Books & Papers Security Vulnerabilities

A Data-Centric Cybersecurity Framework for Digital Transformation

In this white paper A Cybersecurity Framework for Securing Cloud Data for Digital Transformation, analyst Richard Steinnon of IT Harvest explains that while cloud vendors supply a resilient and secure infrastructure, organizations who put data into the cloud are ultimately responsible for...

Four Reasons why you Should Consider Contingency DDoS Protection

The experts agree that Imperva is solidly positioned as a leader in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) mitigation. Over our many years as leaders in this space, we have determined that no matter how reliable your current DDoS protection is, there is always a chance that your network...

NIST Announces First Four Quantum-Resistant Cryptographic Algorithms

The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has chosen the first set of quantum-resistant encryption algorithms that are designed to "withstand the assault of a future quantum computer." The post-quantum cryptography (PQC) technologies include the...

The Role of the Cybersecurity Leader in 2022

Who does the modern CISO need to be? According to the 2021 Gartner, Inc. Market Guide for Managed Detection and Response Services, the role of the chief information security officer (CISO) has to change in 2022 to combat the ever-evolving modern threat landscape. Eighty-eight percent of company...

DeepTraffic - Deep Learning Models For Network Traffic Classification

For more information please read our papers. [**  Wei Wang's Google Scholar Homepage** ](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=1nVO7oIAAAAJ "Deep Learning models for network traffic classification (1)" ) Wei Wang, Xuewen Zeng, Xiaozhou Ye, Yiqiang Sheng and Ming Zhu,"Malware Traffic...

How to Find Extra Cybersecurity Budget

Risk is up and budgets are down Organizational cybersecurity is a business issue, one could even say a finance issue, not just an IT issue. Gone are the days when cybersecurity was a luxury investment. Worldwide attacks are growing daily in frequency and complexity, regardless of the business...

Today is the last day to submit to the SpringOne 2022 Call For Papers!

Hi, Spring fans! This year, SpringOne is back in person, and being held in my hometown of San Francisco, California, December 6th-8th. (Have you registered?) and today (June 28th, 2022) is the last day to submit to the Call For Papers! If you have a good idea or story you want to share, submit...

Yokogawa STARDOM

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 6.3 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely Vendor: Yokogawa Equipment: STARDOM Vulnerabilities: Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information, Use of Hard-coded Credentials CISA is aware of a public report known as, “OT:ICEFALL,” which details vulnerabilities found in...

XSS vulnerability exists in Wanfang Database app and Wanfang Database pc

Wanfang Database is a large online database developed by Wanfang Data Company, covering journals, conference proceedings, theses, academic results, academic conference papers, and is also a professional academic database in China on par with China Knowledge Network. XSS vulnerability exists in...

Can Business Cybersecurity Protection Outlay Offset Cybercrime Insurance?

What is cybercrime insurance? Business cybersecurity protection (cybercrime insurance) safeguards organizations from any financial losses relating to damage to (or loss of) information from, networks and IT systems. This may include reputation loss, the cost of business interruption, infringement.....

7 Facts About Insider Threats That Should Make you Rethink Data Security

In the report, Insider Threats Drive Data Protection Improvements, Forrester Research asserts that most organizations are making positive steps toward protecting the sensitive data they are migrating to the cloud. However, Forrester suggests that many have not devised a comprehensive plan that...

Ransomware Risk in Healthcare Endangers Patients

In the last two years, COVID-19 has occupied healthcare providers’ minds — rightfully so, considering the pandemic’s tremendous toll on patients. But another threat that causes immense harm gets less attention: ransomware. While ransomware attacks receive lots of headlines, the irreparable damage.....

Using Python to unearth a goldmine of threat intelligence from leaked chat logs

Dealing with a great amount of data can be time consuming, thus using Python can be very powerful to help analysts sort information and extract the most relevant data for their investigation. The open-source tools library, MSTICPy, for example, is a Python tool dedicated to threat intelligence. It....

Using Python to unearth a goldmine of threat intelligence from leaked chat logs

Dealing with a great amount of data can be time consuming, thus using Python can be very powerful to help analysts sort information and extract the most relevant data for their investigation. The open-source tools library, MSTICPy, for example, is a Python tool dedicated to threat intelligence. It....

Five Steps to Prepare Data for a Zero-Trust Security Model

The outmoding of traditional network security Traditional network security was based on the concept of a guarded network perimeter, which is difficult to access from the outside but implicitly trusts everyone on the inside. The problem with this approach is that once an attacker has access to the.....

Security and Human Behavior (SHB) 2022

Today is the second day of the fifteenth Workshop on Security and Human Behavior, hosted by Ross Anderson and Alice Hutchings at the University of Cambridge. After two years of having this conference remotely on Zoom, it's nice to be back together in person. SHB is a small, annual, invitational...

Labtainers - A Docker-based Cyber Lab Framework

Labtainers include more than 50 cyber lab exercises and tools to build your own. Import a single VM appliance or install on a Linux system and your students are done with provisioning and administrative setup, for these and future lab exercises. Consistent lab execution environments and automated.....

