TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of December 11, 2017

If you read my weekly blog or follow me on Twitter, you know that I’m a huge sports fan. Unfortunately, when you don’t live in the town of your favorite team, you can be subject to blackout rules. So, my husband and I decided to purchase NFL Sunday Ticket from DirecTV. Fast forward to a couple of...

Zero-Day Remote 'Root' Exploit Disclosed In AT&T DirecTV WVB Devices

Security researchers have publicly disclosed an unpatched zero-day vulnerability in the firmware of AT&T DirecTV WVB kit after trying to get the device manufacturer to patch this easy-to-exploit flaw over the past few months. The problem is with a core component of the Genie DVR system that's...

Three Hackers Plead Guilty to Creating IoT-based Mirai DDoS Botnet

The U.S. federal officials have arrested three hackers who have pleaded guilty to computer-crimes charges for creating and distributing Mirai botnet that crippled some of the world's biggest and most popular websites by launching the massive DDoS attacks last year. According to the federal court...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of December 4, 2017

It snowed in Austin, Texas last night. It’s not a big deal for those of you who live in areas where you’re used to snow, but for those of us who are native Texans, it’s a big deal. Funny enough, I had scheduled a maintenance appointment for later today to make sure our heater is in working order...

macOS High Sierra - Root Privilege Escalation Exploit

Exploit for macOS platform in category local exploits This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'Mac OS X Root Privilege Escalation', 'Description' = %q This module exploits a serious flaw...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of November 20, 2017

It’s that time of year again, when many will gather with their families, eat way too much, and catch those crazy Black Friday sales. I’ve been seeing “Black Friday” sales for almost two weeks now. Cyber Monday, which falls on the Monday after the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday, is probably going to be...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of November 13, 2017

The dreaded white, blank screen in Microsoft Word is taunting me, with its blinking cursor asking for words to be written. Just when I thought I wouldn’t get any inspiration for this week’s blog, inspiration came to me from beyond through our late CTO Raimund Genes. Earlier this week, the third...

Updated roundcubemail packages fix security vulnerability

It was discovered that roundcubemail contained a zero-day file disclosure vulnerability caused by insuficient input validation which was currently being exploited by hackers to read roundcube's configuration files and steal its database credentials CVE-2017-16651...

MGASA-2017-0409 Updated roundcubemail packages fix security vulnerability

It was discovered that roundcubemail contained a zero-day file disclosure vulnerability caused by insuficient input validation which was currently being exploited by hackers to read roundcube's configuration files and steal its database credentials CVE-2017-16651...

How Next-Generation Firewall Platforms Help Protect Your Perimeter at Each Stage of the Cyber Kill Chain*

Whether you need to upgrade your firewalls on-premise or in the cloud, next-generation firewalls NGFWs can significantly reduce the risks associated with the modern threat landscape. Since attacks have evolved using techniques such as encryption, polymorphism, etc., firewalls have also evolved to...

Patch Tuesday: Microsoft Releases Update to Fix 53 Vulnerabilities

It's Patch Tuesday—time to update your Windows devices. Microsoft has released a large batch of security updates as part of its November Patch Tuesday in order to fix a total of 53 new security vulnerabilities in various Windows products, 19 of which rated as critical, 31 important and 3 moderate...

Adobe Patches Flash Player, 56 Bugs in Reader and Acrobat

Adobe kicked off today’s Patch Tuesday barrage with a monster update for Acrobat and Reader patching dozens of remote code execution vulnerabilities, along with the near-customary Flash Player update addressing a handful of critical flaws. None of the vulnerabilities patched today are under activ...

How Reputation Intelligence Improves Application Security

Reputation intelligence is information about cyber entities known for specific activity, whether malicious or benign, which can be fed to and actioned on by a web application firewall WAF. It provides an additional application security layer by effectively identifying and blocking threats from...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of November 6, 2017

I started a 14-day detox this week that eliminates common food allergens and hormones. It’s going to be two weeks of no fun, but it’s good to give your body a little reset. Plus, I’ll be done just in time for the Thanksgiving holiday. Eliminating toxins from your body can be compared to eliminati...

Tor Browser Users Urged to Patch Critical ‘TorMoil’ Vulnerability

The Tor Project released a patch for a vulnerability that leaks the real IP addresses of macOS and Linux users of its Tor Browser. The patch was issued late Friday and fixes a vulnerability found in Tor Browser version 7.0.8. The patch is in an upgrade to Tor Browser 7.0.9. Windows users running...

Warning: Critical Tor Browser Vulnerability Leaks Users’ Real IP Address—Update Now

If you follow us on Twitter, you must be aware that since yesterday we have been warning Mac and Linux users of the Tor anonymity browser about a critical vulnerability that could leak their real IP addresses to potential attackers when they visit certain types of web pages. Discovered by Italian...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of October 30, 2017

Competition is inherent in our DNA. At a basic level, we compete for things like water and food. We also take it up a level and compete for wealth, fame and power. Some compete to be the best in sports, like my Houston Astros winning the 2017 World Series, and others compete to be the best in the...

Siemens Update Patches SIMATIC PCS 7 Bug in Some Versions

Siemens has made an update available for some of its SIMATIC PCS 7 distributed control systems that are impacted by a remotely exploitable input validation vulnerability. Siemens said version 8.2 and V8.1 prior to 8.1 SP1 with WinCC v7.3 Update 13 are affected. “Successful exploitation of this...

About the security content of Safari 11.0.1 - Apple Support

About Apple security updates For our customers' protection, Apple doesn't disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until an investigation has occurred and patches or releases are available. Recent releases are listed on the Apple security updates page. For more information about security, se...

Advantech WebAccess

CVSS v3 7.3 ATTENTION: Remotely exploitable/low skill level to exploit. Vendor: Advantech Equipment: WebAccess Vulnerabilities: Stack-based Buffer Overflow, Untrusted Pointer Dereference AFFECTED PRODUCTS The following versions of WebAccess, an HMI platform, are affected: WebAccess versions prior...