Microsoft Windows 10: Send file samples when further analysis is required

This policy setting configures behaviour of samples submission when opt-in for MAPS telemetry is set. Possible settings: - 0: Always prompt - 1: Send safe samples automatically - 2: Never send - 3: Send all samples automatically OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id:...

CVE-2018-10220

Glastopf 3.1.3-dev has SSRF, as demonstrated by the abc.php a parameter. NOTE: the vendor indicates that this is intentional behavior because the product is a web application honeypot, and modules/handlers/emulators/rfi.py supports Remote File Inclusion emulation...

Arm your users with knowledge to spot phishing attacks – for free!

Attendees to the Black Hat 2017 security conference said their No. 1 security concern and most time-consuming activity was phishing and social engineering attacks. That’s no surprise with the increase in Business Email Compromise BEC attacks and with most ransomware being delivered by email. But...

Actionable Threat Intelligence, Tailored to You

We are very excited to be launching the next generation of our Client Reputation product. This update takes Client Reputation a huge step further in providing our customers with truly actionable intelligence tailored for them. It computes an even better assessment of the real risk that every...

Measure What Matters: Your Competitive Advantage May Lie in Your Understanding (or Lack of Understanding) of What Users Are Really Experiencing

Attracting and retaining customers lies in your ability to offer an exceptional digital experience. Now that digital channels are increasingly preferred over channels of the past, the climate is increasingly competitive -- and businesses are fighting to maintain loyalty and keep users engaged...

List of Adversary Emulation Tools

PenTestIT RSS Feed Every once in a while, the security industry brings forth a new buzz word and introduces terminologies that sound über cool and generate lot's of interest. One such word going around now-a-days is automated "adversary emulation". Let's first understand what this really means...

COPPA Compliance

Interesting research: "'Won't Somebody Think of the Children?' Examining COPPA Compliance at Scale": Abstract: We present a scalable dynamic analysis framework that allows for the automatic evaluation of the privacy behaviors of Android apps. We use our system to analyze mobile apps' compliance...

Multiple Apple Products Kernel Unauthorized Access Vulnerability

Apple iOS, macOS High Sierra, tvOS, and watchOS are products of Apple Inc. Apple iOS is an operating system for mobile devices; macOS High Sierra is a specialized operating system for Mac computers; tvOS is a smart TV operating system; and watchOS is a smart watch operating system. kernel is a...

LockCrypt ransomware: weakness in code can lead to recovery

At the start of the year, it seemed that 2018 was going to be all about cryptominers. They so overwhelmingly dominated the landscape that it looked like no other threat had a chance. However, ransomware is not giving up the field so fast. There have been new variants popping up every couple of...

UPDATE: Sysdig Falco v0.9.0

PenTestIT RSS Feed My last post from a almost nice months ago, was about an open source behavorial activity monitor which has container support. It was updated and we now have update – the Sysdig Falco v0.9.0! This release fixes a couple of driver and OSX build incompatibility issues. What is...

Code injection

Configuration of SPI Flash in platforms based on multiple Intel platforms allow a local attacker to alter the behavior of the SPI flash potentially leading to a Denial of Service...

Brave Software: Cross domain tracking even with 3rd party cookies disabled.

Cross domain tracking Default settings from Brave browser has 3rd party cookies disabled. Which I am assuming also disables 3rd part storage like IndexedDB etc. Because of this protection it is not possible for a 3rd party to track users across multiple domains. But, Even though third-party cooki...

Filling the gaps in international law is essential to making cyberspace a safer place

A month ago, on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, Microsoft organized an expert workshop to discuss gaps in international law as it applies to cyberspace. We were fortunate enough to bring together twenty leading stakeholders, including international legal experts, United Nations...

Suppressing the Adversary via Threat Hunt Teams

What a brave new world. Global cyber insurgencies continue unabated. Decreasing dwell time is imperative in 2018. In order to achieve this goal, we must embrace the hunt. Every organization should stand up a threat hunt team. The team must be multidisciplinary with experience in e-forensics and...

Data Center Security Testing Tool: Infection Monkey

The Infection Monkey is an open source security tool for testing a data center’s resiliency to perimeter breaches and internal server infection. The Monkey uses various methods to self propagate across a data center and reports success to a centralized Command and ControlC&C server. The Infection...

Mail.ru: Double authentication bypass

Report describes current behavior of "Bind session to IP" and "Disable parallel session" security settings and is unrelated to authentication. While behavior doesn't match to reporter's expectation e.g. mobile and desktop sessions may exist in parallel despite of the settings current behavior is...

PostgreSQL RCE Vulnerability (Feb 2018) - Linux

PostgreSQL is prone to a remote code execution RCE vulnerability. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE =...

sigma - Generic Signature Format for SIEM Systems

Generic Signature Format for SIEM Systems. What is Sigma? Sigma is a generic and open signature format that allows you to describe relevant log events in a straight forward manner. The rule format is very flexible, easy to write and applicable to any type of log file. The main purpose of this...

New Cryptocurrency Mining Malware Infected Over 500,000 PCs in Just Few Hours

Two days ago, Microsoft encountered a rapidly spreading cryptocurrency-mining malware that infected almost 500,000 computers within just 12 hours and successfully blocked it to a large extent. Dubbed Dofoil, aka Smoke Loader, the malware was found dropping a cryptocurrency miner program as payloa...

2018 Cyberthreat Defense Report: Where IT Security Is Going

What keeps you awake at night? We asked IT security professionals the same question and found that these issues are top of mind: malware and spear phishing, securing mobile devices, employee security awareness and new technologies that detect threats capable of bypassing traditional signature-bas...