[Security Nation] Omer Akgul and Richard Roberts on YouTube VPN Ads

In this episode of Security Nation, Jen and Tod chat with academics Omer Akgul and Richard Roberts about their recent paper, “Investigating Influencer VPN Ads on YouTube.” They talk about the over-promising and obfuscation that’s commonplace in advertisements for commercial VPN services on the...

Anatomy of a DDoS amplification attack

Amplification attacks are one of the most common distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack vectors. These attacks are typically categorized as flooding or volumetric attacks, where the attacker succeeds in generating more traffic than the target can process, resulting in exhausting its resources....

Anatomy of a DDoS amplification attack

Amplification attacks are one of the most common distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack vectors. These attacks are typically categorized as flooding or volumetric attacks, where the attacker succeeds in generating more traffic than the target can process, resulting in exhausting its resources....

3 Recommendations to Ensure Your API Security Solution can Drive Data Visibility and Quality

Today at least 90% of developers are using APIs in cloud-native web application development. According to new data collected by Forrester Research and presented in their report, Improve API Performance with a Sound API Security Strategy, 62 percent of IT decision makers believe the value they gain....

Senators Urge FTC to Probe ID.me Over Selfie Data

Some of more tech-savvy Democrats in the U.S. Senate are asking the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate identity-proofing company ID.me for "deceptive statements" the company and its founder allegedly made over how they handle facial recognition data collected on behalf of the Internal...

Authenticated RCE in Zen Cart 1.5.5e

The traverseStrictSanitize function in admin_dir/includes/classes/AdminRequestSanitizer.php in ZenCart 1.5.5e mishandles key strings, which allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary PHP code by placing that code into an invalid array index of the admin_name array parameter to...

Authenticated RCE in Zen Cart 1.5.5e

The traverseStrictSanitize function in admin_dir/includes/classes/AdminRequestSanitizer.php in ZenCart 1.5.5e mishandles key strings, which allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary PHP code by placing that code into an invalid array index of the admin_name array parameter to...

Researchers Find Potential Way to Run Malware on iPhone Even When it's OFF

A first-of-its-kind security analysis of iOS Find My function has identified a novel attack surface that makes it possible to tamper with the firmware and load malware onto a Bluetooth chip that's executed while an iPhone is "off." The mechanism takes advantage of the fact that wireless chips...

Hackers Deploy IceApple Exploitation Framework on Hacked MS Exchange Servers

Researchers have detailed a previously undocumented .NET-based post-exploitation framework called IceApple that has been deployed on Microsoft Exchange server instances to facilitate reconnaissance and data exfiltration. "Suspected to be the work of a state-nexus adversary, IceApple remains under.....

Five Eyes Alliance Advisory & Using Threat Intelligence

Trellix Global Defenders: Five Eyes Alliance Advisory and Using Threat Intelligence to Protect Against Future Attacks By Taylor Mullins · May 6, 2022 Evolving intelligence continues to indicate that the Russian government is exploring options to launch cyberattacks in retaliation against...

Five Eyes Alliance Advisory & Using Threat Intelligence

Trellix Global Defenders: Five Eyes Alliance Advisory and Using Threat Intelligence to Protect Against Future Attacks By Taylor Mullins · May 6, 2022 Evolving intelligence continues to indicate that the Russian government is exploring options to launch cyberattacks in retaliation against...

Malicious-Pdf - Generate A Bunch Of Malicious Pdf Files With Phone-Home Functionality

Generate ten different malicious pdf files with phone-home functionality. Can be used with Burp Collaborator or Interact.sh Used for penetration testing and/or red-teaming etc. I created this tool because i needed a third party tool to generate a bunch of PDF files with various links. Usage...

Forrester Report Reveals the 5 Benefits IT Teams Really Need from API Security Tools

An Application Programming Interface (API) is a software intermediary that allows applications to communicate with one another. APIs provide routines, protocols, and tools for developers to facilitate and accelerate the creation of software applications. They enable applications to easily access...

Automating your Microsoft security suite with D3 XGEN SOAR

This blog post is part of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association guest blog series. Learn more about MISA. There are certain pain points in the average security operations center (SOC) that, no matter what else changes in the security landscape, stay among the most entrenched problems. You....

Automating your Microsoft security suite with D3 XGEN SOAR

This blog post is part of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association guest blog series. Learn more about MISA. There are certain pain points in the average security operations center (SOC) that, no matter what else changes in the security landscape, stay among the most entrenched problems. You....

FirmWire -b Full-System Baseband Firmware Emulation Platform For Fuzzing, Debugging, And Root-Cause Analysis Of Smartphone Baseband Firmwares

FirmWire is a full-system baseband firmware analysis platform that supports Samsung and MediaTek. It enables fuzzing, root-cause analysis, and debugging of baseband firmware images. See the FirmWire documentation to get started! Experiments & Missing Parts? Upon a vendor's request, the current...

