Security culture improving in businesses despite factors holding teams back

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The vast majority of CISOs have observed positive security culture gains in their organizations in the last year despite a perceived dip in the quality of overall security posture, according to the 10th annual Information Security Maturity Report published by ClubCISO and Telstra Purple. The research surveyed 182 members of ClubCISO, a global community of information security leaders working in public and private sector companies. The paper paints an optimistic picture of organizational security with CISOs reporting a drop in reported material breaches compared to the year before, while 60% state that leadership endorsement has been a major influence in improving organizational security culture.

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CVE-2022-4149

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The Netskope client service (prior to R96) on Windows runs as NT AUTHORITYSYSTEM which writes log files to a writable directory (C:UsersPublicnetSkope) for a standard user. The files are created and written with a SYSTEM account except one file (logplaceholder) which inherits permission giving all users full access control list. Netskope client restricts access to this file by allowing only read permissions as a standard user. Whenever the Netskope client service restarts, it deletes the logplaceholder and recreates, creating a race condition, which can be exploited by a malicious local user to create the file and set ACL permissions on the file. Once the file is created by a malicious user with proper ACL permissions, all files within C:UsersPublicnetSkope becomes modifiable by the unprivileged user. By using Windows pseudo-symlink, these files can be pointed to other places in the system and thus malicious users will be able to elevate privileges.

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