grapheneX - Automated System Hardening Framework

grapheneX In computing, hardening is usually the process of securing a system by reducing its surface of vulnerability, which is larger when a system performs more functions; in principle a single-function system is more secure than a multipurpose one. Reducing available ways of attack typically...

Siemens Contractor Pleads Guilty to Planting 'Logic Bomb' in Spreadsheets

A former Siemens contractor has pledged guilty in federal court Friday to secretly planting code in automated spreadsheets he had created for the company over a decade ago that deliberately crashes the program every few years. David Tinley, a 62-year-old resident of Harrison City, Pennsylvania, w...

AMIRA - Automated Malware Incident Response & Analysis

AMIRA is a service for automatically running the analysis on the OSXCollector output files. The automated analysis is performed via OSXCollector Output Filters, in particular The One Filter to Rule Them All : the Analyze Filter. AMIRA takes care of retrieving the output files from an S3 bucket,...

Google Triples Some Bug Bounty Payouts

Google is upping the ante for its Chrome bug bounty rewards program, doubling payouts from $15,000 to $30,000 for “high-quality” reports. It is also tripling baseline payouts for Chrome to $15,000. The bug-bounty pay raise is part of Google’s Chromium open-source project, which supplies the vast...

Partner Perspectives: From Alert to Action: How VMRay Provides Carbon Black with Detail-Rich Threat Intelligence

Good things happen when two leaders in their respective fields bring together their complementary capabilities. That’s the case with Carbon Black’s deep expertise in endpoint detection and response EDR and VMRay’s singular focus on dynamic malware analysis. The sum ends up being even greater than...

A New Chapter in Bot Management Begins Today [Video]

I am excited to share that we have closed the acquisition of Distil Networks, the pioneer and leader in Bot Management. Over the past few weeks, we have been welcoming Distil’s employees into the Imperva family and have started integrating their powerful, analyst-recognized Bot Management solutio...

CVE-2019-13313

A flaw was found in libosinfo, version 1.5.0, where the script for automated guest installations, 'osinfo-install-script', accepts user and admin passwords via command line arguments. This could allow guest passwords to leak to other system users via a process listing...

Rock-ON - An All In One Recon Tool That Will Just Get A Single Entry Of The Domain Name And Do All Of The Work Alone

Rock-On is a all in one recon tool that will help your Recon process give a boost. It is mainley aimed to automate the whole process of recon and save the time that is being wasted in doing all this stuffs manually. A thorough blog will be up in sometime. Stay tuned for the Stable version with a...

UPDATE: Cuckoo Sandbox 2.0.7

PenTestIT RSS Feed It has been some time that I posted about the Cuckoo Sandbox. Good news is that the guys at the Cuckoo Foundation are not silent and have released the Cuckoo Sandbox 2.0.7, with lots of improvements, code cleanup, support for VirtualBox 6 and the well deserved support for the...

Seccubus - Easy Automated Vulnerability Scanning, Reporting And Analysis

Seccubus automates regular vulnerability scans with various tools and aids security people in the fast analysis of its output, both on the first scan and on repeated scans. On repeated scan delta reporting ensures that findings only need to be judged when they first appear in the scan results or...

Computers and Video Surveillance

It used to be that surveillance cameras were passive. Maybe they just recorded, and no one looked at the video unless they needed to. Maybe a bored guard watched a dozen different screens, scanning for something interesting. In either case, the video was only stored for a few days because storage...

When Time is of the Essence – Testing Controls Against the Latest Threats Faster

A new threat has hit head the headlines Robinhood anyone?, and you need to know if you're protected right now. What do you do? Traditionally, you would have to go with one of the options below. Option 1 – Manually check that IoCs have been updated across your security controls. This would require...

When Time is of the Essence – Testing Controls Against the Latest Threats Faster

A new threat has hit head the headlines Robinhood anyone?, and you need to know if you're protected right now. What do you do? Traditionally, you would have to go with one of the options below. Option 1 – Manually check that IoCs have been updated across your security controls. This would require...

[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: buildbot-1.8.2-1.fc29

The BuildBot is a system to automate the compile/test cycle required by most software projects to validate code changes. By automatically rebuilding and testing the tree each time something has changed, build problems are pinpointed quickly, before other developers are inconvenienced by the failu...

Imperva to Acquire Distil Networks, the Leader in Bot Management

As an established leader in cybersecurity, Imperva provides our customers the most comprehensive, analyst-recognized application security solution on the market. We are a five-time leader in Gartner’s 2018 Magic Quadrant for Web Application Firewalls WAF. Our DDoS Protection continues to...

Boosting Patch Management Is Key for Breach Prevention

Vulnerabilities that vendors have disclosed and issued patches for remain a major source of breaches. Why? Too many organizations take too long to deploy those patches -- or never do. That was the case with WannaCry. The ransomware exploited Windows vulnerability MS17-010, which Microsoft disclos...

Announcing the all new Attack Surface Analyzer 2.0

Few of us know what is really happening on our systems when we install new software from new or untrusted sources. This is important because most installation processes require elevated privileges, which can lead to undesired system configuration changes. Knowing what changes have been made is...

Three Common Questions (and Answers) About Next-Gen AV

Most organizations with traditional, or legacy, antivirus AV solutions are well aware that they are no longer protected from the more advanced tactics and threats of attackers today. Signatures just can’t keep up with emerging threats. But that doesn’t mean that everyone is ready to dive head fir...

Sn1per v7.0 - Automated Pentest Framework For Offensive Security Experts

Sn1per Community Edition is an automated scanner that can be used during a penetration test to enumerate and scan for vulnerabilities. Sn1per Professional is Xero Security's premium reporting addon for Professional Penetration Testers, Bug Bounty Researchers and Corporate Security teams to manage...

Cynet Provides Security Responders with Free IR Tool to Validate and Respond to Active Threats

Organizations that suspect an active threat or breach have two options: calling an external incident response provider to manage the investigation and response or trying to handle it internally with their own resources. Cynet is now introducing a free IR offering that caters to both scenarios – a...