Vulnerable to XIE DoS attacks

The ruby-openid gem before 2.2.2 for Ruby allows remote OpenID providers to cause a denial of service CPU consumption via 1 a large XRDS document or 2 an XML Entity Expansion XEE attack...

Top 10 Things CSPs Need to Know about FedRAMP Authorization on Amazon Web Services

Coalfire conducted a webinar, FedRAMP on AWS: What you need to know. The discussion covered what cloud service providers need to know when pursuing FedRAMP authorization leveraging AWS U.S East/West or GovCloud. Below youll find the Top 10 things that cloud service providers should know...

Introducing pywintrace: A Python Wrapper for ETW

Introduction Event tracing for Windows ETW is a lightweight logging facility first introduced with Windows 2000. Originally intended as a software diagnostic, troubleshooting and performance monitoring tool, it was greatly expanded in Windows Vista to create a lightweight debugging mechanism. The...

Introducing pywintrace: A Python Wrapper for ETW

Introduction Event tracing for Windows ETW is a lightweight logging facility first introduced with Windows 2000. Originally intended as a software diagnostic, troubleshooting and performance monitoring tool, it was greatly expanded in Windows Vista to create a lightweight debugging mechanism. The...

New Techniques in Fake Reviews

Research paper: "Automated Crowdturfing Attacks and Defenses in Online Review Systems." Abstract: Malicious crowdsourcing forums are gaining traction as sources of spreading misinformation online, but are limited by the costs of hiring and managing human workers. In this paper, we identify a new...

CVE-2017-12870

SimpleSAMLphp 1.14.12 and earlier make it easier for man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain sensitive information by leveraging use of the aesEncrypt and aesDecrypt methods in the SimpleSAML/Utils/Crypto class to protect session identifiers in replies to non-HTTPS service providers...

FedRAMP JAB Business Case extended

The FedRAMP Business Case for being considered for this cycle of the Joint Authorization Board JAB has been pushed out to August 31 at 5:00pm eastern. The additional time is to accommodate the large number of requests to document demand verification. Earlier the JAB has stated that federal demand...

SOC 2 Criteria: Change Is Coming - And You Can Have a Voice

SOC 2 reports are an important tool service providers use to give their customers assurances about their services security, compliance, privacy, availability, confidentiality and processing integrity by providing details about the service and the related controls that are in place. SOC 2...

CVE-2017-8032

In Cloud Foundry cf-release versions prior to v264; UAA release all versions of UAA v2.x.x, 3.6.x versions prior to v3.6.13, 3.9.x versions prior to v3.9.15, 3.20.x versions prior to v3.20.0, and other versions prior to v4.4.0; and UAA bosh release uaa-release 13.x versions prior to v13.17, 24.x...

Shadow Brokers Launches 0-Day Exploit Subscriptions for $21,000 Per Month

As promised to release more zero-days exploits and hacking tools for various platforms starting from June 2017, the infamous hacking group Shadow Brokers is back with more information on how to subscribe and become a private member for receiving exclusive access to the future leaks. The Shadow...

Jaya Baloo on WannaCry and Defending Against Advanced Attacks

Jaya Baloo, CISO of KPN, the Netherlands’ leading telecommunications provider, talks to Mike Mimoso about the WannaCry ransomware outbreak and how large network providers and enterprises must contend with advanced attacks. Baloo will be speaking at the upcoming Borderless Cyber USA conference in...

Protecting Your Small Business From WannaCry

May 12, 2017 saw the world’s first ever worm-based ransomware attack, WannaCry. Typically ransomware spreads via email as spam and phishing attacks, and relies on human intervention to initiate the infection. However, WannaCry is different in that it combines ransomware with a recently published...

ShadowBrokers Planning Monthly Exploit, Data Dump Service

Popcorn in hand, the ShadowBrokers say they’re taking in the WannaCry outbreak from the sidelines before starting in June a subscription service for new exploits and stolen data akin to a wine of the month club. In what’s become a signature periodic rant from the unknowns behind the leak of...

Shadow Brokers, Who Leaked WannaCry SMB Exploit, Are Back With More 0-Days

The infamous hacking collective Shadow Brokers – the one who leaked the Windows SMB exploit in public that led to last weekend's WannaCrypt menace – are back, this time, to cause more damage. In typically broken English, the Shadow Brokers published a fresh statement with full of frustration a fe...

DNSControl - Synchronize your DNS to multiple providers from a simple DSL

DNSControl is a system for maintaining DNS zones. It has two parts: a domain specific language DSL for describing DNS zones plus software that processes the DSL and pushes the resulting zones to DNS providers such as Route53, CloudFlare, and Gandi. It can talk to Microsoft ActiveDirectory and it...

Blank Slate Campaign Pushes Cerber Ransomware

Criminals are breathing new life into Cerber ransomware with a stubborn spam campaign called Blank Slate that is successfully abusing hosting providers to spread the malware. Researchers at the SANS Internet Storm Center said the campaign has shifted from spreading Sage 2.0 and Locky ransomware, ...

Cisco Prime Optical for Service Providers Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Cisco Prime Optical is a suite of products offered to service providers to manage converged IP and optical transport networks. It supports auto-configuration, resource allocation and troubleshooting to help operators perform end-to-end circuit creation more efficiently. An information disclosure...

Synchronize Your DNS to Multiple Providers: DNSControl

Synchronize Your DNS to Multiple Providers DNSControl is a system for maintaining DNS zones. It has two parts: a domain specific language DSL for describing DNS zones plus software that processes the DSL and pushes the resulting zones to DNS providers such as Route53, CloudFlare, and Gandi. It ca...

Design/Logic Flaw

A RADIUS Secret Disclosure vulnerability in the web network management interface of Cisco Prime Optical for Service Providers could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to disclose sensitive information in the configuration generated for a device. The attacker must have valid credentials for t...

CVE-2017-3871

A RADIUS Secret Disclosure vulnerability in the web network management interface of Cisco Prime Optical for Service Providers could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to disclose sensitive information in the configuration generated for a device. The attacker must have valid credentials for t...