Long Tail Analysis: A New Hope in the Cybercrime Battle

Our hyper-connected world and its ever-faster network speeds have resulted in mountains of diverse data that needs to be processed. It has also resulted in an ever-expanding attack surface, requiring cybersecurity solutions to scale like never before. These days, scale is about more than traffic...

The Windows 7 Postmortem: What’s at Stake

In January 2020, Microsoft officially ended its extended support and discontinued patching of Windows 7. Despite the long lead time and repeated reminders, numbers since the COVID-19 pandemic have shown a slight uptick in Windows 7 deployments. The recent estimates show that more than 26 percent ...

Securing Smart Manufacturing

“Alexa, turn on the TV.” ”Get it yourself.” This nightmare scenario could play out millions of times unless people take steps to protect their IoT devices. The situation is even worse in industrial settings. Smart manufacturing, that is, Industry 4.0, relies on tight integration between IT system...

Buffer overflow vulnerability in GE control system ACTIVEX control (CNVD-2020-26342)

General Electric GE is a global digital industrial company that creates software-defined machines that are connected, responsive and predictive to transform traditional industries. A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the ACTIVEX control of the GE control system, which can be exploited by an...

Windows 8.1 Store improvements: January 2014

Windows 8.1 Store improvements: January 2014 Summary This article describes the update rollup for Windows RT 8.1 and Windows 8.1 that is dated January 2014. This update package includes performance and reliability improvements. We recommend that you apply this update rollup as part of your regula...

Microsoft NET USE win10 - Insufficient Authentication Logic Exploit

Title: Microsoft NET USE win10 - Insufficient Authentication Logic Date: 2020-04-04 Author: hyp3rlinx Vendor: www.microsoft.com CVE: N/A + Credits: John Page aka hyp3rlinx + Website: hyp3rlinx.altervista.org + Source:...

Microsoft Windows Net Use Insufficent Authentication

Credits: John Page aka hyp3rlinx + Website: hyp3rlinx.altervista.org + Source: http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/MICROSOFT-WINDOWS-NET-USE-INSUFFICIENT-PASSWORD-PROMPT.txt + twitter.com/hyp3rlinx + ISR: ApparitionSec Vendor www.microsoft.com Product Windows "net use" Command Connects a...

How VMware Carbon Black Helps Agencies Meet CDM Requirements

When a crime is committed, one of the first things the police do is collect evidence from any security cameras nearby, and these days, cameras are everywhere. That’s a model that federal agencies want to apply to cybersecurity. This constant monitoring of systems to catch bad actors provides the...

Akamai's Prolexic Platform Completes Fifth Generation Upgrade

Akamai introduces new enhancements today to its Prolexic Routed purpose-built DDoS scrubbing service that reflect the changing nature of the threat landscape and capitalize on cloud functionality to enable maximum customer flexibility using newer deployment models. For anyone worried about DDoS...

DEBIAN-CVE-2019-20326

A heap-based buffer overflow in cairoimagesurfacecreatefromjpeg in extensions/cairoio/cairo-image-surface-jpeg.c in GNOME gThumb before 3.8.3 and Linux Mint Pix before 2.4.5 allows attackers to cause a crash and potentially execute arbitrary code via a crafted JPEG file...

Heap overflow

A heap-based buffer overflow in cairoimagesurfacecreatefromjpeg in extensions/cairoio/cairo-image-surface-jpeg.c in GNOME gThumb before 3.8.3 and Linux Mint Pix before 2.4.5 allows attackers to cause a crash and potentially execute arbitrary code via a crafted JPEG file...

UBUNTU-CVE-2019-20326

A heap-based buffer overflow in cairoimagesurfacecreatefromjpeg in extensions/cairoio/cairo-image-surface-jpeg.c in GNOME gThumb before 3.8.3 and Linux Mint Pix before 2.4.5 allows attackers to cause a crash and potentially execute arbitrary code via a crafted JPEG file...

Microsoft Windows Printer Device Context Use-After-Free Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of Microsoft Windows. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the handling of...

Sifter - A OSINT, Recon And Vulnerability Scanner

Sifter is a osint, recon & vulnerability scanner. It combines a plethara of tools within different module sets in order to quickly perform recon tasks, check network firewalling, enumerate remote and local hosts, and scan for the 'blue' vulnerabilities within microsft and if unpatched, exploit...

The vulnerability of Microprogrammed Software for Surface Hub sensory displays, related to access control deficiencies, allows a intruder to gain access to settings that are only accessible to administrators.

The vulnerability of Microprogrammed Software for Surface Hub sensory displays is related to access control deficiencies. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a intruder to gain access to settings that are only accessible to administrators...

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Hackers Can Use Ultrasonic Waves to Secretly Control Voice Assistant Devices

Researchers have discovered a new means to target voice-controlled devices by propagating ultrasonic waves through solid materials in order to interact with and compromise them using inaudible voice commands without the victims' knowledge. Called "SurfingAttack," the attack leverages the unique...

Microsoft Surface Hub Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability

Surface Hub is a smart, multi-touch, large-screen collaboration device. Surface Hub has a security feature bypass vulnerability in the input credential prompt. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability to access settings that are accessible to administrators...

Introducing Guardicore Threat Intelligence Firewall

Guardicore’s Threat Intelligence Firewall blocks connections to malicious IPs, limiting security attack surface before reaching critical assets...

Intuitive and Ready-to-Use Monitoring Profiles for Compliance Regulations

Detecting changes from a baseline established for files and file paths and receiving instant alerts about them is crucial to ensure security within a monitored environment. File tampering is an indicator of illicit activity, and authorized users must be alerted whenever changes in a critical file...