HackerOne: [ Spot Check ] Team members can edit a user's write-up

Team members could edit a user's spot check write-up. The write-up could be modified through a GraphQL request, even though there was no option to edit the write-up in the user interface. This was considered unintended functionality, as HackerOne had previously fixed vulnerabilities where team...

On the Zero-Day Market

New paper: "Zero Progress on Zero Days: How the Last Ten Years Created the Modern Spyware Market": Abstract: Spyware makes surveillance simple. The last ten years have seen a global market emerge for ready-made software that lets governments surveil their citizens and foreign adversaries alike an...

AI Trust Risk and Security Management: Why Tackle Them Now?

Co-authored by Sabeen Malik and Laura Ellis In the evolving world of artificial intelligence AI, keeping our customers secure and maintaining their trust is our top priority. As AI technologies integrate more deeply into our daily operations and services, they bring a set of unique challenges tha...

Rapid7 Signs 100% Talent Compact with Boston Women’s Workforce Council

The effort aims to help close gender and racial pay gaps Rapid7 is proud to announce their signing of the 100% Talent Compact through the Boston Women’s Workforce Council BWWC. The Talent Compact is a collective effort among the Boston Mayor and local employers to close the gender and racial wage...

Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in moment.js affect IBM Storage Scale

Summary There are multiple vulnerabilities in moment.js, used by IBM Storage Scale HDFS transparency, which can cause a denial of service or allow a remote attacker to traverse directories on the system. CVE-2017-18214, CVE-2022-24785, CVE-2016-4055, CVE-2022-31129. Vulnerability Details...

CISO Perspectives on Complying with Cybersecurity Regulations

Compliance requirements are meant to increase cybersecurity transparency and accountability. As cyber threats increase, so do the number of compliance frameworks and the specificity of the security controls, policies, and activities they include. For CISOs and their teams, that means compliance i...

BIT-COSIGN-2024-29903 Cosign vulnerable to machine-wide denial of service via malicious artifacts

Cosign provides code signing and transparency for containers and binaries. Prior to version 2.2.4, maliciously-crafted software artifacts can cause denial of service of the machine running Cosign thereby impacting all services on the machine. The root cause is that Cosign creates slices based on...

CVE-2024-29902

Cosign provides code signing and transparency for containers and binaries. Prior to version 2.2.4, a remote image with a malicious attachment can cause denial of service of the host machine running Cosign. This can impact other services on the machine that rely on having memory available such as ...

CVE-2024-29903 Cosign vulnerable to machine-wide denial of service via malicious artifacts

Cosign provides code signing and transparency for containers and binaries. Prior to version 2.2.4, maliciously-crafted software artifacts can cause denial of service of the machine running Cosign thereby impacting all services on the machine. The root cause is that Cosign creates slices based on...

CVE-2024-29902 Cosign vulnerable to system-wide denial of service via malicious attachments

Cosign provides code signing and transparency for containers and binaries. Prior to version 2.2.4, a remote image with a malicious attachment can cause denial of service of the host machine running Cosign. This can impact other services on the machine that rely on having memory available such as ...

Toward greater transparency: Adopting the CWE standard for Microsoft CVEs

At the Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC, our mission is to protect our customers, communities, and Microsoft from current and emerging threats to security and privacy. One way we achieve this is by determining the root cause of security vulnerabilities in Microsoft products and services. W...

Public AI as an Alternative to Corporate AI

This mini-essay was my contribution to a round table on Power and Governance in the Age of AI. Its nothing I havent said here before, but for anyone who hasnt read my longer essays on the topic, its a shorter introduction. The increasingly centralized control of AI is an ominous sign. When tech...

Essays from the Second IWORD

The Ash Center has posted a series of twelve essays stemming from the Second Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reimagining Democracy IWORD 2023. Aviv Ovadya, Democracy as Approximation: A Primer for “AI for Democracy” Innovators Kathryn Peters, Permission and Participation Claudia Chwalisz, Moving...

BIT-COSIGN-2022-36056 Vulnerabilities with blob verification in sigstore cosign

Cosign is a project under the sigstore organization which aims to make signatures invisible infrastructure. In versions prior to 1.12.0 a number of vulnerabilities have been found in cosign verify-blob, where Cosign would successfully verify an artifact when verification should have failed. First...

GHSA-8R3F-844C-MC37 vulnerabilities

Vulnerabilities for packages: certificate-transparency, configmap-reload, newrelic-infrastructure-agent, kaniko, kubernetes-csi-driver-hostpath, minio, thanos-operator, cass-operator, aactl, gh, trivy, ctop, falcoctl, crossplane-provider-family-azure, amass, metrics-server, helm-operator, velero,...

Fedora: Security Advisory for gifsicle (FEDORA-2024-4672c1ff2d)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

4 Instructive Postmortems on Data Downtime and Loss

More than a decade ago, the concept of the 'blameless' postmortem changed how tech companies recognize failures at scale. John Allspaw, who coined the term during his tenure at Etsy, argued postmortems were all about controlling our natural reaction to an incident, which is to point fingers: "One...

[SECURITY] Fedora 38 Update: gifsicle-1.95-1.fc38

Gifsicle is a command-line tool for creating, editing, and getting information about GIF images and animations. Some more gifsicle features: Batch mode for changing GIFs in place. Prints detailed information about GIFs, including comments. Control over interlacing, comments, looping,...

A Comprehensive Assessment of the General Personal Data Protection Law (LGPD)

Most nations need to protect sensitive data for any number of reasons. Assuring legal compliance, protecting national security, preventing abuse and prejudice, improving global competitiveness, and upholding ethical standards are all vital requirements. Data privacy enhances the safety, security,...

Siemens Location Intelligence Uses Hard-Coded Credentials Vulnerability

Location Intelligence is a web-based application that creates transparency in production and logistics processes based on location data, thus uncovering optimization potential. Siemens Location Intelligence suffers from a Use Hardcoded Credentials vulnerability that can be exploited by an attacke...