Solaris 10 (sparc) : 125952-20

Oracle Java Web Console 3.1. Date this patch was last updated by Sun : May/14/10 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text in this plugin was extracted from the Oracle SunOS Patch Updates. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if description...

Poor Security Exposes Medical Data to Cybercriminals

ARCHIVED STORY McAfee Researchers Find Poor Security Exposes Medical Data to Cybercriminals By Christiaan Beek · March 11, 2018 The nonperishable nature of medical data makes an irresistible target for cybercriminals. The art of hacking requires significant time and effort, encouraging experience...

CVE-2018-4839

CVE-2018-4839 affects Siemens SIPROTEC 4, SIPROTEC Compact, DIGSI 4, and EN100 Ethernet modules. The root issues are Missing Authentication for Critical Function (CWE-306) and Inadequate Encryption Strength (CWE-326). A local/privileged attacker who can access network traffic could reconstruct ac...

SUSE SLES11 Security Update : java-1_7_1-ibm (SUSE-SU-2018:0630-1)

This update for java-171-ibm provides the following fix: The version was updated to 7.1.4.20 bsc1082810 - Security fixes : - CVE-2018-2633 CVE-2018-2637 CVE-2018-2634 CVE-2018-2582 CVE-2018-2641 CVE-2018-2618 CVE-2018-2657 CVE-2018-2603 CVE-2018-2599 CVE-2018-2602 CVE-2018-2678 CVE-2018-2677...

SUSE SLED12 Security Update : yaml-cpp (SUSE-SU-2018:0631-1)

This update for yaml-cpp fixes the following issues : - CVE-2017-5950: Stack overflow in SingleDocParser::HandleNode function bsc1032144 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automaticall...

Trend Micro at HiMSS: Protecting Healthcare Organizations with Optimized, Connected Security

Submitted by Elie Nasrallah , Director – Cyber Security Strategy The healthcare industry remains one of the most frequently targeted sectors in the United States. It accounted for nearly a quarter 23% of all breaches reported in 2017, second only to the business category, in another record year f...

New DDoS Reflection-Attack Variant

This is worrisome: DDoS vandals have long intensified their attacks by sending a small number of specially designed data packets to publicly available services. The services then unwittingly respond by sending a much larger number of unwanted packets to a target. The best known vectors for these...

Fedora 26 : python-crypto (2018-0c75cc72bc)

The textbook ElGamal implementation is not secure. PyCrypto and some other implementations use the wrong algorithm, which may lead to some information disclosure simply by looking at the encrypted text. For a full description, see https://github.com/dlitz/pycrypto/issues/253 This update includes ...

1.7 Tbps DDoS Attack — ​Memcached UDP Reflections Set New Record

The bar has been raised. As more amplified attacks were expected following the record-breaking 1.35 Tbps Github DDoS attack, someone has just set a new record after only four days — 1.7 Tbps DDoS attack. Network security and monitoring company Arbor Networks claims that its ATLAS global traffic a...

F5 BIG-IP Memory Corruption Vulnerability

F5 BIG-IP is an all-in-one network device from F5 USA that integrates network traffic management, application security management, load balancing and other functions. A security vulnerability exists in F5 BIG-IP. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service memory...

Suricata 4.0.4 - IDS Detection Bypass

Suricata 4.0.4 - IDS Detection Bypass ----------------------------------------------------- Vulnerability Type: Detection Bypass Affected Product: Suricata Vulnerable version: SYN Seq=0 Ack= 0 - Evil Server Client ACK Seq=1 Ack= 84 - Evil Server Client - PSH, ACK Seq=1 Ack= 84 - Evil Server IDS...

This Week in Security News: Trends and Tea Parties

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, the U.S. official in charge of election security was replaced, Trend Micro hosted a tea party in rural Taiwan, and a new cryptocurrency mino...

Debian DLA-1296-1 : xmltooling security update

Kelby Ludwig and Scott Cantor discovered that the Shibboleth service provider is vulnerable to impersonation attacks and information disclosure due to incorrect XML parsing. For additional details please refer to the upstream advisory at...

SUSE SLED12 Security Update : puppet (SUSE-SU-2018:0571-1)

This update for puppet fixes the following issues : - CVE-2017-10689: Reset permissions when unpacking tar in PMT. When using minitar, files were unpacked with whatever permissions are in the tarball. This is potentially unsafe, as tarballs can be easily created with weird permissions bsc1080288...

Debian DLA-1297-1 : freexl security update

Leon reported five heap-based buffer-overflow vulnerabilities in FreeXL. CVE-2018-7435 There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the freexl::destroycell function. CVE-2018-7436 There is a heap-based buffer over-read in a pointer dereference of the parseSST function. CVE-2018-7437 There is a...

Advanced Network Monitoring & MITM Attack Framework: Bettercap

Evil socket just announced the release of the second generation of bettercap , a complete re-implementation of the most complete and advanced Man-in-the-Middle attack framework. This release not only brings MITM attacks to the next level, but it aims to be the reference framework for network...

Siemens SIMATIC Industrial PCs

CVSS v3 5.9 ATTENTION: Remotely exploitable Vendor: Siemens Equipment: SIMATIC Industrial PCs Vulnerability: Cryptographic Issues AFFECTED PRODUCTS Siemens reports that the vulnerability affects the following versions of SIMATIC Industrial PCs using a version of Infineon’s Trusted Platform Module...

Importing Pcap into Security Onion

Within the last week, Doug Burks of Security Onion SO added a new script that revolutionizes the use case for his amazing open source network security monitoring platform. I have always used SO in a live production mode, meaning I deploy a SO sensor sniffing a live network interface. As the...

Fedora 27 : suricata (2018-ee417c4b28)

fixes bz1543250 and bz1543251 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 ...

Fedora 27 : kernel (2018-7a62047e30)

The 4.15.4 update contains a number of important fixes across the tree Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducin...