The future of cyberconflicts

The ever-increasing role of technology in every aspect of our society has turned cybersecurity into a major sovereignty issue for all states. Due to their asymmetrical nature, offensive cyber-capabilities have been embraced by many countries that wouldnt otherwise have the resources to compete on...

The Importance of Feedback Loops with Akamai (Part 1)

The dictionary defines feedback as "The modification or control of a process or system by its results or effects, for example in a biochemical pathway or behavioral response." Let's explore how feedback loops work within Akamai. Feedback involves getting output and inserting it back into the inpu...

Heightened Awareness for Iranian Cyber Activity

Iranian cyber threat actors have been continuously improving their offensive cyber capabilities. They continue to engage in more conventional offensive cyber activities ranging from website defacement, distributed denial of service DDoS attacks, and theft of personally identifiable information PI...

WordPress BuddyPress plugin <= 6.3.0 - Excessive user capabilities in possible rich text fields vulnerability

Excessive user capabilities in possible rich text fields vulnerability found in WordPress BuddyPress plugin versions = 6.3.0. Solution Update the WordPress BuddyPress plugin to the latest available version at least 6.4.0 - Maintenance and Security Release...

[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: pngcheck-2.3.0-4.fc32

pngcheck verifies the integrity of PNG, JNG and MNG files by checking the internal 32-bit CRCs checksums and decompressing the image data; it can optionally dump almost all of the chunk-level information in the image in human-readable form. For example, it can be used to print the basic statist i...

Cisco Webex Meetings and Cisco Webex Meetings Server Ghost Join Vulnerability

A vulnerability in Cisco Webex Meetings and Cisco Webex Meetings Server could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to join a Webex session without appearing on the participant list. This vulnerability is due to improper handling of authentication tokens by a vulnerable Webex site. An attacke...

Moodle Unauthorized Access Vulnerability (CNVD-2020-65138)

Moodle is a free, open-source e-learning software platform, also known as a course management system, learning management system or virtual learning environment. Moodle suffers from a security vulnerability that stems from inappropriate access restrictions in the process when restoring role...

[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: pngcheck-2.3.0-3.fc31

pngcheck verifies the integrity of PNG, JNG and MNG files by checking the internal 32-bit CRCs checksums and decompressing the image data; it can optionally dump almost all of the chunk-level information in the image in human-readable form. For example, it can be used to print the basic statist i...

Fedora: Security Advisory for pngcheck (FEDORA-2020-d1ce381889)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 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 ifdescription...

[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: pngcheck-2.3.0-3.fc32

pngcheck verifies the integrity of PNG, JNG and MNG files by checking the internal 32-bit CRCs checksums and decompressing the image data; it can optionally dump almost all of the chunk-level information in the image in human-readable form. For example, it can be used to print the basic statist i...

[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: pngcheck-2.3.0-3.fc33

pngcheck verifies the integrity of PNG, JNG and MNG files by checking the internal 32-bit CRCs checksums and decompressing the image data; it can optionally dump almost all of the chunk-level information in the image in human-readable form. For example, it can be used to print the basic statist i...

CVE-2020-5942

In BIG-IP PEM versions 16.0.0-16.0.0.1, 15.1.0-15.1.0.5, 14.1.0-14.1.2.7, 13.1.0-13.1.3.4, 12.1.0-12.1.5.2, and 11.6.1-11.6.5.2, when processing Capabilities-Exchange-Answer CEA packets with certain attributes from the Policy and Charging Rules Function PCRF server, the Traffic Management...

[SECURITY] [DLA 2434-1] gdm3 security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian LTS Advisory DLA-2434-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/lts/security/ Chris Lamb November 05, 2020 https://wiki.debian.org/LTS -...

The vulnerability of the bgp_capabilities_print() function in the packet capture and analysis tool tcpdump allows a hacker to induce a service failure.

The vulnerability of the bgpcapabilitiesprint function print-bgp.c in the network traffic capture and analysis tool tcpdump is related to reading beyond the buffer boundaries in memory. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to cause a service failure...

Operation North Star: Summary Of Our Latest Analysis | McAfee Blogs

Operation North Star: Summary Of Our Latest Analysis By Trellix · NOV 05, 2020 McAfee’s Advanced Threat Research ATR today released research that uncovers previously undiscovered information on how Operation North Star evaluated its prospective victims and launched attacks on organizations in...

The vulnerability of the bgp_capabilities_print() function in the packet capture and analysis tool tcpdump allows a hacker to cause a service failure.

The vulnerability of the bgpcapabilitiesprint function print-bgp.c in the network traffic capture and analysis tool tcpdump is related to reading beyond the buffer boundaries in memory. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to cause a service failure...

tcpdump: Buffer over-read in bgp_capabilities_print() function in print-bgp.c

An out-of-bounds read vulnerability was discovered in tcpdump while printing BGP packets captured in a pcap file or coming from the network. A remote attacker may abuse this flaw by sending specially crafted packets that, when printed, would trigger the flaw and crash the application...

freerdp: Out of bound read in cliprdr_server_receive_capabilities

In FreeRDP less than or equal to 2.0.0, a possible resource exhaustion vulnerability can be performed. Malicious clients could trigger out of bound reads causing memory allocation with random size. This has been fixed in 2.1.0...

Webshell-Analyzer - Web Shell Scanner And Analyzer

Web shell analyzer is a cross platform stand-alone binary built solely for the purpose of identifying, decoding, and tagging files that are suspected to be web shells. The web shell analyzer is the bigger brother to the web shell scanner project http://github.com/tstillz/webshell-scan, which only...

Important: kernel

Issue Overview: A flaw was found in the Linux kernel. When changing screen size, an out-of-bounds memory write can occur leading to memory corruption or a denial of service. Due to the nature of the flaw, privilege escalation cannot be fully ruled out. CVE-2020-14390 A flaw was found in the...