Nuclear Satcoms

The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear incident in 2011 has led to safety changes that may have an interesting knock-on effect on reactor security. Loss of telemetry during the flooding, as a result of the subsequent loss of power, made assessment of the incident hard to manage. Critical data about the...

Streamlining and Automating Compliance

There are seemingly countless regulatory and industry frameworks out there that organizations have to navigate and comply with. SOX Sarbanes-Oxley, PCI-DSS Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, GDPR General Data Protection Regulation, HIPAA Health Insurance Portability and Accountability...

Why DNS Visibility Matters in Education

My colleague in Spain recently wrote an informative article about DNS Protection and why it's a must-have security solution for any company. Building out on this topic, I would like to look specifically at the Education market and what the consequences can be if DNS Visibility is not taken...

Detectify Asset Inventory and Monitoring

Continuing the topic about perimeter services. As I mentioned earlier, I don't think that the external perimeter services should be considered as a fully functional replacement for custom Vulnerability Management processes. I would rather see their results as an additional feed showing the proble...

Django CVE-2019-19118 Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Description Django is prone to a privilege-escalation vulnerability. A remote attacker can exploit this issue to gain elevated privileges and perform unauthorized actions on an affected system. Django versions prior to 2.2.8 and 2.1.15 are vulnerable. Technologies Affected Djangoproject Django 2....

Attack Monitor - Endpoint Detection And Malware Analysis Software

Attack Monitor is Python application written to enhance security monitoring capabilites of Windows 7/2008 and all later versions workstations/servers and to automate dynamic analysis of malware. Current modes mutually exclusive: Endpoint detection ED Malware analysis on dedicated Virtual Machine...

Ships engines, a guide for pen testers

I spent several years as a ships engineer before straying in to pen testing. Ships used to be fairly secure; they were physically isolated at sea. Satcoms were scarily expensive, usually available only to the captain for business-critical communication. Even satphone use was heavily rationed. All...

FortiOS 6.0.6 / FortiClientWindows 6.0.6 / FortiClientMac 6.2.1 XOR Encryption Vulnerability

Fortinet products, including FortiGate and Forticlient, regularly send information to Fortinet servers using XOR "encryption" with a static key. FortiClientWindows versions 6.0.6 and below, and FortiClientMac versions 6.2.1 and below. After this advisory was released, Fortinet has confirmed that...

Stalking the Stalkerware

Ever get the feeling you’re being followed? Unfortunately, when it comes to our digital lives, this is increasingly the case. But while we’re all keen to boost our followers on social media, it’s a different matter when it comes to anonymous third parties secretly stalking us online. Yes, we’re...

Dell EMC Storage Monitoring and Reporting Code Issue Vulnerability

Dell EMC Storage Monitoring and Reporting is a set of storage performance monitoring software from Dell Dell. The software provides storage performance monitoring and report generation. A code issue vulnerability exists in Dell EMC Storage Monitoring and Reporting version 4.3.1. A remote attacker...

EulerOS 2.0 SP8 : libpcap (EulerOS-SA-2019-2286)

According to the versions of the libpcap package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - Libpcap provides a portable framework for low-level network monitoring. Libpcap can provide network statistics collection,security monitoring an...

CVE-2019-18580

Dell EMC Storage Monitoring and Reporting version 4.3.1 contains a Java RMI Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability. A remote unauthenticated attacker may potentially exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted RMI request to execute arbitrary code on the target host...

CVE-2019-18580

Dell EMC Storage Monitoring and Reporting version 4.3.1 contains a Java RMI Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability. A remote unauthenticated attacker may potentially exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted RMI request to execute arbitrary code on the target host...

Deserialization of untrusted data

Dell EMC Storage Monitoring and Reporting version 4.3.1 contains a Java RMI Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability. A remote unauthenticated attacker may potentially exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted RMI request to execute arbitrary code on the target host...

Insights from one year of tracking a polymorphic threat

A little over a year ago, in October 2018, our polymorphic outbreak monitoring system detected a large surge in reports, indicating that a large-scale campaign was unfolding. We observed as the new threat attempted to deploy files that changed every 20-30 minutes on thousands of devices. We gave...

CVE-2019-18580

Dell EMC Storage Monitoring and Reporting (SMR) 4.3.1 is affected by a Java RMI deserialization vulnerability that allows remote code execution without authentication. The flaw exists in the Java RMI service (default port 52569 per ZDI) and enables an attacker to send crafted requests to execute ...

CVE-2019-18580

Dell EMC Storage Monitoring and Reporting version 4.3.1 contains a Java RMI Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability. A remote unauthenticated attacker may potentially exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted RMI request to execute arbitrary code on the target host...

FortiOS 6.0.6 / FortiClientWindows 6.0.6 / FortiClientMac 6.2.1 XOR Encryption

SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab Security Advisory ======================================================================= title: FortiGuard XOR Encryption product: Multiple Fortinet Products see Vulnerable / tested versions vulnerable version: Multiple see Vulnerable / tested versions fixed version...

Deployment Isn’t the Final Step – Monitoring Machine Learning Models in Production

Unless you’ve been living in a cave for the last decade, you’ve probably heard of the concept of a machine learning system at least once in your life. Whether it’s auto-translation, auto-completion, face or voice recognition, recommendation systems or autonomous driving, AI-based systems can be...

Glances - An Eye On Your System. A Top/Htop Alternative For GNU/Linux, BSD, Mac OS And Windows Operating Systems

Glances is a cross-platform monitoring tool which aims to present a large amount of monitoring information through a curses or Web based interface. The information dynamically adapts depending on the size of the user interface. It can also work in client/server mode. Remote monitoring could be do...