Where maritime cyber checklists fail

The coming IMO cyber security regulations are a step in the right direction towards vessel security, but the impracticality of assessing the cyber security of a ship, together with a huge skills shortage, leads classification societies towards checklist based assessments. Having seen some of thes...

Omron CX-One

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 7.8 ATTENTION: Low skill level to exploit Vendor: Omron Equipment: CX-One Vulnerabilities: Untrusted Pointer Dereference, Stack-based Buffer Overflow, Type Confusion 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could crash the device being...

TAU Threat Analysis: Insights on the SolarWinds Breach

In light of the SolarWinds breach, we want to help our customers who may have questions as well as the larger security community. The VMware Carbon Black Threat Analysis Unit TAU has been steadfastly monitoring the evolving situation as we learn more about the supply chain compromise. We caught u...

The Risky Business: Rapid7 Report Highlights Need for Improved Vulnerability Management Practices

Back in July, Rapid7 released its first-ever National / Industry / Cloud Exposure Report, otherwise known as “NICER.” This report had a big job: to assess not only the prevalence of known threats, but also to provide a geographic census of those threats. It tells the all-too-true story of...

Solorigate/Sunburst : Theft of Cybersecurity Tools | FireEye Breach

Update Jan 5, 2021: New patching section with two new dashboard widgets showing the number of missing FireEye-related patches in your environment and the number of assets in your environment missing one of those patches. Update Dec 23, 2020: Added a new section on compensating controls. Update De...

Don't reward your loyal customers by treating them like criminals!

I am CIAM not IAM Imagine shopping in your favourite wine merchant or checking in to the brand of hotel that you afford the most loyalty, and at the point of self-identification either to prove age or verification security is called over and you are frisked. Not a great experience. Would you...

Protect your SQL Server on-premises, in Azure, and in multicloud

Azure Defender for SQL is now generally available for use with SQL Server on premises, in multicloud deployments on Amazon Web Services AWS, and Google Cloud Platform GCP, and in virtual machines on Azure. Azure Defender for SQL constantly monitors your SQL Server for known vulnerabilities and...

Protect your SQL Server on-premises, in Azure, and in multicloud

Azure Defender for SQL is now generally available for use with SQL Server on premises, in multicloud deployments on Amazon Web Services AWS, and Google Cloud Platform GCP, and in virtual machines on Azure. Azure Defender for SQL constantly monitors your SQL Server for known vulnerabilities and...

3 Ways to Hunt for the ZeroLogon Vulnerability on Your Windows Servers

Vulnerability assessment and patch management can be painful time-consuming processes. From the Security team looking at vulnerability reports and prioritizing the riskiest ones for their environment to the IT or Infrastructure team determining exactly which machines need to be patched and...

Bypass of fix for CVE-2020-15247, Twig sandbox escape

Impact A bypass of CVE-2020-15247 fixed in 1.0.469 and 1.1.0 was discovered that has the same impact as CVE-2020-15247: An authenticated backend user with the cms.managepages, cms.managelayouts, or cms.managepartials permissions who would normally not be permitted to provide PHP code to be execut...

GHSA-RFJC-XRMF-5VVW Privilege escalation by backend users assigned to the default "Publisher" system role

Impact Backend users with the default "Publisher" system role have access to create & manage users where they can choose which role the new user has. This means that a user with "Publisher" access has the ability to escalate their access to "Developer" access. Patches Issue has been patched in...

More on the Security of the 2020 US Election

Last week I signed on to two joint letters about the security of the 2020 election. The first was as one of 59 election security experts, basically saying that while the election seems to have been both secure and accurate voter suppression notwithstanding, we still need to work to secure our...

Defining Cloud Workload Protection

Organizations are now turning to an increasingly hybrid cloud infrastructure model to support remote workforces, a trend that has accelerated significantly amid the recent global health crisis. This presents a new challenge as cloud environments both private and public require a purpose-built...

Defining Vulnerability Risk Management (and How to Build a Modern VRM Program)

Once upon a time just a handful of years ago, vulnerability management programs focused solely on servers, running quarterly scans that targeted only critical systems. But that was then, and you can’t afford such a limited view in the now. Truth is, vulnerability exploitation now happens...

Querying Windows Event Logs for Faster Investigation and Response

With this week’s release on the VMware Carbon Black Cloud, users can now remotely inspect Windows devices’ event logs to pull back information that could be helpful during an investigation or response scenario. This new capability comes as part of an update to the Live Query functionality provide...

Fedora: Security Advisory for java-latest-openjdk (FEDORA-2020-81e511d0d8)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 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...

Coalfire and HITRUST – 9 years, 1,000 engagements and counting

Since 2007, HITRUST® has offered programs that protect sensitive information and allow organizations to manage information risk globally across all industries and throughout the supply chain. In collaboration with information security, privacy, and risk management leaders from public and private...

ICSA-20-315-01_OSIsoft PI Interface for OPC XML-DA

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 8.1 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low skill level to exploit Vendor: OSIsoft Equipment: PI Interface Vulnerability: Numeric Errors 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker-controlled OPC XML-DA Server to respond with a...

WECON PLC Editor

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 7.8 ATTENTION: Low skill level to exploit Vendor: WECON Equipment: PLC Editor Vulnerabilities: Stack-based Buffer Overflow, Heap-based Buffer Overflow 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to execute code under the...

Pocsuite

This is an offensive tool for penetration testing and vulnerability assessment. It is a Python-based framework called Pocsuite, developed by the Knownsec 404 Team. The tool is designed to perform remote vulnerability testing and proof-of-concept development. The target product/service or framewor...