Cynet Offers Free Threat Assessment for Mid-Sized and Large Organizations

Visibility into an environment attack surface is the fundamental cornerstone to sound security decision making. However, the standard process of 3rd party threat assessment as practiced today is both time consuming and expensive. Cynet changes the rules of the game with a free threat assessment...

Using Semmle QL vulnerability out Part2-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

First part of this series introduced the Semmle QL, as well as the Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC how to use it to review to our report the vulnerability. This article discusses a How do we take the initiative to use it examples, including Azure firmware component of a security audit. Th...

Android Messaging: A Few Bugs Short of a Chain

Posted by Natalie Silvanovich, Project Zero About a year and a half ago, I did some research into Android messaging and mail clients. At the time, I didn’t blog about it, because though I found bugs, I wasn’t able to assemble them into a credible attack. However, in the spirit of writing about...

Recommendations for deploying the latest Attack surface reduction rules for maximum impact

The keystone to good security hygiene is limiting your attack surface. Attack surface reduction is a technique to remove or constrain exploitable behaviors in your systems. In this blog, we discuss the two attack surface reduction rules introduced in the most recent release of Windows and cover...

3 Reasons Your Business Needs Security at the Edge

As a security professional, no one knows better than you that the attack surface is shifting and continues to expand across an ever-widening area. Our interconnected digital lives are wreaking havoc with the idea of "the perimeter." As digital attacks continue to grow in size and volume, and are...

SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (CNVD-2019-29178)

Simple DirectMedia Layer SDL is a multi-platform library for accessing low-level hardware and graphics and providing support for games, software and emulators. A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the 'SDLFillRect' function in the video/SDLsurface.c file in SDL versions 1.2.15 and...

SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (CNVD-2019-29174)

Simple DirectMedia Layer SDL is a multi-platform library for accessing low-level hardware and graphics and providing support for games, software and emulators. A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the 'SDLFillRect' function in the video/SDLsurface.c file in SDL versions 1.2.15 and...

SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer) Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (CNVD-2019-29176)

Simple DirectMedia Layer SDL is a multi-platform library for accessing low-level hardware and graphics and providing support for games, software and emulators. A heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the 'SDLFillRect' function in the video/SDLsurface.c file in SDL versions 1.2.15 and...

DEBIAN-CVE-2019-7637

SDL Simple DirectMedia Layer through 1.2.15 and 2.x through 2.0.9 has a heap-based buffer overflow in SDLFillRect in video/SDLsurface.c...

ALPINE-CVE-2019-7637

SDL Simple DirectMedia Layer through 1.2.15 and 2.x through 2.0.9 has a heap-based buffer overflow in SDLFillRect in video/SDLsurface.c...

UBUNTU-CVE-2019-7637

SDL Simple DirectMedia Layer through 1.2.15 and 2.x through 2.0.9 has a heap-based buffer overflow in SDLFillRect in video/SDLsurface.c...

Marvell Avastar wireless SoCs have multiple vulnerabilities

Overview Some Marvell Avastar wireless system on chip SoC models have multiple vulnerabilities, including a block pool overflow during Wi-Fi network scan. Description A presentation at the ZeroNights 2018 conference describes multiple security issues with Marvell Avastar SoCs models 88W8787,...

Active Scans Target Vulnerable Cisco Routers for Remote Code-Execution

UPDATE Malicious scanning activity targeting Cisco Small Business RV320 and RV325 Dual Gigabit WAN VPN routers is underway, with a swell of opportunistic probes looking for vulnerable devices ramping up since Friday. According to Bad Packets Report’s honeypot data, cyberattackers are targeting a...

TAU Threat Intelligence Notification: PPID Spoofing – Explorer CLSID

Summary Popular Attack Surface Reduction bypasses allow adversaries to hinder threat hunting activities by spoofing Parent Process ID. PPID to PID relationships have always been a key indicator of compromise and removing these conditions lead to false sense of security. Upon investigation its bee...

Sn0Int - Semi-automatic OSINT Framework And Package Manager

sn0int is a semi-automatic OSINT framework and package manager. It was built for IT security professionals and bug hunters to gather intelligence about a given target or about yourself. sn0int is enumerating attack surface by semi-automatically processing public information and mapping the result...

LabKey Vulnerabilities Threaten Medical Research Data

A trio of vulnerabilities in a popular open source medical data collaboration tool leaves important healthcare research data and potentially subject information open to multiple cross site scripting XSS attacks. The flaws are serious as they allow an attacker to retrieve user credentials once a...

Fighting Fire with Fire: API Automation Risks

Akamai research shows that 83 percent of all traffic on the web today are API calls JSON / XML. In many cases this fast growth can be attributed to the adoption and popularity of mobile devices and the mobile app ecosystem, as well as the abuse by threat actors using bots to automate their manual...

Linux: Mounting of udf filesystems

The udf filesystem type is the universal disk format used to implement ISO/IEC 13346 and ECMA-167 specifications. This is an open vendor filesystem type for data storage on a broad range of media. This filesystem type is necessary to support writing DVDs and newer optical disc formats. Removing...

Linux: Mounting of squashfs filesystems

The squashfs filesystem type is a compressed read-only Linux filesystem embedded in small footprint systems similar to cramfs. A squashfs image can be used without having to first decompress the image. Removing support for unneeded filesystem types reduces the local attack surface of the system. ...

Huawei Router Flaw Leaks Default Credential Status

A vulnerability in some Huawei routers used for carrier ISP services allows cybercriminals to identify whether the devices have default credentials or not – without ever connecting to them. CVE-2018-7900 exists in the router panel and allows credentials information to leak – so attackers can simp...