Survival of the fastest: evolving defenders with broad security automation

If youve read the news at all lately, you know that we're having some struggles with information security. Everything from elections to hospitals to Westeros is considered a target, and adversaries continue to learn and innovate--often faster than the defense can respond. Its not that they have...

Akamai Is Named A Leader In Gartner's Magic Quadrant For Web Application Firewalls

"Don't work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition" - H. Jackson Brown. A friend sent this quote to me after I explained to her my ambivalence about being recognized by Gartner as a "Leader" in their Web Application Firewall Magic Quadrant. I had mixed feelings because I wanted to...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of August 7, 2017

Earlier this month, a blog post from Blue Frost Security was released stating that they were giving away tickets to the upcoming Ekoparty Security Conference in Argentina. But there was a catch: in order to get the tickets and free whiskey, entrants had to complete an exploitation challenge and...

A Leader for Four Consecutive Years in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for WAFs

Gartner has published their 2017 Magic Quadrant for Web Application Firewalls WAF and Imperva has again been named a WAF leader—now for four consecutive years. Attacks remain same, but infrastructure is changing According to 2017 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, web app attacks remain t...

More on the Vulnerabilities Equities Process

Richard Ledgett -- a former Deputy Director of the NSA -- argues against the US government disclosing all vulnerabilities: Proponents argue that this would allow patches to be developed, which in turn would help ensure that networks are secure. On its face, this argument might seem to make sense ...

CVE-2017-10041

Vulnerability in the BI Publisher component of Oracle Fusion Middleware subcomponent: Web Server. Supported versions that are affected are 11.1.1.9.0, 12.2.1.1.0 and 12.2.1.2.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise BI Publisher...

Design/Logic Flaw

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

CVE-2017-10058

CVE-2017-10058 affects Oracle Fusion Middleware’s Oracle BI Enterprise Edition (Analytics Web Administration). Affected: 11.1.1.9.0, 12.2.1.1.0, 12.2.1.2.0. The vulnerability allows a high-privilege attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise BI EE, with attacks requiring user interaction...

CVE-2017-10058

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

APT Trends report Q2 2017

Introduction Since 2014, Kaspersky Lab's Global Research and Analysis Team GReAT has been providing threat intelligence reports to a wide-range of customers worldwide, leading to the delivery of a full and dedicated private reporting service. Prior to the new service offering, GReAT published...

Tor Developer Busts Myths, Announces New Features

The Tor Project gets a bad rap as being a playground for the guilty. That’s why Tor Project co-founder Roger Dingledine took the stage last week at DEF CON to bust popular myths and announce upcoming features related to the anonymity network that averages 2 million users a day. Dingledine’s bigge...

movementintelligence.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-274897 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| movementintelligence.com Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

UPDATE: OSRFramework 0.17.0 BlackHat Arsenal Version!

PenTestIT RSS Feed Sometime early last month, I made a post about OSRFramework which was version 0.16.8. A new version of this open sources research framework was released at the recently concluded BlackHat 2017 conference. To be precise, it was released on Wednesday, July 26 in the OSINT Arsenal...

Oracle BI Publisher Remote Vulnerability (CNVD-2017-27294)

Oracle Fusion Middleware Oracle Fusion Middleware is a set of Oracle's business innovation platform for enterprise and cloud environments, which provides middleware, software collections, and other functionality.Oracle BI Publisher formerly known as XML Publisher is one of the reporting component...

Oracle BI Publisher Remote Vulnerability (CNVD-2017-27298)

Oracle Fusion Middleware Oracle Fusion Middleware is a set of Oracle's Oracle business innovation platform for enterprise and cloud environments, which provides middleware, software collections, etc. BI Publisher formerly known as XML Publisher is one of the reporting components. A security...

Clustering and Dimensionality Reduction: Understanding the “Magic” Behind Machine Learning

These days we hear about machine learning and artificial intelligence AI in all aspects of life. We see machines that learn and imitate the human brain in order to automate human processes. There are autonomous cars that learn the road conditions to drive, personal assistants we can converse with...

How to Secure AWS Deployments with SecureSphere WAF

The Imperva SecureSphere Web Application Firewall WAF analyzes all user access to business-critical web applications and protects your applications and data from cyberattacks. SecureSphere WAF dynamically learns an applications’ “normal” behavior and correlates it with crowd-sourced threat...

Unspecified Vulnerability in Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition

Oracle Fusion Middleware Oracle Fusion Middleware is a set of Oracle's business innovation platform for enterprise and cloud environments, which provides middleware, software collections, and other functionality.Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition is one of the business intelligence...

British Hacker Admits Using Mirai Botnet to DDoS Deutsche Telekom

An unnamed 29-year-old man, named by authorities as "Daniel K.," pleaded guilty in a German court on Friday to charges related to the hijacking of more than one Million Deutsche Telekom routers. According to reports in the German press, the British man, who was using online monikers "Peter Parker...

US Army Researching Bot Swarms

The US Army Research Agency is funding research into autonomous bot swarms. From the announcement: The objective of this CRA is to perform enabling basic and applied research to extend the reach, situational awareness, and operational effectiveness of large heterogeneous teams of intelligent...