Microsoft Patch Tuesday — Nov. 2019: Vulnerability disclosures and Snort coverage

By Jon Munshaw. Microsoft released its monthly security update today, disclosing a variety of vulnerabilities in several of its products. The latest Patch Tuesday discloses 75 vulnerabilities, 13 of which are considered "critical," with the rest being deemed "important." This month’s security...

How MSPs can become Managed Detection and Response (MDR) Providers

Managed detection and response MDR is one of the fastest-growing segments in the cybersecurity market. ESG research from April 2019 reveals that 27% of organizations are actively pursuing an MDR project, while another 11% plan to pursue an MDR project in the future. Cynet now enables service...

An in-depth look at cyber insurance: We sat down with risk expert, Cisco's Leslie Lamb

Y2K is known for being one of the most widespread times of panic in IT. It was generally thought that on Dec. 31, 1999, computers across the globe would shut down when they would fail to properly process that it would become the year 2000 the next day. It made headlines across the globe, sent...

Partner Perspectives: Endpoint Protection & Asset Management: Making Sure Everything That Should Be Protected, Is Protected

It’s a common refrain in cybersecurity: you can only protect what you can see. And while advances in endpoint protection technology have drastically increased the security of devices, organizations still struggle to understand which assets they have, and whether they’re properly covered by securi...

Exploit for Use After Free in Microsoft

CVE-2019-0708 aka Bluekeep Scanner A simple scanner t...

How Axonius integrates with Microsoft to help customers solve the cybersecurity asset management challenge

Despite the amazing and futuristic progression of technologies in cybersecurity, it's still incredibly hard to answer the most basic of questions like: how many assets do I have, and do they adhere to my security policy? Somewhere along the line, asset management became very mundane compared to t...

python27:2.7 security update

Cython 0.28.1-7 - Bumping due to problems with modular RPM upgrade path 1695587 - Related: rhbz1693974 PyYAML 3.12-16 - Bumping due to problems with modular RPM upgrade path 1695587 - Related: rhbz1693974 babel 2.5.1-9 - Bumping due to problems with modular RPM upgrade path 1695587 - Related:...

honggfuzz vulnerability mining technology principle analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Google AFLWinAFL, the libfuzzer and honggfuzz is the most famous of the three based on code coverage fuzzer is. Online on the AFLWinAFLanalysis of the articles more, and on the latter two Analysis Articles less. Before the spring brother has written about honggfuzz article: honggfuzz vulnerabilit...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday — July 2019: Vulnerability disclosures and Snort coverage

Microsoft released its monthly security update today, disclosing a variety of vulnerabilities in several of its products. The latest Patch Tuesday covers 77 vulnerabilities, 16 of which are rated “critical," 60 that are considered "important" and one "moderate." This month’s security update cover...

Reference: TaoSecurity Press

I started appearing in media reports in 2000. I used to provide this information on my Web site, but since I don't keep that page up-to-date anymore, I decided to publish it here. As of 2017, Mr. Bejtlich generally declines press inquiries on cybersecurity matters, including those on background...

Two Florida Cities Paid $1.1 Million to Ransomware Hackers This Month

In the last two weeks, Florida has paid more than $1.1 million in bitcoin to cybercriminals to recover encrypted files from two separate ransomware attacks—one against Riviera Beach and the other against Lake City. Lake City, a city in northern Florida, agreed on Monday to pay hackers 42 Bitcoin...

Double-Free RCE in VLC. A honggfuzz how-to

Introduction I spent three months working on VLC using Honggfuzz, tweaking it to suit the target. In the process, I found five vulnerabilities, one of which was a high-risk double-free issue and merited CVE-2019-12874. Here’s the VLC advisory . Here’s how I found it. I hope you find the how-to...

Integrating Threat and Vulnerability Management with Patch Management: The (Feasible) Quantum Leap

The rise of sophisticated attacks combined with the security-skills shortage have driven many organizations to go back to basics and review their processes for vulnerability and patch management. The approach is definitely a winning one, given that shrinking and managing the vulnerability surface...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday — May 2019: Vulnerability disclosures and Snort coverage

Microsoft released its monthly security update today, disclosing a variety of vulnerabilities in several of its products. The latest Patch Tuesday covers 79 vulnerabilities, 22 of which are rated “critical," 55 that are considered "important" and one "moderate." This release also includes two...

drAFL - AFL + DynamoRIO = Fuzzing Binaries With No Source Code On Linux

Original AFL supports black-box coverage-guided fuzzing using QEMU mode. I highly recommend to try it first and if it doesn't work you can try this tool. Usage You need to specify DRRUNPATH to point to drrun launcher and LIBCOVPATH to point to libbinafl.so coverage library. You also need to switc...

[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: meson-0.50.0-4.fc29

Meson is a build system designed to optimize programmer productivity. It aims to do this by providing simple, out-of-the-box support for modern software development tools and practices, such as unit tests, coverage reports, Valgrind, CCache and the like...

Microsoft Patch Tuesday — April 2019: Vulnerability disclosures and Snort coverage

Microsoft released its monthly security update today, disclosing a variety of vulnerabilities in several of its products. The latest Patch Tuesday covers 74 vulnerabilities, 16 of which are rated “critical” and 58 that are considered “important.” This release also includes a critical advisory...

httpx

HTTPX - A next-generation HTTP client for Python...

Cynet is offering unhappy competitors' customers a refund for the time remaining on existing contracts

Cynet goes head-to-head with CrowdStrike, DarkTrace, Cylance, Carbon Black & Symantec, offering their unhappy customers a refund for the time remaining on their existing contracts. Cynet, the automated threat discovery and mitigation platform was built to address the advanced threats that AV and...

Podcast: RSA Conference 2019 Preview

The RSA 2019 conference is right around the corner, kicking off next week in San Francisco. As they prepare to cover the show, Threatpost editors Lindsey O’Donnell, Tom Spring and Tara Seals break down the biggest news, stories and trends – from artificial intelligence and government security to...