July 21, 2021
Kannan Subbiah
FCA | CISA | CGEIT | CCISO | GRC Consulting | Independent Director | Enterprise & Solution Architecture | Former Sr. VP & CTO of MF Utilities | BU Soft Tech | itTrident
The world woke up on Tuesday to two new vulnerabilities—one in Windows and the other in Linux—that allow hackers with a toehold in a vulnerable system to bypass OS security restrictions and access sensitive resources. As operating systems and applications become harder to hack, successful attacks typically require two or more vulnerabilities. One vulnerability allows the attacker access to low-privileged OS resources, where code can be executed or sensitive data can be read. A second vulnerability elevates that code execution or file access to OS resources reserved for password storage or other sensitive operations. The value of so-called local privilege escalation vulnerabilities, accordingly, has increased in recent years. The Windows vulnerability came to light by accident on Monday when a researcher observed what he believed was a coding regression in a beta version of the upcoming Windows 11. The researcher found that the contents of the security account manager—the database that stores user accounts and security descriptors for users on the local computer—could be read by users with limited system privileges.
Although predictive maintenance is often held up as a prime example of the value that IoT and advanced analytics can generate, in fact, any predictions in the real world are imperfect. Our research shows that some organizations, even with highly qualified AA teams, are unlikely to realize the desired impact. The AA algorithm employed may fail to predict a breakdown, giving a false negative, and in other cases can predict an event that would not have happened, giving a false positive. Although much effort is often put into minimizing false negatives, it is often the false positives that make predictive maintenance less viable. Make no mistake, predictive maintenance can be very valuable. In situations with very high cost or safety issues associated with a breakdown, such as the midair failure of a jet turbine, operators need the closest estimate possible of when a breakdown might occur. In addition, in cases in which failures are highly predictable and well-understood—and the chance of a false positive is therefore minimal or very low-cost—predictive maintenance is well worth the expense.
Slamming the EU and NATO's allegations, spokesperson of the Chinese Mission to the EU said that the statements were not based on facts, but speculation and groundless accusations. He added that China has always been a firm defender of cyber security and has cracked down on cyber attacks launched within China or using Chinese cyber facilities. "For years, certain countries in the West have abused their technological advantages for massive and indiscriminate eavesdropping across the world, even on its close allies. At the same time, they have boasted themselves as the guardians of cyber security. They push around their allies to form small circles and repeatedly smear and attack other countries on cyber security issues," the Mission said. Such practices fully expose the West's hypocrisy, it added. The Mission said it will follow closely NATO's attempts to break its geographical constraints under the guise of cyber security to make false accusations against China. Over the years, China has been a major victim of cyber attacks.?
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Google’s new Cloud IDS offering epitomizes that vision. Announced in preview today, Cloud IDS is said to be a cloud-native, managed intrusion detection system that enterprises can deploy in just a few clicks in order to protect themselves against malware, spyware, command-and-control attacks and other network-based threats, Potti said. Google worked closely with Palo Alto Networks Inc. to develop Cloud IDS. The system incorporates that company’s advanced threat detection technologies to detect malicious network activity with very low false positives. It’s essentially a managed version of Palo Alto’s threat detection services, available in Google Cloud, where scaling, availability and updates are all automated. Google Cloud IDS stands out for its flexibility, the company says. It can easily be integrated with third-party security information and event management and security orchestration, automation and response platforms, enabling users to both investigate and automatically respond to any alerts, Potti said.?
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