EoL Systems Stonewalling Log4j Fixes for Fed Agencies

Last month, federal agencies were given a Christmas Eve deadline – Dec. 24 – to address the “extremely concerning” Log4j and other vulnerabilities. Nobody said it would be easy. Besides the difficulty of tracking down all instances of the ubiquitous Apache logging library, the job of patching the...

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Prices Are Rising

The price of squid in Korea is rising due to limited supply. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here...

audir (0.1.0), com-impl (>=0.1.0, <=0.1.1) +6 more potentially affected by CVE-2021-45681 via derive-com-impl (0.1.1)

derive-com-impl CARGO version 0.1.1 is affected by a known vulnerability. The following packages have a transitive dependency on derive-com-impl and may be impacted: - audir 0.1.0 - com-impl =0.1.0, =0.3.0-alpha1, =0.3.0-alpha1, =0.3.0-alpha4 - dxgi 0.3.0-alpha4 - wic 0.3.0-alpha1 Source cves:...

Card skimmers strike Sotheby’s in Brightcove supply chain attack

Over 100 real estate websites have been compromised by the same web skimmer in a supply chain attack. So what happened? On Monday, January 3, Palo Alto said it had found a supply chain attack that used a cloud video platform to distribute skimmer campaigns. The attacker injected the skimmer’s...

NIST Cybersecurity Framework: A Quick Guide for SaaS Security Compliance

When I want to know the most recently published best practices in cyber security, I visit The National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST. From the latest password requirements NIST 800-63 to IoT security for manufacturers NISTIR 8259, NIST is always the starting point. NIST plays a key...

Broward Breach Highlights Healthcare Supply-Chain Problems

This week’s announcement by Florida’s Broward Health System that the most intimate medical data of 1,357,879 of its patients was breached in the fall should serve as a warning that the healthcare software supply chain will be a juicy target for cybercriminals as we head into 2022, researchers war...

Cloud video platform abused in web skimmer attack against real estate sites

By Deeba Ahmed New Web Skimmer Campaign Exploiting Cloud Video Distribution Supply Chain to Target Real Estate Sites. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Cloud video platform abused in web skimmer attack against real estate sites...

Mitigation of Supply Chain Risks in Microsoft 365

In this blog we review five attack techniques exploited to compromise MS 365 tenants. Qualys SaaS Detection & Response can be used by both IT and security teams to assess these threats, and then to fix common misconfigurations, hardening supply chain defenses. Last October, news of Microsoft 365 ...

Hackers Target Real Estate Websites with Skimmer in Latest Supply Chain Attack

Threat actors leveraged a cloud video hosting service to carry out a supply chain attack on more than 100 real estate websites operated by Sotheby's Realty that involved injecting malicious skimmers to steal sensitive personal information. "The attacker injected the skimmer JavaScript codes into...

2021 in Review, Part 4: 5 Cybersecurity Topics to Watch in 2022

One of the core principles of cybersecurity is not letting things “slip through the cracks”. An effective security posture depends on visibility. The more visibility you have into the environments where your data is, the more successful you will be in applying your organization’s security protoco...

Non unique token ID might lead to collusion when merging

Handle kenzo Vulnerability details Token IDs are defined as concatenation of points, total supply + 1. The total supply can decrease when merging. This means that the contract might try to mint a token with an ID which already exists. Impact Under specific circumstances, users won't be able to lo...

The three most significant cyberattacks of 2021

People that predict tomorrow’s weather by looking at today’s are often right. Cloudy today? Itll probably be cloudy tomorrow. The same is often true for cybersecurity threats. Looking back at 2021 it looks a lot like 2020: A lot of ransomware attacks. So, when I was asked to write about the three...

Understanding Software Supply Chain and How to Secure It

By Owais Sultan A software supply chain is anything that goes into or has an influence on your code as it moves through your CI/CD pipeline from development to deployment. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Understanding Software Supply Chain and How to Secure It...

RubyGems: Dependency repository hijacking aka Repo Jacking from GitHub repo rubygems/bundler-site & rubygems/bundler.github.io + bundler.io docs

Dependency repository hijacking aka repo jacking is an obscure supply chain vulnerability, conceptually similar to subdomain takeover. When the linked repository owner changes their username, it becomes immediately available to be re-registered by anyone. This means that any project that linked...

Convergence Ahoy: Get Ready for Cloud-Based Ransomware

The two types of cyberattacks that have dominated the news over the past year have been ransomware, and software and service supply-chain attacks. The former have mainly been perpetrated by criminal enterprises looking to turn a quick profit. In contrast, the latter attacks have primarily been th...

The final report on NOBELIUM’s unprecedented nation-state attack

This is the final post in a four-part series on the NOBELIUM nation-state cyberattack. In December 2020, Microsoft began sharing details with the world about what became known as the most sophisticated nation-state cyberattack in history. Microsoft’s four-part video series “Decoding NOBELIUM” pul...

Security Bulletin: Oracle Database Server Vulnerability Affects IBM Emptoris Strategic Supply Management Platform (CVE-2021-2335)

Summary An Oracle database server vulnerability was addressed in IBM Emptoris Strategic Supply Management Platform. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2021-2335 DESCRIPTION: An unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Database Server related to the Database - Enterprise Edition Data Redaction component...

Security Bulletin: Oracle Database Server Vulnerability Affects IBM Emptoris Strategic Supply Management Platform (CVE-2021-2334)

Summary An Oracle database server vulnerability was addressed in IBM Emptoris Strategic Supply Management Platform. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2021-2334 DESCRIPTION: An unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Database Server related to the Database - Enterprise Edition Data Redaction component...

Security Bulletin: Oracle Database Server Vulnerability Affects IBM Emptoris Strategic Supply Management Platform (CVE-2021-2336)

Summary An Oracle database server vulnerability was addressed in IBM Emptoris Strategic Supply Management Platform. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2021-2336 DESCRIPTION: An unspecified vulnerability in Oracle Database Server related to the Database - Enterprise Edition Data Redaction component...

2022: Supply-Chain Chronic Pain & SaaS Security Meltdowns

If 2021 was the Year of Supply-Chain Pain, 2022 will be the Year of Supply-Chain Chronic Pain or something worse than pain. This past year, the pain was felt in two significant ways: through the supply chain disruptions caused by COVID-19, and through the many security breaches that we saw in our...