Month: August 2021
Critical Cosmos Database Flaw Affected Thousands of Microsoft Azure Customers
27 August 2021Cloud infrastructure security company Wiz on Thursday revealed details of a now-fixed Azure Cosmos database vulnerability that could have been potentially exploited to grant any Azure user full admin access to other customers’ database instances without any authorization. The flaw, which grants read, write, and delete privileges, has been dubbed “ChaosDB,” with Wiz researchers noting […]
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F5 Releases Critical Security Patch for BIG-IP and BIG-IQ Devices
27 August 2021Enterprise security and network appliance vendor F5 has released patches for more than two dozen security vulnerabilities affecting multiple versions of BIG-IP and BIG-IQ devices that could potentially allow an attacker to perform a wide range of malicious actions, including accessing arbitrary files, escalating privileges, and executing JavaScript code. Of the 29 bugs addressed, 13 […]
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The Increased Liability of Local In-home Propagation
26 August 2021Today I discuss an attack vector conducive to cross-organizational spread, in-home local propagation. Though often overlooked, this vector is especially relevant today, as many corporate employees remain working from home. In this post, I contrast in-home local propagation with traditional vectors through which a threat (ransomware in particular) spreads throughout an organization. I discuss the […]
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F5 Releases Critical Security Patches for BIG-IP and BIG-IQ Devices
26 August 2021Enterprise security and network appliance vendor F5 has released patches for more than two dozen security vulnerabilities affecting multiple versions of BIG-IP and BIG-IQ devices that could potentially allow an attacker to perform a wide range of malicious actions, including accessing arbitrary files, escalating privileges, and executing JavaScript code. Of the 29 bugs addressed, 13 […]
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New Passwordless Verification API Uses SIM Security for Zero Trust Remote Access
26 August 2021Forget watercooler conspiracies or boardroom battles. There’s a new war in the office. As companies nudge their staff to return to communal workspaces, many workers don’t actually want to – more than 50 percent of employees would rather quit, according to research by EY. While HR teams worry over the hearts and minds of staff, […]
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VMware Issues Patches to Fix New Flaws Affecting Multiple Products
26 August 2021VMware on Wednesday shipped security updates to address vulnerabilities in multiple products that could be potentially exploited by an attacker to take control of an affected system. The six security weaknesses (from CVE-2021-22022 through CVE-2021-22027, CVSS scores: 4.4 – 8.6) affect VMware vRealize Operations (prior to version 8.5.0), VMware Cloud Foundation (versions 3.x and 4.x), […]
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Critical Flaw Discovered in Cisco APIC for Switches — Patch Released
26 August 2021Cisco Systems on Wednesday issued patches to address a critical security vulnerability affecting the Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC) interface used in its Nexus 9000 Series Switches that could be potentially abused to read or write arbitrary files on a vulnerable system. Tracked as CVE-2021-1577 (CVSS score: 9.1), the issue — which is due to […]
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Preventing your Cloud ‘Secrets’ from Public Exposure: An IDE plugin solution
25 August 2021I’m sure you would agree that, in today’s digital world, the majority of applications we work on require some type of credentials – to connect to a database with a username/password, to access computer programs via authorized tokens, or API keys to invoke services for authentication. Credentials, or sometimes just referred to as ‘Secrets,’ are […]
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Researchers Uncover FIN8’s New Backdoor Targeting Financial Institutions
25 August 2021A financially motivated threat actor notorious for setting its sights on retail, hospitality, and entertainment industries has been observed deploying a completely new backdoor on infected systems, indicating the operators are continuously retooling their malware arsenal to avoid detection and stay under the radar. The previously undocumented malware has been dubbed “Sardonic” by Romanian cybersecurity […]
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B.Braun Infusomat Pumps Could Let Attackers Remotely Alter Medication Dosages
25 August 2021Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed five previously unreported security vulnerabilities affecting B. Braun’s Infusomat Space Large Volume Pump and SpaceStation that could be abused by malicious parties to tamper with medication doses without any prior authentication. McAfee, which discovered and reported the flaws to the German medical and pharmaceutical device company on January 11, 2021, said […]
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