The vulnerability is that IDToken verifier does not verify if token is properly signed. Signature verification makes sure that the token’s payload comes from valid provider, not from someone else. An attacker can provide a compromised token with custom payload. The token will pass the validation on the client side. We recommend upgrading to version 1.33.3 or above
The Security Team discovered an integer overflow bug that allows an attacker with code execution to issue memory cache invalidation operations on pages that they don’t own, allowing them to control kernel memory from userspace. We recommend upgrading to kernel version 4.1 or beyond.
Jury finds cybersecurity company violated Columbia University’s rights over two patents
Cyber-attack forces Kellogg Community College to cancel classes at five campuses
Cloud Security Posture Management solutions have become a must for detecting and fixing misconfigurations in public clouds – from code to runtime.
As organizations eagerly adopt public cloud services to digitally transform business processes, they encounter critical cloud-based vulnerabilities their legacy tools can’t address. To find and fix these software flaws, misconfigurations and identity compromises, organizations need a cloud security posture management (CSPM) solution.
First introduced years ago, CSPM offerings have gone through several innovation cycles, and are now entering mainstream status in the cloud security market. However, as often happens with in-demand technologies, the market buzz can make it hard for security leaders to separate the signal from the noise as they evaluate the options.
Worry not – we’ve got you covered.
In this blog post, we’ll explain what CSPM is, which capabilities you should look for and what questions you should ask in order to choose the right solution for your cloud security needs.
For years, organizations have been boosting their usage of public cloud infrastructure, but the adoption went into overdrive during the pandemic, as IT departments scrambled to adapt to the rise in remote work.
This trend has sped up the adoption of cloud security wares, including CSPM, which automates the detection and resolution of security and compliance issues — such as misconfigurations — in applications and services developed for and deployed in public cloud infrastructures.
At first, CSPM focused on establishing a secure configuration baseline in runtime environments and monitoring them for drift. This approach sufficed when cloud infrastructure was defined and managed in runtime.
However, a significant portion of cloud infrastructure is now defined and managed as code during the development stage, a trend that’s expected to intensify – meaning that misconfigurations are also introduced during development.
Thus, as the popularity of infrastructure-as-code (IaC) grows, CSPM solutions must be able to “shift left” to detect and resolve misconfigurations during development as well – not just in runtime.
As you evaluate CSPM offerings, make sure that they offer capabilities in these three key areas:
The CSPM solution must scan IaC during development, when code is being written, to detect and resolve misconfigurations and establish a secure baseline. This ensures that cloud infrastructure is not provisioned with risks and is “born secure.”
Important questions to ask:
What types of IaC, and which compliance and security standards are supported?
How many predefined policies are available?
How are breach paths identified and issues prioritized for resolution?
Is code automatically generated to resolve misconfigurations and create pull requests?
Which CI/CD tools does the solution integrate with?
Because users will change configurations in runtime, causing drift, the CSPM offering must continuously monitor configurations in runtime against the IaC baseline to maintain a secure environment.
Important questions to ask:
What runtime environments are supported?
Does the solution identify resource creation or termination relative to a secure baseline defined through IaC?
Does the solution identify changes to the configuration of a resource from its definition in the IaC baseline?
Does the solution apply the same set of policies in runtime that were used to assess IaC?
How does the solution identify potential breach paths in runtime and prioritize issues for resolution?
The CSPM should always refer to IaC as the single source of truth, so if a change introduces risk, the cloud instance is redeployed based on the secure IaC baseline. Otherwise, the IaC is updated to reflect the change and establish a new IaC baseline.
Important questions to ask:
When a change is made in runtime, does the solution automatically generate the code to resolve the issue?
Does the solution programmatically create pull or merge requests with the code in order to update the IaC and remediate the drift created in runtime?
We hope this information proves useful in your efforts to select the best CSPM solution for your organization. If you want a deeper dive into this topic, download our ebook “Vulnerability Management from Code To Cloud: Your Guide to Modern CSPMs” which goes into much more granular details about what to look for in a next-gen CSPM.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Google Android operating system (OS), the most severe of which could allow for escalation of privilege. Android is an operating system developed by Google for mobile devices, including, but not limited to, smartphones, tablets, and watches. Successful exploitation of the most severe of these vulnerabilities could allow for escalation of privilege. Depending on the privileges associated with this application, an attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. If this application has been configured to have fewer user rights on the system, exploitation of the most severe of these vulnerabilities could have less impact than if it was configured with administrative rights.
One of the largest library services in Germany, EKZ Bibliotheksservice, has been impacted by a ransomware attack that has left book lovers unable to rent and borrow eBooks, audio books, and electronic magazines.
Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Multiple security issues were discovered in MySQL and this update includes
new upstream MySQL versions to fix these issues.
MySQL has been updated to 8.0.29 in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 21.10, and
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Ubuntu 18.04 LTS has been updated to MySQL 5.7.38.
In addition to security fixes, the updated packages contain bug fixes, new
features, and possibly incompatible changes.
Please see the following for more information:
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/5.7/en/news-5-7-38.html
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/relnotes/mysql/8.0/en/news-8-0-29.html
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
A police car’s digital in-car video system uncovered that two Los Angeles officers ignored calls to provide assistance at a department store robbery because they were too enthralled in catching Pokémon.
Multiple series of network switches manufactured by Aruba Networks, owned by Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Avaya, owned by Extreme Networks, are vulnerable to attacks that could allow attackers to break network segmentation, exfiltrate data from internal networks to the internet, and escape captive portals. The flaws stem from mistakes made by the vendors when implementing a popular embedded TLS library.
The vulnerabilities are rated critical and can lead to remote code execution (RCE), according to researchers from security firm Armis who found them. These flaws, collectively dubbed TLStorm 2.0, could enable attackers to take full control, often without authentication, of switches that are deployed in a wide variety of enterprise networks and are also used to isolate public-facing network segments in airports, hospitals, hotels and other organizations.
