November 20, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Thanksgiving Week” 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! November 20, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Why business is booming...

Do you believe in Serendipity?

In December 2016, after a month of mountain bike racing and touring in Nepal, I commenced the Executive Program in General Management at MIT. The first term was at Sloan School of Management in Cambridge and for the first time in my life, I finally could relate to studying. In fact, I was even...

October 27, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Stranger Things” 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! October 27, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: The push toward...

Cloud Security Suite - One stop tool for auditing the security posture of AWS infrastructure

One stop tool for auditing the security posture of AWS. Pre-requisites Python 2.7 pip git Installation git clone https://github.com/SecurityFTW/cs-suite.git cd cs-suite/ sudo python setup.py Note - Generate a set of ReadOnly AWS keys which the tool will ask to finish the installation process...

Trend Micro is Proud to Sponsor G33kW33k!

It started as a small idea. Get a bunch of good people together, away from the pressures of their offices, and see if they could address some of the issues operational security teams have to deal with. Better monitoring tools; better analysis tools; new ways to generate threat indicators and feed...

Cybersecurity Executive Order 13800: More than a Risk Assessment?

Written by Sr. Solutions Engineer, Micah Maryn. Most folks around the Washington DC beltway have heard the cybersecurity Executive Order EO 13800 - Strengthening the Cybersecurity of Federal Networks and Critical Infrastructure referred to as a simple risk assessment. But the reality is that it i...

Trend Micro Hosted Email Security (HES) Interception / Insecure Direct Object Reference

Date: 24-Aug-2017 Product: Trend Micro Hosted Email Security HES Versions affected: Hosted Email Security before January 2012. Vulnerability: Two vulnerabilities were discovered. The first allowed any HES user to intercept in-transit emails through the Trend Micro Hosted Email Security cloud...

MindPoint Group and Trend Micro Help Secure NASA’s Successful Journey to the AWS Cloud

For decades NASA has launched countless successful explorations into space, but just recently took on the mission of launching their data into the cloud, similarly to many other organizations today. With the help of MindPoint Group using Trend Micro Deep Security, powered by XGen™, this was yet...

Akamai Is Named A Leader In Gartner's Magic Quadrant For Web Application Firewalls

"Don't work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition" - H. Jackson Brown. A friend sent this quote to me after I explained to her my ambivalence about being recognized by Gartner as a "Leader" in their Web Application Firewall Magic Quadrant. I had mixed feelings because I wanted to...

Informatica: Unrestricted file upload - cloudacademy.informatica.com

Researcher had reported an "Unrestricted file upload" in one of our domain and helped us in mitigating the issue...

Securing Public Clouds for Digital Transformation Success

As organizations seek digital transformation benefits and aggressively move workloads to public cloud platforms, InfoSec teams must support their business units’ efforts by adapting and properly protecting these environments. This may sound surprising to those who think that, when you use a publi...

cloud.easymedical.ro XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: https://cloud.easymedical.ro/eClinimed/Reception/Reports/RREPPREP.asp?strReport=1"...

In Fear of IoT Security

I wish I had a dime for every time I have heard someone say "With so many vulnerabilities being reported in the Internet of Things, I just dont trust that technology, so I avoid using any of it." I am left scratching my head because these same people seem to have no issues running a Windows...

Reducing Infrastructure Cost with new Enterprise Application Access Architecture

In an earlier blog, "Remote Access no longer needs to be Complex and Cumbersome", I wrote about the new game-changing remote access solution available from Akamai called Enterprise Application Access EAA. My thesis was that in our cloud-first, mobile-dominated world, providing access to...

Trend Micro Deep Security 6.5 - XML External Entity Injection / Local Privilege Escalation / Remote Code Execution

The following advisory describes three 3 vulnerabilities found in Trend Micro Deep Security version 6.5. “The Trend Micro Hybrid Cloud Security solution, powered by XGen security, delivers a blend of cross­-generational threat defense techniques that have been optimized to protect physical,...

cloud.bgate-erp.com XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: http://cloud.bgate-erp.com/bgateadmin953/LogIn.asp?LoginError=UserConnectLimit==%22%27%2D%2D%21 Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| No Latest check for patch:| 31.07.2017 Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:| Publicly disclosed Alexa Rank| Unknown / Not...

Accelerating AI Research to Improve Threat Protection

Once the realm of science fiction, artificial intelligence AI is now very much science fact. The potential of this ground-breaking technology – and related disciplines including deep learning and machine learning – is so great that even governments in the UK and US have released reports on its...

Randstad Group Selects Trend Micro to Protect its Public Cloud Infrastructure

The Randstad Group is currently in the process of consolidating and centralizing its IT infrastructure across 30 IT departments, and will be providing service to more than 40 operating countries across four continents. To ensure the new infrastructure will have optimal security the company select...

Meeting FedRAMP and Government Standards – Coalfire Securealities Report

Coalfire released the results of its first annual FedRAMP Marketplace report - Securing Your Cloud Solutions: Research and Analysis on meeting FedRAMP and Government Standards. The findings highlight many positives for cloud service providers and federal agencies, but also opportunities for both ...

Design/Logic Flaw

IBM Kenexa LMS on Cloud 13.1 and 13.2 - 13.2.4 could allow a remote attacker to traverse directories on the system. An attacker could send a specially-crafted URL request containing "dot dot" sequences /../ to view arbitrary files on the system...