CVE-2021-20418: Weak Password Requirements

IBM Security Guardium 11.2 does not require that users should have strong passwords by default, which makes it easier for attackers to compromise user accounts. IBM X-Force ID: 196279...

August 10, 2021—KB5005033 (OS Builds 19041.1165, 19042.1165, and 19043.1165)

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Cisco Connected Mobile Experiences Strong Authentication Requirements Enforcement Bypass

A vulnerability in the change password API of Cisco Connected Mobile Experiences CMX could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to alter their own password to a value that does not comply with the strong authentication requirements that are configured on an affected device. This vulnerability...

CVE-2021-1522: Weak Password Requirements

A vulnerability in the change password API of Cisco Connected Mobile Experiences CMX could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to alter their own password to a value that does not comply with the strong authentication requirements that are configured on an affected device. This vulnerability...

CSIRT-Collect - PowerShell Script To Collect Memory And (Triage) Disk Forensics

A PowerShell script to collect memory and triage disk forensics for incident response investigations. The script leverages a network share, from which it will access and copy the required executables and subsequently upload the acquired evidence to the same share post-collection. Permission...

The SysAdmin Class for the World’s Greatest Role-Playing Game

If you’re not sure what a System Administrator SysAdmin does, this is the person in your company or possibly an external contractor who fearlessly oversees the maintenance, care, configuration, and stable operation of your computers and servers. It’s your SysAdmin who is responsible for the...

DNSStager - Hide Your Payload In DNS

DNSStager is an open-source project based on Python used to hide and transfer your payload using DNS. DNSStager will create a malicious DNS server that handles DNS requests to your domain and return your payload as a response to specific record requests such as AAAA or TXT records after splitting...

Bughound - Static Code Analysis Tool Based On Elasticsearch

Bughound is an open-source static code analysis tool that analyzes your code and sends the results to Elasticsearch and Kibana to get useful insights about the potential vulnerabilities in your code. Bughound has its own Elasticsearch and Kibana Docker image that is preconfigured with dashboards ...

Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilites affect IBM Jazz Foundation and IBM Engineering products.

Summary There are multiple vulnerabilities that are used by IBM Jazz Team Server affecting the following IBM Jazz Team Server based Applications: Engineering Lifecycle Management ELM, IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next DOORS Next, IBM Engineering Workflow Management EWM, IBM...

How to leverage accountability to ensure sustainable enterprise data security

As post-pandemic economic recovery continues to drive rapid acceleration in digital transformation, documented data breaches and service disruptions caused by cybercriminal activity have become an unwelcome part of our daily news feed. In spite of the regulations and compliance requirements that...

Crafting a Custom Dictionary for Your Password Policy

Modern password policies are comprised of many different elements that contribute to its effectiveness. One of the components of an effective current password policy makes use of what is known as a custom dictionary that filters out certain words that are not allowed as passwords in the...

Requirements for DoD Impact Level 2

As discussed in the previous blog post on FedRAMP+, there are four authorization levels defined in the Department of Defense DoD Cloud Computing CC Security Requirements Guide SRG. In this post we will give a brief rundown of the lowest authorization level, DoD Impact Level IL 2, and the security...

How to navigate open source licensing risks

Vulnerabilities aren't the only risk that comes with open source software use. Learn how you can best mitigate licensing risks to ensure your team is meeting all legal requirements while building with open source code...

MacHound - An extension to audit Bloodhound collecting and ingesting of Active Directory relationships on MacOS hosts

MacHound is an extension to the Bloodhound audting tool allowing collecting and ingesting of Active Directory relationships on MacOS hosts. MacHound collects information about logged-in users, and administrative group members on Mac machines and ingest the information into the Bloodhound database...

Why You’re Not Making the Leap from Compliance to a Database Security Strategy

Gartner strongly recommends that the concept of “big data strategy” should be replaced with “making big data part of our everyday strategy.” Technology has created a database activity explosion for most enterprises and made traditional agent-based data logging, monitoring, and auditing far too...

Windows 11's Security Push Leaves Scores of PCs Behind

The minimum hardware requirements for Microsoft’s next operating system will leave plenty of PCs stranded...

What is FedRAMP+?

The Department of Defense DoD Cloud Computing CC Security Requirements Guide SRG Version 1, Release 3 defines FedRAMP Plus FedRAMP+ as: "… the concept of leveraging the work done as part of the FedRAMP assessment and adding specific security controls and requirements necessary to meet and assure...

Security Bulletin: Security Vulnerabilities in IBM® Java SDK April 2021 CPU plus affect multiple IBM Continuous Engineering products based on IBM Jazz Technology

Summary There are multiple vulnerabilities in IBM® SDK Java Technology Edition from April 2021 CPU that are used by IBM Jazz Team Server affecting the following IBM Jazz Team Server based Applications: Engineering Lifecycle Management ELM, IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next DOORS...

RHEL 8 : kernel-rt (RHSA-2021:2599)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2021:2599 advisory. The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirement...

CVE-2021-25923

CVE-2021-25923 affects OpenEMR 5.0.0 to 6.0.0.1. The root cause is a weak password policy that does not enforce a maximum password length, allowing an attacker who knows the first 72 characters of a password to potentially take over accounts. The issue has a CVSS v3.1 score of 8.1 (network, high ...