How COVID-19 Has Changed Business Cybersecurity Priorities Forever

For much of this year, IT professionals all over the globe have had their hands full, finding ways to help businesses cope with the fallout of the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. In many cases, it involved a rapid rollout of significant remote work infrastructure. That infrastructure was called in...

How COVID-19 Has Changed Business Cybersecurity Priorities Forever

For much of this year, IT professionals all over the globe have had their hands full, finding ways to help businesses cope with the fallout of the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. In many cases, it involved a rapid rollout of significant remote work infrastructure. That infrastructure was called in...

ASSURE Aviation Cyber Security Testing

We've long been supporters and champions of a formalised approach to Aviation Cyber Security Testing. Our research and blogging has taken us on an interesting journey regarding airside and landside security, mapping attack surfaces and explaining how systems work and interact. Speaking and...

SDL: not fixed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 erratum RHSA-2019:3950

A flaw was found with the RHSA-2019:3950 erratum, where it did not fix the CVE-2019-13616 SDL vulnerability. A heap-based buffer overflow flaw, in SDL while copying an existing surface into a new optimized one, due to a lack of validation while loading a BMP image, is possible. An application tha...

Attacking the VM Worker Process

In the past year we invested a lot of time making Hyper-V research more accessible to everyone. Our first blog post, “First Steps in Hyper-V Research”, describes the tools and setup for debugging the hypervisor and examines the interesting attack surfaces of the virtualization stack components. W...

Attacking the VM Worker Process

In the past year we invested a lot of time making Hyper-V research more accessible to everyone. Our first blog post, “First Steps in Hyper-V Research”, describes the tools and setup for debugging the hypervisor and examines the interesting attack surfaces of the virtualization stack components. W...

Free Cynet Threat Assessment for Mid-sized and Large Organizations

If you cannot see what’s happening in your network, your ability to make smart security decisions will suffer. Many vendors offer threat assessment options, but they usually require an investment of time and resources. One vendor out there – Cynet – is offering a no-cost threat assessment to...

Free Cynet Threat Assessment for Mid-sized and Large Organizations

If you cannot see what’s happening in your network, your ability to make smart security decisions will suffer. Many vendors offer threat assessment options, but they usually require an investment of time and resources. One vendor out there – Cynet – is offering a no-cost threat assessment to...

Cynet Offers Free Threat Assessment for Mid-Sized and Large Organizations

Visibility into an environment attack surface is the fundamental cornerstone to sound security decision making. However, the standard process of 3rd party threat assessment as practiced today is both time consuming and expensive. Cynet changes the rules of the game with a free threat assessment...

Advanced Breach Protection Demystified – Untold Truths On Security Beyond AV

Doing business in today's connected world means dealing with a continually evolving threat landscape. With potential losses due to downtime following a breach, plus valuable client and proprietary information at risk, most organizations realize they cannot afford to be complacent. This puts extra...

Advanced Breach Protection Demystified – Untold Truths On Security Beyond AV

Doing business in today's connected world means dealing with a continually evolving threat landscape. With potential losses due to downtime following a breach, plus valuable client and proprietary information at risk, most organizations realize they cannot afford to be complacent. This puts extra...

RSA Conference 2019: The Expanding Automation Platform Attack Surface

SAN FRANCISCO – Automation platforms are increasingly being used to chain multiple IoT devices together to create user-friendly smart applications – but that’s also creating unpredictable attack surfaces that can be hard to manage. A Trend Micro report released at RSA Conference 2019 warns that...

[SECURITY] Fedora 28 Update: mingw-SDL2_image-2.0.4-1.fc28

Simple DirectMedia Layer SDL2 is a cross-platform multimedia library designed to provide fast access to the graphics frame buffer and audio device. This package contains a simple library for loading images of various formats BMP, PPM, PCX, GIF, JPEG, PNG as SDL2 surfaces...

Embracing the Cybersecurity ‘Grey Space’

It is just as tiring for security teams to keep saying “No” as it is for every other department to keep hearing it. To preserve some level of smooth operations in an organization, security teams need to find a way to let employees move data around while still protecting digital assets like IP and...

The 4 Building Blocks of Digital Threat Hunting Every Business Needs to Know

There was a time when no one could predict the weather – the only way you knew if a blizzard or heat wave was coming was by observing the snowflakes start to fall or the heat inch towards the unbearable. That changed when technology was developed to help people anticipate and prepare for extreme...

Preparing for Shadow OT: A Hospital Case Study

The convergence of IT and OT is happening more rapidly than IT expects. Once upon a time, IT was so expensive that enterprises built entire departments to prioritize spending and efficiently manage those costly investments. Now, IT is so inexpensive that any individual who wants IT can buy it or...

Google Chrome - Swiftshader Blitting Floating-Point Precision Errors

Google Chrome - Swiftshader Blitting Floating-Point Precision Errors getInternalFormat == FORMATNULL return; ifblitReactorsource, sourceRect, dest, destRect, options return; SliceRectF sRect = sourceRect; SliceRect dRect = destRect; bool flipX = destRect.x0 destRect.x1; bool flipY = destRect.y0...

Adapting “The Pilot’s Checklist” to the Cybersecurity Space

More and more often, we hear about another high-profile cybersecurity breach or ransomware attack at a large, well-known organization. Cybersecurity breaches seem to be inevitable at this juncture. While reading about these events, one thing is painfully clear: cybersecurity practitioners are...

Critical Infrastructure at Risk: Advanced Actors Target Smart Install Client

Update: 4/9 Cisco PSIRT has released additional guidance available here. Cisco has recently become aware of specific advanced actors targeting Cisco switches by leveraging a protocol misuse issue in the Cisco Smart Install Client. Several incidents in multiple countries, including some specifical...

CVE-2017-6507

An issue was discovered in AppArmor before 2.12. Incorrect handling of unknown AppArmor profiles in AppArmor init scripts, upstart jobs, and/or systemd unit files allows an attacker to possibly have increased attack surfaces of processes that were intended to be confined by AppArmor. This is due ...