Emerging Threats and Going Beyond Compliance

I recently presented to a C-level gathering of retail finance executives about the industrys changing threat landscape and the emerging threats facing omni-channel sellers. The retail security environment has changed dramatically in the past few years. Not that long ago, retailers mostly worried...

openSUSE Security Update : kvm (openSUSE-SU-2011:0510-1)

By causing a hot-unplug of the pci-isa bridge from within guests the qemu process could access already freed memory. A privileged user inside the guest could exploit that to crash the guest instance or potentially execute arbitrary code on the host CVE-2011-1751. The virtio-blk driver did not...

openSUSE Security Update : xen-201107 (openSUSE-SU-2011:0941-1)

Security / Collective Update for Xen Xen : - bnc702025 - VUL-0: xen: VT-d PCI passthrough MSI trap injection CVE-2011-1898 - bnc703924 - update block-npiv scripts to support BFA HBA - bnc689954 - L3: Live migrations fail when guest crashes: domaincrashsync called from entry.S - bnc693472 - Bridge...

openSUSE Security Update : kernel (openSUSE-SU-2013:0923-1)

The openSUSE 12.3 kernel was updated to fix various security issues and bugs : - config.conf: Disable armv7hl/u8500 until it builds again - patches.fixes/ocfs2-Fix-oops-in-ocfs2fastsymlinkreadp age: ocfs2: Fix oops in ocfs2fastsymlinkreadpage code path - drm/nouveau: Fix typo in initidxaddrlatche...

openSUSE Security Update : kernel (openSUSE-SU-2014:0678-1)

This Linux kernel security update fixes various security issues and bugs. The Linux Kernel was updated to fix various security issues and bugs. Main security issues fixed : A security issue in the tty layer that was fixed that could be used by local attackers for code execution CVE-2014-0196. Two...

openSUSE Security Update : kvm (openSUSE-SU-2011:0510-1)

By causing a hot-unplug of the pci-isa bridge from within guests the qemu process could access already freed memory. A privileged user inside the guest could exploit that to crash the guest instance or potentially execute arbitrary code on the host CVE-2011-1751. The virtio-blk driver did not...

openSUSE Security Update : kernel (openSUSE-SU-2011:0004-1)

The openSUSE 11.3 kernel was updated to fix various bugs and security issues. Following security issues have been fixed: CVE-2010-4347: A local user could inject ACPI code into the kernel via the world-writable 'customdebug' file, allowing local privilege escalation. CVE-2010-4258: A local attack...

openSUSE Security Update : Kernel (openSUSE-SU-2012:0799-1)

This kernel update of the openSUSE 12.1 kernel fixes lots of bugs and security issues. Following issues were fixed : - tcp: drop SYN+FIN messages bnc765102. - net: sock: validate datalen before allocating skb in sockallocsendpskb bnc765320, CVE-2012-2136. - fcaps: clear the same personality flags...

openSUSE Security Update : xen-201107 (openSUSE-SU-2011:0941-1)

Security / Collective Update for Xen Xen : - bnc702025 - VUL-0: xen: VT-d PCI passthrough MSI trap injection CVE-2011-1898 - bnc703924 - update block-npiv scripts to support BFA HBA - bnc689954 - L3: Live migrations fail when guest crashes: domaincrashsync called from entry.S - bnc693472 - Bridge...

openSUSE Security Update : Xen (openSUSE-SU-2012:1174-1)

Security Update for Xen Following fixes were done : - bnc776995 - attaching scsi control luns with pvscsi - xend/pvscsi: fix passing of SCSI control LUNs xen-bug776995-pvscsi-no-devname.patch - xend/pvscsi: fix usage of persistant device names for SCSI devices...

qemu security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2014:0743 Updated qemu-kvm packages that fix multiple security issues and two bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring...

qemu-kvm security and bug fix update

0.12.1.2-2.415.el65.10 - kvm-virtio-out-of-bounds-buffer-write-on-invalid-state-l.patch bz1095692 - kvm-usb-sanity-check-setupindex-setuplen-in-postload.patch bz1095743 - kvm-usb-sanity-check-setupindex-setuplen-in-postload-2.patch bz1095743 -...

WVS v9.5 - Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner

Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner WVS is an automated web application security testing tool that audits your web applications by checking for exploitable hacking vulnerabilities. Automated scans may be supplemented and cross-checked with the variety of manual tools to allow for comprehensive web...

SuSE 11.3 Security Update : Linux kernel (SAT Patch Numbers 9102 / 9104 / 9105)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 3 kernel has been updated to fix various bugs and security issues. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - WARNING: If you are running KVM with PCI pass-through on a system with one of the following Intel chipsets: 5500...

SSL Certificate Chain Contains RSA Keys Less Than 2048 bits (PCI DSS)

At least one of the X.509 certificates sent by the remote host has a key that is shorter than 2048 bits. According to industry standards set by the Certification Authority/Browser CA/B Forum, certificates issued after January 1, 2014 must be at least 2048 bits. Some browser SSL implementations ma...

Regulators To US Banks: Be Vigilant of ATM Fraud, DDoS

U.S. regulators are warning banks this week about a recent rash of “large dollar value” ATM fraud and the ongoing risks distributed denial of service DDoS attacks that target public bank websites can pose. Members of FFIEC, the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council, an interagency se...

[Lynis 1.4.6] Security and System Auditing Tool to Harden Linux Systems

Lynis is an auditing tool for Unix/Linux. It performs a security scan and determines the hardening state of the machine. Any detected security issues will be provided in the form of a suggestion or warning. Beside security related information it will also scan for general system information,...

The PCI DSS 3.0 SAQs are here!

The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council PCI SSC released Data Security Standards DSS 3.0 in November 2013 and has just released the related Self-Assessment Questionnaires SAQ. There are two new SAQs, SAQ A-EP and SAQ B-IP...

RFP - External Network Vulnerability Assessment & PenTest

Document Title: =============== RFP - External Network Vulnerability Assessment & PenTest References: =========== https://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=1225 Download: https://www.vulnerability-lab.com/resources/documents/RFP-BoMPLC-2014.pdf Release Date: ============= 2014-03-13...

RFP - External Network Vulnerability Assessment & PenTest

Document Title: =============== RFP - External Network Vulnerability Assessment & PenTest References: =========== http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=1225 Download: http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/resources/documents/RFP-BoMPLC-2014.pdf Release Date: ============= 2014-03-13...