Facebook OSQuery Installed (macOS)

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Facebook OSQuery Code Signing Bypass (macOS)

The installed version of Facebook OSQuery is less than 3.2.7 and is therefore vulnerable to allowing execution of malicious binaries due to accepting forged Apple signatures. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description scriptid110643; scriptversion"1.5";...

Signature Validation Bug Let Malware Bypass Several Mac Security Products

A years-old vulnerability has been discovered in the way several security products for Mac implement Apple's code-signing API that could make it easier for malicious programs to bypass the security check, potentially leaving millions of Apple users vulnerable to hackers. Josh Pitts, a researcher...

Windows Packer Project for Defenders: DARKSURGEON

Darksurgeon is a Windows packer project to empower incident response, digital forensics, malware analysis, and network defense. Darksurgeon has three stated goals: Accelerate incident response, digital forensics, malware analysis, and network defense with a preconfigured Windows 10 environment...

Apple macOS 10.13.1 High Sierra - Blank Root Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Exploit for macOS platform in category local exploits Source: https://twitter.com/lemiorhan/status/935578694541770752 & https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/79235 "Dear @AppleSupport, we noticed a HUGE security issue at MacOS High Sierra. Anyone can login as "root" with empty password after...

Apple macOS 10.13.1 (High Sierra) - Blank Root Local Privilege Escalation

Apple macOS 10.13.1 High Sierra - Blank Root Local Privilege Escalation Source: https://twitter.com/lemiorhan/status/935578694541770752 & https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/79235 "Dear @AppleSupport, we noticed a HUGE security issue at MacOS High Sierra. Anyone can login as "root" with emp...

Apple macOS 10.13.1 (High Sierra) - 'Blank Root' Local Privilege Escalation

Source: https://twitter.com/lemiorhan/status/935578694541770752 & https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/79235 "Dear @AppleSupport, we noticed a HUGE security issue at MacOS High Sierra. Anyone can login as "root" with empty password after clicking on login button several times. Are you aware ...

November 9, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Napoleon” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! November 9, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Carbon Black appoints ne...

osquery Command And Control: Kolide

osquery Command And Control Kolide is an agentless osquery web interface and remote api server. Kolide uses the osquery remote apis to do ad-hoc distributed queries, osqueryd configurations and the collection and processing of scheduled queries packs. Kolide was designed to be extremely portable ...

OS Instrumentation Framework: osquery

OS Instrumentation Framework osquery exposes an operating system as a high-performance relational database. This allows you to write SQL-based queries to explore operating system data. With osquery, SQL tables represent abstract concepts such as running processes, loaded kernel modules, open...

On the Yahoo Breach, WhatsApp-Facebook, and Zerodium's $1.5M Bounty

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including the latest on the Yahoo breach, Germany’s problem with WhatsApp-Facebook, Facebook osquery tool for Windows, and Zerodium’s $1.5M iOS bounty. Download: ThreatpostNewsWrapSeptember302016.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Facebook Debuts Open Source Detection Tool for Windows

Facebook successfully ported its SQL-powered detection tool, osquery, to Windows this week, giving users a free and open source method to monitor networks and diagnose problems. The framework, which converts operating systems to relational databases, allows users to write SQL-based queries to...

Facebook Helps Combat Apple XARA Vulnerabilities With Osquery

Apple may still be in the process of patching XARA, the series of weaknesses that surfaced in its authentication infrastructure last week, but Facebook has stepped up and made it easier for organizations to detect whether their system is being exploited by the vulnerabilities. Engineers with the...

Facebook Releases osquery to Open Source

Facebook is in a giving mood today. The social networking giant announced today that it will release to open source a framework that detects and logs state changes in an operating system likely caused by an attack or performance meltdown. It also announced that it will hand out up to $300,000 nex...