Convergence Ahoy: Get Ready for Cloud-Based Ransomware

The two types of cyberattacks that have dominated the news over the past year have been ransomware, and software and service supply-chain attacks. The former have mainly been perpetrated by criminal enterprises looking to turn a quick profit. In contrast, the latter attacks have primarily been th...

Zeek in Action Videos

This is a quick note to point blog readers to my Zeek in Action YouTube video series for the Zeek network security monitoring project. Each video addresses a topic that I think might be of interest to people trying to understand their network using Zeek and adjacent tools and approaches, like...

Logic Flaw Vulnerability in Dahua Integrated Management Platform DSS

Dahua Comprehensive Management Platform DSS is a management platform for managing security protection monitoring equipment, realizing real-time monitoring and video playback of multiple devices and channels. Dahua Integrated Management Platform DSS suffers from a logic flaw vulnerability that can...

Top Challenges for Security Analytics and Operations, and How a Cloud-Based SIEM Can Help

As the attack surface continues to grow, the job of a security professional is getting exponentially more complicated. With the surge in remote work over the last year, this has only accelerated. To keep up and combat key security operations challenges, many organizations are making the move to t...

Unauthorized access vulnerability in the Little Ant Smart Home platform

The Ant Smart Home platform can access a wide range of security monitoring devices to help owners realize real-time monitoring of home conditions. An unauthorized access vulnerability exists in the Little Ant Smart Home Platform, which can be exploited by attackers to obtain sensitive information...

The Future is Friction-Free: Drive Innovation With DevOps + Security

Going from a centralized security group that dictates a “command and control” approach to cloud security toward a model of “trust but verify,” is at the core of the modern shift toward security-practice democratization. Organizational practices behind legacy, centralized data centers are being...

WebSOC Knows of Weak Password Vulnerability in Website Stereo Monitoring System

WebSOC is a web security monitoring product of Knowledge Creation. The WebSOC Web site monitoring system has a weak password vulnerability, which can be exploited by attackers to obtain sensitive information...

Weak Password Vulnerability in Jabil Firewall Management System, Jabil SSLVPN Management System, Jabil Website Security Monitoring

Xi'an Jiaotong University Jiepu Network Technology Co., Ltd. is a first-class professional network security products and technology provider in China. Jabil Firewall Management System, Jabil SSLVPN Management System, Jabil Website Security Monitoring has a weak password vulnerability that can be...

Wind River ‘Security Incident’ Affects SSNs, Passport Numbers

Wind River Systems, which develops embedded system software, on Friday warned of a “security incident” that had exposed personnel records. One or more files were downloaded from the company’s network on or around September 29, it said. Affected data included information maintained within the...

Key layers for developing a Smarter SOC with CyberProof-managed Microsoft Azure security services

This blog post is part of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association MISA guest blog series. Learn more about MISA here. Security teams are struggling to reduce the time to detect and respond to threats due to the complexity and volume of alerts being generated from multiple security...

Key layers for developing a Smarter SOC with CyberProof-managed Microsoft Azure security services

This blog post is part of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association MISA guest blog series. Learn more about MISA here. Security teams are struggling to reduce the time to detect and respond to threats due to the complexity and volume of alerts being generated from multiple security...

Low: Red Hat Security Advisory: libpcap security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An update for libpcap is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE...

New Book! The Best of TaoSecurity Blog, Volume 2

I published a new book! The Best of TaoSecurity Blog, Volume 2: Network Security Monitoring, Technical Notes, Research, and China and the Advanced Persistent Threat It's in the Kindle Store, and if you're Unlimited it's free. Print edition to follow. The book lists as having 413 pages for the...

Audix - A PowerShell Tool To Quickly Configure The Windows Event Audit Policies For Security Monitoring

Audix will allow for the SIMPLE configuration of Windows Event Audit Policies. Window's Audit Policies are restricted by default. This means that for Incident Responders, Blue Teamers, CISO's & people looking to monitor their environment through use of Windows Event Logs, must configure the audit...

What are the benefits of SAST testing in CI/CD pipelines?

Static application security testing SAST is traditionally used in software development lifecycles both early on in the process and often to "white box" test all files containing source code. Integrating SAST into modern CI/CD pipelines allows developers to continuously monitor their code, providi...

Vulnerability of ACE Mingyi's O&M Audit Risk Control System to overstepping of authority

DASUSM is an audit and risk control system based on the theory and practical experience of operation and maintenance security management, combined with the requirements of various laws and regulations e.g., level protection, SOX, PCI, enterprise internal control management, hierarchical protectio...

EulerOS 2.0 SP8 : libpcap (EulerOS-SA-2019-2286)

According to the versions of the libpcap package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - Libpcap provides a portable framework for low-level network monitoring. Libpcap can provide network statistics collection,security monitoring an...

Fedora Update for libpcap FEDORA-2019-eaa681d33e

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2019 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can...

[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: libpcap-1.9.1-1.fc29

Libpcap provides a portable framework for low-level network monitoring. Libpcap can provide network statistics collection, security monitoring and network debugging. Since almost every system vendor provides a different interface for packet capture, the libpcap authors created this...

[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: libpcap-1.9.1-1.fc30

Libpcap provides a portable framework for low-level network monitoring. Libpcap can provide network statistics collection, security monitoring and network debugging. Since almost every system vendor provides a different interface for packet capture, the libpcap authors created this...