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...

CVE-2017-1350: Undefined Security Weakness

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...

PT-2018-2515

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Apache Tomcat JK mod jk Connector versions 1.2.0 through 1.2.44 Description The issue is related to the normalization of requested paths in the Apache Tomcat JK mod jk Connector, which did not handle some edge cases correctly. This could allow...

PT-2018-5586

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: IBM InfoSphere Information Server versions 9.1, 11.3, 11.5, and 11.7 Description: The issue is related to improper access controls, which could allow a user to escalate their privileges to administrator. Recommendations: For IBM InfoSphere...

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...

BD Kiestra and InoquIA Systems (Update A)

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 6.3 ATTENTION : Exploitable from adjacent network Vendor : Becton, Dickinson and Company BD Equipment : BD Kiestra and InoqulA systems Vulnerabilities : Product UI does not Warn User of Unsafe Actions 2. UPDATE INFORMATION This updated advisory is a follow-up to the...

PCI DSS v3.2.1 – What You Need to Know

On Thursday, May 17, the PCI Security Standards Council PCI SSC released an updated version of the PCI DSS standard, primarily to include clarifications and minor revisions around controls that referenced SSL/early TLS. The new version removes notes referring to the effective date of February 1,...

Security update for php5 (important)

This update for php5 fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2018-10545: Fix access controls in FPM child processes bsc1091367. - CVE-2018-10547: Fix Reflected XSS on the PHAR 403 and 404 error pages bsc1091362. - CVE-2018-10546: Fix an infinite loop exists in ext/iconv/iconv.c...

openSUSE Security Update : php5 (openSUSE-2018-465)

This update for php5 fixes the following issues : Security issues fixed : - CVE-2018-10545: Fix access controls in FPM child processes bsc1091367. - CVE-2018-10547: Fix Reflected XSS on the PHAR 403 and 404 error pages bsc1091362. - CVE-2018-10546: Fix an infinite loop exists in ext/iconv/iconv.c...

WordPress Ultimate Member Plugin Access Restriction Bypass Vulnerability

WordPress is the WordPress Software Foundation's set of blogging platform developed using the PHP language, the platform supports personal blog sites on PHP and MySQL servers.Ultimate Member is one of the plug-ins used to create a membership site or online community. A security vulnerability exis...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : php53 (SUSE-SU-2018:1294-1)

This update for php53 fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed : - CVE-2018-10545: Fix access controls in FPM child processes bsc1091367. - CVE-2018-10547: Fix Reflected XSS on the PHAR 403 and 404 error pages bsc1091362. - CVE-2018-10546: Fix an infinite loop exists in ext/iconv/iconv.c...