IoT bills and guidelines: a global response

You may not have noticed, but Internet of Things IoT rules and regulations are coming whether manufacturers want them or not. From experience, drafting up laws which are hopefully sensible and have some relevance to problems raised by current technology is a time-consuming, frustrating process...

RUSTSEC-2019-0032 crust repo has been archived; use libp2p instead

The crust crate repo was archived with no warning or explanation. Given that it was archived with no warning or successor, there's not an official replacement but rust-libp2p looks like it's got a similar feature set and is actively maintained...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : MariaDB vulnerabilities (USN-4195-2)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4195-2 advisory. USN-4195-1 fixed multiple vulnerabilities in MySQL. This update provides the corresponding fixes for CVE-2019-2974 in MariaDB 10.1 and CVE-2019-2938,...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : MySQL vulnerabilities (USN-4195-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4195-1 advisory. Multiple security issues were discovered in MySQL and this update includes new upstream MySQL versions to fix these issues. MySQL has been...

Updated systemd packages fix security vulnerability

Updated systemd packages fix security vulnerability: Nadav Markus from Palo Alto Networks discovered that systemd-resolved does not enforce appropriate access controls on its D-Bus interface and allows unprivileged users to execute methods that are meant to be available only to privileged users...

MGASA-2019-0330 Updated systemd packages fix security vulnerability

Updated systemd packages fix security vulnerability: Nadav Markus from Palo Alto Networks discovered that systemd-resolved does not enforce appropriate access controls on its D-Bus interface and allows unprivileged users to execute methods that are meant to be available only to privileged users...

Unspecified Vulnerability in ZyXEL GS1900 (CNVD-2019-41669)

ZyXEL GS1900 is a managed switch from ZyXEL Taiwan, China. A security vulnerability exists in the Zyxel GS1900 using firmware prior to version 2.50AAHH.0C0. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability to access restricted features...

SUSE-SU-2019:3002-1 Security update for haproxy

This update for haproxy to version 2.0.5+git0.d905f49a fixes the following issues: Security issue fixed: - CVE-2019-14241: Fixed a cookie memory corruption problem. bsc1142529 The update to 2.0.5 brings lots of features and bugfixes: - new internal native HTTP representation called HTX, was alrea...

SUSE-SU-2019:3001-1 Security update for haproxy

This update for haproxy to version 2.0.5+git0.d905f49a fixes the following issues: Security issue fixed: - CVE-2019-14241: Fixed a cookie memory corruption problem. bsc1142529 The update to 2.0.5 brings lots of features and bugfixes: - new internal native HTTP representation called HTX, was alrea...

USN-4195-1: MySQL vulnerabilities

Multiple security issues were discovered in MySQL and this update includes new upstream MySQL versions to fix these issues. MySQL has been updated to 8.0.18 in Ubuntu 19.10. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 19.04 have been updated to MySQL 5.7.28. In addition to security fixes, the...

Storefront: Issue with creating new deployment - "Unable to Create Deployment"

1. Unable to create StoreFront Deployment on a VM hosted on VMware with VMware tools installed Exception: New Server Deployment An error occurred running the command: 'Set-DSNewClusterEnvironment' An error occurred while adding the StoreFront configuration API. Exception of type...

Orcus RAT Author Charged in Malware Scheme

In July 2016, KrebsOnSecurity published a story identifying a Toronto man as the author of the Orcus RAT, a software product that’s been marketed on underground forums and used in countless malware attacks since its creation in 2015. This week, Canadian authorities criminally charged him with...

Persistence – Accessibility Features

The accessibility features provide additional options on screen keyboards, magnifier, screen reading etc. that could assist people with disabilities to use Windows operating systems easier. However, this functionality can be abused to achieve persistence on a host that RDP is enabled and...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : libseccomp (SUSE-SU-2019:2941-1)

This update for libseccomp fixes the following issues : Update to new upstream release 2.4.1 : Fix a BPF generation bug where the optimizer mistakenly identified duplicate BPF code blocks. Updated to 2.4.0 bsc1128828 CVE-2019-9893: Update the syscall table for Linux v5.0-rc5 Added support for the...

Smartweares HOME easy Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Smartweares HOME easy is prone to an information disclosure vulnerability. Copyright C 2019 Greenbone Networks GmbH 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-or-later This program is...

Qualys Cloud Platform 8.21.7 New Features

Update November 27, 2019: The features referenced in this blog post will be released in Qualys Cloud Platform release 8.22. Update November 19, 2019: The features referenced in this blog post will be released in the next Qualys Cloud Platform release scheduled for December 2019, and will be...

Important: Red Hat Enhancement Advisory: Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 1.0.2 RPMs

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 1.0.2. Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh is Red Hat's distribution of the Istio service mesh project, tailored for installation into an on-premise OpenShift Container Platform installation. The OpenShift Service Mesh release notes provide information on the features an...

SUSE-SU-2019:2914-1 Security update for gdb

This update for gdb fixes the following issues: Update to gdb 8.3.1: jscECO-368 Security issues fixed: - CVE-2019-1010180: Fixed a potential buffer overflow when loading ELF sections larger than the file. bsc1142772 Upgrade libipt from v2.0 to v2.0.1. - Enable librpm for version librpm.so.3...

SUSE-SU-2019:2913-1 Security update for gdb

This update for gdb fixes the following issues: Update to gdb 8.3.1: jscECO-368 Security issues fixed: - CVE-2019-1010180: Fixed a potential buffer overflow when loading ELF sections larger than the file. bsc1142772 Upgrade libipt from v2.0 to v2.0.1. - Enable librpm for version librpm.so.3...

Azure Sentinel updates: Improve your security operations with innovations from a cloud-native SIEM

Just a month ago, I communicated the details about Azure Sentinel reaching general availability. Since then, many customers have shared how Azure Sentinel has empowered their teams to be nimble and more efficient. ASOS, one of the largest online fashion retailers, is an excellent example of this...