How Facebook’s Anti-Revenge Porn Tools Failed Katie Hill

Despite automated systems and zero tolerance policies, it's easy to find photos of the former representative weeks after they were published without her consent...

If You Don’t Have 2, You Don’t Have 1

If You Don’t Have 2, You Don’t Have 1 “If you don’t have 2, you don’t have 1” is something you hear often in our engineering group. This is our team’s way of stressing the importance of persistence in data engineering. If a stream goes down, you lose it. You have to get confirmation that data is...

Powering Low Latency Live Streaming

Live streaming has grown immensely over the years. Today, we can watch live events from all around the world via our laptops, mobile phones, set-top-boxes, Smart TVs, and other connected devices. A big challenge with live streaming is achieving the same level of availability as over-the-air...

DEBIAN-CVE-2019-6462

An issue was discovered in cairo 1.16.0. There is an infinite loop in the function arcerrornormalized in the file cairo-arc.c, related to arcmaxanglefortolerancenormalized...

ALPINE-CVE-2019-6462

An issue was discovered in cairo 1.16.0. There is an infinite loop in the function arcerrornormalized in the file cairo-arc.c, related to arcmaxanglefortolerancenormalized...

UBUNTU-CVE-2019-6462

An issue was discovered in cairo 1.16.0. There is an infinite loop in the function arcerrornormalized in the file cairo-arc.c, related to arcmaxanglefortolerancenormalized...

Oracle Re-Patches Decade-Old Solaris Bug

Oracle has issued three fixes for a critical Solaris vulnerability that could allow kernel-level privilege escalation. Impacted are the Solaris 10 and 11.3 operating environments. Sun Microsystems now owned by Oracle originally patched the vulnerability in 2009. But, a “re-fix” is now required,...

Low: Red Hat Security Advisory: erlang security update

An update for erlang is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 Newton. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability...

The First Question(s) Today’s CEOs Should Ask (& Know the Answers To)

In a previous blog, we discussed Commander's Intent for CEOs and introduced 10 questions CEOs should be asking their teams. In this blog series, I am going to take a deeper dive into each question and break them down one at a time. We will discuss why CEOs should care about each question and the...

[SECURITY] Fedora 26 Update: erlang-19.3.6.4-1.fc26

Erlang is a general-purpose programming language and runtime environment. Erlang has built-in support for concurrency, distribution and fault tolerance. Erlang is used in several large telecommunication systems from Ericsson...

Design/Logic Flaw

When the 'bgp-error-tolerance' feature " designed to help mitigate remote session resets from malformed path attributes " is enabled, a BGP UPDATE containing a specifically crafted set of transitive attributes can cause the RPD routing process to crash and restart. Devices with BGP enabled that d...

CVE-2017-10618

When the 'bgp-error-tolerance' feature " designed to help mitigate remote session resets from malformed path attributes " is enabled, a BGP UPDATE containing a specifically crafted set of transitive attributes can cause the RPD routing process to crash and restart. Devices with BGP enabled that d...

PT-2017-11413

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Junos OS versions 13.3 prior to 13.3R10-S2 Junos OS versions 14.1 prior to 14.1R8-S4, 14.1R9 Junos OS versions 14.1X50 prior to 14.1X50-D185 Junos OS versions 14.1X53 prior to 14.1X53-D45, 14.1X53-D50 Junos OS versions 14.2 prior to 14.2R7-S7,...

CVE-2017-10618: Undefined Security Weakness

When the 'bgp-error-tolerance' feature â€" designed to help mitigate remote session resets from malformed path attributes â€" is enabled, a BGP UPDATE containing a specifically crafted set of transitive attributes can cause the RPD routing process to crash and restart. Devices with BGP enabled th...

Schneider Electric Pelco Sarix/Spectra Cameras CSRF Enable SSH Root Access Vulnerability

Pelco IP cameras suffer from a cross site request forgery vulnerability. The application interface allows users to perform certain actions via HTTP requests without performing any validity checks to verify the requests. This can be exploited to perform certain actions with administrative privileg...

[SECURITY] Fedora 26 Update: erlang-19.3-2.fc26

Erlang is a general-purpose programming language and runtime environment. Erlang has built-in support for concurrency, distribution and fault tolerance. Erlang is used in several large telecommunication systems from Ericsson...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: erlang-19.3-2.fc25

Erlang is a general-purpose programming language and runtime environment. Erlang has built-in support for concurrency, distribution and fault tolerance. Erlang is used in several large telecommunication systems from Ericsson...

[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: erlang-18.3.4.5-2.fc24

Erlang is a general-purpose programming language and runtime environment. Erlang has built-in support for concurrency, distribution and fault tolerance. Erlang is used in several large telecommunication systems from Ericsson...

firewalld security, bug fix, and enhancement update

0.4.3.2-8 - Exclude firewallctl RHBZ1374799 0.4.3.2-7 - Tolerate ipv6rpfilter fail RHBZ1285769 - Fix setrules to copy the rule before extracting the table RHBZ1373260 - Translation update RHBZ1273296 - Conflict with NetworkManager 1:1.4.0-3.el7 RHBZ1366288 0.4.3.2-6 - Do not use exit code 254 for...

Password Autocorrect Without Compromising Security

Intuitively, auto-correcting passwords would seem to be a terrible idea, and the worst security-for-convenience tradeoff in technology history. But a team of academics from Cornell University, MIT and a Dropbox security engineer say that the degradation of security from the introduction of such a...