Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 78.10.1 — Mozilla

The Mozilla Maintenance Service granted SERVICESTART access to BUILTIN|Users which, in a domain network, grants normal remote users access to start or stop the service. This could be used to prevent the browser update service from operating if an attacker spammed the 'Stop' command; but also...

CISA Emergency Directive 21-03: VPN Vulnerabilities Actively Exploited

On April 20, 2021, the Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA released an alert on the exploitation of Pulse Connect Secure Vulnerabilities with Alert AA21-110A: Exploitation of Pulse Connect Secure Vulnerabilities, as well as Emergency Directive ED...

CVE-2021-25216 A second vulnerability in BIND's GSSAPI security policy negotiation can be targeted by a buffer overflow attack

In BIND 9.5.0 - 9.11.29, 9.12.0 - 9.16.13, and versions BIND 9.11.3-S1 - 9.11.29-S1 and 9.16.8-S1 - 9.16.13-S1 of BIND Supported Preview Edition, as well as release versions 9.17.0 - 9.17.1 of the BIND 9.17 development branch, BIND servers are vulnerable if they are running an affected version an...

Designing sockfuzzer, a network syscall fuzzer for XNU

Posted by Ned Williamson, Project Zero Introduction When I started my 20% project – an initiative where employees are allocated twenty-percent of their paid work time to pursue personal projects – with Project Zero, I wanted to see if I could apply the techniques I had learned fuzzing Chrome to...

4 Ways Cyberattackers Hunt for Security Bugs

Blue teamers are in constant battle against hackers — faceless adversaries whose persistence can seem unending. But these actors have processes just like corporate operations, even if theirs are bootlegged. Attackers seek the path of least resistance: Gain access with as little effort as possible...

Surface expands its Secured-core portfolio with the new Surface Laptop 4 powered by AMD Ryzen™ Mobile Processors

As operating systems are becoming more secure and resistant to compromise, advanced vectors like firmware, kernel and hardware direct memory access DMA have emerged as new favored targets for threat actors. Recent trends indicate a substantial growth in the number of hardware and firmware exploit...

HttpDoom - A Tool For Response-Based Inspection Of Websites Across A Large Amount Of Hosts For Quickly Gaining An Overview Of HTTP-based Attack Surface

Validate large HTTP-based attack surfaces in a very fast way. Heavily inspired by Aquatone. Why? When I utilize Aquatone to flyover some hosts, I have some performance issues by the screenshot feature, and the lack of extension capabilities - like validating front-end technologies with a...

Threat matrix for storage services

The move to cloud is happening faster than ever before and organizations are increasing their dependency on cloud storage services. In fact, Microsoft Azure Storage services are one of the most popular services in the cloud. Companies need effective threat protection and mitigation strategies and...

Threat matrix for storage services

The move to cloud is happening faster than ever before and organizations are increasing their dependency on cloud storage services. In fact, Microsoft Azure Storage services are one of the most popular services in the cloud. Companies need effective threat protection and mitigation strategies and...

March 9, 2021—KB5000812 (OS Build 15063.2679)

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How to Keep Up With Vulnerability Management Challenges in Ephemeral Cloud Environments

This blog is part of an ongoing series sharing key takeaways from Rapid7’s 2020 Cloud Security Executive Summit. Interested in participating in the next summit on March 9? Register here! The modern perspective is that the cloud has made it much easier to have visibility of your attack surface and...

CVE-2021-25281

An issue was discovered in through SaltStack Salt before 3002.5. salt-api does not honor eauth credentials for the wheelasync client. Thus, an attacker can remotely run any wheel modules on the master...

Experts Warns of Notable Increase in QuickBooks Data Files Theft Attacks

New research has uncovered a significant increase in QuickBooks file data theft using social engineering tricks to deliver malware and exploit the accounting software. "A majority of the time, the attack involves basic malware that is often signed, making it hard to detect using antivirus or othe...

Credential Stuffing and Account Takeovers -- The Business View

Account takeovers ATOs, in which criminals impersonate legitimate account owners in order to take control of an account, cause tremendous pain for businesses in all industries. This pain may be monetary, such as losses from stolen accounts, but may also include a number of related problems, like...

Cloudlist - A Tool For Listing Assets From Multiple Cloud Providers

Cloudlist is a multi-cloud tool for getting Assets Hostnames, IP Addresses from Cloud Providers. This is intended to be used by the blue team to augment Attack Surface Management efforts by maintaining a centralized list of assets across multiple clouds with very little configuration efforts...

Announcing the general availability of Azure Defender for IoT

As businesses increasingly rely on connected devices to optimize their operations, the number of IoT and Operational Technology OT endpoints is growing dramatically—industry analysts have estimated that CISOs will soon be responsible for an attack surface multiple times larger than just a few yea...

Top Cybersecurity Threats to Watch in 2021

By Waqas In 2021, businesses will need to face more online threats, because of the expansion of the risk surface. Here are some details of what's coming. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Top Cybersecurity Threats to Watch in 2021...

Sigurlx - A Web Application Attack Surface Mapping Tool

sigurlx a web application attack surface mapping tool, it does ...: Categorize URLs URLs' categories: endpoint js js style css data json|xml|csv archive zip|tar|tar.gz doc pdf|xlsx|doc|docx|txt media jpg|jpeg|png|ico|svg|gif|webp|mp3|mp4|woff|woff2|ttf|eot|tif|tiff Next, probe HTTP requests to th...

January 12, 2021—KB4599208 (OS Build 15063.2614)

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New Surface PCs enable virtualization-based security (VBS) by default to empower customers to do more, securely

VBS and HVCI-enabled devices help protect from advanced attacks Escalation of privilege attacks are a malicious actor’s best friend, and they often target sensitive information stored in memory. These kinds of attacks can turn a minor user mode compromise into a full compromise of your OS and...