Code injection

SQLite 3.25.2, when queries are run on a table with a malformed PRIMARY KEY, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash by leveraging the ability to run arbitrary SQL statements such as in certain WebSQL use cases...

Free Training: New Certified Learning Paths

The Qualys Training team is eager to share all of the recent additions to our free training program, as well as provide insight into what is coming in 2019. You can expect to see regular updates as we continue to improve our training offerings! It is our mission to help Qualys customers and...

First Hacker Convicted of 'SIM Swapping' Attack Gets 10 Years in Prison

A 20-year-old college student who stole cryptocurrency worth more than $5 million by hijacking victims' phone numbers has pleaded guilty and accepted a sentence of 10 years in prison. Ortiz was arrested last year on charges of siphoning millions of dollars in cryptocurrency from around 40 victims...

How to Collect Logs for Veeam Plug-in for SAP HANA

Purpose This article documents how to collect the diagnostic information needed for a support case involving the Veeam Plug-in for SAP HANA. Solution 1. Collect diagnostic information as documented in the four sections below. 2. Combine the data into a single .zip file. 3. Attach the zip file to...

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-20150

In WordPress before 4.9.9 and 5.x before 5.0.1, crafted URLs could trigger XSS for certain use cases involving plugins...

Debian DLA-1597-1 : gnuplot security update

gnuplot, a command-line driven interactive plotting program, has been examined with fuzzing by Tim Blazytko, Cornelius Aschermann, Sergej Schumilo and Nils Bars. They found various overflow cases which might lead to the execution of arbitrary code. Due to special toolchain hardening in Debian,...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: sos-collector security update

An update for sos-collector is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability...

[SECURITY] [DLA 1597-1] gnuplot security update

Package : gnuplot Version : 4.6.6-2+deb8u1 CVE ID : CVE-2018-19490 CVE-2018-19491 CVE-2018-19492 gnuplot, a command-line driven interactive plotting program, has been examined with fuzzing by Tim Blazytko, Cornelius Aschermann, Sergej Schumilo and Nils Bars. They found various overflow cases whic...

Debian DLA-1595-1 : gnuplot5 security update

gnuplot5, a command-line driven interactive plotting program, has been examined with fuzzing by Tim Blazytko, Cornelius Aschermann, Sergej Schumilo and Nils Bars. They found various overflow cases which might lead to the execution of arbitrary code. Due to special toolchain hardening in Debian,...

The Incident Response Tracking Application: DFIRTrack

DFIRTrack Digital Forensics and Incident Response Tracking application is an open source web application mainly based on Django using a PostgreSQL database backend. In contrast to other great incident response tools, which are mainly case-based and support the work of CERTs, SOCs etc. in their...

Heap overflow

Netwide Assembler NASM 2.14rc16 has a heap-based buffer over-read in expandmmacparams in asm/preproc.c for the special cases of the % and $ and ! characters...

New Docker-based Dev Pipeline: Microservice Projects Just Got A ‘Speed-Boost’

A bulwark of software engineering projects, the development pipeline is an automated process used to deliver changes from development through to production; enabling near real-time updates. The dev pipeline is a critical time saver as it enables you to: Avoid mistakes and wasted time as a result...

New Boom in Facial Recognition Tech Prompts Privacy Alarms

Somewhat quietly over the past couple of years there has been a flurry of breakthroughs in biometric technology, led by some leapfrog advances in facial recognition systems. Now facial recognition appears to be on the verge of blossoming commercially, with security use-cases paving the way. Last...

China's Five Steps for Recruiting Spies in the US

A series of high-profile cases involving alleged Chinese recruits shows how the country identifies and develops potential spies stateside...

CVE-2018-10683

DISPUTED An issue was discovered in WildFly 10.1.2.Final. In the case of a default installation without a security realm reference, an attacker can successfully access the server without authentication. NOTE: the Security Realms documentation in the product's Admin Guide indicates that "without a...

Mail Security Testing Framework

Mail Security Testing Framework is a testing framework for mail security and filtering solutions. The mail security testing framework works with with Python =3.5. Just pull this repository and go ahead. No further dependencies are required. Usage The script mail-tester.py runs the tests. Read the...

Lynis 2.6.8 - Security Auditing Tool for Unix/Linux Systems

We are excited to announce this major release of auditing tool Lynis. Several big changes have been made to core functions of Lynis. These changes are the next of simplification improvements we made. There is a risk of breaking your existing configuration. Lynis is an open source security auditin...

Noisy - Simple Random DNS, HTTP/S Internet Traffic Noise Generator

A simple python script that generates random HTTP/DNS traffic noise in the background while you go about your regular web browsing, to make your web traffic data less valuable for selling and for extra obscurity. Tested on MacOS High Sierra, Ubuntu 16.04 and Raspbian Stretch and is compatable wit...

QSC18 Virtual Edition: Global IT Asset Discovery, Inventory, and Management

Maintaining an IT asset inventory is essential for a strong security posture, but digital transformation has further complicated this already challenging task. “The volume and variety of assets, including cloud, virtualization, mobility and IoT, is disrupting IT, and security takes center stage,”...

APTSimulator - A toolset to make a system look as if it was the victim of an APT attack

APT Simulator is a Windows Batch script that uses a set of tools and output files to make a system look as if it was compromised. Use Cases 1. POCs: Endpoint detection agents / compromise assessment tools 2. Test your security monitoring's detection capabilities 3. Test your SOCs response on a...