Qualys Policy Compliance Notification: Policy Library Updates (April, May)

Qualys’ library of built-in policies makes it easy to comply with the security standards and regulations that are most commonly used and adhered to. Qualys provides a wide range of policies, including many that have been certified by CIS as well as the ones based on security guidelines from OS an...

May 2019 Security Update Release

Today, we released security updates to provide additional protections against malicious attackers. As a best practice, we encourage customers to turn on automatic updates. More information about this month’s security updates can be found on the Security Update Guide...

Facebook’s plain text misstep, and other password sins

Two days after an article by Brian Krebs disclosed that hundreds of millions of Facebook account passwords had been stored in plain text for years, Facebook released a statement indicating they hash and salt passwords, more or less in accordance with industry best practice. Plain text storage of...

CVE-2019-6242

Kentico v10.0.42 allows Global Administrators to read the cleartext SMTP Password by navigating to the SMTP configuration page. NOTE: the vendor considers this a best-practice violation but not a vulnerability. The vendor plans to fix it at a future time...

CVE-2019-6242

Kentico v10.0.42 allows Global Administrators to read the cleartext SMTP Password by navigating to the SMTP configuration page. NOTE: the vendor considers this a best-practice violation but not a vulnerability. The vendor plans to fix it at a future time...

Best Practice: SFC(System File Checker) use in App Layering

Where to execute an sfc check? The best practice is to execute the SFC tool in the Gold Image, prior to creating your first OS Layer. This should ensure the future OS layers are free of Windows file corruption. When needed, a version can be removed and a new version created. Other options are, in...

ThreatList: Google Play Nine Times Safer Than Third-Party App Stores

Bearing out the conventional wisdom that avoiding third-party app stores is a security best practice, new data from Google shows that Android devices that only download apps from Google Play are nine times less likely to end up with malware. According to Google’s inaugural Android Ecosystem...

September 4, 2018 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “September” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! September 4, 2018 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Carbon Black builds out...

PortSwigger Web Security: Browser Self XSS Protection not implemented

Hi Self XSS Protection not used ,An attacker can trick users to insert JavaScript in browser console. A Self-XSS scam usually works by promising to help you access somebody else's account. Instead, the scammer tricks you into gaining access to your account for fraud, spam and tricking more people...

PullString: Eternal "change password" link.

Hi. Link for password change does not exprire after first use and may be reused many times, resulting password change every time. The issue is such links leak to google-analytics. I'd suggest expire link after first use. Also you store the link in Log output. This means easy leveraging XSS to...

Qualys Policy Compliance Notification: Policy Library Update

Qualys’ library of built-in policies makes it easy to comply with the security standards and regulations that are most commonly used and adhered to. Qualys provides a wide range of policies, including many that have been certified by CIS as well as the ones based on security guidelines from vendo...

Sensitive Data Access: Where Traditional UBA Solutions Fall Short – Whiteboard Wednesday [Video]

In today’s global information economy an ever-increasing amount of sensitive data is collected, used, exchanged, analyzed, and retained. And with that comes an ever-increasing number of accidental or intentional data breaches. Identifying inappropriate access to data is paramount in stopping a...

All Credentials and Backup Encryption Keys Become Invalid if Veeam Backup and Replication Is Manually Migrated to Another Machine

Challenge All credentials and backup encryption keys become unusable after manually migrating Veeam Backup and Replication software to a different machine. The term "manual migration," in this case, refers to the process of installing Veeam Backup & Replication on a new system and directing it to...

NTP Vulnerability

The Network Time Protocol NTP library has been found to contain a vulnerability CVE-2017-6460. Palo Alto Networks software makes use of the vulnerable library and may be affected. This issue only affects the management plane of the firewall. Ref PAN-76130 / CVE-2017-6460 Successful exploitation o...

Cross-Site Scripting in the Management Web Interface

A reflected cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability exists in the management web interface. PAN-OS contains an unauthenticated vulnerability that may allow for a reflected cross-site scripting XSS attack of the management web interface. ref PAN-76455 / CVE-2017-9459. Successful exploitation of thi...

emerce.nl XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: https://www.emerce.nl/best-practice/5-succesfactoren-ht-smart-home-os-morgen/"'--! Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| No Latest check for patch:| 22.08.2017 Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:| Publicly disclosed Alexa Rank| 66776 VIP website status:| Yes Che...

WakaTime: Unsafe Inline and Eval CSP Usage

Hi Team, The HTTP header of the wakatime.com website includes an unsafe CSP parameter for "script-src". Impact: However, the "script-src" parameter is set to "unsafe-inline" or "unsafe-eval", which allows injection of user passed values, which in result can be misused for Cross-Site Scripting...

Kernel Vulnerability

A vulnerability exists in the Linux kernel of PAN-OS that may result in Remote Code Execution. A vulnerability in the Linux kernel networking subsystem for UDP could enable an attacker to execute arbitrary code within the context of the kernel. The Data Plane DP of PAN-OS is not affected by this...

Cuvva: No Notification Sent When Email Is Changed.

We weren't sending notifications when a customer changed the email address on their account. This meant it was less likely the customer would notice if this happened maliciously. A simple best practise issue...

Weblate: CSP "script-src" includes "unsafe-inline" in weblate.org and demo.weblate.org

Weblate is using unsafe-inline in script-src csp headers which allows the use of inline resources, such as inline elements, javascript: URLs, inline event handlers, and inline elements. POC: HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: nginx Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 10:49:15 GMT Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8...