ThreatList: Popular Apps Get Enterprise Blacklisted

Mobile apps on BYOD handhelds tend to keep enterprise security pros worried. Between apps that are malicious, others that leak data and ones with pushy permissions – it’s hard to determine what’s safe and what might violate company rules. On Wednesday, Appthority released its annual list of the...

Hackers Used Malicious MDM Solution to Spy On 'Highly Targeted' iPhone Users

Security researchers have uncovered a "highly targeted" mobile malware campaign that has been operating since August 2015 and found spying on 13 selected iPhones in India. The attackers, who are also believed to be operating from India, were found abusing mobile device management MDM protocol—a...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

4.1.12-124.14.1 - ctf: drop the run-as-root error Nick Alcock Orabug: 27852654 - rds: Node crashes when trace buffer is opened Ka-Cheong Poon Orabug: 27846191 - xfs: fix accidental reversion of aa6a6227435cb Darrick J. Wong Orabug: 27845869 4.1.12-124.13.1 - net: cdcether: fix divide by 0 on bad...

Security Onion - Linux Distro For IDS, NSM, And Log Management

Security Onion is a free and open source Linux distribution for intrusion detection, enterprise security monitoring, and log management. It includes Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Snort, Suricata, Bro, OSSEC, Sguil, Squert, NetworkMiner, and many other security tools. The easy-to-use Setup wiza...

Invisible resource thieves: The increasing threat of cryptocurrency miners

The surge in Bitcoin prices has driven widescale interest in cryptocurrencies. While the future of digital currencies is uncertain, they are shaking up the cybersecurity landscape as they continue to influence the intent and nature of attacks. Cybercriminals gave cryptocurrencies a bad name when...

How to Mitigate the Threat Cryptocurrency Mining Poses to Enterprise Security

The growing popularity of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is generating curiosity—and concern—among security specialists. Crypto mining software has been found on user machines, often installed by botnets. Organizations need to understand the risks posed by this software and what actions, if...

Code injection

Vulnerability in the PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools component of Oracle PeopleSoft Products subcomponent: Integration Broker. Supported versions that are affected are 8.54, 8.55 and 8.56. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromis...

Oracle Ships 237 Fixes in Latest Critical Patch Update

Oracle has shipped 237 patches for vulnerabilities impacting hundreds of product versions as part of its latest quarterly critical patch update. Product lines coming in for some of the most fixes include Oracle Financial Services Applications, with 34, Fusion Middleware with 27, MySQL with 25 and...

Unbreakable Enterprise kernel security update

4.1.12-112.14.11 - x86/pti/efi: broken conversion from efi to kernel page table Pavel Tatashin Orabug: 27363926 Orabug: 27352353 CVE-2017-5754 - x86/spec: Always set IBRS to guest value on VMENTER and host on VMEXIT redux Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Orabug: 27369994 - x86/IBRS: Make sure we restore...

Excerpts from Preparing for NGAV at Scale: Prevent Attacks & Stop Breaches

Carbon Black recently published a guide to help enterprises gauge their readiness in their initial search for next-generation antivirus, or NGAV; this is an excerpt from that guide, which you can find here. For more information about how Cb Defense, Carbon Black's NGAV + EDR solution, helps...

CVE-2017-14356

An SQL Injection vulnerability in HP ArcSight ESM and HP ArcSight ESM Express, in any 6.x version prior to 6.9.1c Patch 4 or 6.11.0 Patch 1. This vulnerability could be exploited remotely to allow SQL injection...

HP ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager and Enterprise Security Manager Express Access Control Error Vulnerability (CNVD-2017-30913)

HP ArcSight ESM Enterprise Security Manager and ESM Express are both enterprise security management software with event correlation and security analysis capabilities from Hewlett Packard Enterprise HPE. The software collects, correlates and reports on enterprise-wide security events in real time...

HP ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager and ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager Express Information Disclosure Vulnerability

HP ArcSight ESM Enterprise Security Manager and ESM Express are both enterprise security management software with event correlation and security analysis capabilities from Hewlett Packard Enterprise HPE. The software collects, correlates and reports on enterprise-wide security events in real time...

HP ArcSight Enterprise Security Manager Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability (CNVD-2017-30915)

HP ArcSight ESM Enterprise Security Manager and ESM Express are both enterprise security management software with event correlation and security analysis capabilities from Hewlett Packard Enterprise HPE. The software collects, correlates and reports on enterprise-wide security events in real time...

CVE-2017-13991

An information leakage vulnerability in ArcSight ESM and ArcSight ESM Express, any 6.x version prior to 6.9.1c Patch 4 or 6.11.0 Patch 1, allows disclosure of product license features...

Deloitte breached by hackers for months

On September 25, 2017, Deloitte announced that they detected a breach of the firm’s global email server via a poorly secured admin email in March of this year. Further, the attackers most likely had control of the server since November of 2016. Deloitte’s initial statement indicated that only six...

Taking the Fight Where It Belongs

This Guest blog was written by Robert Mahowald, a Group Vice President at IDC who leads IDC's Worldwide Applications research practice, in addition to co-leading IDC's Cloud Services: Global Overview program. A surprising set of facts emerged from the most recent quarterly installment of IDC's...

Trend Micro Mobile Security for Enterprise resend_command_list CmdUUID SQL Injection Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Trend Micro Mobile Security for Enterprise. Authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the processing of the resendcommandlist action. When parsing th...

What makes a good "DNS Blacklist"? - Part 2

In "What makes a good 'DNS Blacklist'? - Part 1", we explored the background and factors that have gone into Akamai's thinking behind New security products like Enterprise Threat Protect ETP. This article continues with a list of factors and questions to ask any DNS Threat Feed providers, includi...

July 5, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Isaac Newton” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! July 5, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Carbon Black’s Cb Defense...