Akamai's Innovation and Collaboration In Renewable Energy

The energy footprint of the IT sector is estimated at 7% of global electricity consumption, according to Greenpeace International. And, although the data center and colocation industry is a small segment of the IT sector, it represents a large portion of its power consumption. By 2020, the power...

Tackling the BEC Epidemic in a New Partnership with INTERPOL

In just a few short years, Business Email Compromise BEC has gone from a peripheral threat to a major cyber risk for organizations. It’s making criminal gangs millions of dollars each month, hitting corporate profits and reputation in the process. Trend Micro has built a formidable array of...

NSA on the Future of National Cybersecurity

Glenn Gerstell, the General Counsel of the NSA, wrote a long and interesting op-ed for the New York Times where he outlined a long list of cyber risks facing the US. There are four key implications of this revolution that policymakers in the national security sector will need to address: The firs...

UPDATE: Covenant v0.3.2

PenTestIT RSS Feed A few weeks ago an update – Covenant v0.3.2 was released. There was a brief mention about Covenant in my post titled – List of Open Source C2 Post-Exploitation Frameworks. This updated version includes new persistence modules - PersistWMI, PersistAutorun, PersistStartup, a...

Code Execution Vulnerability in Zendo Collaboration Management System

Qingdao Easoft Tianchuang Network Technology Co., Ltd. was founded in 2010, is a young Internet software company. A code execution vulnerability exists in Zendo Collaboration Management System, which can be exploited by attackers to gain server privileges...

FudgeC2 - A Collaborative C2 Framework For Purple-Teaming Written In Python3, Powershell And .NET

FudgeC2 is a campaign orientated Powershell C2 framework built on Python3/Flask - Designed for team collaboration, client interaction, campaign timelining, and usage visibility. Note: FudgeC2 is currently in alpha stage, and should be used with caution in non-test environments. Setup Installation...

News Wrap: Dentist Offices Hit By Ransomware, Venmo Faces Privacy Firestorm

In this week’s news wrap podcast, editor Lindsey O’Donnell and Tara Seals break down the top news of the week – from ransomware attacks to companies responding to outcry over privacy issues. Top stories include: Ring announced it is working with more than 400 US police departments to streamline...

Quantopian: Cross-site scripting via hardcoded front-end watched expression.

Hello, favorite security team. This is so far most interesting XSS i've found on your website. And also this is 10th bug i report you, so im gonna celebrate. Summary: Via hardcoded front-end code in algo debugger one is able to execute XSS on algorithm collaborator. One is able to use python to...

Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Java Runtime affect Collaboration and Deployment Services

Summary There are multiple vulnerabilities in IBM® Runtime Environment Java™ Version JRE71SR4FP45 and JRE8SR5FP36 used by Collaboration and Deployment Services on AIX 64-bit pSeries platform. These issues were disclosed as part of the IBM Java SDK updates in July 2019. Vulnerability Details If yo...

Detecting Credit Card Skimmers

Modern credit card skimmers hidden in self-service gas pumps communicate via Bluetooth. There's now an app that can detect them: The team from the University of California San Diego, who worked with other computer scientists from the University of Illinois, developed an app called Bluetana which...

Covenant - A .NET Command And Control Framework For Red Teamers

Covenant is a .NET command and control framework that aims to highlight the attack surface of .NET, make the use of offensive .NET tradecraft easier, and serve as a collaborative command and control platform for red teamers. Covenant is an ASP.NET Core, cross-platform application that includes a...

ALSA-2019:2512 Important: subversion:1.10 security update

Subversion SVN is a concurrent version control system which enables one or more users to collaborate in developing and maintaining a hierarchy of files and directories while keeping a history of all changes. Security Fixes: subversion: NULL pointer dereference in svnserve leading to an...

ThreatHunting - A Splunk App Mapped To MITRE ATT&CK To Guide Your Threat Hunts

This is a Splunk application containing several dashboards and over 120 reports that will facilitate initial hunting indicators to investigate. You obviously need to be ingesting Sysmon data into Splunk, a good configuration can be found here Note: This application is not a magic bullet, it will...

Black Hat 2019 News Wrap: The Best and Worst of the Show

LAS VEGAS – Black Hat and DEF CON 2019 may be wrapping up, but the dual conferences last week in Las Vegas left the security industry with a flurry of new security flaws, topics and announcements to discuss for the weeks to come. Threatpost editors Tara Seals and Lindsey O’Donnell get together to...

Zimbra Collaboration Server 8.7.x < 8.7.11p10 XML External Entity injection (XXE) vulnerability

Mailboxd component in Synacor Zimbra Collaboration Suite 8.7.x before 8.7.11p10 has an XML External Entity injection XXE vulnerability. Note that Nessus does not identify patch level or components versions for the Synacor Zimbra Collaboration Suite. You will need to verify if the patch has been...

Apple Gives Hackers a Special iPhone—And a Bigger Bug Bounty

The company’s sometimes rocky relationship with security researchers just got a whole lot smoother...

Microsoft Announces Top Three Contributing Partners in the Microsoft Active Protections Program (MAPP)

Today Microsoft announced the MAPP program Top Vulnerability Contributors, Top Threat Indicator Submitters, and Top Zero-Day Reporting for the period of July 1, 2018 – June 30, 2019. The Microsoft Active Protections Program provides security and protection to customers through cooperation and...

UPDATE: SILENTTRINITY v0.3.0

PenTestIT RSS Feed Just yesterday, I wrote about this open source post-exploitation C2 framework and a new release is already available. The post was titled - List of Open Source C2 Post-Exploitation Frameworks. We now have SILENTTRINITY v0.3.0 amongst us, which was in the works for a long time!...

A case study in industry collaboration: Poisoned RDP vulnerability disclosure and response

Earlier this year, I reached out to Check Point researcher Eyal Itkin, who had published multiple flaws in several Remote Desktop Protocol RDP clients, including a vulnerability in mstsc.exe, the built-in RDP client application in Windows. While there were no active exploits detected in the wild,...

Black Hat 2019: Security's Powerful Cultural Transformation

LAS VEGAS — “Start with yes.'” That’s the advice to security teams from Dino Dai Zovi, mobile security lead at Square, giving the keynote on Wednesday at the 23rd annual Black Hat conference in Las Vegas. Taking as a first principle the idea that security teams now have the ear of company boards...