Modernizing your network security strategy

From the global pandemic to recent cyberattacks, our world has faced many challenges during the past 12 months. Some of these challenges we can’t change. However, I’m pleased about the ones we can, and are changing across the cybersecurity landscape. For example, to facilitate remote work and...

Guide: How Security Consolidation Helps Small Cybersecurity Teams

The dynamic nature of cybersecurity, the changes in the threat landscape, and the expansion of the attack surface lead organizations to add more security solutions—from different vendors—creating a layered security infrastructure that introduces new challenges to any team, with a much more...

Rocke Group’s Malware Now Has Worm Capabilities

Researchers have identified an updated malware variant used by the cybercrime gang Rocke Group that targets cloud infrastructures with crypto-jacking attacks. The malware is called Pro-Ocean, which was first discovered in 2019, and has now been beefed-up with “worm” capabilities and rootkit...

WordPress uListing plugin <= 1.6.6 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Roles and Capabilities Creation/Deletion vulnerability

Unauthenticated Arbitrary Roles and Capabilities Creation/Deletion vulnerability found by Jerome Bruandet in WordPress uListing plugin versions = 1.6.6. Solution Update the WordPress uListing plugin to the latest available version at least 1.7...

uListing < 1.7 - Unauthenticated Arbitrary Roles and Capabilities Creation/Deletion

The /1/api/ulisting-user/role/save REST route did not perform capability and CSRF checks, allowing unauthenticated users to remove and add roles, as well as add capabilities to the blog...

CVE-2021-3308

An issue was discovered in Xen 4.12.3 through 4.12.4 and 4.13.1 through 4.14.x. An x86 HVM guest with PCI pass through devices can force the allocation of all IDT vectors on the system by rebooting itself with MSI or MSI-X capabilities enabled and entries setup. Such reboots will leak any vectors...

Rob Joyce to Take Over as NSA Cybersecurity Director

As the incoming Biden administration continues to shake up federal leadership, the National Security Agency announced Friday that Rob Joyce, who is currently serving at the U.S. Embassy in London, was named to lead its cybersecurity division. Joyce will inherit the job from Anne Neuberger, who wi...

Command execution vulnerability exists in FasterXML jackson-databind (CNVD-2021-00629)

FasterXML Jackson is a U.S. FasterXML company for Java data processing tools . jackson-databind is one of the components with data binding capabilities . A command execution vulnerability exists in FasterXML jackson-databind, which can be exploited by an attacker to execute arbitrary commands...

Command execution vulnerability exists in FasterXML jackson-databind (CNVD-2021-00625)

FasterXML Jackson is a U.S. FasterXML company for Java data processing tools . jackson-databind is one of the components with data binding capabilities . A command execution vulnerability exists in FasterXML jackson-databind, which can be exploited by an attacker to execute arbitrary commands...

Metasploit Tips and Tricks for HaXmas 2020

For this year's HaXmas, we're giving the gift of Metasploit knowledge! We'll cover a mix of old, new, or recently improved features that you can incorporate into your workflows. Some of our readers may already know these tips and tricks for using Metasploit, but for the others who aren't aware of...

[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: pngcheck-2.4.0-5.fc33

pngcheck verifies the integrity of PNG, JNG and MNG files by checking the internal 32-bit CRCs checksums and decompressing the image data; it can optionally dump almost all of the chunk-level information in the image in human-readable form. For example, it can be used to print the basic statist i...

Fedora: Security Advisory for pngcheck (FEDORA-2020-daffd78c3d)

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...

The future of cyberconflicts

The ever-increasing role of technology in every aspect of our society has turned cybersecurity into a major sovereignty issue for all states. Due to their asymmetrical nature, offensive cyber-capabilities have been embraced by many countries that wouldnt otherwise have the resources to compete on...

The Importance of Feedback Loops with Akamai (Part 1)

The dictionary defines feedback as "The modification or control of a process or system by its results or effects, for example in a biochemical pathway or behavioral response." Let's explore how feedback loops work within Akamai. Feedback involves getting output and inserting it back into the inpu...

Heightened Awareness for Iranian Cyber Activity

Iranian cyber threat actors have been continuously improving their offensive cyber capabilities. They continue to engage in more conventional offensive cyber activities ranging from website defacement, distributed denial of service DDoS attacks, and theft of personally identifiable information PI...

WordPress BuddyPress plugin <= 6.3.0 - Excessive user capabilities in possible rich text fields vulnerability

Excessive user capabilities in possible rich text fields vulnerability found in WordPress BuddyPress plugin versions = 6.3.0. Solution Update the WordPress BuddyPress plugin to the latest available version at least 6.4.0 - Maintenance and Security Release...

[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: pngcheck-2.3.0-4.fc32

pngcheck verifies the integrity of PNG, JNG and MNG files by checking the internal 32-bit CRCs checksums and decompressing the image data; it can optionally dump almost all of the chunk-level information in the image in human-readable form. For example, it can be used to print the basic statist i...

Cisco Webex Meetings and Cisco Webex Meetings Server Ghost Join Vulnerability

A vulnerability in Cisco Webex Meetings and Cisco Webex Meetings Server could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to join a Webex session without appearing on the participant list. This vulnerability is due to improper handling of authentication tokens by a vulnerable Webex site. An attacke...

Moodle Unauthorized Access Vulnerability (CNVD-2020-65138)

Moodle is a free, open-source e-learning software platform, also known as a course management system, learning management system or virtual learning environment. Moodle suffers from a security vulnerability that stems from inappropriate access restrictions in the process when restoring role...

[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: pngcheck-2.3.0-3.fc31

pngcheck verifies the integrity of PNG, JNG and MNG files by checking the internal 32-bit CRCs checksums and decompressing the image data; it can optionally dump almost all of the chunk-level information in the image in human-readable form. For example, it can be used to print the basic statist i...