Announcing: new British Standard for cyber risk and resilience

Technology is an integral part of the fabric of everyday life. There is almost no organization that does not rely on digital services in some way in order to survive. The opportunity that technology provides also brings with it more vulnerabilities and threats as organizations and data become mor...

CVE-2018-9056

Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution may allow unauthorized disclosure of information to an attacker with local user access via a side-channel attack on the directional branch predictor, as demonstrated by a pattern history table PHT, aka BranchScope...

In Cybersecurity, the Fastest Decision Maker Wins Most Often

During the Korean War, John Boyd, an Air Force pilot and military strategist, studied why the F-86 Sabre was so successful in shooting down the Russian MiG-15 of that generation. Boyd discovered that the U.S. planes, while inferior to the Russian MiG in terms of speed, range, and altitude, were...

The First Question(s) Today’s CEOs Should Ask (& Know the Answers To)

In a previous blog, we discussed Commander's Intent for CEOs and introduced 10 questions CEOs should be asking their teams. In this blog series, I am going to take a deeper dive into each question and break them down one at a time. We will discuss why CEOs should care about each question and the...

CALDERA - Automated Adversary Emulation System

CALDERA is an automated adversary emulation system that performs post-compromise adversarial behavior within enterprise networks. It generates plans during operation using a planning system and a pre-configured adversary model based on the Adversarial Tactics, Techniques & Common Knowledge ATT&CK...

New White House Announcement on the Vulnerability Equities Process

The White House has released a new version of the Vulnerabilities Equities Process VEP. This is the inter-agency process by which the US government decides whether to inform the software vendor of a vulnerability it finds, or keep it secret and use it to eavesdrop on or attack other systems. You...

Winning the battle against PUPs on your computer and in court

I know very few people, other than lawyers, that get excited about corporate court cases. But, I want to share with you a recent decision that I believe is cause for every computer user to celebrate. This week, a United States District Court judge ruled in Malwarebytes' favor, dismissing a lawsui...

Circle with Disney Token Routing Vulnerability(CVE-2017-12085)

Summary An exploitable routing vulnerability exists in the Circle with Disney cloud infrastructure. A specially crafted packet can make the Circle cloud route a packet to any arbitrary Circle device. An attacker needs network connectivity to the Internet to trigger this vulnerability. Tested...

CVE-2017-5065

Lack of an appropriate action on page navigation in Blink in Google Chrome prior to 58.0.3029.81 for Windows and Mac allowed a remote attacker to potentially confuse a user into making an incorrect security decision via a crafted HTML page...

CVE-2017-5065

Lack of an appropriate action on page navigation in Blink in Google Chrome prior to 58.0.3029.81 for Windows and Mac allowed a remote attacker to potentially confuse a user into making an incorrect security decision via a crafted HTML page...

Design/Logic Flaw

Lack of an appropriate action on page navigation in Blink in Google Chrome prior to 58.0.3029.81 for Windows and Mac allowed a remote attacker to potentially confuse a user into making an incorrect security decision via a crafted HTML page...

CVE-2017-5065

CVE-2017-5065 is a Blink/navigation flaw in Google Chrome on Windows and macOS prior to 58.0.3029.81. A crafted HTML page could mislead a user into making an incorrect security decision. The vulnerability stems from insufficient action on page navigation. Remediation, where noted, is to update to...

CVE-2017-5065

Removed by vendor...

Choose Your Own Infosec Adventure

I often reflect on how difficult choices in our industry can be. Do we invest more in prevention, detection or response? Do we automate or add more staff? Do we use a managed service or keep it in house? These represent some of the strategic decisions defenders are faced with on a yearly basis...

CVE-2014-6849

Rejected reason: DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: none. Reason: The CNA or individual who requested this candidate did not associate it with any vulnerability during 2014. Notes: none...

CVE-2017-5065

Lack of an appropriate action on page navigation in Blink in Google Chrome prior to 58.0.3029.81 for Windows and Mac allowed a remote attacker to potentially confuse a user into making an incorrect security decision via a crafted HTML page...

CVE-2017-5550

Off-by-one error in the pipeadvance function in lib/ioviter.c in the Linux kernel before 4.9.5 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from uninitialized heap-memory locations in opportunistic circumstances by reading from a pipe after an incorrect buffer-release decision...

CVE-2017-5550

Off-by-one error in the pipeadvance function in lib/ioviter.c in the Linux kernel before 4.9.5 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from uninitialized heap-memory locations in opportunistic circumstances by reading from a pipe after an incorrect buffer-release decision...

Los Angeles College Pays Hackers $28,000 Ransom To Get Its Files Back

Ransomware has turned on to a noxious game of Hackers to get paid effortlessly. Once again the heat was felt by the Los Angeles Valley College LAVC when hackers managed to infect its computer network with ransomware and demanded US$28,000 payment in Bitcoins to get back online. The cyber-attack...

Google Removing SHA-1 Support in Chrome 56

The home stretch for SHA-1 deprecation is in full effect with Google on Wednesday announcing its final deprecation deadlines for the Chrome browser, and a cryptographic services provider warning that there’s still a long way to go to get sites off SHA-1 certificates. Google said it will remove it...