What to Consider When Choosing a Security Vendor

Picking a security vendor for your managed service business should be about business model alignment, not product cost. If you’re a seasoned managed service provider MSP, you are already very familiar with the benefits of the pay-as-you-go business model. In fact, it’s most likely how you sell yo...

Two New Platforms Found Offering Cybercrime-as-a-Service to 'Wannabe Hackers'

Cybercrime has continued to evolve and today exists in a highly organised form. Cybercrime has increasingly been commercialised, and itself become big business by renting out an expanded range of hacking tools and technologies, from exploit kits to ransomware, to help anyone build threats and...

Design/Logic Flaw

SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP 7.40 allows remote authenticated users with certain privileges to cause a denial of service process crash via vectors involving disp+work.exe, aka SAP Security Note 2406841...

CVE-2017-9843: Undefined Security Weakness

SAP NetWeaver AS ABAP 7.40 allows remote authenticated users with certain privileges to cause a denial of service process crash via vectors involving disp+work.exe, aka SAP Security Note 2406841...

What is the hype around Firewall as a Service?

Admit it. Who would not want their firewall maintenance grunt work to go away? For more than 20 years, companies either managed their edge firewall appliances or had service providers rack-and-stack appliances in their data centers and did it for them. This was called a managed firewall — an...

CVE-2017-6722: Improper Authentication

A vulnerability in the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol XMPP service of Cisco Unified Contact Center Express UCCx could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to masquerade as a legitimate user, aka a Clear Text Authentication Vulnerability. More Information: CSCuw86638. Known Affect...

Data Warehouse Permission issues

Cause MP Version 8 uses dataset rules to collect host security profiles and snapshots. When a collector is installed on an agent, there is no issue. The data is forwarded to Management Server and written to DW under the DW account. When a collector runs on a Management Server which is our use cas...

Svpeng Behind a Spike in Mobile Ransomware

The sting of mobile ransomware grew more painful in 2017 with attacks increasing a whopping 3.5 times in the first quarter compared to the same time a year ago. Behind those attacks were a quarter million Trojan installation packages targeting Android devices that sought to extort between $100 to...

KSN Report: Ransomware in 2016-2017

This report has been prepared using depersonalized data processed by Kaspersky Security Network KSN. The metrics are based on the number of distinct users of Kaspersky Lab products with the KSN feature enabled, who encountered ransomware at least once in a given period, as well as research into t...

New Mac Malware-as-a-Service offerings

A couple weeks ago, two new Malware-as-a-Service MaaS offerings for the Mac became available. These two offerings - a backdoor named MacSpy and a ransomware app named MacRansom - were discovered by Catalin Cimpanu of Bleeping Computer on May 25. Cimpanu evidently had some trouble getting hold of...

Sleep as Android - Exported ContentProvider, WebView code execution vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Sleep as Android published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

CVE-2017-8438

Elastic X-Pack Security versions 5.0.0 to 5.4.0 contain a privilege escalation bug in the runas functionality. This bug prevents transitioning into the specified user specified in a runas request. If a role has been created using a template that contains the user properties, the behavior of runas...

samba: Loading shared modules from any path in the system leading to RCE (SambaCry)

A remote code execution flaw was found in Samba. A malicious authenticated samba client, having write access to the samba share, could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code as root...

PT-2017-18330

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Elastic X-Pack Security versions 5.0.0 to 5.4.0 Description The issue is related to a privilege escalation bug in the run as functionality. This bug affects the transitioning into a specified user in a run as request. If a role has been create...

Elastic Stack 5.4.1 and 5.3.3 Security updates

X-Pack 5.4.1 privilege escalation ESA-2017-06 X-Pack 5.4.1 has been released which fixes a privilege escalation bug in the runas functionality. This bug prevents transitioning into the specified user specified in a runas request. If a role has been created using a template that contains the user...

CVE-2017-4897

VMware Horizon DaaS before 7.0.0 contains a vulnerability that exists due to insufficient validation of data. An attacker may exploit this issue by tricking DaaS client users into connecting to a malicious server and sharing all their drives and devices. Successful exploitation of this...

CVE-2017-8913

The Visual Composer VC70RUNTIME component in SAP NetWeaver AS JAVA 7.5 allows remote authenticated users to conduct XML External Entity XXE attacks via a crafted XML document in a request to irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.visualcomposer.BIKit.default, aka SAP Security Note 2386873...

CVE-2017-8913

The CVE-2017-8913 vulnerability affects SAP NetWeaver AS JAVA 7.5, specifically the Visual Composer VC70RUNTIME component. Affected files/components include VC70RUNTIME (7.30–7.50) and VCFRAMEWORK/VCFLEX7.00 as listed in public advisories. The issue is an XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability t...

CVE-2017-8913: Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference

The Visual Composer VC70RUNTIME component in SAP NetWeaver AS JAVA 7.5 allows remote authenticated users to conduct XML External Entity XXE attacks via a crafted XML document in a request to irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sap.visualcomposer.BIKit.default, aka SAP Security Note 2386873...

PT-2017-18618

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions SAP NetWeaver AS JAVA version 7.5 Description The issue allows remote authenticated users to conduct XML External Entity XXE attacks. This is achieved by sending a crafted XML document in a request to the...