Highlights from the HITRUST Third-Party Assurance Summit

The HITRUST TPA Summit brought together experts representing customers, vendors, and assessor firms in various aspects of risk management to share best practices, lessons learned and effective third-party risk management strategies leveraging the HITRUST CSF Assurance Program and HITRUST Assessme...

summit-mea.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-560324 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| summit-mea.com Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

Healthcare Security Pros Prioritize Sharing and Caring in the Wild, Wild West of Healthcare

Security professionals from healthcare delivery organizations HDOs, medical device manufacturers, and pharmaceutical companies gathered in Scottsdale, Arizona for the NH-ISAC Cyber Rodeo Summit last month. The big topics were how to share more threat intelligence, while at the same time ensuring...

summitceramics.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-472709 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| summitceramics.com Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Disclosure Standard:| Coordinated Disclosure...

Look Out! Risk Is on the Move, According to IoT Thought Leaders from Across the Globe

The IoT Security Summit 2017 in New York City in late October and the Security of Things World USA 2017 in San Diego last month were both packed with thought leaders from all parts of the IoT ecosystem - device manufacturers, telecom carriers, cloud providers, and early-adopter end users from...

Carbon Black Named 2017 CDW Silver Partner of The Year

Carbon Black is proud to announce it was recognized as the 2017 CDW Silver Partner of The Year on Thursday November 9 at the 2017 CDW Partner Summit. The award recognizes the CDW partners that have consistently gone above and beyond to provide exceptional support to CDW and its customers. CDW...

Gone Phishing: A Case Study on Conducting Internal Phishing Campaigns

To many, emails are boring. Its been a long time since they were cool, and theyre probably the slowest form of communication in an evolving fast-paced digital world. Nevertheless, there were 215 billion emails exchanged per day in 2016, and that number is growing at 3% annually. It's clear that...

Hack with Metasploit: Announcing the UNITED 2017 CTF

Got mad skillz? Want mad skillz? This year at Rapid7s annual UNITED Summit, were hosting a first-of-its-kind Capture the Flag CTF competition. Whether youre a noob to hacking or a grizzled pro, youll emerge from our 25-hour CTF with more knowledge and serious bragging rights. Show off your 1337...

You've Got 0-Day!

Hey all, it feels like its been forever since I wrote a blog post that wasnt about some specific disaster currently consuming the Internet, so I just wanted to drop a note here about how Ill be speaking at UNITED 2017, Rapid7s annual security summit in Boston September 11-14. Specifically, Ill be...

Top Reasons for Graduate Students to Attend UNITED

The countdown is on to Rapid7s annual UNITED Summit in Boston on September 13-14. Rapid7 has partnered with top universities all over the globe to provide students with industry-leading security solutions as part of their coursework, equipping them with hands-on knowledge as they head into the...

IT threat evolution Q2 2017

Targeted attacks and malware campaigns Back to the future: looking for a link between old and new APTs This year's Security Analyst Summit SAS included interesting research findings on several targeted attack campaigns. For example, researchers from Kaspersky Lab and King's College London present...

Amazon Macie and Deep Security

Amazon S3 stores trillions of objects and regularly peaks at millions of requests per second. By any metric, it’s massive. With unparalleled durability and availability, it’s the backbone of AWS’ data services. This morning at the AWS Summit in New York City, AWS launched a new service: Amazon...

IRS Warns Tax Professionals of New Scam to Steal Passwords

The Internal Revenue Service IRS, acting in concert with state tax agencies and the tax industry, has issued an IRS Security Summit Alert for tax professionals to beware of a new phishing email scam. Scam operators often use fraudulent e-mails to entice their targets to reveal login credentials...

IRS Launches 'Don't Take the Bait' Series

As part of its Security Summit effort, the Internal Revenue Service IRS will be launching a new educational series called "Don't Take the Bait" on July 11, 2017. As part of the "Protect Your Clients, Protect Yourself" campaign, this series will provide information about phishing scams targeting t...

AWS Public Sector Summit 2017: Cloud Super Powers and Security

Coalfire recently returned from the Amazon Web Services AWS Public Sector Summit, held in Washington, D.C., which addresses some of the most pressing issues todays leaders face around security, governance and compliance, and more. While Coalfire has attended the show in the past, we were especial...

Mark Dowd on Exploit Mitigation Development

Mark Dowd, fresh off his 2017 Security Analyst Summit keynote, discusses why certain exploit mitigations have been so successful in driving up the cost of exploit development for attackers...

Wallarm is Kairos Society fellow!

Do you know what Kairos Society is? Frankly speaking, we had never heard of it until the beginning of the year. Now we’re amazed at how lucky we are. Here is why. What is Kairos society? Kairos team reached out to us by saying that we’re one of the nominees for Top50 Innovative Companies 2017 —...

Command Execution Through Collection Name

summit is vulnerable to command execution. There is an unsafe eval in summit which allows an attacker to execute arbitrary commands through a malicious collection name. This only happens when using the PouchDB driver...

On Baseband Vulnerabilities, SIEMs, Samsung Tizen and More

Mike Mimoso, Tom Spring, and Chris Brook recap two conferences from last week: Infiltrate Con in Miami and Kaspersky Lab’s Security Analyst Summit in St. Maarten. A baseband vulnerability, SIEMs, vulnerabilities in Samsung’s Tizen operating system, and an IoT honeypot are discussed. Download:...

Travel Routers, NAS Devices Among Easily Hacked IoT Devices

SINT MAARTEN—A researcher only needed 20 minutes last week to explain just how hopelessly broken some of the more popular Internet of Things devices on the market these days are. Jan Hoersch, an IT security consultant at Securai GmbH, a small pen-testing firm based in Munich, described...