NSA on Securing VPNs

The NSA's Central Security Service -- that's the part that's supposed to work on defense -- has released two documents a full and an abridged version on securing virtual private networks. Some of it is basic, but it contains good information. Maintaining a secure VPN tunnel can be complex and...

Critical Vulnerability in SAP NetWeaver AS Java

Summary On July 13, 2020 EST, SAP released a security update to address a critical vulnerability, CVE-2020-6287, affecting the SAP NetWeaver Application Server AS Java component LM Configuration Wizard. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability through the Hypertext Transfer...

How To Protect Your Kubernetes Cluster with Wallarm – part 1 of 3

Kubernetes clusters enable an organization to easily take advantage of containerization. While this is a huge asset, it also creates security issues. Many organizations lack visibility into the applications within their Kubernetes cluster and their attack surface. Within a Kubernetes cluster, an...

Reduce the Attack Surface of Your Container Images

Follow along as Chuck Losh, Solutions Architect, walks through a new way of thinking in how to construct distroless images from Google, using an example of a multi-stage Dockerfile method...

Long Tail Analysis: A New Hope in the Cybercrime Battle

Our hyper-connected world and its ever-faster network speeds have resulted in mountains of diverse data that needs to be processed. It has also resulted in an ever-expanding attack surface, requiring cybersecurity solutions to scale like never before. These days, scale is about more than traffic...

The Windows 7 Postmortem: What’s at Stake

In January 2020, Microsoft officially ended its extended support and discontinued patching of Windows 7. Despite the long lead time and repeated reminders, numbers since the COVID-19 pandemic have shown a slight uptick in Windows 7 deployments. The recent estimates show that more than 26 percent ...

Securing Smart Manufacturing

“Alexa, turn on the TV.” ”Get it yourself.” This nightmare scenario could play out millions of times unless people take steps to protect their IoT devices. The situation is even worse in industrial settings. Smart manufacturing, that is, Industry 4.0, relies on tight integration between IT system...

Buffer overflow vulnerability in GE control system ACTIVEX control (CNVD-2020-26342)

General Electric GE is a global digital industrial company that creates software-defined machines that are connected, responsive and predictive to transform traditional industries. A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the ACTIVEX control of the GE control system, which can be exploited by an...

Microsoft NET USE win10 - Insufficient Authentication Logic Exploit

Title: Microsoft NET USE win10 - Insufficient Authentication Logic Date: 2020-04-04 Author: hyp3rlinx Vendor: www.microsoft.com CVE: N/A + Credits: John Page aka hyp3rlinx + Website: hyp3rlinx.altervista.org + Source:...

Microsoft Windows Net Use Insufficent Authentication

Credits: John Page aka hyp3rlinx + Website: hyp3rlinx.altervista.org + Source: http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/MICROSOFT-WINDOWS-NET-USE-INSUFFICIENT-PASSWORD-PROMPT.txt + twitter.com/hyp3rlinx + ISR: ApparitionSec Vendor www.microsoft.com Product Windows "net use" Command Connects a...

How VMware Carbon Black Helps Agencies Meet CDM Requirements

When a crime is committed, one of the first things the police do is collect evidence from any security cameras nearby, and these days, cameras are everywhere. That’s a model that federal agencies want to apply to cybersecurity. This constant monitoring of systems to catch bad actors provides the...

Akamai's Prolexic Platform Completes Fifth Generation Upgrade

Akamai introduces new enhancements today to its Prolexic Routed purpose-built DDoS scrubbing service that reflect the changing nature of the threat landscape and capitalize on cloud functionality to enable maximum customer flexibility using newer deployment models. For anyone worried about DDoS...

Sifter - A OSINT, Recon And Vulnerability Scanner

Sifter is a osint, recon & vulnerability scanner. It combines a plethara of tools within different module sets in order to quickly perform recon tasks, check network firewalling, enumerate remote and local hosts, and scan for the 'blue' vulnerabilities within microsft and if unpatched, exploit...

Introducing Guardicore Threat Intelligence Firewall

Guardicore’s Threat Intelligence Firewall blocks connections to malicious IPs, limiting security attack surface before reaching critical assets...

Intuitive and Ready-to-Use Monitoring Profiles for Compliance Regulations

Detecting changes from a baseline established for files and file paths and receiving instant alerts about them is crucial to ensure security within a monitored environment. File tampering is an indicator of illicit activity, and authorized users must be alerted whenever changes in a critical file...

Mitigations are attack surface, too

Posted by Jann Horn, Project Zero Introduction This blog post discusses a bug leading to memory corruption in Samsung's Android kernel specifically the kernel of the Galaxy A50, A505FN - I haven't looked at Samsung's kernels for other devices. I will describe the bug and how I wrote a very...

Pen Testing Ships. A year in review

Partially driven by the upcoming inclusion of Cyber Security by the IMO International Maritime Organisation, 2019 was a really busy year for maritime security testing at PTP. What can we all learn from a year of evaluating the security of ships? We’ve been involved in all sorts of ship testing,...

Stripo Inc: Information disclosure through Server side resource forgery

Summary: The application https://my.stripo.email has a template feature where can we can enter html code. By including an iframe in the html template, I was able to make a call to my server. This exposed an internally running web application. Please refer below, 63.33.82.168 - -...

Microsoft Windows: Server Core Installation

The Server Core option is a minimal installation option that is available when you are deploying the Standard or Datacenter edition of Windows Server. Server Core includes most but not all server roles. Server Core has a smaller disk footprint, and therefore a smaller attack surface due to a...

Top 5 Cybersecurity and Cybercrime Predictions for 2020

We distilled 30 independent reports dedicated to cybersecurity and cybercrime predictions for 2020 and compiled the top 5 most interesting findings and projections in this post. Compliance fatigue will spread among security professionals Being a source of ongoing controversy and debate, the...