eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Container security is the combination of cybersecurity tools, strategies, and best practices that are used to protect container ecosystems and the applications and other components they house. Examples of container networking and virtualization tools include VMWare NSX and HAProxy.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 28, 2021

The US government has published a software library called six-library designed to parse and manipulate satellite imagery and data for both internal and public use. When examining six-library for potential entry points for fuzzing I kept the following in mind: Look for functions amenable to consuming raw binary data.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 28, 2021

The US government has published a software library called six-library designed to parse and manipulate satellite imagery and data for both internal and public use. When examining six-library for potential entry points for fuzzing I kept the following in mind: Look for functions amenable to consuming raw binary data.

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Collibra

JANUARY 9, 2024

In today’s world, data drives many of the decisions made by federal and state government agencies. Recently many agencies have started to discuss how data mesh strategies, focused on a decentralized data landscape and distributed domain-oriented data products, can help make better use of data and speed up decision making.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 19, 2020

As part of a recent initiative at ForAllSecure to analyze more open source software with Mayhem, a next-generation fuzzing solution, we decided to investigate some cryptographic libraries. Why Crypto Libraries? Why look at crypto libraries? Fuzzing MatrixSSL. We chose to look at parsing x509 certificates. include "x509.h"

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CILIP

MARCH 28, 2021

Here he speaks to Information Professional Editor Rob Green about how librarians and library services are now a central part of that function, and how the library service is supporting the wider needs of the Department. s library services more directly within the DWP?s Trevor recently incorporated the department?s Trevor says.

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CILIP

APRIL 15, 2024

CILIP Copyright COnference 2024 By Gary Horrocks THE summer 2023 issue of UKeiG’s open access journal, eLucidate , featured my reflections on the implications of a Members’ Day presentation by Ken Chad on the “library technology ecosystem". Ken notes there is “a dichotomy between the provision of library resources and learning resources.”

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ForAllSecure

MAY 19, 2020

As part of a recent initiative at ForAllSecure to analyze more open source software with Mayhem, a next-generation fuzzing solution, we decided to investigate some cryptographic libraries. Why Crypto Libraries? Why look at crypto libraries? Fuzzing MatrixSSL. We chose to look at parsing x509 certificates. include "x509.h"

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ForAllSecure

MAY 19, 2020

As part of a recent initiative at ForAllSecure to analyze more open source software with Mayhem, a next-generation fuzzing solution, we decided to investigate some cryptographic libraries. Why Crypto Libraries? Why look at crypto libraries? Fuzzing MatrixSSL. We chose to look at parsing x509 certificates. include "x509.h"

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Security Affairs

JUNE 12, 2019

Tavis Ormandy, a white hat hacker Google Project Zero announced to have found a zero-day flaw in the SymCrypt cryptographic library of Microsoft’s operating system. Obviously, lots of software that processes untrusted content (like antivirus) call these routines on untrusted data, and this will cause them to deadlock.”

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Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2022

“Unlike other threats that hijack shared libraries by modifying the environment variable LD_PRELOAD, this malware uses 2 different ways to load the malicious library. SO file) that can be placed either in persistent storage, for example /lib/libntpVnQE6mk/, or in shim-memory under /dev/shm/ldx/. Pierluigi Paganini.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 1, 2024

While most issues can be fixed through prompt patching and updating, a few remain unfixed and may require more significant changes to the security stack to block possible attacks. March 22, 2024 Emergency Out-of-Band Windows Server Security Updates Type of vulnerability (or attack): Memory leak. Upgrade versions 7.2.0 through 7.2.2

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Security Affairs

JULY 12, 2021

For the third time in the past four months, LinkedIn seems to have experienced another massive data scrape conducted by a malicious actor. Once again, an archive of data collected from hundreds of millions of LinkedIn user profiles surfaced on a hacker forum, where it’s currently being sold for an undisclosed sum.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Multiple flaws in the Log4J library are scaring organizations worldwide while threat actors are already exploiting them. While the experts were warning that threat actors are actively attempting to exploit a second vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-45046 , disclosed in the Log4j library a third security vulnerability made the headlines.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Experts warn that threat actors are actively attempting to exploit a second bug disclosed in the popular Log4j logging library. American web infrastructure and website security company Cloudflare warns that threat actors are actively attempting to exploit a second vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-45046 , disclosed in the Log4j library.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 27, 2024

Modern Cryptography -- The Journey madhav Tue, 05/28/2024 - 05:04 Cryptography has been the backbone of security in our digital world, and it continues to grow in importance as more services, capabilities, and in fact, our lives become ever more digital. I am, of course, referring to the foundation of all digital security.

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AIIM

JULY 15, 2021

There are certain outcomes to be aware of and avoid : Implementation is Half Baked: Maybe security is not thought through. Sensitive Data is Compromised: Without proper security precautions, data can be exposed to the wrong groups or employees, or even shared outside of your organization. Tip #1: Planning is Everything.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 5, 2023

. “In 2022, governments fought wars online, businesses were affected by multiple ransomware gangs, and regular users’ data was constantly on hackers’ radars,” said NordVPN CTO Marijus Briedis. 2023, he predicted, “will not be any easier when it comes to keeping users’ data safe and private.”

