[SECURITY] Fedora 28 Update: tcpflow-1.5.0-2.fc28

tcpflow is a program that captures data transmitted as part of TCP connections flows, and stores the data in a way that is convenient for protocol analysis or debugging. A program like 'tcpdump' shows a summary of packets seen on the wire, but usually doesn't store the data that's actually being...

How New Passive Network Sensor Boosts Platform Capabilities

Black Hat attendees got a peek at Qualys Passive Network Sensor PNS, a product that amplifies the already comprehensive IT asset visibility Qualys provides to its customers. By adding real-time network analysis to Qualys’ versatile set of sensors, PNS eliminates blind spots across IT environments...

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 ...

Explained: What is big data?

If the pile of manure is big enough, you will find a gold coin in it eventually. This saying is used often to explain why anyone would use big data. Needless to say, in this day and age, the piles of data are so big, you might end up finding a pirate’s treasure. How big is the pile? But when is t...

Akamai Welcomes Girls Who Code

Akamai employees in Cambridge have started to see some new faces around the office for the summer - 20+ high school juniors to be specific! For the fourth consecutive year, Akamai is partnering with Girls Who Code to host a seven-week long summer immersion program dedicated to closing the gender...

GDPR Is Here: How GDPR Readiness Can Boost Your Business

Most discussions about the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation GDPR have naturally focused on best practices for achieving compliance and avoiding penalties. With GDPR now a reality for all companies that store and process personal data of EU residents, an often overlooked aspect has been the...

The Threats That Are Your Weakest Link

Coalfire published the latest report in its Securealities series, The Penetration Risk Report, and its based on findings from Coalfire penetration tests. It includes data drawn from engagements with businesses of all sizes, spanning financial services, retail, healthcare, and technology/cloud...

Security Bulletin: IBM Tealeaf Customer Experience (CX) is affected by a vulnerability in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160)

Summary A security vulnerability has been discovered in OpenSSL. Vulnerability Details CVE-ID: CVE-2014-0160 DESCRIPTION: OpenSSL could allow a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by an error in the TLS/DTLS heartbeat functionality. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability...

hartfaalcentrum.nl XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-620998 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| hartfaalcentrum.nl Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

Artificial Intelligence and the Attack/Defense Balance

Artificial intelligence technologies have the potential to upend the longstanding advantage that attack has over defense on the Internet. This has to do with the relative strengths and weaknesses of people and computers, how those all interplay in Internet security, and where AI technologies migh...

Protobuf-Inspector - Tool To Reverse-Engineer Protocol Buffers With Unknown Definition

Simple program that can parse Google Protobuf encoded blobs version 2 or 3 without knowing their accompanying definition. It will print a nice, colored representation of their contents. Example: As you can see, the field names are obviously lost, together with some high-level details such as:...

VIDEO: Unfiltered Endpoint Data – Building Better Detection

BUILDING BETTER DETECTION In our previous post, Carbon Black’s Founder and CTO Mike Viscuso talked about how we can tilt the advantage back to the defenders with a “surveillance camera” for endpoints. By collecting endpoint activity and continuously storing it in a centralized location — without...

Humans, Machines and Data: Fighting Mirai, Together

By Yohai Einav, Hongliang Liu Background It's been 18 months since Mirai entered our lives, and, unfortunately, we expect it to have a perennial presence in our cyber-world for years to come. If we look at the big picture, all indicators suggest that the Mirai problem and its descendants is just...

Algorithms, Alerts, and Akamai Threat Intelligence

Let me start by posing a question: If in one week security solution A produces 120 alerts and security solution B produces 45 alerts, which solution is providing you with more effective protection? The answer is: It depends. On the face of it, solution A appears to be more effective because it's...

A Deep Learning Approach for Password Guessing: PassGAN

State-of-the-art password guessing tools, such as HashCat and John the Ripper JTR, enable users to check billions of passwords per second against password hashes. In addition to straightforward dictionary attacks, these tools can expand dictionaries using password generation rules. Although these...

What to expect for this year's Black Friday and Cyber Monday

Last year during holidays, US online sales surpassed $122 billion. This represented a 12 percent increase over the previous year. But beyond the overall growth, what's more interesting is that sales at physical stores dropped by 10 percent, the result of ongoing consumer comfort with and adoption...

InfoSec Pros Must Fasten Their Seatbelts for Digital Transformation Ride

The IT industry has gone through multiple revolutions – client-server computing, the Internet’s rise, virtualization, mobility – but none rivals the unprecedented impact of today’s digital transformation. The implications for InfoSec professionals are broad, requiring that they adapt quickly to t...

Dangerous liaisons

It seems just about everyone has written about the dangers of online dating, from psychology magazines to crime chronicles. But there is one less obvious threat not related to hooking up with strangers – and that is the mobile apps used to facilitate the process. We're talking here about...

Partner Perspectives: Operationalizing Data With the Carbon Black and Splunk Integration (Part 1)

Editor's Note: this blog originally appeared on RedCanary.com Over the last 5 years I have grown very close to Splunk. The product has evolved so much over the years, but the core architecture has always been easy to deploy and understand. Splunk is known for the speed at which it can search for...

Deep-Learning PassGAN Tool Improves Password Guessing

Artificial intelligence and deep learning are creeping into information security, and one of the early applications of those approaches has emerged and is focused on passwords. Researchers from the Stevens Institute of Technology and the New York Institute of Technology have recently published so...