CVE-2018-10190

A vulnerability in London Trust Media Private Internet Access PIA VPN Client v77 for Windows could allow an unauthenticated, local attacker to run executable files with elevated privileges. The vulnerability is due to insufficient implementation of access controls. The "Changelog" and "Help"...

CVE-2018-10190

CVE-2018-10190 concerns London Trust Media Private Internet Access (PIA) VPN Client for Windows v77. The issue is a local privilege escalation caused by insufficient access controls: using the system tray’s Changelog/Help context menu can spawn an elevated instance of the user’s default browser, ...

Intel Processors Now Allows Antivirus to Use Built-in GPUs for Malware Scanning

Global chip-maker Intel on Tuesday announced two new technologies—Threat Detection Technology TDT and Security Essentials—that not only offer hardware-based built-in security features across Intel processors but also improve threat detection without compromising system performance. Intel's Threat...

Microsoft Office: Send Office Feedback

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: office2013sendofficefeedback.nasl 11843 2018-10-11 14:33:21Z emoss $ Check value for Send Office Feedback Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is fre...

Microsoft Office: Allow including screenshot with Office Feedback

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: office2013includescreenshotsofficefeedback.nasl 11843 2018-10-11 14:33:21Z emoss $ Check value for Allow including screenshot with Office Feedback Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

AICPA Releases New SOC 2 Guide – What You Need to Know

In March 2018, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants AICPA released its highly anticipated new System and Organization Controls 2 SOC 2 guide, which includes information for the extant 2016 trust services principles and the new 2017 trust services criteria. The following is a...

Microsoft Office: Allow mix of policy and user locations

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: office2013mixpolicyanduserlocations.nasl 11843 2018-10-11 14:33:21Z emoss $ Check value for Allow mix of policy and user locations Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Microsoft Office: Disable all Trust Bar notifications for security issues

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: office2013trustbarnotifications.nasl 11843 2018-10-11 14:33:21Z emoss $ Check value for Disable all Trust Bar notifications for security issues Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Akamai and Duo have announced a technology partnership for Zero Trust

Akamai continues to build a zero trust ecosystem by integrating it's Enterprise Application Access EAA with Duo's Multi-Factor Authentication MFA solution. Duo now natively integrates into EAA and augments access with push-based MFA, phone call delivery of MFA tokens, and additional device level...

Microsoft Device Guard Remote Security Bypass Vulnerability

Microsoft Windows 10, Windows Server 2016, and Windows Server Version 1709 are products of Microsoft Corporation.Microsoft Windows 10 is a cross-platform operating system for PCs and devices such as laptops, tablets, and phones.Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server Version 1709 are server...

Climbing the Ladder: Zero Trust, Single Sign-On, Multiple Applications

It is understood that there is a significant amount of complexity to securing today's enterprise, especially as more services and applications move to the cloud and a Zero Trust security model is employed. We at Akamai are actively engaged in helping enterprises adjust to a Zero Trust security...

A Deep Dive into Database Attacks [Part IV]: Delivery and Execution of Malicious Executables through SQL Commands (MySQL)

In a previous post we covered different techniques for execution of SQL and OS commands through Microsoft SQL server that can be used for delivering and executing malicious payloads on the target system. In this post we’ll discuss the same topic for MySQL database. Creating an executable directly...

Illuminating the Path to Digital Maturity

Research By Akamai and Forrester Sheds New Light on Digital Experience Challenges and Opportunities Nearly every business today is striving to create and deliver digital experiences that stand apart. But it's no small task turning those visions into reality. Moreover, there's little room for erro...

Carbon Black Elevated to CDW Emerging Gold Partner

I am proud to announce that CDW recently elevated Carbon Black from the “Silver” partner designation to “Emerging Gold!” This honor is a true testament to our growing partnership with CDW. It’s also a reflection of CDW’s continued commitment to endpoint security by leveraging Next-Generation...

Zero Trust and the Slowly Boiled Frog

Disclaimer: No actual frogs were harmed in the writing of the blog post. We wouldn't do that. We like frogs. What is Zero Trust Networking? The Zero Trust security model was proposed by John Kindervag of Forrester Research back in 2010. The concept is that the traditional trust model of "trust, b...

Carbon Black Strengthens Relationship with VMware, Supports Workspace ONE Trust Network

As organizations continue to move toward digital transformation, the digital workspace ecosystem of users, apps, endpoints, and networks continues to grow and evolve beyond the traditional perimeter. While the traditional perimeter dissolves, cyber threats evolve and new ones emerge. Security...

Experts Call Facebook’s Latest Controversy a Social Media ‘Breach Of Trust’

Privacy advocates are calling on all social media platforms to more responsibly handle and restrict improper access to data in the wake of Facebook’s latest controversy where it acknowledged users’ personal information had leaked through a third-party app. “People are shocked this happened, but I...

The role that regions can and should play in critical infrastructure protection

Todays report, Critical Infrastructure Protection in Latin America and the Caribbean 2018, developed in partnership between Microsoft and the Organization of American States OAS, demonstrates the value of regional cooperation in global efforts to increase the security of the online environment...

Fedora 26 : knot-resolver (2018-844a1e9778)

Knot Resolver 2.1.0 2018-02-16 ================================ Incompatible changes -------------------- - stats: remove tracking of expiring records predict uses another way - systemd: re-use a single kresd.socket and kresd-tls.socket - tasentinel: implement protocol...

Third party CSS is not safe

A few days ago there was a lot of chatter about a 'keylogger' built in CSS. Some folks called for browsers to 'fix' it. Some folks dug a bit deeper and saw that it only affected sites built in React-like frameworks, and pointed the finger at React. But the real problem is thinking that third part...