What Is CAASM? Cyber Asset Attack Surface Management Explained

Your security team runs scans from five different tools. Each one gives you a different number of assets, a different count of vulnerabilities, and a different view of your risk. Meanwhile, your CMDB is outdated, shadow IT keeps expanding, and nobody can confidently answer a basic question: "What...

Secure Over-The-Air Computation against Multiple Eavesdroppers Using Correlated Artificial Noise

In the era of the Internet of Things and massive connectivity, many engineering applications, such as sensor fusion and federated edge learning, rely on efficient data aggregation from geographically distributed users over wireless networks. Over-the-air computation shows promising potential for...

Gathers structured vuln data from plugins that fork

This plugin generates internal host tags for vulnerability data from plugins that fork. It queries scratchpad tables, aggregates the vulnerability data by plugin ID, port and protocol, then attaches the data to the scan as internal host tags. This plugin does not create a scan vulnerability repor...

Network Hexagons under Attack: Secure Crowdsourcing of Geo-Referenced Data

A critical requirement for modern-day Intelligent Transportation Systems ITS is the ability to collect geo-referenced data from connected vehicles and mobile devices in a safe, secure and anonymous way. The Nexagon protocol, which builds on the IETF Locator/ID Separation Protocol LISP and the...

Introducing the Exposure Management Webinar Series: Commanding Your Attack Surface

The digital landscape is expanding rapidly, and with it, the complexity of managing an organization's attack surface. To help cybersecurity professionals navigate this challenge, Rapid7 presents a three-part webinar series, "Commanding Your Attack Surface." This series dives deep into the evolvin...

Understanding your Attack Surface: Different Approaches to Asset Discovery

Over the past two blogs Help, I can’t see! A Primer for Attack Surface Management Blog Series and The Main Components of an Attack Surface Management ASM Strategy in our series on Attack Surface Management, we’ve focused on the drivers and core elements of an Attack Surface Management solution. I...

Wireless carriers fined $200 million after illegally sharing customer location data

After four years of investigation, the Federal Communications Commission FCC has concluded that four of the major wireless carriers in the US violated the law in sharing access to customers’ location data. The FCC fined AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon a total of almost $200 million for...

Douglas-042 - Powershell Script To Help Speed ​​Up Threat Hunting Incident Response Processes

DOUGLAS-042 stands as an ingenious embodiment of a PowerShell script meticulously designed to expedite the triage process and facilitate the meticulous collection of crucial evidence derived from both forensic artifacts and the ephemeral landscape of volatile data. Its fundamental mission revolve...

Enhancing Security Operations Using Wazuh: Open Source XDR and SIEM

In today's interconnected world, evolving security solutions to meet growing demand is more critical than ever. Collaboration across multiple solutions for intelligence gathering and information sharing is indispensable. The idea of multiple-source intelligence gathering stems from the concept th...

Strava heatmap loophole may reveal users' home addresses

Researchers at NC State University have outlined potential privacy issues with popular fitness app Strava which could lead to users' homes being pinpointed. The researchers' findings are detailed in a paper called Heat marks the spot: de-anonymising users' geographical data on the Strava heat map...

A walk through Project Zero metrics

Posted by Ryan Schoen, Project Zero tl;dr In 2021, vendors took an average of 52 days to fix security vulnerabilities reported from Project Zero. This is a significant acceleration from an average of about 80 days 3 years ago. In addition to the average now being well below the 90-day deadline, w...

Identifying People by Their Browsing Histories

Interesting paper: "Replication: Why We Still Can't Browse in Peace: On the Uniqueness and Reidentifiability of Web Browsing Histories": We examine the threat to individuals' privacy based on the feasibility of reidentifying users through distinctive profiles of their browsing history visible to...

Feeling fatigued? Cloud-based SIEM relieves security team burnout

Most CISOs and CSOs are worried that a growing volume of alerts is causing burnout among their teams, according to new research from IDG. You can learn about additional challenges to security operations teams by reading the IDG report SIEM Shift: How the Cloud is Transforming Security Operations...

Datasploit - An OSINT Framework To Perform Various Recon Techniques On Companies, People, Phone Number, Bitcoin Addresses, Etc., Aggregate All The Raw Data, And Give Data In Multiple Formats

Overview of the tool: Performs OSINT on a domain/email/username/phone and find out information from different sources. Correlate and collaborate the results, show them in a consolidated manner. Tries to find out credentials, api-keys, tokens, subdomains, domain history, legacy portals, etc. relat...

[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: drupal7-feeds-2.0-0.12.alpha9.fc22

Import or aggregate data as nodes, users, taxonomy terms or simple database records. This package provides the following Drupal modules: feeds feedsimport feedsnews requires drupal7-features and drupal7-views feedsui...

Google Analytics by Yoast stored XSS #2

OVERVIEW ========== Google Analytics by Yoast is one of the most popular WordPress plug-ins with over 7 million downloads and "1+ million" active installs. Last month Yoast patched a stored XSS we reported in the plug-in. Shortly after this we identified another bug of a similar severity. The...

netty: DoS via memory exhaustion during data aggregation

A flaw was found in the WebSocket08FrameDecoder implementation that could allow a remote attacker to trigger an Out Of Memory Exception by issuing a series of TextWebSocketFrame and ContinuationWebSocketFrames. Depending on the server configuration, this could lead to a denial of service...

Stanford Researchers Find Connecting Metadata With User Names is Simple

One of the key tenets of the argument that the National Security Agency and some lawmakers have constructed to justify the agency’s collection of phone metadata is that the information it’s collecting, such as phone numbers and length of call, can’t be tied to the callers’ names. However, some...

Alliance Issues Guidance for Cloud-Based SIEM Services

The non-profit Cloud Security Alliance today released guidelines for the nascent Security as a Service SecaaS specialization within the broader realm of cloud computing. The goal, the group says, is to help companies and consumers gain a better handle on how best to evaluate, build and deploy...

[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: drupal7-feeds-2.0-0.5.alpha6.fc18

Import or aggregate data as nodes, users, taxonomy terms or simple database records...