Target Credential Issues by Authentication Protocol - No Issues Found

Valid credentials were provided for an authentication protocol on the remote target and Nessus did not log any subsequent errors or failures for the authentication protocol. When possible, Nessus tracks errors or failures related to otherwise valid credentials in order to highlight issues that ma...

Learn How Trillions of DNS Requests Help Improve Security

Akamai's global platform is comprised of 240,000 servers in 3,750 locations within 134 countries. Additionally, our platform interacts with 1.3 billion client devices every day and we ingest 2.5 exabytes of data a year. So why are these stats important? The answer is that this visibility provides...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of May 7, 2018

This week marked National Teacher Appreciation Week here in the United States. I was happy to see that many other countries celebrate educators in all the other months of the year. All of us have at least one teacher, instructor or professor who really made a difference in our lives. There are tw...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of April 30, 2018

When I was little, I discovered the joy of jumping on the bed. While it was fun to jump on the bed, I wanted to make it more challenging so I started to imitate the ski jumpers I had seen during the 1976 Winter Olympics and jump from my parents’ dresser to the bed. I quickly found out there’s a...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of April 9, 2018

The interviewing process can be mentally draining. You have to look your best, say the right things, and prove that you’re the best person for the job. When I interview candidates, I love to come up with the one crazy question that isn’t on the usual list of questions that might be asked. I...

Malware monitor - leveraging PyREBox for malware analysis

This post was authored by Xabier Ugarte Pedrero In July 2017 we released PyREBox, a Python Scriptable Reverse Engineering Sandbox as an open source tool. This project is part of our continuous effort to create new tools to improve our workflows. PyREBox is a versatile instrumentation framework...

Cybersecurity Insurance

Good article about how difficult it is to insure an organization against Internet attacks, and how expensive the insurance is. Companies like retailers, banks, and healthcare providers began seeking out cyberinsurance in the early 2000s, when states first passed data breach notification laws. But...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of March 12, 2018

This week marked the 11th annual Pwn2Own contest held during the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver and while the contest had fewer entries compared to previous years, it was still an exciting event filled with a little drama. Over the course of two days, the Zero Day Initiative awarded $267,000...

CVE-2017-18035

The /rest/review-coverage-chart/1.0/data//.json resource in Atlassian Fisheye and Crucible before version 4.5.1 and 4.6.0 was missing a permissions check, this allows remote attackers who do not have access to a particular repository to determine its existence and access review coverage statistic...

Design/Logic Flaw

The /rest/review-coverage-chart/1.0/data//.json resource in Atlassian Fisheye and Crucible before version 4.5.1 and 4.6.0 was missing a permissions check, this allows remote attackers who do not have access to a particular repository to determine its existence and access review coverage statistic...

CVE-2017-18035

The /rest/review-coverage-chart/1.0/data//.json resource in Atlassian Fisheye and Crucible before version 4.5.1 and 4.6.0 was missing a permissions check, this allows remote attackers who do not have access to a particular repository to determine its existence and access review coverage statistic...

CVE-2017-18035: Improper Access Control

The /rest/review-coverage-chart/1.0/data/ /.json resource in Atlassian Fisheye and Crucible before version 4.5.1 and 4.6.0 was missing a permissions check, this allows remote attackers who do not have access to a particular repository to determine its existence and access review coverage statisti...

Missing permission check in review coverage REST endpoint - CVE-2017-18035

The /rest/review-coverage-chart/1.0/data//.json resource in Atlassian Fisheye and Crucible before version 4.5.1 and 4.6.0 was missing a permissions check, this allows remote attackers who do not have access to a particular repository to determine its existence and access review coverage statistic...

Missing permission check in review coverage REST endpoint - CVE-2017-18035

The /rest/review-coverage-chart/1.0/data//.json resource in Atlassian Fisheye and Crucible before version 4.5.1 and 4.6.0 was missing a permissions check, this allows remote attackers who do not have access to a particular repository to determine its existence and access review coverage statistic...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of January 1, 2018

Happy New Year! It’s out with the old, in with the new, right? Except we all know that the old tends to stick around, especially when it comes to vulnerabilities and patching them. Trend Micro predicts that that 2018’s biggest attacks will originate from known vulnerabilities. And speaking of kno...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of December 18, 2017

In the 2000 movie High Fidelity, the concept of making lists is a dominant focus. What are your top five favorite records? Top five side one, track ones? Top five dream jobs? In the movie, Rob Gordon, portrayed by John Cusack, decides to categorize his top five most memorable breakups in order to...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of December 11, 2017

If you read my weekly blog or follow me on Twitter, you know that I’m a huge sports fan. Unfortunately, when you don’t live in the town of your favorite team, you can be subject to blackout rules. So, my husband and I decided to purchase NFL Sunday Ticket from DirecTV. Fast forward to a couple of...

Synaptics Says Claims of a Keylogger in HP Laptops are False

Synaptics said reports that claim hundreds of HP laptops contain a secret keylogger made by the company are inaccurate. In a statement released Wednesday, the company said its software was being mischaracterized as a keylogger. It also said it would remove the debugging component from production...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of November 13, 2017

The dreaded white, blank screen in Microsoft Word is taunting me, with its blinking cursor asking for words to be written. Just when I thought I wouldn’t get any inspiration for this week’s blog, inspiration came to me from beyond through our late CTO Raimund Genes. Earlier this week, the third...

SUSE-SU-2017:2950-1 Security update for jq

This update for jq fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2016-4074: The jvdumpterm function in jq allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service stack consumption and application crash via a crafted JSON file. bsc1014176 Non-security issues fixed: - Update tests...