Top MSPs challenges in 2021

If one searches for ‘the top MSP challenges’ between 2017 and 2020, there are mainly five things that are more likely to emerge from the search results: adopting cloud-based solutions, sales margins, satisfying complex client’s needs, employee turnover, and the scalability of the IT security...

Rohan Kumar kubernetes-client 路径遍历漏洞

Rohan Kumar kubernetes-client is an open source application by Rohan Kumar. Provides smooth DSL access to the full Kubernetes and OpenShift REST APIs. A security vulnerability exists in fabric8 kubernetes-client in version 4.2.0 and after, which stems from the copy command lifting files outside o...

[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: buildah-1.19.6-2.fc33

The buildah package provides a command line tool which can be used to create a working container from scratch or create a working container from an image as a starting point mount/umount a working container's root file system for manipulation save container's root file system layer to create a ne...

How to Fight Business Email Compromise (BEC) with Email Authentication?

An ever-evolving and rampant form of cybercrime that targets emails as the potential medium to conduct fraud is known as Business Email Compromise. Targeting commercial, government as well as non-profit organizations, BEC can lead to huge amounts of data loss, security breach, and compromised...

AppSec Bites: What Opportunities Does Remote Working Create for AppSec Teams? (Part 3)

Its no secret that the pandemic has shifted the operational mindset of many organizations as we adapted to a fully remote workspace. In additional to this, many businesses were subjected to tighter budgets, compelling them to find ways to be more efficient and cost effective. The automation of...

Extortion, precision malware, and ruthless scams. Read the State of Malware 2021 report

Last year, threat actors took advantage of the COVID-19 public health crisis in a way previously considered unimaginable, not only preying on uncertainty and fear during the initial months of the global pandemic, but retooling attack methods, reneging on promises, strengthening malware, and...

Phishing: Holiday Season Attacks on the Rise

Overview Phishing continues to be a major attack vector, and it's surprising just how many security incidents and breaches start with an employee clicking on a link in a carefully crafted phishing email and sometimes doing the same with a not-so-well crafted phishing email -- see this example...

Why Human Error is #1 Cyber Security Threat to Businesses in 2021

Phishing and Malware Among the major cyber threats, the malware remains a significant danger. The 2017 WannaCry outbreak that cost businesses worldwide up to $4 billion is still in recent memory, and other new strains of malware are discovered on a daily basis. Phishing has also seen a resurgence...

Why Human Error is #1 Cyber Security Threat to Businesses in 2021

Phishing and Malware Among the major cyber threats, the malware remains a significant danger. The 2017 WannaCry outbreak that cost businesses worldwide up to $4 billion is still in recent memory, and other new strains of malware are discovered on a daily basis. Phishing has also seen a resurgence...

CVE-2021-20218

A flaw was found in the fabric8 kubernetes-client in version 4.2.0 and after. This flaw allows a malicious pod/container to cause applications using the fabric8 kubernetes-client copy command to extract files outside the working path. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to integrity and...

Privacy predictions for 2021

2020 saw an unprecedented increase in the importance and value of digital services and infrastructure. From the rise of remote working and the global shift in consumer habits to huge profits booked by internet entertainers, we are witnessing how overwhelmingly important the connected infrastructu...

Dutch Insider Attack on COVID-19 Data

Insider data theft: Dutch police have arrested two individuals on Friday for allegedly selling data from the Dutch health ministrys COVID-19 systems on the criminal underground. … According to Verlaan, the two suspects worked in DDG call centers, where they had access to official Dutch government...

Missing Link in a 'Zero Trust' Security Model—The Device You're Connecting With!

Like it or not, 2020 was the year that proved that teams could work from literally anywhere. While terms like "flex work" and "WFH" were thrown around before COVID-19 came around, thanks to the pandemic, remote working has become the defacto way people work nowadays. Today, digital-based work...

Cybercriminals want your cloud services accounts, CISA warns

On January 13 the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA issued a warning about several recent successful cyberattacks on various organizations’ cloud services. What methods did the attackers use? In the initial phase, the victims were targeted by phishing emails trying to capture...

Inbox Attacks: The Miserable Year (2020) That Was

Purging your inbox has become a year-end tradition for many. A short hiatus for the holidays often provides a quiet moment to flush the previous year’s mountain of spam. And, from the looks of our 2020 inbox, years of herculean efforts to harden email defenses have fallen short. The most-targeted...

Oppo SM8250 Buffer Error Vulnerability

The Oppo SM8250 is a driver for the Snapdragon 855 chip from the Chinese company Oppo. OPPO has a buffer error vulnerability that originates from /SM8250QMaster/android/vendor/oppocharger/oppo/chargeric/oppoda9313.c, which fails to check the parameter buf when writing in proc working mode to writ...

Gohugoio Hugo Operating System Command Injection Vulnerability

Gohugoio Hugo is a framework from the Gohugoio community based on the Go language for rapid generation of static sites. An operating system command injection vulnerability exists in Hugo versions prior to 0.79.1, which stems from the fact that if a malicious file exe or bat of the same name is...

Canonical Snapcraft Code Issue Vulnerability

Canonical Snapcraft is a software application store for Linux systems from Canonical UK. Snapcraft suffers from a code issue vulnerability that can be exploited by an attacker to run code by searching for Snapcraft via the current directory path...

Changing Employee Security Behavior Takes More Than Simple Awareness

Security awareness rarely leads to sustained behavior change on its own, according to a recent analysis – meaning that organizations need to proactively develop a robust “human-centered” security program to reduce the number of security incidents associated with poor security behavior. According ...

Major BEC Phishing Ring Cracked Open with 3 Arrests

Three men suspected of participating in a massive business email compromise BEC ring have been arrested in Lagos, Nigeria. A joint INTERPOL, Group-IB and Nigeria Police Force cybercrime investigation resulted in the arrest of the Nigerian nationals, believed to be responsible for distributing...