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Content tagged with Cloud posted in August 2016
How Not To Pay A Ransom: 3 Tips For Enterprise Security Pros
Commentary  |  8/31/2016  | 
At the most basic level, organizations must understand their data, the entry points, and who has access. But don’t forget to keep your backup systems up to date.
6 Ways To Hack An Election
Commentary  |  8/30/2016  | 
Threats to our electoral process can come from outside the country or nefarious insiders. Our country needs to be better prepared.
US Think Tanks Involved In Russia Research Allegedly Hacked
Quick Hits  |  8/30/2016  | 
Russia-backed DNC hacker COZY BEAR behind these spearphish attacks on individuals and organizations, says CrowdStrike.
Report: Hackers Breach Two State Election Databases, FBI Warns
Quick Hits  |  8/29/2016  | 
FBI's need-to-know-only advisory doesn't specify, but Yahoo News' sources say it refers to 'suspected foreign hackers' targeting voter registration databases in Arizona and Illinois.
The Hidden Dangers Of 'Bring Your Own Body'
Commentary  |  8/26/2016  | 
The use of biometric data is on the rise, causing new security risks that must be assessed and addressed.
When Securing Your Applications, Seeing Is Believing
Commentary  |  8/24/2016  | 
While the cloud is amazing, a worrying lack of visibility goes along with it. Keep that in mind as you develop your security approach.
CISO Security ‘Portfolios’ Vs. Reporting Structures
Commentary  |  8/23/2016  | 
Organizational structure is a tool for driving action. Worrying about your boss’s title won’t help you as much as a better communication framework.
Hacktivists Take Aim At Olympics Broadcast Service
Quick Hits  |  8/22/2016  | 
Broadcasts and images of Games left intact, but employee contact information apparently breached.
FireEye Probes Suspected Breach Of Clinton Charity Site: Sources
Quick Hits  |  8/19/2016  | 
Officials say attackers reportedly employed same technique as used in Russia-backed hacking of Democratic Party groups.
Darknet: Where Your Stolen Identity Goes to Live
Commentary  |  8/19/2016  | 
Almost everything is available on the Darknet -- drugs, weapons, and child pornography -- but where it really excels is as an educational channel for beginning identity thieves.
5 Strategies For Enhancing Targeted Security Monitoring
Commentary  |  8/18/2016  | 
These examples will help you improve early incident detection results.
User Ed: Patching People Vs Vulns
Commentary  |  8/17/2016  | 
How infosec can combine and adapt security education and security defenses to the way users actually do their jobs.
Security Must Become Driving Force For Auto Industry
Commentary  |  8/17/2016  | 
Digital security hasn’t kept pace in this always-connected era. Is infosec up to the challenge?
Poorly Configured DNSSEC = Potential DDoS Weapon
News  |  8/16/2016  | 
New research from Neustar shows how attackers could abuse DNSSEC-secured domains for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
Dark Reading Radio: What Keeps IT Security Pros Awake at Night
Commentary  |  8/16/2016  | 
Join us for a wide-ranging discussion with (ISC)² Chief Exec David Shearer on the most worrisome infosec trends and challenges.
DDoS Attack On Aussie Swimming Site Linked To Horton-Sun Yang Feud
Quick Hits  |  8/15/2016  | 
Cyberattack soon after Australian swimmer accuses Chinese rival of being a ‘drug cheat.'
6 Things To Know For Securing Amazon Web Services
Slideshows  |  8/13/2016  | 
AWS is coming out with more new cloud security features.
Trouble In the Cloud: More Than Half Of Organizations Facing Security Woes
News  |  8/12/2016  | 
Survey shows security professionals are grappling with unauthorized data sharing and other security incidents in SaaS cloud environments.
Global Businesses Ask China To Revise Draft Cyber Rules
Quick Hits  |  8/12/2016  | 
Security may weaken, economic growth hampered, if draft made into law, say 46 businesses in letter to Li Keqiang.
Substantially Above Par: DR Cartoon Caption Contest Winners
Commentary  |  8/12/2016  | 
Critical vulnerabilities, links & virtual reality. And the winner is...
The Future Of ATM Hacking
News  |  8/11/2016  | 
Research released at Black Hat USA last week shows that one of our best defenses for the future of payment card and ATM security isn't infallible. Here's why.
Bitcoins Forfeited In Silk Road Cases To Be Auctioned
Quick Hits  |  8/9/2016  | 
US Marshals Service to sell 2,719 bitcoins worth around $1.6 million on August 22 -- bidders must register by August 18.
Newly Announced Chipset Vuln Affects 900 Million Android Devices
News  |  8/8/2016  | 
Check Point Research Team details four vulnerabilities that can easily lead to full privilege escalation.
Data Protection From The Inside Out
Commentary  |  8/8/2016  | 
Organizations must make fundamental changes in the way they approach data protection.
New Internet Security Domains Debut
News  |  8/5/2016  | 
Meet the new .security and .protection domains.
Dark Reading News Desk Coming Back To Black Hat, Live
News  |  8/4/2016  | 
Live from Las Vegas: over 40 video interviews with Black Hat USA conference speakers and sponsors. Wednesday Aug. 3, Thursday Aug, 4, starting at 2 p.m. ET.
Best Of Black Hat Innovation Awards: And The Winners Are…
Commentary  |  8/3/2016  | 
Three companies and leaders who think differently about security: Deep Instinct, most innovative startup; Vectra, most innovative emerging company; Paul Vixie, most innovative thought leader.
Kaminsky Creates Prototype To Lock Out Attackers
News  |  8/3/2016  | 
Security expert warns the Internet could be lost to regulators and hackers if industry doesn't start locking down security.


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CVE-2023-33196
PUBLISHED: 2023-05-26
Craft is a CMS for creating custom digital experiences. Cross site scripting (XSS) can be triggered by review volumes. This issue has been fixed in version 4.4.7.
CVE-2023-33185
PUBLISHED: 2023-05-26
Django-SES is a drop-in mail backend for Django. The django_ses library implements a mail backend for Django using AWS Simple Email Service. The library exports the `SESEventWebhookView class` intended to receive signed requests from AWS to handle email bounces, subscriptions, etc. These requests ar...
CVE-2023-33187
PUBLISHED: 2023-05-26
Highlight is an open source, full-stack monitoring platform. Highlight may record passwords on customer deployments when a password html input is switched to `type="text"` via a javascript "Show Password" button. This differs from the expected behavior which always obfuscates `ty...
CVE-2023-33194
PUBLISHED: 2023-05-26
Craft is a CMS for creating custom digital experiences on the web.The platform does not filter input and encode output in Quick Post validation error message, which can deliver an XSS payload. Old CVE fixed the XSS in label HTML but didn’t fix it when clicking save. This issue was...
CVE-2023-2879
PUBLISHED: 2023-05-26
GDSDB infinite loop in Wireshark 4.0.0 to 4.0.5 and 3.6.0 to 3.6.13 allows denial of service via packet injection or crafted capture file