M-Trends 2017: A View From the Front Lines

Every year Mandiant responds to a large number of cyber attacks, and 2016 was no exception. For our M-Trends 2017 report, we took a look at the incidents we investigated last year and provided a global and regional the Americas, APAC and EMEA analysis focused on attack trends, and defensive and...

BINOM3 Electric Power Quality Meter

CVSS v3 10 ATTENTION: Remotely exploitable/low skill level to exploit Vendor: BINOM3 Equipment: Electric Power Quality Meter Vulnerabilities: Cross-site scripting, access control issues, cross-site request forgery CSRF, sensitive information stored in clear-text, and weak credentials management...

Four New Normals for 2017

Let’s not talk about cybersecurity predictions for 2017. Let’s talk instead about new normals, things that have ceased to be novel because, well, they happen all the time and everywhere. Let’s concede that things such as greedy ransomware, imposing IOT botnets, high-profile bug bounties and...

FATEK Automation PLC WinProladder Stack-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

OVERVIEW A researcher working with Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative ZDI has identified a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in FATEK Automation's PLC WinProladder application. Fatek Automation Fatek has not produced an update to mitigate this vulnerability. ZDI has coordinated with...

Giving Red-Teamers the Blues

Pen-testing engagements are generally a breeze for most red-teamers; roadblocks are few, despite the ones in place being expensive and often paid for by very large companies. Chris Nickerson has been running such engagements for 15 years and he sees companies that throw more money and more server...

Defenders Need to Embrace Offensive Computer Security Skillsets

MIAMI—Defense may win football championships, but it gets steamrolled in computer security arenas. “A dollar of offense beats a dollar of defense,” said Nate Fick, CEO of Endgame Inc., on Thursday during his keynote address at Infiltrate Conference. Fick’s talk in front of an audience of exploit...

OSIsoft PI SQL Data Access Server Input Validation Vulnerability

OVERVIEW OSIsoft has identified an input validation vulnerability in its own PI SQL Data Access Server. OSIsoft has produced a new version of PI SQL Data Access Server OLE DB 2016 1.5 to address this issue. This vulnerability could be exploited remotely. AFFECTED PRODUCTS Affected versions of PI...

Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop Hardening Guidance

A Joint Whitepaper from Mandiant and Citrix Throughout the course of Mandiant’s Red Team and Incident Response engagements, we frequently identify a wide array of misconfigured technology solutions, including Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop. We often see attackers leveraging stolen credentials from...

Siemens SIPROTEC Information Disclosure Vulnerabilities (Update B)

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 5.3 ATTENTION : Exploitable remotely/low skill level to exploit Vendor : Siemens Equipment : SIPROTEC 4 and SIPROTEC Compact Vulnerabilities : Information Exposure 2. UPDATE INFORMATION This updated advisory is a follow-up to the updated advisory titled ICSA-16-140-02...

How to Build a Successful Incident Response Plan

The fight to protect your company’s data isn’t for the faint of heart. As an embattled IT warrior, with more systems, apps, and users to support than ever before, keeping everything up and running is a battle in itself. When it comes to preventing the worst-case scenario from happening, you need...

IC3 Releases Alert on Microchip-Enabled Credit Cards

The Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3 has issued an alert to consumers and merchants about the security risks involved with EMV Cards. An EMV card is a credit or debit card with a microchip that helps protect cardholder data. However, EMV cards may still be vulnerable to exploitation. US-CERT...

What makes a good Microsoft Defense Bounty submission?

One of Microsoft’s longstanding strategies toward improving software security continues to involve investing in defensive technologies that make it difficult and costly for attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. These solutions generally have a broad and long lasting impact on software security...

Facebook Internet Defense Prize Doubles Payout

Facebook tonight awarded a $100,000 prize to a team of Georgia Tech researchers who found a new class of browser-based memory-corruption vulnerabilities and built a corresponding detection technique. The award brings the social media giant on par with Microsoft and its six-figure payouts for...

PHPCMS \phpcms\modules\member\index.php user login SQL injection vulnerability analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

catalog 1. Vulnerability description 2. Vulnerability trigger conditions 3. Vulnerability scope 4. Vulnerability code analysis 5. Defense method 6. Offensive and defensive thinking 1. Vulnerability description 2. Vulnerability trigger conditions 0x1: POC http://localhost/phpcmsv9/index. php?...

US Navy Soliciting Zero Days

The National Security Agency may find and purchase zero days, but that doesn’t mean it’s sharing its hoard with other government agencies such as the U.S. Navy, which apparently is in the market for some unpatched, undisclosed vulnerabilities of its own. A request for proposal posted last...

Advantech WebAccess Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

OVERVIEW This updated advisory is a follow-up to the original advisory titled ICSA-15-251-01 Advantech WebAccess Buffer Overflow Vulnerability that was published September 8, 2015, on the NCCIC/ICS-CERT web site. Security researcher Praveen Darshanam reported a stack-based overflow vulnerability ...

Naval Academy Cadets Win NSA Hacking Contest

Midshipmen from the United States Naval Academy in have won the National Security Agency’s Cyber Defense Exercise CDX for the third time. Between April 13 and 17, the CDX pits the U.S. Naval, Air Force, Coast Guard, Merchant Marine and Military Academy and the Royal Military College of Canada...

D-Link cloud routing memory vulnerability: hack 1 minute break or leakage of online banking passwords-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

D-Link cloud routing memory the vulnerability may leak password Relates to 1 of 7 models; the Friends of the news group in English official website released four of the model number Router the patch, but there is no Chinese version of the Beijing news news recently, the domestic security experts...

Zero-Day Market Economics Favor Incentives for Defensive Tools

There’s a security truism that goes something like this: Defenders must protect all machines against all vulnerabilities, while attackers need only to find one way on to a system or network. It’s a nearly unwinnable game for those in charge of defending corporate networks and securing web-based...

RLE Nova-Wind Turbine HMI Unsecure Credentials Vulnerability (Update A)

OVERVIEW This updated advisory is a follow-up to the original advisory titled ICSA-15-162-01 RLE Nova‑Wind Turbine HMI Unsecure Credentials Vulnerability that was published June 11, 2015, on the NCCIC/ICS-CERT web site. Independent researcher Maxim Rupp has identified an unsecure credential...