GDPR 101: Monitoring & Maintaining Compliance After the Deadline

Discussions about the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation GDPR reached a crescendo on May 25, the compliance deadline, but many companies continue seeking guidance. The reason: A majority of companies missed the deadline, according to estimates from various sources, including Gartner, Crowd...

Microsoft Windows Firewall: Private: Logging: Size limit (KB)

This setting specifies the size limit of the file in which Windows Firewall will write its log information. 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:...

Microsoft Windows Firewall: Private: Logging: Log successful connections

This setting specifies logging when Windows Firewall with Advanced Security allows an inbound connection. 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:...

Microsoft Windows Firewall: Private: Inbound connections

This setting determines the behavior for inbound connections that do not match an inbound firewall rule. 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:...

Microsoft Windows Firewall: Public: Logging: Log successful connections

This setting specifies logging when Windows Firewall with Advanced Security allows an inbound connection. 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:...

Lynis 2.6.7 - Security Auditing Tool for Unix/Linux Systems

We are excited to announce this major release of auditing tool Lynis. Several big changes have been made to core functions of Lynis. These changes are the next of simplification improvements we made. There is a risk of breaking your existing configuration. Lynis is an open source security auditin...

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 OS an...

Windows Server settings. Administrative Templates – Network Items. A security how-to

This is the first part of a multi part series looking at the settings within Windows Server that are looked at as part of a standard build review. Sometimes a red team exercise, where the consultant turns up with ninja gear, lock picks and grappling hooks isn’t what you need in a security...

Microsoft Windows: MS Security Guide: Enable Structured Exception Handling Overwrite Protection

If this setting is enabled, SEHOP is enforced. If this setting is disabled or not configured, SEHOP is not enforced for 32-bit processes. C Microsoft Corporation 2015. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright ...

Microsoft Windows: MSS: (AutoAdminLogon) Enable Automatic Logon

This test checks the setting for policy 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 ifdescription scriptoid"1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.109313";...

Microsoft Windows: User Account Control: Run all administrators in Admin Approval Mode

This policy setting determines the behavior of all User Account Control UAC policies for the entire system. This is the setting that turns UAC on or off. C Microsoft Corporation 2017. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, an...

Windows Defender Firewall: Public Profile: Apply local connection security rules

The policy determines whether the local connection rules are merged with GP settings when connected to a public network. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders...

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 OS an...

Backdoors in D-Link’s backyard

"If you want to change the world, start with yourself." In the case of security research this can be rephrased to: "If you want to make the world safer, start with the smart things in your home." Or, to be more specific, start with your router – the core of any home network as well as an...

cis.tugraz.at XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-603496 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| cis.tugraz.at Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

JShielder - Automates The Process Of Installing All The Necessary Packages To Host A Web Application And Hardening A Linux Server

JSHielder is an Open Source tool developed to help SysAdmin and developers secure there Linux Servers in which they will be deploying any web application or services. This tool automates the process of installing all the necessary packages to host a web application and Hardening a Linux server wi...

UPDATE: Prowler 2.0 Beta

PenTestIT RSS Feed My older post about Prowler was about a good NINE months ago. Since then, a lot has changed and hence, this post is about the recently released update made to the AWS CIS Benchmark tool – Prowler 2.0 Beta! This new beta version has lots of improvements which you shall read abou...

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...

Best practices for securely moving workloads to Microsoft Azure

Azure is Microsofts cloud computing environment. It offers customers three primary service delivery models including infrastructure as a service IaaS, platform as a service PaaS, and software as a service SaaS. Adopting cloud technologies requires a shared responsibility model for security, with...

Center for Internet Security CIS-CAT Pro Dashboard Privilege Gain Vulnerability

Center for Internet Security CIS-CAT Pro Dashboard is a set of panels used to display system compliance on a dashboard. An access control error vulnerability exists in versions of Center for Internet Security CIS-CAT Pro Dashboard prior to 1.0.4. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to gain...