[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: =========== 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...

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...

Fedora 20 : xen-4.3.2-1.fc20 (2014-2802)

update to xen-4.3.2 includes fix for 'Excessive time to disable caching with HVM guests with PCI passthrough', use-after-free in xccpupoolgetinfo under memory pressure Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory...

PCI SSC Releases New SAQ Versions for 3.0

As expected, the SSC finally released the new version of the Self-Assessments Questionnaires SAQs today on their website. They are available on the PCI SSCs website here:...

[Lynis 1.4.2] 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,...

PT-2014-2815

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions QEMU versions prior to 1.7.2 Description The issue is related to a buffer overflow in the hw/pci/pcie aer.c file. This can be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service and potentially execute arbitrary code. The exploitation i...

PCI DSS 3.0 ROC Reporting Template Released

Heads up for our PCI customers: the PCI SSC released the "ROC Reporting Template for v3.0" this last weekend and it is available here. This document supports the PCI DSS 3.0 standard and must be used by all QSA organizations to create and submit a Report on Compliance ROC. What does this mean?...

Target Hackers Broke in Via HVAC Company?

When I first heard about the account used to gain access to the Target environment, my first reaction was to laugh at the ridiculousness of the HVAC vendor having an impact on the CDE like it seems to or is rumored to have had in the recent breach. Then I started thinking with the PCI controls,...

[Lynis 1.4.0] 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,...

RAM Scrapers and the Target Data Breach

The retail and hospitality industries have a painful history with wonky point-of-sale systems and malware known as RAM scrapers. These attacks, which date back as many as six years, are designed to be injected into running processes and steal payment card data before it’s encrypted by a...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux-lts-raring vulnerabilities (USN-2069-1)

Hannes Frederic Sowa discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's UDP Fragmentation Offload UFO. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly gain administrative privileges. CVE-2013-4470 Multiple integer overflow flaws were discovered in the...

USN-2073-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Hannes Frederic Sowa discovered a flaw in the Linux kernel's UDP Fragmentation Offload UFO. An unprivileged local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or possibly gain administrative privileges. CVE-2013-4470 Multiple integer overflow flaws were discovered in the...

[dotDefender] Web Application Security

dotDefender is the market-leading software Web Application Firewall WAF. dotDefender boasts enterprise-class security, advanced integration capabilities, easy maintenance and low total cost of ownership TCO. dotDefender is the perfect choice for protecting your web site and web applications today...

Use of 3DES to Encrypt Stolen Target PIN Data Invites Worry

Target Corp.’s admission that encrypted PIN data was stolen in the Black Friday breach was bad news for consumers. For security experts, especially cryptographers, particular exception was taken to the retail giant’s use of Triple DES 3DES encryption to keep the PIN data safe. With all crypto...

[Watcher] passive Web-security scanner

Watcher is a runtime passive-analysis tool for HTTP-based Web applications. Being passive means it won't damage production systems, it's completely safe to use in Cloud computing, shared hosting, and dedicated hosting environments. Watcher detects Web-application security issues as well as...

SuSE 11.3 Security Update : Xen (SAT Patch Number 8588)

The Xen hypervisor and tool-suite have been updated to fix security issues and bugs : - XSA-73: A lock order reversal between page allocation and grant table locks could lead to host crashes or even host code execution. CVE-2013-4494 - XSA-74: A lock order reversal between pagealloclock and...

CVE-2013-6400

Xen 4.2.x and 4.3.x, when using Intel VT-d and a PCI device has been assigned, does not clear the flag that suppresses IOMMU TLB flushes when unspecified errors occur, which causes the TLB entries to not be flushed and allows local guest administrators to cause a denial of service host crash or...

CVE-2013-6400

Xen 4.2.x and 4.3.x, when using Intel VT-d and a PCI device has been assigned, does not clear the flag that suppresses IOMMU TLB flushes when unspecified errors occur, which causes the TLB entries to not be flushed and allows local guest administrators to cause a denial of service host crash or...