A week in security (October 9 – October 15)

Last week on the Labs blog, we talked about GDPR as part of our series in the National Cyber Security Awareness Month NCSAM. We also discussed a new method for phishing Apple ID passwords and the possible ramifications. We analyzed the malvertising chain due to a script that was found on popular...

September 28, 2017—KB4038801 (OS Build 14393.1737)

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July 18, 2017—KB4025335 (Preview of Monthly Rollup)

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June 27, 2017—KB4022720 (Preview of Monthly Rollup)

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GSM Community Edition and lagging OpenVAS Plugin Feed

As I already wrote in "Installing OpenVAS 9 from the sources", since May 2017 OpenVAS 9 is available in a form of free virtual appliance. It is called GSM Community Edition GCE and is based on Greenbone commercial product GSM ONE. What's the difference between GSM ONE and free GCE? GSM Community...

CVE-2017-8379

Memory leak in the keyboard input event handlers support in QEMU aka Quick Emulator allows local guest OS privileged users to cause a denial of service host memory consumption by rapidly generating large keyboard events...

January 26, 2017—KB 3216755 (OS Build 14393.726)

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Extremely Fast Flexible Web Fuzzer: Filebuster

Extremely Fast Flexible Web Fuzzer Filebuster was built based on one of the fastest HTTP classes in the world of PERL – Furl::HTTP. Also the thread modelling is a bit optimized to run as fast as possible. Features It packs a ton of features like: The already mentioned Regex patterns Supports...

Configurable DNS Proxy: foghorn

Configurable DNS Proxy foghorn is a configurable DNS proxy to allow for black-, white-, and greylisting of DNS resources. DNS is an essential utility for the functioning of internet-connected resources, and one which a careful administrator can control. The foghorn utility provides a means to add...

OpenSSHd 7.2p2 - Username Enumeration

OpenSSHd 7.2p2 - Username Enumeration Source: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2016/Jul/51 -------------------------------------------------------------------- User Enumeration using Open SSHD =Latest version. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract:...

February 9, 2016 — KB3135173 (OS Build 10586.104)

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mysql: Remote Preauth User Enumeration flaw

Oracle MySQL 5.5.38 and earlier, 5.6.19 and earlier, and MariaDB 5.5.28a, 5.3.11, 5.2.13, 5.1.66, and possibly other versions, generates different error messages with different time delays depending on whether a user name exists, which allows remote attackers to enumerate valid usernames...

blur6ex <= 0.3.462 (ID) Admin Disclosure / Blind SQL Injection Exploit

No description provided by source. !/usr/bin/php -q -d shortopentag=on ? echo blur6ex = 0.3.462 'ID' blind SQL injection / admin credentials disclosure\r\n; echo by rgod [email protected]\r\n; echo site: http://retrogod.altervista.org\r\n; echo dork: \powered by blur6ex\r\n\r\n; / works...

Cyber attack hits Istanbul Airport passport control system

The passport control system at Istanbul Ataturk Airport International departure terminal was under cyber attack on Friday, while another airport in the Turkish largest city was also affected. Passengers stood in lines for hours and plane departures were delayed, because cyberattack shutdown...

blind_sqli

This plugin finds blind SQL injections using two techniques: time delays and true/false response comparison. Only one configurable parameters exists: eqlimit Plugin type Audit Options Name | Type | Default Value | Description | Help ---|---|---|---|--- eqlimit | float | 0.9 | String equal ratio 0...

os_commanding

This plugin will find OS commanding vulnerabilities. The detection is performed using two different techniques: Time delays Writing a known file to the HTML output With time delays, the plugin sends specially crafted requests that, if the vulnerability is present, will delay the response for 5...

Blueprints of Australia's top spy agency headquarters stolen by Chinese hackers

Secret and highly sensitive and $630 million building blueprints outlining the layout of Australia's top spy agency's new headquarters have been stolen by Chinese hackers. According to a report by the ABC's Four Corners, the blueprints included floor plans, communications cabling, server location...

[Http-enum] Automated HTTP Enumeration Tool

Null Security Team writing a python script for Automated HTTP Enumeration. currently only in the initial beta stage, but includes basic checking of files including the Apache server-status as well as well IIS WebDAV and Microsoft FrontPage Extensions, many more features will be added to this tool...

automake security update

1.9.6-2.3 - increase delay in self checks - add delays in aclocal7 self check http://osdir.com/ml/sysutils.automake.bugs/2006-09/msg00012.html - preserve timestamps of configure files 1.9.6-2.2 - add fix for CVE-2009-4029...

PT-2009-4852 · Ibm · Ibm Lotus Instant Messaging/Web Conferencing

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: IBM Lotus Instant Messaging and Web Conferencing version 6.5.1 Description: The issue allows remote attackers to enumerate valid usernames by analyzing the different time delays in error messages generated for failed logon attempts, depending...