How Organizations Can Defend Against Advanced Persistent Threats

Advanced persistent threats APTs have emerged to be legitimate concerns for all organizations. APTs are threat actors that breach networks and infrastructures and stealthily lurk within them over extended spans of time. They typically perform complex hacks that allow them to steal or destroy data...

Security Bulletin: IBM Operations Analytics - Log Analysis is affected by an Apache Zookeeper vulnerability (CVE-2019-4244)

Summary IBM Operations Analytics - Log Analysis has addressed the following vulnerability in Apache ZooKeeper. CVEs: CVE-2019-4244 Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2019-4244 DESCRIPTION: CVSS Base score: 9.1 CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/159518 for...

Security Bulletin: Log Analysis is vulnerable to a client side scripting attack due to missing HTTPOnly and Secure attribute in the cookie

Summary A remote attacker is able to obtain sensitive information cause by the failure to set the HttpOnly and Secure attribute in the cookie. This allow attacker to intercept the transmission and obtain information from the cookie in clear text Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2019-4214...

Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in Apache Solr (lucene) affects IBM Operations Analytics - Log Analysis (CVE-2019-4243)

Summary A vulnerability on unrestricted access was addressed by IBM Operations Analytics - Log Analysis. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2019-4243 DESCRIPTION: CVSS Base score: 5.1 CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/159517 for the current score. CVSS...

Security Bulletin: Clickjacking vulnerability in IBM Operations Analytics - Log Analysis (CVE-2019-4215)

Summary There is a clickjacking vulnerability in IBM Operations Analytics - Log Analysis Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2019-4215 DESCRIPTION: CVSS Base score: 6.1 CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/159186 for the current score. CVSS Vector:...

Security Bulletin: IBM Operations Analytics - Log Analysis is vulnerable to potential Host Header Injection (CVE-2019-4216)

Summary IBM Operations Analytics - Log Analysis is vulnerable to HTTP header injection, as attacker can abuse the HTTP Host header. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2019-4216 DESCRIPTION: CVSS Base score: 4.6 CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/159187 fo...

Nginx Log Check - Nginx Log Security Analysis Script

Nginx Log Security Analysis Script Features Statistics Top 20 Address SQL injection analysis Scanner alert analysis Exploit detection Sensitive path access File contains attack Webshell Find URLs with response length Top 20 Looking for rare script file access Find script file for 302 redirect Usa...

IBM Operations Analytics-Log Analysis Information Disclosure Vulnerability

IBM Operations Analytics-Log Analysis is a set of semi-structured data analysis solutions from IBM USA. The product is mainly used for application log analysis and problem diagnosis and so on. An information disclosure vulnerability exists in IBM Operations Analytics-Log Analysis, which stems fro...

IBM Operations Analytics-Log Analysis Unrestricted Access Vulnerability

IBM Operations Analytics-Log Analysis is a set of semi-structured data analysis solutions from IBM USA. The product is mainly used for application log analysis and problem diagnosis and so on. A security vulnerability exists in IBM Operations Analytics-Log Analysis. No detailed vulnerability...

IBM Operations Analytics-Log Analysis Clickjacking Vulnerability

IBM Operations Analytics-Log Analysis is a set of semi-structured data analysis solutions from IBM USA. The product is mainly used for application log analysis and problem diagnosis and so on. A security vulnerability exists in IBM Operations Analytics-Log Analysis. No detailed vulnerability...

MIG - Distributed And Real Time Digital Forensics At The Speed Of The Cloud

MIG is Mozilla's platform for investigative surgery of remote endpoints. Quick Start w/ Docker You can spin up a local-only MIG setup using docker. The container is not suitable for production use but lets you experiment with MIG quickly, providing a single container environment that has most of...

IBM Security Access Manager Appliance Weak Encryption Algorithm Vulnerability (CNVD-2019-19294)

IBM Security Access Manager Appliance ISAM Appliance is a network appliance-based security solution from IBM, USA. The product is mainly used for access control and Web-based threat protection, providing system performance monitoring, log analysis and diagnosis. A security vulnerability exists in...

5 Cybersecurity Tools Every Business Needs to Know

Cybersecurity experts all echo the same thing – cyber attacks are going to get more rampant, and they will continue to pose severe threats against all technology users. Businesses, in particular, have become prime targets for cybercriminals due to the nature of data and information they process a...

5 Cybersecurity Tools Every Business Needs to Know

Cybersecurity experts all echo the same thing – cyber attacks are going to get more rampant, and they will continue to pose severe threats against all technology users. Businesses, in particular, have become prime targets for cybercriminals due to the nature of data and information they process a...

Security Bulletin: Potential vulnerability related to Unsafe Deserialization in Apache Solr shipped with IBM Operations Analytics - Log Analysis (CVE-2019-0192)

Summary In Solr the Config API allows to configure the JMX server via an HTTP POST request. By pointing it to a malicious RMI server, an attacker could take advantage of unsafe deserialization in Solr to trigger remote code execution on the Solr side. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2019-0192...

How to Maximize the Value of Your Cybersecurity Investment

When it comes to developing a successful cybersecurity program in 2019, simply purchasing and deploying cybersecurity technology is only the first step in deriving value from the investment. Maximizing value and capitalizing on these efforts requires a series of defined processes and no shortage ...

Thoughts on OSSEC Con 2019

Last week I attended my first OSSEC conference. I first blogged about OSSEC in 2007, and wrote other posts about it in the following years. OSSEC is a host-based intrusion detection and log analysis system with correlation and active response features. It is cross-platform, such that I can run it...

Security Bulletin: Potential denial of service in WebSphere Application Server shipped with IBM Operations Analytics - Log Analysis (CVE-2018-10237)

Summary There is a potential denial of service with the Google Guava library that is used in WebSphere Application Server. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2018-10237 DESCRIPTION: Google Guava is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by improper eager allocation checks in the AtomicDoubleArra...

Hacking the GCHQ Backdoor

Last week, I evaluated the security of a recent GCHQ backdoor proposal for communications systems. Furthering the debate, Nate Cardozo and Seth Schoen of EFF explain how this sort of backdoor can be detected: In fact, we think when the ghost feature is active­ -- silently inserting a secret...

Security Bulletin: Potential MITM attack in Apache CXF used by WebSphere Application Server affects IBM Operations Analytics - Log Analysis (CVE-2018-8039)

Summary There is a potential man-in-the-middle attack in Apache CXF used by WebSphere Application Server CVE-2018-8039 Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2018-8039 DESCRIPTION: Apache CXF could allow a remote attacker to conduct a man-in-the-middle attack. The TLS hostname verification does not wor...