Ransomware Hits Dental Data Backup Service Offering Ransomware Protection

THIS WEEK IN THE IRONIC NEWS: DDS Safe, an online cloud-based data backup system that hundreds of dental practice offices across the United States are using to safeguard medical records and other information of their patients from ransomware attacks has been hit with ransomware. Provided by two...

Nextcloud: The password recovery let users know whether an email address exists or not in the website

URL: https://apps.nextcloud.com/password/reset/ I have tried to recover the password for some emails: [email protected] exists [email protected] does not exists After I clicked the "reset my password"'s button, the website informed that the email did not exist. Impact This is a bad practice, and it ...

Qualys Policy Compliance Notification: Policy Library Updates (April, May)

Qualys’ library of built-in policies makes it easy to comply with the security standards and regulations that are most commonly used and adhered to. Qualys provides a wide range of policies, including many that have been certified by CIS as well as the ones based on security guidelines from OS an...

OSCE-prep

OSCE-prep Exploits made practicing for OSCE eipintegard.py...

May 2019 Security Update Release

Today, we released security updates to provide additional protections against malicious attackers. As a best practice, we encourage customers to turn on automatic updates. More information about this month’s security updates can be found on the Security Update Guide...

Large Practice Series Instructional Management System Has Logic Flaw Vulnerability

Kok Jin Information Technology Co., Ltd. is a domestic educational software and informationization service provider. A logic flaw vulnerability exists in the Great Practice Series Teaching Management System, which can be exploited to arbitrarily reset account passwords...

Weak Password Vulnerability in Large Practice Series Instructional Management System

Kok Jin Information Technology Co., Ltd. is a domestic educational software and informationization service provider. A weak password vulnerability exists in the Great Practice Series Teaching Management System. An attacker can obtain sensitive information by blasting the login account...

Apple Defends Parental Control App Removal Amid Backlash

Apple is defending its decision to take down several highly popular parental control apps amidst a firestorm of backlash, saying it did so for “privacy and security” reasons. Apple came under scrutiny this weekend after a New York Times article alleged that the phone giant had unfairly removed or...

Facebook’s plain text misstep, and other password sins

Two days after an article by Brian Krebs disclosed that hundreds of millions of Facebook account passwords had been stored in plain text for years, Facebook released a statement indicating they hash and salt passwords, more or less in accordance with industry best practice. Plain text storage of...

CVE-2019-6242

Kentico v10.0.42 allows Global Administrators to read the cleartext SMTP Password by navigating to the SMTP configuration page. NOTE: the vendor considers this a best-practice violation but not a vulnerability. The vendor plans to fix it at a future time...

CVE-2019-6242

Kentico v10.0.42 allows Global Administrators to read the cleartext SMTP Password by navigating to the SMTP configuration page. NOTE: the vendor considers this a best-practice violation but not a vulnerability. The vendor plans to fix it at a future time...

Best Practice: SFC(System File Checker) use in App Layering

Where to execute an sfc check? The best practice is to execute the SFC tool in the Gold Image, prior to creating your first OS Layer. This should ensure the future OS layers are free of Windows file corruption. When needed, a version can be removed and a new version created. Other options are, in...

CB Customer Spotlight: Q&A with Kaas Tailored’s Joe Mrazik

For the past eight years, Joe Mrazik has taken on the role of Network Administrator for Kaas Tailored, protecting the company’s endpoints with CB Defense. Kaas Tailored is an aerospace and furniture manufacturing company that supplies parts to aerospace companies like Boeing. Read on to learn how...

Binary vulnerability in the information technology examination practice system of Shincao Middle School

Xinkao Middle School Information Technology Exam Practice System is an information technology exam practice system developed by Jinan Kaoyuan Information Technology Co. There is a binary vulnerability in Xinkao Middle School Information Technology Exam Practice System that can be exploited by...

Binary vulnerability in the Information Technology Exam Practice System for Shincao Middle Schools (Middle Schools in Shandong Province)

Xinkao Middle School Information Technology Exam Practice System is an information technology exam practice system developed by Jinan Kaoyuan Information Technology Co. A binary vulnerability exists in Xinkao Middle School Information Technology Exam Practice System Middle School in Shandong...

ThreatList: Google Play Nine Times Safer Than Third-Party App Stores

Bearing out the conventional wisdom that avoiding third-party app stores is a security best practice, new data from Google shows that Android devices that only download apps from Google Play are nine times less likely to end up with malware. According to Google’s inaugural Android Ecosystem...

Threat Hunting: Adoption, Expertise Grow, but Work Remains

Threat hunting, an often misunderstood but powerful security practice, is gaining traction, as more organizations reap benefits from it and get better at it. However, there is still a lot of room for adoption to increase and for practices to improve. Those were key findings from the SANS...

bouncycastle: DHIES implementation allowed the use of ECB mode

In the Bouncy Castle JCE Provider version 1.55 and earlier the DHIES implementation allowed the use of ECB mode. This mode is regarded as unsafe and support for it has been removed from the provider...

Container theft, the legal system and poor maritime security

One of the most interesting legal cases I’ve read recently involves a theft of two containers of cobalt metal briquettes from a terminal at the port of Antwerp. Original judgment: Appeal: What drew me to this case was the amount of useful data that had entered the public domain concerning a crime...

September 4, 2018 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “September” 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! September 4, 2018 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Carbon Black builds out...