Looking Ahead to MIRcon 2014

As targeted cyber attacks become increasingly prevalent, today's cybersecurity professionals are being tested like never before. The upcoming Mandiant Incident Response Conference MIRcon® - October 7 & 8, 2014 - offers attendees the chance to hear insights from some of the most respected and...

Community Health Systems APT Data Breach Medical Espionage

At first blush, the Community Health Systems data breach by Chinese hackers seems to be an anomaly. State-sponsored attackers generally target intellectual property for the purposes of military or economic gain; stealing healthcare credentials and personal patient records seems incongruous. But...

Connected Medical Devices Increase Risk and Safety

LAS VEGAS – A few years ago the media was inundated with reports that former Vice President Dick Cheney had his pacemaker removed and replaced with a custom, presumably less connected one. The assumed reason for that procedure was to minimize the risk Cheney is exposed to in a world where it is...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: firefox-31.0-1.fc19

Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: firefox-31.0-1.fc20

Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability...

Quest InTrust 10.4.x Annotation Objects ActiveX Control AnnotateX.dll Uninitialized Pointer Remote Code Execution

No description provided by source. Quest InTrust 10.4.x Annotation Objects ActiveX Control AnnotateX.dll Uninitialized Pointer Remote Code Execution homepage: http://www.quest.com/intrust/ description: InTrust securely collects, stores, reports and alerts on event log data from Windows, Unix and...

McAfee Superscan 4.0 - XSS Vulnerability

No description provided by source. Trustwave SpiderLabs Security Advisory TWSL2013-024: Cross Site Scripting XSS vulnerability in McAfee Superscan 4.0 Published: 08/02/2013 Version: 1.0 Vendor: McAfee http://www.mcafee.com/ Product: SuperScan Version affected: v4.0 Product description: SuperScan ...

Emerging Threats and Going Beyond Compliance

I recently presented to a C-level gathering of retail finance executives about the industrys changing threat landscape and the emerging threats facing omni-channel sellers. The retail security environment has changed dramatically in the past few years. Not that long ago, retailers mostly worried...

MongoDB Compliance Checks

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[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: lynis-1.5.6-1.fc20

Lynis is an auditing and hardening tool for Unix/Linux and you might even c all it a compliance tool. It scans the system and installed software. Then it performs many individual security control checks. It determines the hardeni ng state of the machine, detects security issues and provides...

How do cyber insurer's assess cyber risk?

Last week I presented on risk transfer as a viable risk management option to compliance and security professionals at the Financial Crime Compliance Professionals Conference in London. As mentioned in one of Ricks earlier blog entries analyzing the Target kill chain, the communication between...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: firefox-30.0-4.fc19

Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: firefox-30.0-4.fc20

Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability...

Vulnerability Management: Think Like an Attacker to Prioritize Risks

Attackers care about ROI – they want to accomplish their objective with the least investment of time and resources possible. The same is true for you - to most effectively manage vulnerabilities, you need to think like an attacker. Ask yourself: How would you go about compromising systems,...

Directory traversal

dpkg 1.15.9, 1.16.x before 1.16.14, and 1.17.x before 1.17.9 expect the patch program to be compliant with a need for the "C-style encoded filenames" feature, but is supported in environments with noncompliant patch programs, which triggers an interaction error that allows remote attackers to...

Privileged User Access Lacking Trust But Verify

Jerome Kerviel, Terry Childs, Edward Snowden: All infamous insiders; all reviled to differing degrees for abusing their access to computer-based resources. And likely, all of them could have been stopped if their respective employers had a better grasp on what these privileged users were doing. N...

WVS v9.5 - Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner

Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner WVS is an automated web application security testing tool that audits your web applications by checking for exploitable hacking vulnerabilities. Automated scans may be supplemented and cross-checked with the variety of manual tools to allow for comprehensive web...

Fedora Update for firefox FEDORA-2014-5833

Check for the Version of firefox OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for firefox FEDORA-2014-5833 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright C 2014 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: firefox-29.0-5.fc20

Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability...

CVE-2013-7064

Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in the EU Cookie Compliance module 7.x-1.x before 7.x-1.12 for Drupal allows remote authenticated administrators with the "Administer EU Cookie Compliance popup" permission to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified configuration values...