CoalfireOne Special Notes

PCI-DSS can be challenging to navigate - particularly when it comes to the ASV scanning requirements. While fulfilling the scanning requirement is easy, obtaining a passing attestation report may involve more than simply remediating failed findings. One requirement that we receive many questions...

Script Src Integrity Check

The remote host may be vulnerable to payment entry data exfiltration due to javascript included from potentially untrusted and unverified third parties script src. If the host is controlled by a 3rd party, ensure that the 3rd party is PCI DSS compliant. C Tenable Network Security, Inc...

App Security and PCI; Are you ready for the audit?

As most people know, merchants, financial institutions and anybody else who is involved in processing credit cards are subject to the PCI DSS compliance to reduce fraud and cybersecurity risks. This affects both brick-n-mortar stores and banks as well as card-not-present CNP transactions that...

What You Should Know About the Changing Nature of Telephone-Based Payments

In March 2011, the PCI SSC released the initial version of the "Protecting Telephone-Based Payments Card Data" Information Supplement as a guide to help assessors assess environments where cardholder data was stored, processed, and/or transmitted over the telephone. It was a pivotal guidance...

Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Safari Plans to Disable TLS 1.0 and 1.1 in 2020

All major web browsers, including Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer, and Mozilla Firefox, altogether today announced to soon remove support for TLS 1.0 20-year-old and TLS 1.1 12-year-old communication encryption protocols. Developed initially as Secure Sockets Layer...

PCI & QID 38598 “Deprecated Public Key Length”

QID 38598 “Deprecated Public Key Length” will be marked as PCI Fail as of November 1, 2018 in accordance with its CVSS score. Under PCI DSS merchants and financial institutions are required to protect their clients' sensitive data with strong cryptography. Strong cryptography is defined in the...

Accelerating PCI Data Security Standard projects with Deep Security as a Service

Does your organization need to meet PCI DSS requirements? Are you struggling with multiple security tools? Or stretching your already overstretched team to prepare for an audit? Time to hit the accelerator with Trend Micro! If your applications deal with credit or payment card data, you need to g...

Assessing Linux Security Configurations with SCAP Workbench

Recently I had a chance to work with OpenSCAP. It's a set of free and open-source tools for Linux Configuration Assessment and a collection security content in SCAP Security Content Automation Protocol format. In this post I will write about SCAP Workbench. It is a GUI application that can check...

Cb Protection 8.1 Makes Replacing Legacy Antivirus On Critical Systems and Servers Easier Than Ever

Cb Protection, has a long history of innovation in the market. Many have referred to Cb Protection as a pioneer in the application control market. Application control also known as whitelisting is used to lock down critical systems and servers. It's also one of the strongest forms of protection a...

Static vs Dynamic Data Masking: Why Are We Still Comparing the Two?

Earlier this month a leading analyst released their annual report on the state of Data Masking as a component of the overall Data Security sector; which included commentary on what’s known as ‘static’ data masking and an alternative solution known as ‘dynamic’ data masking. And these two solution...

Sending tables from Atlassian Confluence to Splunk

Sometimes when we make automated analysis with Splunk, it might be necessary to use information that was entered or edited manually. For example, the classification of network hosts: do they belong to the PCI-DSS Scope or another group critical hosts or not. In this case, Confluence can be quite ...

Dataiku DSS Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Dataiku DSS is a data processing collaboration platform. the REST API is one of the APIs that supports lightweight REST style web scripts. A security vulnerability exists in the REST API in Dataiku DSS versions prior to 4.2.3. A remote attacker could exploit the vulnerability to obtain sensitive...

Cross site request forgery (csrf)

The REST API in Dataiku DSS before 4.2.3 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information i.e., determine if a username is valid because of profile pictures visibility...

CVE-2018-10732

The REST API in Dataiku DSS before 4.2.3 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information i.e., determine if a username is valid because of profile pictures visibility...

CVE-2018-10732

Dataiku DSS REST API (affected product: Dataiku DSS) prior to version 4.2.3 is affected. The vulnerability arises from profile pictures visibility in the REST API, enabling remote attackers to determine whether a username is valid (information disclosure). The root cause is insufficient access co...

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,...

PCI Scan Accuracy cannot be verified through Load Balancer with non-identically configured or non-synced systems

The remote has is behind a load balancer either with a non-identical configurations to its peers, or is not synced with its peers. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid109582; scriptversion"1.2"; scriptcvsdate"Date: 2019/04/04 10:19:47";...

What HIPAA and Other Compliance Teaches Us About the Reality of GDPR

with contributing author, William J. Malik, CISA | VP, Infrastructure Strategies The date for General Data Protection Regulation GDPR compliance is just weeks away, yet many organizations, especially those outside Europe, remain unprepared. It turns out that the experiences from other privacy...

Web Form Sending Credentials Using GET (PCI-DSS check)

The remote web application has a form that sends credentials using an HTTP GET request. This can cause sensitive information such as usernames and passwords to be logged by the server in access logs. Authors of services which use the HTTP protocol SHOULD NOT use GET based forms for the submission...

Windows Server 2008 Critical RCE Vulnerabilities (uncredentialed) (PCI/DSS)

According to the version number obtained by NTLM the remote host has Windows Server 2008 installed. The host may be vulnerable to a number of vulnerabilities including remote unauthenticated code execution. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description scriptid108811;...