Fake Bomb Threat Emails Demanding Bitcoins Sparked Chaos Across US, Canada

"Pay $20,000 worth of bitcoin, or a bomb will detonate in your building" A massive number of businesses, schools, government offices and individuals across the US, New Zealand and Canada on Thursday received bomb threats via emails that caused nationwide chaos, forcing widespread evacuations and...

New Relic: Ability to view monitor names of other NR accounts through internal API (v3) via "monitor_id" parameter

NR Alerts gives you the granularity to set alert conditions on an alert policy depending on the conditions you specify at the https://alerts.newrelic.com/accounts/ACCOUNTNUMBER/policies/POLICYID/conditions/new URL. When you select an entity for the condition, the application does not check to...

CRS - OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set

The OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set CRS is a set of generic attack detection rules for use with ModSecurity or compatible web application firewalls. The CRS aims to protect web applications from a wide range of attacks, including the OWASP Top Ten, with a minimum of false alerts. The Core Rule Se...

Partner Perspectives: Collaborate and Consolidate with King & Union and Carbon Black

Peter Prizio Jr. is the Senior Product Manager for King & Union. One of the biggest challenges facing security organizations today is dealing with the overwhelming number of alerts received each and every day. A staggering 27 percent of IT professionals report receiving more than one million aler...

USN-3801-1 firefox vulnerabilities

Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to cause a denial of service, bypass CSP restrictions, spoof the protocol registration notification bar, leak SameSite cookies, bypass...

ServersCheck Monitoring Software 14.3.3 - 'id' SQL Injection

Exploit Title: ServersCheck Monitoring Software 14.3.3 - 'id' SQL Injection Author: John Page aka hyp3rlinx Date: 2018-10-23 Vendor: www.serverscheck.com Software link: http://downloads.serverscheck.com/monitoringsoftware/setup.exe CVE: N/A References:...

New Relic: [NR Alerts/Synthetics] IDOR through /policies.json with Synthetics exposes full name of other NR users

This is a similar IDOR that I've reported in the past - but I've found a bypass through a misconfiguration requiring pre-setup in both Alerts and Synthetics to work correctly. I'll show you what I mean: Steps to Reproduce From new user creation page: 1. Add a new user to the account...

Credit Freezes are Free: Let the Ice Age Begin

It is now free in every U.S. state to freeze and unfreeze your credit file and that of your dependents, a process that blocks identity thieves and others from looking at private details in your consumer credit history. If you've been holding out because you're not particularly worried about ID...

Partner Perspectives: Protecting Against Fileless Malware with BluVector and Carbon Black

Josh Rosenthol is the Alliance and Integration Manager for BluVector. The Challenge of Fileless Malware “The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.” -Napoleon Bonaparte While first spoken over 200 years ago, this quote is remarkably relevant to the modus operandi of malware authors a...

Siemens SIMATIC PLCs Reported Issues Summary (Update A)

Overview ICS-CERT has been coordinating multiple reports of issues affecting various models within the Siemens SIMATIC Step 7 S7 programmable logic controller PLC product line. ICS-CERT has coordinated the issues with both Siemens and the researcher and continues to work with both entities. A...

A week in security (August 6 – August 12)

Last week, we published a review of exploit kits, talked about everyday tech that can give you a headache, and showed how to protect RDP access from ransomware. We also published a study on the true cost of cybercrime. Other news: Discovered at Black Hat: WhatsApp "message manipulation" Source: T...

douglas-jackson.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-658862 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| douglas-jackson.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...

Sending FireEye HX data to Splunk

FireEye HX is an agent-based Endpoint Protection solution. Something like an antivirus, but focused on Advanced Persistent Threats APT. It has an appliance with GUI where you can manage the agents and see information about detected security incidents. As with any agent-based solution, it's...

New Relic: [NR Alerts] Internal API exposes Synthetics monitor details to a restricted user without view monitor permissions

This bug requires a bunch of pre-setup, and a few conditions to make it work, but I'll do my best to write it out without making this a novel. You will need: 1. Account that is an admin 2. Account that is a "Restricted" user, without any synthetics permissions so, can't view monitors, can't edit...

Security Bulletins - Cognos Analytics and Cognos Business Intelligence

Problem Cognos Analytics and Cognos Business Intelligence Security Bulletins and Alerts. Resolving The Problem Tab navigation CA 11.0.x BI 10.2.2 BI 10.2.1 BI 10.2 Security bulletins and Alerts for Cognos Analytics 11.0.x. --- Published / Updated | Title January 2018 | Cognos Analytics is affecte...

Security Bulletins - IBM Planning Analytics, Cognos TM1 and Cognos Insight

Problem IBM Planning Analytics and Cognos TM1 Security Bulletins and Alerts. Resolving The Problem Tab navigation PA 2.0.x TM1 10.2.x Insight 10.2.x Concert 4.0.2 Security bulletins and Alerts for IBM Planning Analytics 2.0.x. --- Published / Updated | Title July 2018 | Security Bulletin: Multipl...

Jumpstart your Microsoft Graph Security API integration with the new JavaScript sample app

The Microsoft Graph Security API, which launched this spring, is a unified REST API for integrating data and intelligence from Microsoft products, services, and partners. Using Microsoft Graph, developers can easily build applications that consolidate and correlate security alerts from multiple...

Security Bulletin: A security vulnerability has been identified in IBM WebSphere Application Server shipped with IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager and IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager Business Gateway (CVE-2018-1447)

Summary IBM WebSphere Application Server is shipped as a component of IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager and IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager Business Gateway. Information about multiple security vulnerabilities affecting the IBM HTTP server component of IBM WebSphere Application Server h...

CVE-2017-7791

On pages containing an iframe, the "data:" protocol can be used to create a modal alert that will render over arbitrary domains following page navigation, spoofing of the origin of the modal alert from the iframe content. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird 52.3, Firefox ESR 52.3, and Firefox ...

Quest DR Series Disk Backup Software Command Injection Vulnerability (CNVD-2018-15885)

The Quest DR Series are disk storage and deduplication appliances. A command injection vulnerability exists in the "Delete Email Alerts" method in versions of Quest DR Series disk backup software prior to version 4.0.3.1. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute commands...