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 8, 2021

How will we scale security testing in tandem with the rate at which code is developed and deployed? Integrating fuzzing as a part of your DevOps pipeline can deliver big results: security and development alignment, shortened feedback and testing cycles, and clear insight into what is -- and isn’t -- being tested.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 27, 2023

But in addition to vastly improved reasoning and visual capabilities, GPT-4 also retains many of ChatGPT’s security and privacy issues , in some cases even enhancing them. They presented this summary of those exploits — the thumbs up means those capabilities have been enhanced in GPT-4: ChatGPT security issues carried over to GPT-4.

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2021

Experts found a DB containing sensitive health insurance data belonging to customers of US insurance giant Humana. An SQL database containing what appears to be highly sensitive health insurance data of more than 6,000 patients has been leaked on a popular hacker forum. Who had access to the data? What was leaked?

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 11, 2022

Intezer Labs security researchers have identified a sophisticated new malware that targets Linux devices. The module hooks functions called in shared libraries, which is pretty common for malware, but it also implements “advanced evasion techniques” and “remote capabilities over SSH.”. ” See the Best Open Source Security Tools.

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Security Affairs

JULY 1, 2021

About a week after scraped data from more than 700 million LinkedIn profiles were put for sale online , it seems that threat actors have no intention of stopping their abuse of the social media platform’s scrape-friendly systems. Our teams have investigated a set of alleged LinkedIn data that has been posted for sale.

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erwin

JUNE 26, 2020

If you’re serious about a data-driven strategy , you’re going to need a data catalog. Organizations need a data catalog because it enables them to create a seamless way for employees to access and consume data and business assets in an organized manner. This also diminishes the value of data as an asset.

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Security Affairs

JULY 1, 2023

Avast released a free decryptor for the Akira ransomware that can allow victims to recover their data without paying the ransom. Cybersecurity firm Avast released a free decryptor for the Akira ransomware that can allow victims to recover their data without paying the ransom. The authors used Microsoft Linker version 14.35.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 25, 2022

The malicious packages, which were reported to PyPI, are: loglib-modules — appears to target developers familiar with the legitimate ‘loglib’ library. pyg-modules — appears to target developers familiar with the legitimate ‘pyg’ library. ” reads the post published by Sonatype. com:8000/upload.

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Lenny Zeltser

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The notion that security is everyone’s responsibility in computer systems dates back to at least the early 1980s when it was included in a US Navy training manual and hearings in the US House of Representatives. Behind the pithy slogan is the idea that every person in the organization contributes to its security program.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 25, 2024

GoFetch side-channel attack can extract secret keys from constant-time cryptographic implementations via data memory-dependent prefetchers (DMPs). Data memory-dependent prefetchers (DMPs) are a type of hardware optimization technique used in modern processors to improve performance. ” said the researchers.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2021

Days after a massive Facebook data leak made the headlines, 500 million LinkedIn users are being sold online, seller leaked 2 million records as proof. To see if your email address has been exposed in this data leak or other security breaches, use our personal data leak checker with a library of 15+ billion breached records.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

They’re particularly dangerous because it’s difficult for security or development teams to see an XSS vulnerability, and it’s also hard to see the effects of an attack until the ensuing breach is well underway. The new malicious code is designed to steal data — like cookies or credentials — from that web application.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 12, 2021

Cyber security risk assessments are essential for organisations to protect themselves from malicious attacks and data breaches. In the example above, organisations would almost certainly address any risk that scored 12 or more but accept risks that scored 3 or less. But what exactly does a risk assessment do?

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Imagine walking into the largest library you’ve ever seen. Fortunately, the library has a computer at the front desk you can use to search its entire inventory by title, author, genre, and more. For example, data catalogs have evolved to deliver governance capabilities like managing data quality and data privacy and compliance.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 29, 2023

However, as with any software component, APIs are also prone to security vulnerabilities that can be exploited by attackers. API security is an ongoing process that demands continual attention and effort from everyone on the development team. They allow third-party developers to access an organization's software data or functions.

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2024

Some of the email attachment names used in the attacks are: SUMMARIZE SPECIAL ORDERS FOR PROMOTIONS CY2023 Data Doc Startechup_fINAL The payload employed in the attacks is a backdoor named SerialPktdoor, however, in March 2024, the researchers observed the threat actors using a new initial access archive files. ” reads the report.

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Preservica

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Preservica’s Cloud Edition for Consortia delivers value of complete Preservica offering for budget-strapped Academic Libraries. FLO helps its members with library systems, resource sharing and technical support, as well as fostering community collaboration and statewide recognition.

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 11, 2024

The ability to process encrypted data without decryption marks a pivotal advancement, promising to revolutionize diverse fields. Solutions to challenges must be written by using known cryptographic libraries such as openFHE. One of its notable applications lies in enhancing medical AI models.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 13, 2018

In the days following revelations last September that big-three consumer credit bureau Equifax had been hacked and relieved of personal data on nearly 150 million people , many Americans no doubt felt resigned and powerless to control their information. ” West said she’s surprised more people aren’t following her example.

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