Security update for shadow (important)

This update for shadow fixes the following issues: - CVE-2016-6252: Incorrect integer handling could results in local privilege escalation bsc1099310 This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP2:Update update project...

Preparing for Shadow OT: A Hospital Case Study

The convergence of IT and OT is happening more rapidly than IT expects. Once upon a time, IT was so expensive that enterprises built entire departments to prioritize spending and efficiently manage those costly investments. Now, IT is so inexpensive that any individual who wants IT can buy it or...

How mobile threats impact today’s BYOD landscape

Bring-your-own-device BYOD has been a revolutionary concept for years now, even before it was recognized by enterprise policy. However, now that business executives and IT leaders have realized the benefits this type of strategy for their organizations, BYOD is becoming an increasingly powerful w...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : shadow (SUSE-SU-2018:1997-1)

This update for shadow fixes the following issues : - CVE-2016-6252: Incorrect integer handling could results in local privilege escalation bsc1099310 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted t...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : shadow (SUSE-SU-2018:1995-1)

This update for shadow fixes the following issues : - CVE-2016-6252: Fixed incorrect integer handling that could results in a local privilege escalation bsc1099310 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable ha...

SUSE-SU-2018:1995-1 Security update for shadow

This update for shadow fixes the following issues: - CVE-2016-6252: Fixed incorrect integer handling that could results in a local privilege escalation bsc1099310...

SUSE-SU-2018:1997-1 Security update for shadow

This update for shadow fixes the following issues: - CVE-2016-6252: Incorrect integer handling could results in local privilege escalation bsc1099310...

Enable your users to work securely from anywhere, anytime, across all of their devices

This blog is part of a series that responds to common questions we receive from customers about deployment of Microsoft 365 Security solutions. In this series youll find context, answers, and guidance for deployment and driving adoption within your organization. Check out our last blog, Assessing...

Smaller Nation State Attacks: A Growing Cyber Menace

Last year, a Qatari state media website was compromised and defaced with false reports of the Emir of that country praising Iran and Hamas. The fake content was blasted on social media and amplified through bots, eventually provoking a regional boycott that persists today. Andrea Little Limbago...

EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : shadow-utils (EulerOS-SA-2018-1169)

According to the version of the shadow-utils package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - A buffer overflow flaw leading to heap memory corruption was found in the shadow-utils's newusers utility. A local, authenticated attacker cou...

Lightweight and Practical Kernel Protector for x86: Shadow-Box

Shadow-box is a security monitoring framework for operating systems using state-of-the-art virtualization technologies. Shadow-box has a novel architecture inspired by a shadow play. We made Shadow-box from scratch, and it is primarily composed of a lightweight hypervisor and a security monitor...

Updating your cybersecurity strategy to enable and accelerate digital transformation

This post is authored by Cyril Voisin, Chief Security Advisor, Enterprise Cybersecurity Group. Nowadays every company is becoming a digital company to some extent. Digital transformation changes the way business is done. For example, it puts more control into the hands of employees, who now deman...

Fedora Update for shadow-utils FEDORA-2018-35254ad97d

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG 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-only ifdescription...

[SECURITY] Fedora 28 Update: shadow-utils-4.6-1.fc28

The shadow-utils package includes the necessary programs for converting UNIX password files to the shadow password format, plus programs for managing user and group accounts. The pwconv command converts passwords to the shadow password format. The pwunconv command unconverts shadow passwords and...

Regulating Bitcoin

Ross Anderson has a new paper on cryptocurrency exchanges. From his blog: Bitcoin Redux explains what's going wrong in the world of cryptocurrencies. The bitcoin exchanges are developing into a shadow banking system, which do not give their customers actual bitcoin but rather display a "balance"...

GLSA-201805-09 : Shadow: security bypass

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201805-09 Shadow: security bypass A local attacker could possibly bypass security restrictions if an administrator used group blacklisting to restrict access to file system paths. Impact : A local attacker could possibly bypass...

Shadow: security bypass

Background Shadow is a set of tools to deal with user accounts. Description A local attacker could possibly bypass security restrictions if an administrator used “group blacklisting” to restrict access to file system paths. Impact A local attacker could possibly bypass security restrictions...

CVE-2018-7268

MagniComp SysInfo before 10-H81, as shipped with BMC BladeLogic Automation and other products, contains an information exposure vulnerability in which a local unprivileged user is able to read any root uid 0 owned file on the system, regardless of the file permissions. Confidential information su...

OracleVM 3.4 : xen (OVMSA-2018-0039)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - BUILDINFO: OVMF commit=173bf5c847e3ca8b42c11796ce048d8e2e916ff8 - BUILDINFO: xen commit=b68fb6eb2d74ac16bb1e733c5fe5c9d9622b0838 - BUILDINFO: QEMU upstream...

Shadow Brokers Easybee Attack - Ver2

A vulnerability exists in Shadow Brokers. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could execute arbitrary code on the target system by sending email which contains malicious commands. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to damage users system...