Description of the security update for Excel 2016: June 12, 2018

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Microsoft Windows: User Account Control: Run all administrators in Admin Approval Mode

This policy setting determines the behavior of all User Account Control UAC policies for the entire system. This is the setting that turns UAC on or off. C Microsoft Corporation 2017. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, an...

Baby Cam Creeper Actively Watched New Mom

It’s a bad week for connected parents: A South Carolina mom says a stranger hacked into her baby monitor to spy on her and her family. She shared the experience on Facebook after she noticed someone had taken control of the 360-degree motion feature and was moving the camera toward her bed to see...

The vulnerability of the LsaAddAccountRights function in the 7-Zip file archiver allows a hacker to circumvent existing access restrictions.

The vulnerability of the LsaAddAccountRights function in the 7-Zip file archiver is related to deficiencies in access control. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to circumvent existing access restrictions by using the SeLockMemoryPrivilege privilege...

GDPR Is Here: Put File Integrity Monitoring in Your Toolbox

In this latest post of our series on the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, we’ll explain how file integrity monitoring FIM can be crucial in helping organizations comply with this severe regulation. GDPR, which went into effect in May and applies to organizations worldwide that handle EU...

CVE-2017-1350

IBM InfoSphere Information Server 9.1, 11.3, 11.5, and 11.7 could allow a user to escalate their privileges to administrator due to improper access controls. IBM X-Force ID: 126526...

CVE-2017-1350

IBM InfoSphere Information Server 9.1, 11.3, 11.5, and 11.7 could allow a user to escalate their privileges to administrator due to improper access controls. IBM X-Force ID: 126526...

CVE-2017-1350

IBM InfoSphere Information Server is affected by CVE-2017-1350, a privilege escalation due to improper access controls in versions 9.1, 11.3, 11.5, and 11.7 (including InfoSphere Framework and InfoSphere on Cloud). The IBM security bulletin (BB7F1678...) states an attacker could escalate to admin...

CVE-2017-1350

IBM InfoSphere Information Server 9.1, 11.3, 11.5, and 11.7 could allow a user to escalate their privileges to administrator due to improper access controls. IBM X-Force ID: 126526...

DARKSURGEON - A Windows Packer Project To Empower Incident Response, Digital Forensics, Malware Analysis, And Network Defense

DARKSURGEON is a Windows packer project to empower incident response, digital forensics, malware analysis, and network defense. DARKSURGEON has three stated goals: Accelerate incident response, digital forensics, malware analysis, and network defense with a preconfigured Windows 10 environment...

couchdb -- administrator privilege escalation

Apache CouchDB PMC reports: Database Administrator could achieve privilege escalation to the account that CouchDB runs under, by abusing insufficient validation in the HTTP API, escaping security controls implemented in previous releases...

Malware in the age of IoT

Now that technology providers are bringing connectivity to a whole host of different items and appliances, the full force of the Internet of Things is beginning to be felt by businesses and consumers alike. From simple items like home routers to more complex, machine-to-machine systems, the IoT i...

Leveraging Imperva Solutions for GDPR Compliance Part II: Pseudonymization

Down to the wire- the GDPR compliance deadline is here. It’s May 25 and the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation GDPR is live. As you know by now, the risk and potential costs associated with a failure to comply with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation GDPR are substantial. GDPR...

GDPR Is Here:  Assess the Security Configurations of Your IT Systems

In prior installments of this GDPR compliance blog series, we’ve discussed the importance of key security practices such as IT asset inventory and vulnerability management. Today, we’ll focus on another core component for GDPR: policy compliance. As we’ve stated before, to comply with the EU’s...

Windows Defender Firewall: Public Profile: Apply local connection security rules

The policy determines whether the local connection rules are merged with GP settings when connected to a public network. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders...

SA167: SAML Authentication Bypass

SUMMARY When configured to authenticate network users with a SAML authentication realm, Symantec ASG and ProxySG incorrectly handle SAML responses that have XML nodes with comments. A remote attacker can modify a valid SAML response without invalidating its cryptographic signature to bypass SAML...

Windows Packer Project for Defenders: DARKSURGEON

Darksurgeon is a Windows packer project to empower incident response, digital forensics, malware analysis, and network defense. Darksurgeon has three stated goals: Accelerate incident response, digital forensics, malware analysis, and network defense with a preconfigured Windows 10 environment...

Qualys Policy Compliance Notification: Policy Library Update

Qualys’ library of built-in policies makes it easy to comply with the security standards and regulations that are most commonly used and adhered to. Qualys provides a wide range of policies, including many that have been certified by CIS as well as the ones based on security guidelines from OS an...

GDPR Is Here: Manage Vulnerabilities and Prioritize Threat Remediation

To provide the level of data protection required by the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation GDPR, your organization must continuously detect vulnerabilities, and prioritize their remediation. Why? An InfoSec team that’s chronically overwhelmed by its IT environment’s vulnerabilities and unabl...

Researchers unearth a huge botnet army of 500,000 hacked routers

More than half a million routers and storage devices in dozens of countries have been infected with a piece of highly sophisticated IoT botnet malware, likely designed by Russia-baked state-sponsored group. Cisco's Talos cyber intelligence unit have discovered an advanced piece of IoT botnet...