Securing the Convergence of IT with OT

The Industrial Internet of Things IIoT is the leading edge of the convergence of Operational Technology OT with IT. This convergence begins with network connectivity but requires enhancements in operational procedures, technology, and training as well. Beginning with the network, IT and OT use...

Travel Breaches Hit Air Canada and Asia-Pac Hotelier

It’s been a busy week on the data breach front. First, Air Canada said that a breach of around 20,000 mobile app users had exposed passport information. At the same time, millions have been affected by an information heist targeting a Chinese hotel group with 3,500 properties across the...

CentOS 6 : bind (CESA-2018:2571)

"An update for bind is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the...

Oracle Linux 6 : bind (ELSA-2018-2571)

The remote Oracle Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2018-2571 advisory. 32:9.8.2-0.68.rc1.1 - Fix CVE-2018-5740 Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory. Note that Nessus...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: bind security update

An update for bind is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the...

“Unauthorized” error is thrown by SharePoint Online and/or OneDrive for business backup jobs

Challenge Backup jobs for SharePoint Online and/or OneDrive items fail with any of the following errors: 07-08-2018 11:11:39 3 6640 Error: The request failed with HTTP status 401: Unauthorized. 07-08-2018 11:11:39 3 6640 Type: System.Net.WebException 07-08-2018 11:11:39 3 6640 Stack: 07-08-2018...

Offensive and Defensive Cryptography: Crypton

Crypton is an educational library to learn and practice Offensive and Defensive Cryptography. It is basically a collection of explanation and implementation of all the existing vulnerabilities and attacks on various Encryption Systems Symmetric and Asymmetric, Digital Signatures, Message...

[SECURITY] Fedora 27 Update: bind-9.11.4-2.P1.fc27

BIND Berkeley Internet Name Domain is an implementation of the DNS Domain Name System protocols. BIND includes a DNS server named, which resolves host names to IP addresses; a resolver library routines for applications to use when interfacing with DNS; and tools for verifying that the DNS server ...

CentOS 6 / 7 : mutt (CESA-2018:2526)

An update for mutt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available f...

A framework for creating proxies: Mallet

Mallet is a tool for creating proxies for arbitrary protocols, along similar lines to the familiar intercepting web proxies, just more generic. It is built upon the Netty framework, and relies heavily on the Netty pipeline concept, which allows the graphical assembly of graphs of handlers. In the...

CVE-2018-15473

OpenSSH through 7.7 is prone to a user enumeration vulnerability due to not delaying bailout for an invalid authenticating user until after the packet containing the request has been fully parsed, related to auth2-gss.c, auth2-hostbased.c, and auth2-pubkey.c...

mysql: Client programs unspecified vulnerability (CPU Oct 2017)

Vulnerability in the MySQL Server component of Oracle MySQL subcomponent: Client programs. Supported versions that are affected are 5.5.57 and earlier, 5.6.37 and earlier and 5.7.19 and earlier. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via multiple...

mysql: Server: DDL unspecified vulnerability (CPU Apr 2018)

Vulnerability in the MySQL Server component of Oracle MySQL subcomponent: Server: DDL. Supported versions that are affected are 5.5.59 and prior, 5.6.39 and prior and 5.7.21 and prior. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via multiple protocols to...

mysql: Server: DDL unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2018)

Vulnerability in the MySQL Server component of Oracle MySQL subcomponent: Server: DDL. Supported versions that are affected are 5.5.58 and prior, 5.6.38 and prior and 5.7.20 and prior. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via multiple protocols to...

mysql: Server: Parser unspecified vulnerability (CPU Jan 2019)

Vulnerability in the MySQL Server component of Oracle MySQL subcomponent: Server: Parser. Supported versions that are affected are 5.6.42 and prior, 5.7.24 and prior and 8.0.13 and prior. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via multiple protocols to...

Hackers can compromise your network just by sending a Fax

What maximum a remote attacker can do just by having your Fax machine number? Believe it or not, but your fax number is literally enough for a hacker to gain complete control over the printer and possibly infiltrate the rest of the network connected to it. Check Point researchers have revealed...

The vulnerability of the API components of Sun ZFS Storage Appliance Kit allows a hacker to gain full control over the application.

The vulnerability of the API framework components of the Sun ZFS Storage Appliance Kit AK is related to lack of access control mechanisms. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker, operating remotely, to gain full control over the application by using network protocols...

DEF CON 2018: Critical Bug Opens Millions of HP OfficeJet Printers to Attack

LAS VEGAS – Tens of millions of fax-ready HP OfficeJet inkjet printers are vulnerable to a simple hack that gives an attacker full control over a targeted printer. Once compromised, the all-in-one OfficeJet could act as a springboard for deeper network penetration by an attacker. Here at DEF CON,...

DEF CON 2018: Hacking Medical Protocols to Change Vital Signs

LAS VEGAS – In recent years there has been more attention paid to the security of medical devices; however, there has been little security research done on the unique protocols used by these devices. Many of the insulin pumps, heart monitors and other gadgets found in hospital rooms use aging...

GitLab Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability (CNVD-2018-16518)

GitLab is a set of open source applications developed using Ruby on Rails to implement a self-hosted Git version control system project repository, which has similar functionality to Github for accessing a project's file contents, commit history, bug lists, and more. A cross-site scripting...