Single sign-on, or SSO, is a valuable addition to your enterprise security arsenal. It doesn’t protect against every threat, but it can reduce your attack surface, lower IT costs, and provide a better login experience for your employees.
The results from the 2021 Global Security Attitude Survey paint a bleak picture of how organizations globally are feeling about the cybersecurity landscape before them. Organizations are grappling with shortages of cybersecurity skills and a lack of capability to detect and contain intrusions in a timely way.
This week, Linux maintainers and vendors disclosed a heap overflow vulnerability in the Linux Kernel. The vulnerability has been issued a Common Vulnerability and Exposures ID of CVE-2022-0185 and is rated as a High (7.8) severity. The flaw occurs in the Filesystem Context system when handling legacy parameters. An attacker can leverage this flaw to cause a DDoS, escape container environments, and elevate privileges.
A selection of this week’s more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news. For a daily selection see our twitter feed at #ionCube24.
In the wake of the takedown of the REvil/Sodinokibi ransomware gang by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) on January 14, Eastern-European cybercriminals are feeling the ground shake. In the days following the FSB action, Trustwave SpiderLabs researchers have analyzed a slew of Dark Web chatter and have found that this potential new world is breeding fear in that community.
