December 19, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “NHL” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! December 19, 2017 - Headlines WannaCry cyberattack: White House adviser says...

Ecava IntegraXor

CVSS v3 5.3 ATTENTION: Remotely exploitable/low skill level to exploit. Vendor: Ecava Equipment: IntegraXor Vulnerabilities: SQL Injection AFFECTED PRODUCTS The following version of IntegraXor, a web SCADA/HMI solution, is affected: Ecava IntegraXor v 6.1.1030.1 and prior. IMPACT Successful...

Microsoft Exchange Defense in Depth Update

Microsoft has released an update for Microsoft Exchange that provides enhanced security as a defense in depth measure...

Detonating a bad rabbit: Windows Defender Antivirus and layered machine learning defenses

Windows Defender Antivirus uses a layered approach to protection: tiers of advanced automation and machine learning models evaluate files in order to reach a verdict on suspected malware. While Windows Defender AV detects a vast majority of new malware files at first sight, we always strive to...

Detonating a bad rabbit: Windows Defender Antivirus and layered machine learning defenses

Windows Defender Antivirus uses a layered approach to protection: tiers of advanced automation and machine learning models evaluate files in order to reach a verdict on suspected malware. While Windows Defender AV detects a vast majority of new malware files at first sight, we always strive to...

SA157: OpenSSL Vulnerabilities 28-Aug-2017 and 2-Nov-2017

SUMMARY Symantec Network Protection products using affected versions of OpenSSL are susceptible to several vulnerabilities. A remote attacker can send a crafted X.509 certificate to cause unspecified impact. They can exploit, under certain circumstances, a computational flaw in the Montgomery...

Security advisory about Qt for Android

Two vulnerabilities have been identified in Qt for Android which could be used by a malicious application to hijack an existing Qt for Android application on the same device. The vulnerabilities in question were found by Satoru Nagaoka from Cyber Defense Institute, Inc., and have been assigned th...

Trend Micro Protects VMware on Amazon Web Services

Organizations are taking advantage of changes in computing technology to position themselves for a more agile future. Technology leaders and architects see value beyond the data center with new public cloud models and are keen on adopting hybrid infrastructure approaches to their compute...

Motherboard Digital Security Guide

This digital security guide by Motherboard is very good. I put alongside EFF's "Surveillance Self-Defense" and John Scott-Railton's "Digital Security Low Hanging Fruit." There's also "Digital Security and Privacy for Human Rights Defenders." There are too many of these...

R.I.P. root9B? We Hardly Knew Ya!

root9B Holdings, a company that many in the security industry consider little more than a big-name startup aimed at cashing in on the stock market's insatiable appetite for cybersecurity firms, surprised no one this week when it announced it was ceasing operations at the end of the year. Founded ...

Microsoft Office Web Apps 2010 Service Pack 2 Defense in Depth Update (KB4011271)

This host is missing an important security update according to Microsoft KB4011271 SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE =...

Microsoft Word 2013 Service Pack 1 Defense in Depth Update (KB4011250)

This host is missing an important security update according to Microsoft KB4011250 SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescriptio...

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 Service Pack 1 Word Automation Services Defense in Depth Update (KB4011245)

This host is missing an important security update according to Microsoft KB4011245 SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE =...

Microsoft Office Web Apps Server 2013 Service Pack 1 Defense in Depth Vulnerability (KB4011247)

This host is missing an important security update according to Microsoft KB4011247 SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE =...

Microsoft Office Word Viewer Defense in Depth Update (KB4011264)

This host is missing an important security update according to Microsoft KB4011264 SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescriptio...

Microsoft Office Defense in Depth Update

Microsoft has released an update for Microsoft Office that provides enhanced security as a defense in depth measure...

Siemens SCALANCE, SIMATIC, RUGGEDCOM, and SINAMICS Products (Update B)

CVSS v3 6.8 Vendor: Siemens Equipment: SCALANCE, SIMATIC, RUGGEDCOM, and SINAMICS Products Vulnerabilities: Security Features UPDATE INFORMATION This updated advisory is a follow-up to the updated advisory titled ICSA-17-318-01A Siemens SCALANCE, SIMATIC, RUGGEDCOM, and SINAMICS Products that was...

Siemens SCALANCE, SIMATIC, RUGGEDCOM, and SINAMICS Products (Update A)

CVSS v3 6.8 Vendor: Siemens Equipment: SCALANCE, SIMATIC, RUGGEDCOM, and SINAMICS Products Vulnerabilities: Security Features UPDATE INFORMATION This updated advisory is a follow-up to the original advisory titled ICSA-17-318-01 Siemens SCALANCE, SIMATIC, RUGGEDCOM, and SINAMICS Products that was...

Siemens SCALANCE, SIMATIC, RUGGEDCOM, and SINAMICS Products (Update C)

CVSS v3 6.8 Vendor: Siemens Equipment: SCALANCE, SIMATIC, RUGGEDCOM, and SINAMICS Products Vulnerabilities: Security Features UPDATE INFORMATION This updated advisory is a follow-up to the updated advisory titled ICSA-17-318-01B Siemens SCALANCE, SIMATIC, RUGGEDCOM, and SINAMICS Products that was...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: X-XSS-Protection -> Misconfiguration

Hi there, URL: https://www.sfl-tap.army.mil/ I have seen that the website is using the X-XSS-Protection Header. But it has a strange configuration. When I take a look at securityheaders, I've seen that you guys use this as configuration. X-XSS-Protection: DENY DENY is used for the X-Frame Option...