On Wednesday, June 29, 2022, Horizon3.ai published a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit that targets CVE-2022-28219, a critical attack chain that includes unauthenticated XML External Entities (XXE), Java deserialization, and path traversal vulnerabilities that could lead to remote code execution (RCE) if successfully chained together. CVE-2022-28219 impacts Zoho’s ManageEngine ADAudit Plus builds prior to 7060. ManageEngine patched CVE-2022-28219 on March 30, 2022.

ASPM is a hot new technology that organizations and analysts are investigating and researching. They are reading vendor reports, social media posts, and even blogs like this one to try and educate themselves on ASPM. Even with this research, there are still questions and confusion about ASPM. A common question I have often heard is, “What the heck does ASPM do for me?” The goal of this blog is to answer this question.

Monero (XMR) is an open-source, privacy-oriented cryptocurrency that was launched in 2014. It uses a public distributed ledger containing technology that obscures transaction details to ensure the anonymity of its users. Monero maintains egalitarian mining, allowing anyone to participate. As tempting as it may seem, some go a step further and use the infrastructure of others to participate in mining. Cryptocurrency mining was originally performed using CPUs, and Monero was no different.]

Amazon EKS Anywhere (EKS-A) on Bare Metal is a new deployment option for Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service that launched this week. Why bare metal? In the age of the cloud it would seem to go against “best practices.” On the contrary. While we tend to overuse the term, “hybrid cloud,” it is a real thing. Enterprises come in all shapes and sizes — and so do their compute choices and privacy requirements.