco Firepower Threat Defense 安全漏洞

Cisco Firepower Threat Defense is a set of unified software from Cisco that provides next-generation firewall services.Cisco Firepower Threat Defense is vulnerable to a denial-of-service vulnerability that could be exploited by an attacker to cause an affected device by sending a series of...

Using payable.transfer functions in WithdrawFacet.sol and Libasset.sol is not usable for smart contract calls due to possible shortage of gas.

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact Withdrawals and transferERC20 tokens are executed via transferERC20 and withdraw functions. Since these functions calls with a fixed amount of gas, it's not yet guaranteed to reach to the destination if the receiver is a smart contract. Proof of Concept...

Executive Summary: Organizations and Nation-State Cyber Threats

Executive Summary: Organizations and Nation-State Cyber Threats By John Fokker · March 28, 2022 Traditionally when we talk about threat actors, we first need to make the split between cybercrime and nation-state sponsored operations. Where cybercrime is mostly focused on financial gain,...

Design/Logic Flaw

A flaw was found in the io-workqueue implementation in the Linux kernel versions prior to 5.15-rc1. The kernel can panic when an improper cancellation operation triggers the submission of new io-uring operations during a shortage of free space. This flaw allows a local user with permissions to...

CVE-2021-4023

A flaw was found in the io-workqueue implementation in the Linux kernel versions prior to 5.15-rc1. The kernel can panic when an improper cancellation operation triggers the submission of new io-uring operations during a shortage of free space. This flaw allows a local user with permissions to...

2.5 million-plus cybersecurity jobs are open—women can fill them

This month is Women’s History Month and today is International Women’s Day—a time to reflect as individuals, societies, and industries on our progress for quality and equity for women. As a woman working in cybersecurity, I know firsthand that engaging girls, women, and people of color in...

2.5 million-plus cybersecurity jobs are open—women can fill them

This month is Women’s History Month and today is International Women’s Day—a time to reflect as individuals, societies, and industries on our progress for quality and equity for women. As a woman working in cybersecurity, I know firsthand that engaging girls, women, and people of color in...

Cybersecurity threats are always changing—staying on top of them is vital, getting ahead of them is paramount

With a 1,070 percent increase in ransomware attacks year-over-year between July 2020 and June 2021, staying on top of attack trends—such as ransomware and supply chain threats—is more important than ever.1 To successfully detect and defend against security threats, we need to come together as a...

Cybersecurity Engineer Guide – Job Description and How to Become

Introduction The interest for network security occupations is soaring, but the arrangement is at an incredible insufficient. Experts anticipate a 2021 increment of 3,500,000 empty web-based security occupations all over the planet, as shown by the New York Times. Essentially, there arent sufficie...

The Great Resignation: 4 Ways Cybersecurity Can Win

Pandemics change everything. In the Middle Ages, the Black Death killed half of Europe’s population. It also killed off the feudal system of landowning lords exploiting laborer serfs. Rampant death caused an extreme labor shortage and forced the lords to pay wages. Eventually, serfs had bargainin...

Why Holidays Put Your Company at Risk of Cyber Attack (And How to Take Precautions)

It is a time when many are thinking of their families and loved ones, time off work, and gift-giving – the holidays. However, while many have their minds outside the realm of work during the holiday season, often, this is when attackers plan their most sinister attacks. So how can you take...

Demystifying XDR: A Forrester Analyst Lays the Foundation

Extended detection and response XDR is no longer a future state in cybersecurity practice — it's a full-fledged reality for some. In fact, it's been a thing for a lot longer than you might think. Still, XDR is new vocabulary for many security operations center SOC teams, and the contours of this...

[eBook] Guide to Achieving 24x7 Threat Monitoring and Response for Lean IT Security Teams

If there is one thing the past few years have taught the world, it’s that cybercrime never sleeps. For organizations of any size and scope, having around-the-clock protection for their endpoints, networks, and servers is no longer optional, but it’s also not entirely feasible for many. Attackers...

CVE-2021-26338

Improper access controls in System Management Unit SMU may allow for an attacker to override performance control tables located in DRAM resulting in a potential lack of system resources...

PT-2021-7118 · Linux +2 · Linux Kernel +2

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions prior to 5.15-rc1 Description: The issue is related to the io-workqueue implementation in the Linux kernel, which lacks protection of internal data. This can be exploited to cause a denial of service. A local user with...

Stop. Do you really need another security tool?

The last few years have seen a mushrooming of the number and type of security tools that organizations can use to protect themselves. You can have tools, tools to integrate the tools, tools to monitor the tools, APIs, dashboards so many dashboards, and machine learning with everything. And yet,...

How to build a password cracking rig during a worldwide chip shortage

… and keep a domain password auditing service online. Making money on GPUs, the hard way… At PTP we had a fairly decent GPU password cracking box called Titan. It used 4×1080 GPUs and had an NTLM hash rate of around 180GH/s. Several years ago I realised that the box was sitting idle much of the...

IBM DB2 has an unspecified vulnerability (CNVD-2021-94309)

IBM DB2 is a relational database management system from the American company IBM. The system's execution environments are mainly UNIX, Linux, IBMi, z/OS, and Windows server versions. IBM Db2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows including Db2 Connect Server has a security vulnerability that can be exploit...