What Does PCI 3.0 Mean to Security Practitioners?

Cybercrime, identity theft, and frauds are on the rise; and in most cases, the data breaches are associated with credit cards and cardholder data. The impact of data breach not only affects your organization, but also your customers. A common observation cites that organizations that are PCI...

What Does PCI 3.0 Mean to Security Practitioners?

Cybercrime, identity theft, and frauds are on the rise; and in most cases, the data breaches are associated with credit cards and cardholder data. The impact of data breach not only affects your organization, but also your customers. A common observation cites that organizations that are PCI...

2013 PCI SSC North America Meeting – Wrap-Up

Coalfire sent the entire team to the meeting in Las Vegas and everyone reported a positive and engaging experience. We hosted our annual dinner where we caught up with clients and friends - a good time was had by all. The most valuable technical information was presented during the Assessors Only...

CVE-2013-4377

Use-after-free vulnerability in the virtio-pci implementation in Qemu 1.4.0 through 1.6.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service daemon crash by "hot-unplugging" a virtio device...

DEBIAN-CVE-2013-4377

Use-after-free vulnerability in the virtio-pci implementation in Qemu 1.4.0 through 1.6.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service daemon crash by "hot-unplugging" a virtio device...

Design/Logic Flaw

Use-after-free vulnerability in the virtio-pci implementation in Qemu 1.4.0 through 1.6.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service daemon crash by "hot-unplugging" a virtio device...

CVE-2013-4377

Use-after-free vulnerability in the virtio-pci implementation in Qemu 1.4.0 through 1.6.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service daemon crash by "hot-unplugging" a virtio device...

CVE-2013-4377

Use-after-free vulnerability in the virtio-pci implementation in Qemu 1.4.0 through 1.6.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service daemon crash by "hot-unplugging" a virtio device...

CVE-2013-4377

Use-after-free vulnerability in the virtio-pci implementation in Qemu 1.4.0 through 1.6.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service daemon crash by "hot-unplugging" a virtio device...

[Matriux Leandros v3.0 rc1] The pentesting distrib (Now added Blackhat Arsenal 2013 Tools)

Matriux is a Debian-based security distribution designed for penetration testing and forensic investigations. Although it is primarily designed for security enthusiasts and professionals, it can also be used by any Linux user as a desktop system for day-to-day computing. Besides standard Debian...

Importance of Logs and Log Management for IT Security

IT Security is the name of the game and no matter how big or small the size of your organization, you will always invest enough on securing certain aspects of your IT network. In many organizations, it starts with monitoring your network for vulnerabilities that may enter the network to access...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 2582-1 (xen - several vulnerabilities)

Multiple denial of service vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Xen Hypervisor. One of the issue CVE-2012-5513 could even lead to privilege escalation from guest to host. Some of the recently published Xen Security Advisories XSA 25 and 28 are not fixed by this update and should be fixed i...

CVE-2013-4329

The xenlight library libxl in Xen 4.0.x through 4.2.x, when IOMMU is disabled, provides access to a busmastering-capable PCI passthrough device before the IOMMU setup is complete, which allows local HVM guest domains to gain privileges or cause a denial of service via a DMA instruction...

CVE-2013-4329

The xenlight library libxl in Xen 4.0.x through 4.2.x, when IOMMU is disabled, provides access to a busmastering-capable PCI passthrough device before the IOMMU setup is complete, which allows local HVM guest domains to gain privileges or cause a denial of service via a DMA instruction...

DEBIAN-CVE-2013-4329

The xenlight library libxl in Xen 4.0.x through 4.2.x, when IOMMU is disabled, provides access to a busmastering-capable PCI passthrough device before the IOMMU setup is complete, which allows local HVM guest domains to gain privileges or cause a denial of service via a DMA instruction...

CVE-2013-4329

The xenlight library libxl in Xen 4.0.x through 4.2.x, when IOMMU is disabled, provides access to a busmastering-capable PCI passthrough device before the IOMMU setup is complete, which allows local HVM guest domains to gain privileges or cause a denial of service via a DMA instruction...

CVE-2013-4329

The xenlight library libxl in Xen 4.0.x through 4.2.x, when IOMMU is disabled, provides access to a busmastering-capable PCI passthrough device before the IOMMU setup is complete, which allows local HVM guest domains to gain privileges or cause a denial of service via a DMA instruction...

CVE-2013-4329

The CVE affects the Xen hypervisor, specifically the xenlight library (libxl) used by the Xen toolstack. In Xen 4.0.x–4.2.x, when IOMMU is disabled, a busmastering PCI passthrough device can be accessed before IOMMU initialization completes, allowing local HVM guests to gain privileges or cause a...

CVE-2013-4329

The xenlight library libxl in Xen 4.0.x through 4.2.x, when IOMMU is disabled, provides access to a busmastering-capable PCI passthrough device before the IOMMU setup is complete, which allows local HVM guest domains to gain privileges or cause a denial of service via a DMA instruction...

PCI DSS 3.0 puts emphasis on year-round awareness

Its easy to think of PCI compliance as just another annual hoop to jump through. Of course, after the annual audit, the business is safe for another 12 months, right? Well, not exactly, and with the upcoming release of PCI DSS 3.0, there will be an even bigger reason to think about compliance...