Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3420-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Important: aws-cfn-bootstrap

Issue Overview: The default umask value is set to 022 to address a privilege escalation security vulnerability. Affected Packages: aws-cfn-bootstrap Issue Correction: Run yum update aws-cfn-bootstrap or yum update --advisory ALAS-2017-895 to update your system. 1. Run yum update aws-cfn-bootstrap...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: jboss-ec2-eap security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An update for jboss-ec2-eap is now available for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed...

Four Million Time Warner Cable Records Left on Misconfigured AWS S3

In what’s almost felt like an epidemic over the last few weeks, yet another slew of sensitive information—600 gigabytes of files—was recently left exposed on two cloud repositories, accessible to anyone. The repositories, owned by BroadSoft, a global communication software and service provider,...

Military Contractor's Vendor Leaks Resumes in Misconfigured AWS S3

Thousands of resumes and job applications containing the personal information of U.S. veterans, many with top secret clearances, and law enforcement officers were left exposed in an Amazon Web Services S3 bucket, continuing a trend where poorly configured cloud-storage services are putting people...

Amazon Linux AMI : aws-cfn-bootstrap (ALAS-2017-886)

New optional parameter 'umask' introduced into cfn-hup.conf file in order to configure the cfn-hup daemon's umask. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory ALAS-2017-886. include"compat.inc"; if...

VMworld 2017 Recap

VMware featured a number of great announcements at VMworld 2017 including VMware Cloud on AWS. VMware customers can now run new or existing virtualized workloads in the AWS cloud while maintaining their current VMware tools and skill sets. This announcement provides an important shift in the hybr...

Important: aws-cfn-bootstrap

Issue Overview: New optional parameter "umask" introduced into cfn-hup.conf file in order to configure the cfn-hup daemon's umask. The Amazon Web Services AWS CloudFormation bootstrap tools package aka aws-cfn-bootstrap before 1.4-19.10 allows local users to execute arbitrary code with root...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3405-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Extend Protection to VMWare Cloud on AWS with Trend Micro™ Deep Security™

On August 28th at VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas, VMware announced initial availability for their unique offering called 'VMware Cloud on AWS' allowing customers to run VMware workloads on the AWS cloud. This means customers can take advantage of agile cloud infrastructure all the while maintaining...

BinaryAlert - Serverless, Real-time & Retroactive Malware Detection

BinaryAlert is an open-source serverless AWS pipeline where any file uploaded to an S3 bucket is immediately scanned with a configurable set of YARA rules. An alert will fire as soon as any match is found, giving an incident response team the ability to quickly contain the threat before it spread...

On the S3 Leaks, Zerodium's Messaging App Bounties, ROPEMAKER, and More

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including the recent AWS S3 leaks, Zerodium’s bounty on secure messaging app zero days, Ropemaker, and cobot vulnerabilities. Download: ThreatpostNewsWrapAugust252017.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves Show notes: Industrial Cobots Might Be The...

Qualys Cloud Platform 2.30 New Features

This release of the Qualys Cloud Platform version 2.30 includes updates and new features for Cloud Agent, EC2 Connector, Web Application Scanning, Web Application Firewall, and Security Assessment Questionnaire, highlights as follows. This posting has been updated on 9/6/2017 and 10/25/2017 to...

MindPoint Group and Trend Micro Help Secure NASA’s Successful Journey to the AWS Cloud

For decades NASA has launched countless successful explorations into space, but just recently took on the mission of launching their data into the cloud, similarly to many other organizations today. With the help of MindPoint Group using Trend Micro Deep Security, powered by XGen™, this was yet...

Visit Trend Micro at VMworld 2017

Trend Micro will be at VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas on August 27th – 31st, showing why experience matters when it comes to automated security for your data center and cloud environments. Stop by our booth, 610, to chat with our security experts, and enter our daily draws to win a Phantom 3 Drone! Se...

Meeting and Hotel Booking Provider's Data Found in Public Amazon S3 Bucket

Leaks of personal and business information from unsecured Amazon S3 buckets are piling up. The latest belongs to Groupize, a Boston-area business that sells tools to manage small group meetings as well as a booking engine that handles hotel room-block reservations. Researchers at Kromtech Securit...

Vendor Exposes Backup of Chicago Voter Roll via AWS Bucket

Voter registration data belonging to the entirety of Chicago’s electoral roll—1.8 million records—was found a week ago in an Amazon Web Services bucket configured for public access. The data was a backup stored in AWS by Election Systems & Software ES&S, a voting machine and election management...

How to Protect AWS API Gateway with SecureSphere WAF

Serverless architectures are becoming more and more popular, and Amazon’s API Gateway service is a key factor in many serverless deployments on AWS. Currently API Gateway only supports a public CloudFront endpoint, and securing the API Gateway with high-end WAF protection may seem like a difficul...

Amazon Macie and Deep Security

Amazon S3 stores trillions of objects and regularly peaks at millions of requests per second. By any metric, it’s massive. With unparalleled durability and availability, it’s the backbone of AWS’ data services. This morning at the AWS Summit in New York City, AWS launched a new service: Amazon...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3385-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...