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%...

SUSE SLED12 Security Update : puppet (SUSE-SU-2017:2113-1)

This update for puppet fixes the following issues: Security issue fixed : - CVE-2017-2295: Possible code execution vulnerability where an attacker could force YAML deserialization in an unsafe manner. In default, this update breaks a backwards compatibility with Puppet agents older than 3.2.2 as...

RHEL 7 : qemu-kvm-rhev (RHSA-2017:2392)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2017:2392 advisory. KVM Kernel-based Virtual Machine is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of architectures. The qemu-kvm-rhev packages provi...

How a Citadel Trojan Developer Got Busted

A U.S. District Court judge in Atlanta last week handed a five year prison sentence to Mark Vartanyan, a Russian hacker who helped develop and sell the once infamous and widespread Citadel banking trojan. This fact has been reported by countless media outlets, but far less well known is the...

PT-2017-15331

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions MCollective versions prior to 2.10.4 Description The issue allows for potential arbitrary code execution on the server due to the deserialization of YAML from agents without using safe load. This could be exploited if an attacker sends...

Vulners Cloud Agents for Vulnerability Management

A very good news! Vulners Team is ready to present complete functionality for vulnerability audit. And it's not just an Audit API that you have to use somehow in your own scripts, but an enterprise ready product, like agent-based vulnerability scanning in Qualys and Tenable. You can try it for...

steinborn.com XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: http://www.steinborn.com/agents.aspx?p=agentResults.asp=1/-///'/"//--...

SSL configuration on VDA

See Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops documentation Enable TLS on VDAs...

CVE-2016-8939

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager IBM Spectrum Protect 7.1 and 8.1 clients/agents store password information in the Windows Registry in a manner which can be compromised. IBM X-Force ID: 118790...

RHEL 7 : collectd (RHSA-2017:1285)

An update for collectd is now available for RHEV 4.X RHEV-H and Agents for RHEL-7 and RHEV Engine version 4.1. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is...

Digging Into WannaCry Details: Answers to Your Burning Questions

Jimmy Graham, Director of Product Management, Qualys Threat Protection & AssetView The WannaCry ransomware attack spread so quickly and has been so disruptive that IT departments can’t get enough information about what caused it, how it can be remediated and what can be done to protect their...

Update Rollup 13 for System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager

Update Rollup 13 for System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager Introduction This article describes the issues that are fixed in Update Rollup 13 for Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager. It also contains the installation instructions for this update. Note Existing Data...

RHEL 6 : qemu-kvm-rhev (RHSA-2017:1205)

An update for qemu-kvm-rhev is now available for RHEV 3.X Hypervisor and Agents for RHEL-6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each...

Session Hijacking, Cookie-Stealing WordPress Malware Spotted

Researchers have identified a strain of cookie stealing malware injected into a legitimate JavaScript file, that masquerades as a WordPress core domain. Cesar Anjos, a security analyst at Sucuri, a firm that specializes in WordPress security, came across the malware during an incident response...

Jenkins Denial of Service Vulnerability

CloudBees Jenkins formerly known as Hudson Labs is the United States CloudBees company's set of Java-based development of continuous integration tools , it is mainly used to monitor the continuous software version of the release/testing project and some of the timed execution of the task . Jenkin...

InsightVM: Analytics-driven Vulnerability Management, All The Way To The End(point)

In 2015 Rapid7 introduced the Insight platform, built to reduce the complexity inherent in security analytics. This reality was introduced first to our InsightIDR users, who now had the capabilities of a SIEM, powered by user behavior analytics UBA and endpoint detection. Soon we started to roll...

Rapid7 Nexpose in 2017

Last year I tested Rapid7 Nexpose and wrote two posts about installation and use of Nexpose Community Edition and Nexpose API. I didn't follow news of this vendor for a about year. Today I watched live demo of Nexpose latest version. It has some new interesting features, improvements and ideas,...

CVE-2017-1145

IBM WebSphere MQ 8.0.0.6 does not properly terminate channel agents when they are no longer needed, which could allow a user to cause a denial of service through resource exhaustion. IBM Reference : 1999672...

PT-2017-1547

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions IBM WebSphere MQ version 8.0.0.6 Description The issue is related to errors in resource management, which could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service through resource exhaustion. This is due to the improper termination of channe...