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Breaking the habit: Top 10 bad cybersecurity habits to shed in 2022
Be alert, be proactive and break these 10 bad habits to improve your cyber-hygiene in 2022
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22 cybersecurity statistics to know for 2022
As we usher in the New Year, let’s take a look at some statistics that will help you stay up-to-date on recent cybersecurity trends
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2021 in review: The biggest cybersecurity stories of the year
As we close out another year like no other, let’s look back at some of the most notable cybersecurity stories that shaped 2021
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This holiday season, give your children the gift of cybersecurity awareness
Don’t leave your kids to their own devices – give them a head start with staying safe online instead
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Don’t forget to unplug your devices before you leave for the holidays!
As you down tools for the holiday season, be sure to also switch off the standby lights – it’s both cost effective and better for the environment
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Apache Log4j Vulnerability
Like many other companies, we’re closely following the multiple CVEs regarding Apache Log4j 2. Our security teams are investigating any potential impact on Google products and services and are focused on protecting our users and customers.
We encourage anyone who manages environments containing Log4j 2 to update to the latest version.
Based on findings in our ongoing investigations, here is our list of product and service updates as of December 17th (CVE-2021-44228 & CVE-2021-45046):
Android is not aware of any impact to the Android Platform or Enterprise. At this time, no update is required for this specific vulnerability, but we encourage our customers to ensure that the latest security updates are applied to their devices.
Chrome OS releases and infrastructure are not using versions of Log4j affected by the vulnerability.
Chrome Browser releases, infrastructure and admin console are not using versions of Log4j affected by the vulnerability.
Google Cloud has a specific advisory dedicated to updating customers on the status of GCP and Workspace products and services.
Google Marketing Platform, including Google Ads is not using versions of Log4j affected by the vulnerability. This includes Display & Video 360, Search Ads 360, Google Ads, Analytics (360 and free), Optimize 360, Surveys 360 & Tag Manager 360.
YouTube is not using versions of Log4j affected by the vulnerability.
We will continue to update this advisory with the latest information.
Week in security with Tony Anscombe
Why the vulnerability in Log4j poses a grave threat – What businesses should know about Log4Shell – ESET wraps up a series of deep-dives into Latin American banking trojans
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Understanding the Impact of Apache Log4j Vulnerability
Posted by James Wetter and Nicky Ringland, Open Source Insights Team
More than 35,000 Java packages, amounting to over 8% of the Maven Central repository (the most significant Java package repository), have been impacted by the recently disclosed log4j vulnerabilities (1, 2), with widespread fallout across the software industry. The vulnerabilities allow an attacker to perform remote code execution by exploiting the insecure JNDI lookups feature exposed by the logging library log4j. This exploitable feature was enabled by default in many versions of the library.
As far as ecosystem impact goes, 8% is enormous. The average ecosystem impact of advisories affecting Maven Central is 2%, with the median less than 0.1%.
Direct dependencies account for around 7,000 of the affected artifacts, meaning that any of its versions depend upon an affected version of log4j-core or log4j-api, as described in the CVEs. The majority of affected artifacts come from indirect dependencies (that is, the dependencies of one’s own dependencies), meaning log4j is not explicitly defined as a dependency of the artifact, but gets pulled in as a transitive dependency.
What is the current progress in fixing the open source JVM ecosystem?We counted an artifact as fixed if the artifact had at least one version affected and has released a greater stable version (according to semantic versioning) that is unaffected. An artifact affected by log4j is considered fixed if it has updated to 2.16.0 or removed its dependency on log4j altogether.
At the time of writing, nearly five thousand of the affected artifacts have been fixed. This represents a rapid response and mammoth effort both by the log4j maintainers and the wider community of open source consumers.
That leaves over 30,000 artifacts affected, many of which are dependent on another artifact to patch (the transitive dependency) and are likely blocked.
Why is fixing the JVM ecosystem hard?
Another difficulty is caused by ecosystem-level choices in the dependency resolution algorithm and requirement specification conventions.
In the Java ecosystem, it’s common practice to specify “soft” version requirements — exact versions that are used by the resolution algorithm if no other version of the same package appears earlier in the dependency graph. Propagating a fix often requires explicit action by the maintainers to update the dependency requirements to a patched version.
This practice is in contrast to other ecosystems, such as npm, where it’s common for developers to specify open ranges for dependency requirements. Open ranges allow the resolution algorithm to select the most recently released version that satisfies dependency requirements, thereby pulling in new fixes. Consumers can get a patched version on the next build after the patch is available, which propagates up the dependencies quickly. (This approach is not without its drawbacks; pulling in new fixes can also pull in new problems.)
How long will it take for this vulnerability to be fixed across the entire ecosystem?
But things are looking promising on the log4j front. After less than a week, 4,620 affected artifacts (~13%) have been fixed. This, more than any other stat, speaks to the massive effort by open source maintainers, information security teams and consumers across the globe.
Thanks and congratulations are due to the open source maintainers and consumers who have already upgraded their versions of log4j. As part of our investigation, we pulled together a list of 500 affected packages with some of the highest transitive usage. If you are a maintainer or user helping with the patching effort, prioritizing these packages could maximize your impact and unblock more of the community.
We encourage the open source community to continue to strengthen security in these packages by enabling automated dependency updates and adding security mitigations. Improvements such as these could qualify for financial rewards from the Secure Open Source Rewards program.
You can explore your package dependencies and their vulnerabilities by using Open Source Insights.
Improving OSS-Fuzz and Jazzer to catch Log4Shell
Posted by Jonathan Metzman, Google Open Source Security Team
We want to empower open source developers to secure their code on their own. Over the next year we will work on better automated detection of non-memory corruption vulnerabilities such as Log4Shell. We have started this work by partnering with the security company Code Intelligence to provide continuous fuzzing for Log4j, as part of OSS-Fuzz. Also as part of this partnership, Code-Intelligence improved their Jazzer fuzzing engine to make it capable of detecting remote JNDI lookups. We have awarded Code Intelligence $25,000 for this effort and will continue to work with them on securing the open source ecosystem.
Caption: OSS-Fuzz and Jazzer finding the Log4Shell Vulnerability
Vulnerabilities like Log4Shell are an eye-opener for the industry in terms of new attack vectors. With OSS-Fuzz and Jazzer, we can now detect this class of vulnerability so that they can be fixed before they become a problem in production code.
Over the past year we have made a number of investments to strengthen the security of critical open source projects, and recently announced our $10 billion commitment to cybersecurity defense including $100 million to support third-party foundations that manage open source security priorities and help fix vulnerabilities.
We appreciate the maintainers, security engineers and incident responders that are working to mitigate Log4j and make our internet ecosystem safer.
Check out our documentation to get started using OSS-Fuzz.
What every business leader needs to know about Log4Shell
Hundreds of thousands of attempts to exploit the vulnerability are under way
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