6 Best Data Security Practices You Can Start Today

Given the dramatic increases in the volume and frequency of data theft due to breaches and the increased threat of cyberattacks resulting from current conflicts, organizations worldwide are prioritizing tactical and strategic efforts to shore up their data security. Here are six best practices you....

CVE-2022-1156

The Books & Papers WordPress plugin through 0.20210223 does not escape its Custom DB prefix settings, allowing high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is...

CVE-2022-1156

The Books & Papers WordPress plugin through 0.20210223 does not escape its Custom DB prefix settings, allowing high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is...

Cross site scripting

The Books & Papers WordPress plugin through 0.20210223 does not escape its Custom DB prefix settings, allowing high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is...

CVE-2022-1156 Books & Papers <= 0.20210223 - Admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting

The Books & Papers WordPress plugin through 0.20210223 does not escape its Custom DB prefix settings, allowing high privilege users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is...

How to Stop New Employees from Becoming Insider Threats

In the midst of a booming tech economy and a concurrent Great Resignation, recruitment and hiring are all-seasons imperatives. As new people constantly join the organization, how can busy security teams guarantee they will adhere to established data security practices from their onboarding and...

Reading the API Security Tea Leaves for 2022

Just as the global pandemic persists in redefining the new norm, so has enterprises’ growing investments in digital transformation initiatives to keep one step ahead of their competitors. APIs are the engine that are helping drive these digital transformations from the innovation of new services...

Conti Group Targets ESXi Hypervisors With its Linux Variant

Conti Group Targets ESXi Hypervisors With its Linux Variant By Marc Elias, Jambul Tologonov and Alexandre Mundo · Apr 20, 2022 Despite the leak of the conversations of the Conti members that happened in March 2022, which we analyzed and published recently, the group seems to continue its...

Conti Group Targets ESXi Hypervisors With its Linux Variant

Conti Group Targets ESXi Hypervisors With its Linux Variant By Marc Elias, Jambul Tologonov and Alexandre Mundo · Apr 20, 2022 Despite the leak of the conversations of the Conti members that happened in March 2022, which we analyzed and published recently, the group seems to continue its...

CVE-2022-27188

OS command injection vulnerability exists in CENTUM VP R4.01.00 to R4.03.00, CENTUM VP Small R4.01.00 to R4.03.00, CENTUM VP Basic R4.01.00 to R4.03.00, and B/M9000 VP R6.01.01 to R6.03.02, which may allow an attacker who can access the computer where the affected product is installed to execute...

CVE-2022-26034

Improper authentication vulnerability in the communication protocol provided by AD (Automation Design) server of CENTUM VP R6.01.10 to R6.09.00, CENTUM VP Small R6.01.10 to R6.09.00, CENTUM VP Basic R6.01.10 to R6.09.00, and B/M9000 VP R8.01.01 to R8.03.01 allows an attacker to use the functions...

CVE-2022-26034

Improper authentication vulnerability in the communication protocol provided by AD (Automation Design) server of CENTUM VP R6.01.10 to R6.09.00, CENTUM VP Small R6.01.10 to R6.09.00, CENTUM VP Basic R6.01.10 to R6.09.00, and B/M9000 VP R8.01.01 to R8.03.01 allows an attacker to use the functions...

CVE-2022-27188

OS command injection vulnerability exists in CENTUM VP R4.01.00 to R4.03.00, CENTUM VP Small R4.01.00 to R4.03.00, CENTUM VP Basic R4.01.00 to R4.03.00, and B/M9000 VP R6.01.01 to R6.03.02, which may allow an attacker who can access the computer where the affected product is installed to execute...

Command injection

OS command injection vulnerability exists in CENTUM VP R4.01.00 to R4.03.00, CENTUM VP Small R4.01.00 to R4.03.00, CENTUM VP Basic R4.01.00 to R4.03.00, and B/M9000 VP R6.01.01 to R6.03.02, which may allow an attacker who can access the computer where the affected product is installed to execute...

Authentication flaw

Improper authentication vulnerability in the communication protocol provided by AD (Automation Design) server of CENTUM VP R6.01.10 to R6.09.00, CENTUM VP Small R6.01.10 to R6.09.00, CENTUM VP Basic R6.01.10 to R6.09.00, and B/M9000 VP R8.01.01 to R8.03.01 allows an attacker to use the functions...

CVE-2022-27188

OS command injection vulnerability exists in CENTUM VP R4.01.00 to R4.03.00, CENTUM VP Small R4.01.00 to R4.03.00, CENTUM VP Basic R4.01.00 to R4.03.00, and B/M9000 VP R6.01.01 to R6.03.02, which may allow an attacker who can access the computer where the affected product is installed to execute...

CVE-2022-26034

Improper authentication vulnerability in the communication protocol provided by AD (Automation Design) server of CENTUM VP R6.01.10 to R6.09.00, CENTUM VP Small R6.01.10 to R6.09.00, CENTUM VP Basic R6.01.10 to R6.09.00, and B/M9000 VP R8.01.01 to R8.03.01 allows an attacker to use the functions...