Microsoft Edge Scripting Engine CVE-2017-11905 Remote Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Description Microsoft Edge is prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability. Attackers can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code in the context of the currently logged-in user. Failed attacks will cause denial of service conditions. Technologies Affected Microsoft ChakraCore Microsoft...

Microsoft ChakraCore Scripting Engine CVE-2017-11916 Remote Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Description Microsoft ChakraCore is prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability. Attackers can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code in the context of the currently logged-in user. Failed attacks will cause denial of service conditions. Technologies Affected Microsoft ChakraCore...

Implementing the CIS 20 Critical Security Controls: Make Your InfoSec Foundation Rock Solid

For almost 10 years, thousands of organizations eager to solidify their security and compliance foundations have found clarity and direction in the the Center for Internet Security’s Critical Security Controls CSCs. This structured set of 20 foundational InfoSec best practices, first published in...

CVE-2017-14374

The SMI-S service in Dell Storage Manager versions earlier than 16.3.20 aka 2016 R3.20 is protected using a hard-coded password. A remote user with the knowledge of the password might potentially disable the SMI-S service via HTTP requests, affecting storage management and monitoring functionalit...

CVE-2017-14374

The SMI-S service in Dell Storage Manager versions earlier than 16.3.20 aka 2016 R3.20 is protected using a hard-coded password. A remote user with the knowledge of the password might potentially disable the SMI-S service via HTTP requests, affecting storage management and monitoring functionalit...

Zabbix Server 'active checks' Command Injection

The Zabbix server running on the remote host is affected by a remote command injection vulnerability due to the failure to sanitize the input data involving an IP address that would go into the 'ip' field of the 'interface' table in the 'zabbix' database. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-17449

The netlinkdelivertapskb function in net/netlink/afnetlink.c in the Linux kernel through 4.14.4, when CONFIGNLMON is enabled, does not restrict observations of Netlink messages to a single net namespace, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by leveraging the CAPNETADMIN...

Growatt Monitoring System Android App Multiple Override Access Vulnerabilities

Growatt Monitoring System Android APP is a client application that provides PV monitoring services. Growatt Monitoring System Android APP has overstepped access vulnerabilities in multiple places. Attackers can obtain sensitive information, including: power plant equipment information, name, powe...

Inedo Otter Directory Traversal Vulnerability

Inedo Otter is a set of server monitoring and configuration software from Inedo, USA. The software displays the configuration status of the target server by providing a dynamic, visual interface. A directory traversal vulnerability exists in the file system's rafts in versions of Inedo Otter prio...

Database Security at Cloud Scale

The biggest challenge to data security is the sheer volume and pace of data growth. More so even than the shift from relational data to unstructured or the migration of data to the cloud. “Cloud scale” is usually used to refer to technical items like data center size and operations or networks an...

On "Advanced" Network Security Monitoring

My TaoSecurity News page says I taught 41 classes lasting a day or more, from 2002 to 2014. All of these involved some aspect of network security monitoring NSM. Many times students would ask me when I would create the "advanced" version of the class, usually in the course feedback. I could never...

PayPal Subsidiary Data Breach Hits Up to 1.6 Million Customers

Global e-commerce business PayPal has disclosed a data breach that may have compromised personally identifiable information for roughly 1.6 million customers at a payment processing company PayPal acquired earlier this year. PayPal Holdings Inc. said Friday that a review of its recently acquired...

Implementing the CIS 20 Critical Security Controls: Building Upon Foundational Cyber Hygiene

Most successful cyber attacks exploit known vulnerabilities for which patches are available, or take advantage of weak configuration settings that could have been easily hardened. You can significantly lower the risk of being victimized by this type of common, preventable attack by adopting the...

IBM Tivoli Monitoring Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability

IBM Tivoli Monitoring is system monitoring software that manages operating systems, databases, and servers in distributed and mainframe environments. IBM Tivoli Monitoring suffers from a remote code execution vulnerability that can be exploited by an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the...

Android commercial spyware

There's certainly no shortage of commercial spying apps for Android, with most positioned as parental control tools. In reality, however, these apps barely differ from spyware, with the exception perhaps of the installation method. There's no need to even resort to Tor Browser or other darknet...

After Getting Hacked, Uber Paid Hackers $100,000 to Keep Data Breach Secret

Uber is in headlines once again—this time for concealing last year's data breach that exposed personal data of 57 million customers and drivers. On Tuesday, Uber announced that the company suffered a massive data breach in October 2016 that exposed names, e-mail addresses and phone numbers of 57...

Australia’s “Essential Eight” is Critical to Meet 2018 Cybersecurity Mandates & Privacy Laws

Christopher Strand, Carbon Black’s security risk and compliance officer recently wrote a blog discussing how the new mandatory data breach notification rule in the Privacy Amendment Notifiable Data Breaches Bill 2016, helps bring attention to cybersecurity solutions and focus on the practices...

Unspecified Vulnerability in Kernel Component of Multiple Apple Products

Apple iOS, macOS High Sierra, tvOS, and watchOS are products of Apple Inc. Apple iOS is an operating system developed for mobile devices. macOS High Sierra is a specialized operating system developed for Mac computers. tvOS is a smart TV operating system. watchOS is a smart watch operating system...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: nagios-4.3.4-3.fc25

Nagios is a program that will monitor hosts and services on your network. It has the ability to send email or page alerts when a problem arises and when a problem is resolved. Nagios is written in C and is designed to run under Linux and some other NIX variants as a background process,...

[SECURITY] Fedora 27 Update: nagios-4.3.4-3.fc27

Nagios is a program that will monitor hosts and services on your network. It has the ability to send email or page alerts when a problem arises and when a problem is resolved. Nagios is written in C and is designed to run under Linux and some other NIX variants as a background process,...