Windows Defender ATP thwarts Operation WilySupply software supply chain cyberattack

Several weeks ago, the Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection Windows Defender ATP research team noticed security alerts that demonstrated an intriguing attack pattern. These early alerts uncovered a well-planned, finely orchestrated cyberattack that targeted several high-profile technology...

Why You Need a Database Audit Trail

Your ability to answer very detailed questions about what’s going on in your organization’s databases can make or break a compliance audit or security investigation. Aside from the obvious need for this information in the event of a breach, it’s also important because government, financial, and...

Researcher Warns SIEMs Are Weak Link In Network Security Chain

MIAMI—Security information and event management SIEM solutions are supposed to boost security, but researchers say the network analysis tools are ripe attack targets. The warning comes from security expert John Grigg, lead cyber strategist with Meta Studios. In a talk at the Infiltrate Conference...

Port Scan Attack Detector: PSAD

Port Scan Attack Detector The Port Scan Attack Detector psad is a lightweight system daemon written in is designed to work with Linux iptables/ip6tables/firewalld firewalling code to detect suspicious traffic such as port scans and sweeps, backdoors, botnet command and control communications, and...

Citrix Director: Configuring,Managing Alerts and Notifications

In this article, we will take a look at how to configure, visualize your alerts, manage them, analyze their details and historically track alert trends...

SSL/TLS: Malformed plain-text ALERT packets could cause remote DoS

A denial of service flaw was found in the way the TLS/SSL protocol defined processing of ALERT packets during a connection handshake. A remote attacker could use this flaw to make a TLS/SSL server consume an excessive amount of CPU and fail to accept connections from other clients...

openssl security update

1.0.1e-48.4 - fix CVE-2017-3731 - DoS via truncated packets with RC4-MD5 cipher - fix CVE-2016-8610 - DoS of single-threaded servers via excessive alerts...

New Relic: Unvalidated redirect in alerts.newrelic.com/auth/newrelic?origin=

Affected host: alerts.newrelic.com Affected resource: /auth/newrelic Affected GET parameter: origin PoC: 1. Go to https://alerts.newrelic.com/auth/newrelic?origin=.example.com 2. If you don't have an active session, you'll need to login with your New Relic credentials 3. You'll be taken to...

CVE-2017-5026

Google Chrome prior to 56.0.2924.76 for Linux, Windows and Mac, failed to prevent alerts from being displayed by swapped out frames, which allowed a remote attacker to show alerts on a page they don't control via a crafted HTML page...

USN-3183-1 gnutls26, gnutls28 vulnerabilities

Stefan Buehler discovered that GnuTLS incorrectly verified the serial length of OCSP responses. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to bypass certain certificate validation measures. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. CVE-2016-7444 Shi Lei discovered that GnuTLS incorrectly...

USN-3181-1: OpenSSL vulnerabilities

Guido Vranken discovered that OpenSSL used undefined behaviour when performing pointer arithmetic. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause OpenSSL to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS as other releases were...

CVE-2017-5026

Google Chrome prior to 56.0.2924.76 for Linux, Windows and Mac, failed to prevent alerts from being displayed by swapped out frames, which allowed a remote attacker to show alerts on a page they don't control via a crafted HTML page...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-5026

Google Chrome prior to 56.0.2924.76 for Linux, Windows and Mac, failed to prevent alerts from being displayed by swapped out frames, which allowed a remote attacker to show alerts on a page they don't control via a crafted HTML page...

Real Time Network Monitoring: Cyberprobe

Real Time Network Monitoring Cyberprobe is a distrbuted architecture for real-time monitoring of networks against attack. The software consists of a number of components, including: a probe, which collects data packets and forwards it over a network in standard streaming protocols. a monitor, whi...

How Do I Perform Complete SSL Certificate Monitoring and Management Using NetScaler MAS

NetScaler Management and Analytics System allows you to perform complete SSL Certificate monitoring and management operations from one single console. When a NetScaler appliance is discovered in MAS, all the certificates that reside on the NetScaler appliance also get copied to MAS. This gives MA...

King Phisher 1.5.2 - Phishing Campaign Toolkit

King Phisher is a tool for testing and promoting user awareness by simulating real world phishing attacks. It features an easy to use, yet very flexible architecture allowing full control over both emails and server content. King Phisher can be used to run campaigns ranging from simple awareness...

WP Security Audit Log - The Ultimate WordPress Audit Trail Plugin

The WP Security Audit Log plugin is a WordPress plugin that keeps an audit trail of everything that happens on your WordPress and WordPress multisite network. There are several WordPress audit trail / log plugins available, tough we chose to review WP Security Audit Log because it is has the most...

XenCenter System Alerts

The following table displays the system events/conditions that will a trigger an alert to be displayed in XenCenter System Alerts window. XenCenter System Alerts You can view a range of different types of alert in theSystem Alertswindow, including: Performance alerts. Performance alerts may be...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID24694: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on August 30, 2016

Medium Alert ID: 48657 First Published: 2016 August 30 14:22 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID24694 may contain the following files: Name |...

Timing of Browser-Based Security Alerts Could Be Better

Multitasking may be the way of the connected world, but as it turns out, it’s not conducive to secure behavior online. Academics from Brigham Young University and the University of Pittsburgh came to that conclusion after using functional magnetic resonance imaging fMRI to study how the brain...