SOC Forum 2017: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Massive Malware Attacks

Today I spoke at SOC Forum 2017 in Moscow. It was a great large-scale event about Security Operation Centers. 2,700 people registered. Lots of people in suits . And lots of my good fellows. The event was held in Radisson Royal Congress Park. There were three large halls for presentations and a hu...

ZeroNights 2017: back to the cyber 80s

Last Friday, 17th of November, I attended the ZeroNights 2017 conference in Moscow. And it was pretty awesome. Thanks to the organizers! Here I would like to share some of my impressions. First of all, I want to say that two main Moscow events for information security practitioners, PHDays and...

satosokuteiki.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-416905 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| satosokuteiki.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...

Faraday v2.7 - Collaborative Penetration Test and Vulnerability Management Platform

Faraday is the Integrated Multiuser Risk Environment you have alwasy been looking for! It maps and leverages all the data you generate in real time , letting you track and understand your audits. Our dashboard for CISOs and managers uncovers the risks and impacts and risks being assessed by the...

Perform Local Searches For Known Vulnerabilities: cve-search

cve-search is a tool to import CVE Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures and CPE Common Platform Enumeration into a MongoDB to facilitate search and processing of CVEs. The main objective of the software is to avoid doing direct and public lookup into the public CVE databases. This is usually fast...

Webcast Q&A: Automating the CIS Critical Security Controls

Qualys Product Management Director Tim White and SANS Institute Analyst John Pescatore did a deep dive into the Center for Internet Security’s Critical Security Controls during a recent webcast, and answered questions from audience members about these 20 foundational security practices, and about...

ISACA Moscow Vulnerability Management Meetup 2017

Last Thursday, I attended a very interesting event entirely dedicated to Vulnerability Management - open ISACA Moscow meetup. Me and my former colleague from Mail.Ru Group Dmitry Chernobaj presented there our joint report "Enterprise Vulnerability Management: fancy marketing brochures and the...

CVE-2015-5186

Audit before 2.4.4 in Linux does not sanitize escape characters in filenames...

Vulnerability Management Market Disruptors

Gartners recent vulnerability management report provides a wealth of insight into vulnerability management VM tools and advice for how to build effective VM programs. Although VM tools and capabilities have changed since the reports last iteration in 2015, interestingly one thing hasnt: Gartners...

Carbon Blacking your sensitive data it’s what the agents normally do

But usually without such consequences. In this situation with Carbon Black, I am most interested in the actual reasons of all this media noise. From what point business as usual becomes a scandal. Ok, when you see Carbon Black customer's private files in public access at Virus Total it's a 100%...

Faraday v2.6 - Collaborative Penetration Test and Vulnerability Management Platform

Faraday is the Integrated Multiuser Risk Environment you were looking for! It maps and leverages all the knowledge you generate in real time , letting you track and understand your audits. Our dashboard for CISOs and managers uncovers the impact and risk being assessed by the audit in real-time...

Countdown to GDPR: Manage Vulnerabilities

If your organization needs a compelling reason for establishing or enhancing its vulnerability management program, circle this date in bold, red ink on your corporate calendar: May 25, 2018. On that day, the EU's General Data Protection Regulation GDPR goes into effect, intensifying the need for...

Qualys new look and new products

As you all know, it's Black Hat 2017 time. This year Qualys seems to be the main newsmaker among Vulnerability Management vendors. Qualys Team renewed logo and website, updated marketing strategy, presented two new products: CloudView and CertView. I decided to take a look. Talking about design, ...

WSSAT - Web Service Security Assessment Tool

WSSAT is an open source web service security scanning tool which provides a dynamic environment to add, update or delete vulnerabilities by just editing its configuration files. This tool accepts WSDL address list as input file and for each service, it performs both static and dynamic tests again...

Trend Micro Deep Discovery Director vulnerability analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Vulnerability information Type: OS command in the special elements improper handling ofCWE-78, use of hard-coded cryptographic keysCWE-321, data authenticity verification is insufficientCWE-345 Impact: code execution Remote exploit: Yes Local exploit: Yes CVE name: CVE-pending-assignment-1,...

InsightVM now available in Japan

InsightVM customers can now choose to store their InsightVM data in Japan. At Rapid7, we enable customers to comply with policies and preferences by selecting the region where their data is transmitted, processed, and stored. We're excited to announce that Japan joins our existing data centers in...

[SECURITY] Fedora 26 Update: openvas-manager-7.0.2-1.fc26

The OpenVAS Manager is the central service that consolidates plain vulnerab ility scanning into a full vulnerability management solution. The Manager control s the Scanner via OTP and itself offers the XML-based, stateless OpenVAS Manageme nt Protocol OMP. All intelligence is implemented in the...

Petya the Great and why *they* don’t patch vulnerabilities

I really like this. Just imagine. Quiet, routine, everyday Vulnerability Management process in organizations: scanning-patching, scanning-patching, scanning-patching… And then. Suddenly! PEEETYYA!!! And at very same moment everything changes. People from different companies start to communicate...

Petya Ransomware: What You Need to Know

On Tuesday, a variant of the ransomware "Petya" began propagating in several countries across Europe. This new variant leverages the EternalBlue exploit used in WannaCry, and also takes advantage of misconfigured permissions to spread throughout the network. EternalBlue is a leaked exploit...

libsndfile 1.0.28 aiff_read_chanmap() Information Disclosure Vulnerability

A vulnerability in libsndfile 1.0.28, caused due to an error in the"aiffreadchanmap" function src/aiff.c, can be exploited tocause an out-of-bounds read memory access via a specially crafted AIFFfile. libsndfile "aiffreadchanmap" Information Disclosure Vulnerability Table of Contents Affected...