CISA Releases Four New Insights Products

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has released four new CISA Insights products informed by U.S. intelligence and real-world events. Each of the following products provides a description of the threat, lessons learned, recommendations, and additional relevant resources:...

Microsoft Silent Update Torpedoes Windows Defender

A broken Microsoft Windows Defender signature file that was causing system file checks to fail got a patch this week – but the patch caused an even bigger issue, making Defender user-triggered antivirus scans fail altogether. The issue was in place for about a day before Microsoft re-patched the...

New DDoS Vector Observed in the Wild: WSD Attacks Hitting 35/Gbps

Additional research and support provided by Chad Seaman. Introduction Members of Akamai's Security Intelligence Response Team have been investigating a new DDoS vector that leverages a UDP Amplification technique known as WS-Discovery WSD. The situation surrounding WSD was recently made...

United States Sues Edward Snowden and You'd be Surprised to Know Why

The United States government today filed a lawsuit against Edward Snowden, a former contractor for the CIA and NSA government agencies who made headlines worldwide in 2013 when he fled the country and leaked top-secret information about NSA's global and domestic surveillance activities. And you...

Cisco Extends Patch for IPv6 DoS Vulnerability

Cisco has extended its patch for a high-severity IPv6 denial-of-service DoS vulnerability that was first addressed in 2016. The bug CVE-2016-1409 is a vulnerability in the IPv6 packet processing functions of multiple Cisco products, which could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a...

ACT Platform - Open Platform For Collection And Exchange Of Threat Intelligence Information

Semi-Automated Cyber Threat Intelligence ACT is a research project led by mnemonic as with contributions from the University of Oslo, NTNU, Norwegian Security Authority NSM, KraftCERT and Nordic Financial CERT. The main objective of the ACT project is to develop a platform for cyber threat...

Piwigo 2.9.5 Cross Site Request Forgery / Cross Site Scripting

===== Tempest Security Intelligence - ADV-03/2019 ========================== Piwigo - Version 2.9.5 Author: Rodolfo Tavares Tempest Security Intelligence - Recife, Pernambuco - Brazil ===== Table of Contents================================================== Overview Detailed description Timeline ...

Fabricated Voice Used in Financial Fraud

This seems to be an identity theft first: Criminals used artificial intelligence-based software to impersonate a chief executive's voice and demand a fraudulent transfer of €220,000 $243,000 in March in what cybercrime experts described as an unusual case of artificial intelligence being used in...

CVE-2019-0352

In SAP Business Objects Business Intelligence Platform, before versions 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3, some dynamic pages like jsp are cached, which leads to an attacker can see the sensitive information via cache and can open the dynamic pages even after logout...

Windows NTFS Privileged File Access Enumeration Vulnerability

NTFS is a proprietary journaling file system developed by Microsoft. Windows NTFS suffers from a privileged file access enumeration vulnerability that could be exploited by an attacker with user rights to gather intelligence or personal data...

OpenCTI - Open Cyber Threat Intelligence Platform

OpenCTI is an open source platform allowing organizations to manage their cyber threat intelligence knowledge and observables. It has been created in order to structure, store, organize and visualize technical and non-technical information about cyber threats. The structuration of the data is...

Facebook, Microsoft Challenge Industry to Detect, Prevent ‘Deepfakes’

Facebook, Microsoft and a number of universities have joined forces to sponsor a contest promoting research and development to combat deepfakes, or videos altered through artificial intelligence AI to mislead viewers. The two tech giants—along with the Partnership on AI and academics from Cornell...

CEO 'Deep Fake' Swindles Company Out of $243K

In the first known case of successful financial scamming via audio deep fakes, cybercrooks were able to create a near-perfect impersonation of a chief executive’s voice – and then used the audio to fool his company into transferring $243,000 to their bank account. A deep fake is a plausible video...

Beers with Talos Ep. #60: Summer camp flashbacks and defining your intel

Beers with Talos BWT Podcast episode No. 60 is now available. Download this episode and subscribe to Beers with Talos: If iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing, click here. Recorded Aug. 16, 2019 — The understatement of the day would be the guys were in some kind of mood when we recorded this...

OpenAI Said Its Code Was Risky. Two Grads Re-Created It Anyway

The artificial intelligence lab cofounded by Elon Musk said its software could too easily be adapted to crank out fake news...

The Sky Has Already Fallen (you just haven’t seen the alert yet)

Of course, the much-touted “Cybersecurity Skills Shortage” isn’t news to anyone, or it shouldn’t be. For seven or more years, journalists, industry analysts and practitioners have been opining about it one way or another. Analyses and opinions vary on how we have reached this impasse, my own bein...

IBM Security Guardium Big Data Intelligence Security Feature Issue Vulnerability

IBM Security Guardium Big Data Intelligence SonarG is a suite of big data security intelligence solutions from IBM, USA. The solution features interactive data exploration, automated connectivity analysis, and user activity analysis. IBM Security Guardium Big Data Intelligence suffers from a...

IBM Security Guardium Big Data Intelligence Resource Management Error Vulnerability

IBM Security Guardium Big Data Intelligence SonarG is a suite of big data security intelligence solutions from IBM, USA. The solution features interactive data exploration, automated connectivity analysis, and user activity analysis. IBM Security Guardium Big Data Intelligence suffers from a...

CVE-2019-4338

IBM Security Guardium Big Data Intelligence 4.0 SonarG does not properly restrict the size or amount of resources that are requested or influenced by an actor. This weakness can be used to consume more resources than intended. IBM X-Force ID: 161417...

Design/Logic Flaw

IBM Security Guardium Big Data Intelligence 4.0 SonarG does not properly restrict the size or amount of resources that are requested or influenced by an actor. This weakness can be used to consume more resources than intended. IBM X-Force ID: 161417...