Craig Abbott, Design Manager at Elastic®, was diagnosed with Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) three years ago. It turns out he already had coping mechanisms he used every day to be productive. “Now that I’m diagnosed, it makes sense,” he says. While Craig doesn’t have a lot of the hyperactivity traits, he finds himself fidgeting and uses a variety of tools to … [Read more...] about Craig Abbott shares his coping strategies for ADHD and why accessibility impacts everyone
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How Lack of Knowledge Among Teams Impacts Observability
Without a doubt, you’ve heard about the persistent talent gap that has troubled the technology sector in recent years. It’s a problem that isn’t going away, plaguing everyone from engineering teams to IT security pros, and if you work in the industry today you’ve likely experienced it somewhere within your own teams.Despite major changes in the tech landscape, it is clear that … [Read more...] about How Lack of Knowledge Among Teams Impacts Observability
Secret Backdoor Found in XZ Utils Library, Impacts Major Linux Distros
Mar 30, 2024NewsroomLinux / Supply Chain Attack Red Hat on Friday released an "urgent security alert" warning that two versions of a popular data compression library called XZ Utils (previously LZMA Utils) have been backdoored with malicious code designed to allow unauthorized remote access. The software supply chain compromise, tracked as CVE-2024-3094, has a CVSS score of … [Read more...] about Secret Backdoor Found in XZ Utils Library, Impacts Major Linux Distros
New ‘Loop DoS’ Attack Impacts Hundreds of Thousands of Systems
Mar 20, 2024NewsroomDoS Attack / Network Security A novel denial-of-service (DoS) attack vector has been found to target application-layer protocols based on User Datagram Protocol (UDP), putting hundreds of thousands of hosts likely at risk. Called Loop DoS attacks, the approach pairs "servers of these protocols in such a way that they communicate with each other … [Read more...] about New ‘Loop DoS’ Attack Impacts Hundreds of Thousands of Systems
Critical Bootloader Vulnerability in Shim Impacts Nearly All Linux Distros
Feb 07, 2024NewsroomDevice Security / Vulnerability The maintainers of shim have released version 15.8 to address six security flaws, including a critical bug that could pave the way for remote code execution under specific circumstances. Tracked as CVE-2023-40547 (CVSS score: 9.8), the vulnerability could be exploited to achieve a Secure Boot bypass. Bill Demirkapi of the … [Read more...] about Critical Bootloader Vulnerability in Shim Impacts Nearly All Linux Distros
New Spectre-based Vulnerability Impacts Intel, AMD, and Arm CPUs
Dec 09, 2023NewsroomCyber Threat / Hardware Security Researchers from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam have disclosed a new side-channel attack called SLAM that could be exploited to leak sensitive information from kernel memory on current and upcoming CPUs from Intel, AMD, and Arm. The attack is an end-to-end exploit for Spectre based on a new feature in Intel CPUs called … [Read more...] about New Spectre-based Vulnerability Impacts Intel, AMD, and Arm CPUs
Lazarus X_TRADER Hack Impacts Critical Infrastructure Beyond 3CX Breach
Apr 22, 2023Ravie LakshmananSupply Chain / Cyber Threat Lazarus, the prolific North Korean hacking group behind the cascading supply chain attack targeting 3CX, also breached two critical infrastructure organizations in the power and energy sector and two other businesses involved in financial trading using the trojanized X_TRADER application. The new findings, which come … [Read more...] about Lazarus X_TRADER Hack Impacts Critical Infrastructure Beyond 3CX Breach
New ‘FabricScape’ Bug in Microsoft Azure Service Fabric Impacts Linux Workloads
Cybersecurity researchers from Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 disclosed details of a new security flaw affecting Microsoft's Service Fabric that could be exploited to obtain elevated permissions and seize control of all nodes in a cluster. The issue, which has been dubbed FabricScape (CVE-2022-30137), could be exploited on containers that are configured to have runtime access. It … [Read more...] about New ‘FabricScape’ Bug in Microsoft Azure Service Fabric Impacts Linux Workloads
How the Work-From-Home Shift Impacts SaaS Security
The data is in. According to IBM Security's 2020 Cost of a Data Breach Report, there is a 50% increase in cloud usage for enterprises across all industries. The number of threats targeting cloud services, predominantly collaboration services like Office 365,hasi ncreased 630%. Moreover, 75% of respondents report that discovery and recovery time from data breaches has … [Read more...] about How the Work-From-Home Shift Impacts SaaS Security
17-Year-Old Critical ‘Wormable’ RCE Vulnerability Impacts Windows DNS Servers
Cybersecurity researchers today disclosed a new highly critical "wormable" vulnerability—carrying a severity score of 10 out of 10 on the CVSS scale—affecting Windows Server versions 2003 to 2019.The 17-year-old remote code execution flaw (CVE-2020-1350), dubbed 'SigRed' by Check Point, could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to gain domain administrator privileges over … [Read more...] about 17-Year-Old Critical ‘Wormable’ RCE Vulnerability Impacts Windows DNS Servers