Call for Papers | Microsoft BlueHat Shanghai 2019

The Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC recently announced our first BlueHat security conference in Shanghai which will take place on May 29-30, 2019. After 15 years of BlueHat events in Redmond, Washington and Israel, we are thrilled to expand to a new location. We work with many talented...

Multiple SCALANCE X switches products mirror port isolation vulnerability

SCALANCE X switches are used to connect industrial components such as programmable logic controllers PLCs or human machine interfaces HMIs. A mirror port isolation vulnerability exists in several SCALANCE X switches products. The vulnerability is due to the monitoring barriers on the affected...

Going ATOMIC: Clustering and Associating Attacker Activity at Scale

At FireEye, we work hard to detect, track, and stop attackers. As part of this work, we learn a great deal of information about how various attackers operate, including details about commonly used malware, infrastructure, delivery mechanisms, and other tools and techniques. This knowledge is buil...

The vulnerability of the libvirt virtualization management package in the Astra Linux operating system, which allows a hacker to trigger a service failure

The vulnerability of the libvirt virtualization management package in the Astra Linux operating system is related to the incorrect assignment of token labels to external file storage systems with integrity control tokens enabled. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a...

50m-ctf: @ajxchapman 50m-ctf writeup

50m-ctf writeup TL;DR Flag is c8889970d9fb722066f31e804e351993, thanks for the challenge! Introduction My goal for this CTF was to primarily use tools and scripts that I had personally written to complete it. Throughout this challenge I used and extended my personal toolkit extensively. All the...

CVE-2019-1003030

A sandbox bypass vulnerability exists in Jenkins Pipeline: Groovy Plugin 2.63 and earlier in pom.xml, src/main/java/org/jenkinsci/plugins/workflow/cps/CpsGroovyShell.java that allows attackers able to control pipeline scripts to execute arbitrary code on the Jenkins master JVM...

CVE-2019-9627

A buffer overflow in the kernel driver CybKernelTracker.sys in CyberArk Endpoint Privilege Manager versions prior to 10.7 allows an attacker without Administrator privileges to escalate privileges or crash the machine by loading an image, such as a DLL, with a long path...

RSAC 2019: The Dark Side of Machine Learning

SAN FRANCISCO – The same machine-learning algorithms that made self-driving cars and voice assistants possible can be hacked to turn a cat into guacamole or Bach symphonies into audio-based attacks against a smartphone. These are examples of “adversarial attacks” against machine learning systems...

PT-2019-11330 · Jenkins · Jenkins Azure Vm Agents Plugin +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Jenkins Azure VM Agents Plugin versions 0.8.0 and earlier Description: An information exposure issue exists that allows attackers with Overall/Read permission to enumerate credentials IDs of credentials stored in Jenkins. This is due to a...

Machine Learning Can Use Tweets to Automatically Spot Critical Security Flaws

Researchers built an AI engine that uses tweets to predict the severity of software vulnerabilities with 86 percent accuracy...

RSA Conference 2019: How to Defend Against an AI vs AI Flash War

SAN FRANCISCO – As perimeter cyber defenses adopt new strategies such artificial intelligence and machine learning, security experts predict adversaries will adopt similar techniques when it comes to an attack chain. Derek Manky, chief of security insights at Fortinet, said that “black-hat...

Partner Perspectives: Endpoint Security Analytics with Sumo Logic and Carbon Black

As the threat landscape continues to expand, having end-to-end visibility across your modern application stack and cloud infrastructures is crucial. Customers cannot afford to have blind spots in their environment; and that includes data being ingested from third-party tools. With the industry...

Directory traversal

If the attacker manages to create files in the directory used to collect log files in supportutils before version 3.1-5.7.1 e.g. with CVE-2018-19638 he can kill arbitrary processes on the local machine...

Cybersecurity for the Public Interest

The Crypto Wars have been waging off-and-on for a quarter-century. On one side is law enforcement, which wants to be able to break encryption, to access devices and communications of terrorists and criminals. On the other are almost every cryptographer and computer security expert, repeatedly...

Google Launches Backstory — A New Cyber Security Tool for Businesses

Google's one-year-old cybersecurity venture Chronicle today announced its first commercial product, called Backstory , a cloud-based enterprise-level threat analytics platform that has been designed to help companies quickly investigate incidents, pinpoint vulnerabilities and hunt for potential...

Google Launches Backstory — A New Cyber Security Tool for Businesses

Google's one-year-old cybersecurity venture Chronicle today announced its first commercial product, called Backstory, a cloud-based enterprise-level threat analytics platform that has been designed to help companies quickly investigate incidents, pinpoint vulnerabilities and hunt for potential...

Bot Manager: Staying Ahead of the Bot Landscape

Akamai launched Bot Manager three years ago. Since then, the bot landscape has continued to evolve and we've introduced a number of improvements to our bot detections to stay ahead of it. These included browser fingerprinting and behavioral anomaly detection, as well constantly refining our core...

The use of DVRF learn firmware analysis series a-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

With a variety of hardware devices vulnerabilities more and more people concern, as well as by a malicious attacker a large advantage. As a Security Researcher, Learning Analytics firmware vulnerability, a timely warning to patch vulnerabilities is becoming increasingly important. This series of...

UBUNTU-CVE-2019-3840

A NULL pointer dereference flaw was discovered in libvirt before version 5.0.0 in the way it gets interface information through the QEMU agent. An attacker in a guest VM can use this flaw to crash libvirtd and cause a denial of service...

This Week in Security News: Malware and Machine Learning

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. This week, learn about an infectious miner-malware and how malware can hide form AV Solutions. Also, understand how to use machine learning to detect...