Cisco Connected Mobile Experiences Strong Authentication Requirements Enforcement Bypass

A vulnerability in the change password API of Cisco Connected Mobile Experiences CMX could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to alter their own password to a value that does not comply with the strong authentication requirements that are configured on an affected device. This vulnerability...

Five Critical Password Security Rules Your Employees Are Ignoring

According to Keeper Security's Workplace Password Malpractice Report, many remote workers aren't following best practices for password security. Password security was a problem even before the advent of widespread remote work. So, what happened post-pandemic? Keeper Security's Workplace Password...

Zero Trust: Not As Scary As It Sounds

If the term Zero Trust has been popping up in your news feed with astonishing frequency lately, you may be tempted to think that Zero Trust must be a brand-new technology cooked up in a research lab at MIT and powered by the latest artificial intelligence, machine learning, quantum computing, and...

Description of the security update for Office Online Server: July 13, 2021 (KB5001973)

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OESA-2021-1226 dhcp security update

The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DHCP is a network management protocol used on UDP/IP networks whereby a DHCP server dynamically assigns an IP address and other network configuration parameters to each device on a network so they can communicate with other IP networks. Security Fixes: In I...

WordPress Strong premium theme <= 1.25 - Unauthenticated Reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

Unauthenticated Reflected Cross-Site Scripting XSS vulnerability discovered by m0ze in WordPress Strong premium theme versions = 1.25. Solution 9 June 2021 - Theme removed from the Themeforest repository. Unfortunately, no information about the patched version is available...

ALPINE-CVE-2021-25217

In ISC DHCP 4.1-ESV-R1 - 4.1-ESV-R16, ISC DHCP 4.4.0 - 4.4.2 Other branches of ISC DHCP i.e., releases in the 4.0.x series or lower and releases in the 4.3.x series are beyond their End-of-Life EOL and no longer supported by ISC. From inspection it is clear that the defect is also present in...

Can Nanotech Secure IoT Devices From the Inside-Out?

Another day, another incident of internet-of-things IoT gadgets falling flat on their faces and spilling users’ privacy, if not getting hooked into a botnet, used for cryptomining or opening a network backdoor that allows intruders to move laterally through a network. It’s only Wednesday, but...

How to secure your hybrid work world with a Zero Trust approach

We are operating in the most complex cybersecurity landscape we’ve ever seen. Sophisticated and determined attackers are the norm. And we all are preparing for the next great disruption—hybrid work. Security has never been more important, and as I shared in another Security blog today, it’s clear...

Is it still a good idea to require users to change their passwords?

For as long as corporate IT has been in existence, users have been required to change their passwords periodically. In fact, the need for scheduled password changes may be one of the most long-standing of all IT best practices. Recently, however, things have started to change. Microsoft has...

rubygem-actionpack: possible strong parameters bypass

A flaw was found in rubygem-actionpack. Untrusted hashes of data is possible for values of each, eachvalue, and eachpair which can lead to cases of user supplied information being leaked from Strong Parameters. Applications that use these hashes may inadvertently use untrusted user input. The...

11 Useful Security Tips for Securing Your AWS Environment

Want to take advantage of excellent cloud services? Amazon Web Services may be the perfect solution, but don't forget about AWS security. Whether you want to use AWS for a few things or everything, you need to protect access to it. Then you can make sure your business can run smoothly. Read on to...

11 Useful Security Tips for Securing Your AWS Environment

Want to take advantage of excellent cloud services? Amazon Web Services may be the perfect solution, but don't forget about AWS security. Whether you want to use AWS for a few things or everything, you need to protect access to it. Then you can make sure your business can run smoothly. Read on to...

Rapid7 Recognized as a Strong Performer in the Inaugural Forrester Wave™ for MDR, Q1 2021

Independent research firm cites Rapid7 MDR’s “security professionals with extensive incident response and threat hunting experience” delivering a “white-glove, behavioral detection-inspired” service. Detection and response is a critical component to any security program, but standing up an...

The vulnerability of the each_pair function in the strong_parameters.rb software platform for Ruby on Rails allows a hacker to gain access to confidential data.

The vulnerability of the eachpair function in the Ruby on Rails software framework, called strongparameters.rb, is related to the restoration of a unreliable data structure in memory. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to gain access to confidential data...

AppSec concerns: UUID generation

During static analysis, one of the things the application security team checks for is strong random number generation for security sensitive contexts. We see weaknesses in this space quite often for temporary passwords and session identifiers, but an increasingly common variant is for universally...

Diceware-Password-Generator - Python Implementation Of The Diceware Password Generating Algorithm

Please Note - This Program Do Not StorePasswords In Any Form And All The Passwords Are Generated Locally Inside You Device. Diceware is a method used to generate cryptographically strong memorable passphrases. This is a python implementation of the diceware password generating algorithm. Inspired...

JSON Web Token Weak Secret

JSON Web Tokens can be signed to protect against data tampering. By using an asymmetric or a symmetric signing algorithm, the application computes a signature of the token data which will be verified during token decoding to ensure its integrity. When using a symmetric algorithm, the signature is...

Hackers try to poison Florida City’s drinking water

The FBI, the Secret Service, and the Pinellas County Sheriffs Office are currently investigating an attempted poisoning of a city by an individual or group of hackers that occurred Friday last week. If it hadnt been caught in time, at least 15,000 people could have been affected. In a Monday pres...

Why operational resilience will be key in 2021, and how this impacts cybersecurity

The lessons we have learned during the past 12 months have demonstrated that the ability to respond to and bounce back from adversity in general, can impact the short-and long-term success of any organization. It can even dictate the leaders and laggards in any industry. When we take into...