What HIPAA and Other Compliance Teaches Us About the Reality of GDPR

with contributing author, William J. Malik, CISA | VP, Infrastructure Strategies The date for General Data Protection Regulation GDPR compliance is just weeks away, yet many organizations, especially those outside Europe, remain unprepared. It turns out that the experiences from other privacy...

OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2018-0037)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - scsi: iscsitcp: set BDICAPSTABLEWRITES when data digest enabled Jianchao Wang Orabug: 27726302 - block: fix biowillgap for first bvec with offset Ming Lei - block: relax check on sg gap Ming Lei Orabu...

PCI Compliance: Early-TLS and Cloud Service Providers

Organizations tracking their PCI compliance are likely aware of the impending June 30, 2018 deadline to disable SSLv3 and early-TLS. This blog post examines the special case of Cloud Service Providers CSPs and how their customers should proceed to achieve compliance...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-13307

A elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Upstream kernel pci sysfs. Product: Android. Versions: Android kernel. Android ID: A-69128924...

CVE-2017-13307

A elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Upstream kernel pci sysfs. Product: Android. Versions: Android kernel. Android ID: A-69128924...

Privilege escalation

A elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Upstream kernel pci sysfs. Product: Android. Versions: Android kernel. Android ID: A-69128924...

CVE-2017-13307

A elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Upstream kernel pci sysfs. Product: Android. Versions: Android kernel. Android ID: A-69128924...

CVE-2017-13307

CVE-2017-13307 is an elevation of privilege in the Upstream kernel PCI sysfs exposed on Android devices. Affected: Android kernel components implementing pci sysfs. Root cause: unspecified in the provided details, described as a privilege-escalation vulnerability. Impact: elevation of privileges ...

Web Form Sending Credentials Using GET (PCI-DSS check)

The remote web application has a form that sends credentials using an HTTP GET request. This can cause sensitive information such as usernames and passwords to be logged by the server in access logs. Authors of services which use the HTTP protocol SHOULD NOT use GET based forms for the submission...

Windows Server 2008 Critical RCE Vulnerabilities (uncredentialed) (PCI/DSS)

According to the version number obtained by NTLM the remote host has Windows Server 2008 installed. The host may be vulnerable to a number of vulnerabilities including remote unauthenticated code execution. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description scriptid108811;...

Background Checks on AIs and Other Challenges in the PCI World

Coalfire has noted a number of leading-edge technological challenges for enterprises managing the rapid pace of innovation while also aiming for PCI compliance. Wed like to review our recent experience and offer suggestions for these comparatively novel situations...

PCI DSS Compliance : Scan Interference

Interference from either the network or the host did not allow the scan to fulfill the PCI DSS scan validation requirements. This report is insufficient to certify this server. There may be a firewall, IDS or other software blocking Nessus from scanning. C Tenable Network Security, Inc...

QID 86725 “F5 BIG-IP Load Balancer Internal IP Address Disclosure”

QID 86725 “F5 BIG-IP Load Balancer Internal IP Address Disclosure Vulnerability” will be marked as a PCI Fail as of May 1, 2018 in accordance with its CVSS score. F5 BIG IP encodes private IP addresses in the persistent cookies, which could be collected by the attacker and decoded back. The...

Microsoft SQL Server Default Credentials (PCI wordlist)

The SQL Server has a common password for one or more accounts. These accounts may be used to gain access to the records in the database or even allow remote command execution. TRUSTED...

OS vulnerabilities detected in banner reporting (PCI-DSS check)

A service banner response from the remote host indicates an OS install at a level that may be vulnerable to one or more vulnerabilities. This plugin only runs when 'Check for PCI-DSS compliance' is enabled in the scan policy. It does not run if local security checks are enabled. It runs off of...

Kernel vulnerabilities detected in banner reporting (PCI-DSS check)

A service banner response from the remote host indicates a Linux kernel install at a level that may be vulnerable to one or more non-denial-of-service vulnerabilities. This plugin only runs when 'Check for PCI-DSS compliance' is enabled in the scan policy. It does not run if local security checks...

PCI DSS Compliance : Point-of-Sale (POS) Software

Due to increased risk to the cardholder data environment when a point-of-sale system is visible on the Internet, 1 confirm that this system needs to be visible on the Internet, that the system is implemented securely, and that original default passwords have been changed to complex passwords, or ...

PCI DSS v3.2 & Exposing Session ID in URL

Passing the session ID in the URL such as QID 150068 “Session ID in URL” will be marked as a Fail for PCI as of April 15, 2018 in accordance with PCI DSS v3.2. QID 150068 is a PCI Fail according to PCI DSS v3.2 Requirement 6.5.10: 6.5.10 Examine software development policies and procedures and...

JamieWeb: Insecure Transportation Security Protocol Supported (TLS 1.0) on https://www.jamieweb.net

Summary: https://www.jamieweb.net still support TLS 1.0 protocol which has several flaws. Vulnerability: With a SSL security scanner i was able to identify that an insecure transportation security protocol TLS 1.0 is still supported by your web server. TLS 1.0 has several flaws. An attacker can...

Welcome to the Cyber-Regulatory Market of 2018 and Beyond

In the past few years, we’ve seen an increase in the number of companies facing legal consequences for ineffectively meeting deadlines requiring them to measure the effectiveness of their security solutions. Combined with these deadlines, companies also have to prove they have awareness and contr...