TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of October 30, 2017

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This Week in Security News

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. Below you’ll find a quick recap of topics followed by links to news articles and/or our blog posts providing additional insight. Be sure to check back...

Poisoning the Well: Banking Trojan Targets Google Search Results

This blog post was authored by Edmund Brumaghin, Earl Carter and Emmanuel Tacheau.SummaryIt has become common for users to use Google to find information that they do not know. In a quick Google search you can find practically anything you need to know. Links returned by a Google search, however,...

Russian Propaganda Talks on Capitol Hill Thrust Cyber Espionage into the Public Eye

Leading tech executives from Google, Facebook, and Twitter returned to Capitol Hill on Wednesday for a second day of testimony as senators from both sides of the aisle took the companies to task for allegedly failing to defuse Russia's attempt to sway American voters ahead of the 2016 presidentia...

Sync Breeze 10.1.16 Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Sync Breeze version 10.1.16 is vulnerable to a buffer overflow vulnerability, which can be exploited remotely or locally to achieve arbitrary code execution. The flaw is triggered by providing a long input into the "Destination directory" path of the application. Sync Breeze 10.1.16 Buffer Overfl...

Maximize security insights by integrating threat intelligence data from Akamai with your SIEM

Since 2005, when Gartner coined the term, SIEM Security Information and Event Management solutions have grown in importance for the security industry. SIEM solutions provide a centralized view to easily access and analyze security information from multiple sources, and then prioritize mitigation...

Pentest-Tools-Auto-Installer - A Simple Tool For Installing Pentest Tools And Forensic Tools On Debian / Ubuntu Based OS

A Simple tool for installing pentest tools and forensic tools on Debian / Ubuntu Based OS Tested on Linux Mint And Kali Linux I Want To Get This How To Do ?? Change Your Privileges Terminal to Root Mode your@terminal:$ sudo su And Then Clone This your@terminal: git clone...

Bad Rabbit Ransomware Uses Leaked 'EternalRomance' NSA Exploit to Spread

A new widespread ransomware worm, known as "Bad Rabbit," that hit over 200 major organisations, primarily in Russia and Ukraine this week leverages a stolen NSA exploit released by the Shadow Brokers this April to spread across victims' networks. Earlier it was reported that this week's...

The Science of Interrogation

Fascinating article about two psychologists who are studying interrogation techniques. Now, two British researchers are quietly revolutionising the study and practice of interrogation. Earlier this year, in a meeting room at the University of Liverpool, I watched a video of the Diola interview...

Monitor More, Worry Less. Outpace Threats With Machine Learning.

In the past two years, enterprises have created more data than has been created in the entire history of humankind. At scale, securing this amount of data requires a re-think of how we grant and revoke access to sensitive files and, more importantly, how we identify and track the inevitable acces...

Kaspersky Opens Antivirus Source Code for Independent Review to Rebuild Trust

Kaspersky Lab — We have nothing to hide! Russia-based Antivirus firm hits back with what it calls a "comprehensive transparency initiative," to allow independent third-party review of its source code and internal processes to win back the trust of customers and infosec community. Kaspersky launch...

Fast Flux Botnet: Research Results

Just like that, another Akamai Edge has come and gone. If you were able to join us this year, I hope you had a chance to stop by my presentation on Threat Intelligence Insights: An In-Depth Analysis of a Fast Flux Botnet. In short, Fast Flux is a DNS technique used by botnets to hide various type...

CVE-2017-10359

Vulnerability in the Oracle Hyperion BI+ component of Oracle Hyperion subcomponent: UI and Visualization. The supported version that is affected is 11.1.2.4. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle Hyperion BI+. Successful...

CVE-2017-10303

Vulnerability in the Oracle Interaction Center Intelligence component of Oracle E-Business Suite subcomponent: Setup. Supported versions that are affected are 12.1.1, 12.1.2 and 12.1.3. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise...

CVE-2017-10163

Vulnerability in the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition component of Oracle Fusion Middleware subcomponent: Analytics Web General. Supported versions that are affected are 11.1.1.7.0, 11.1.1.9.0, 12.2.1.1.0 and 12.2.1.2.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attack...

Buffer overflow

Vulnerability in the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition component of Oracle Fusion Middleware subcomponent: Analytics Web General. Supported versions that are affected are 11.1.1.7.0, 11.1.1.9.0, 12.2.1.1.0 and 12.2.1.2.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated...

CVE-2017-10060

Vulnerability in the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition component of Oracle Fusion Middleware subcomponent: Analytics Web General. Supported versions that are affected are 11.1.1.7.0, 11.1.1.9.0, 12.2.1.1.0 and 12.2.1.2.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated...

CVE-2017-10060

Vulnerability in the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition component of Oracle Fusion Middleware subcomponent: Analytics Web General. Supported versions that are affected are 11.1.1.7.0, 11.1.1.9.0, 12.2.1.1.0 and 12.2.1.2.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated...

CVE-2017-10303

Vulnerability in the Oracle Interaction Center Intelligence component of Oracle E-Business Suite subcomponent: Setup. Supported versions that are affected are 12.1.1, 12.1.2 and 12.1.3. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise...

CVE-2017-10163

CVE-2017-10163 affects Oracle BI Enterprise Edition (Fusion Middleware Analytics Web General subcomponent). Affected versions are 11.1.1.7.0, 11.1.1.9.0, 12.2.1.1.0 and 12.2.1.2.0. The vulnerability is exploitable by a low-privileged attacker with network access over HTTP and, per the description...