How Carbon Black is Prioritizing Living Off the Land Attacks

What are Living Off the Land LoL Attacks? In recent years, Living off the Land Binaries and Scripts LOLBas have become increasingly popular tools for cybercriminals. These types of attacks leverage native, signed, and often pre-installed applications in malicious ways that their creators never...

PCI & SSL/Early TLS QIDs 38601, 42366

Two QIDs will be marked as PCI Fail on May 1, 2019 as required by ASV Program Guide: QID 38601 “SSL/TLS Use of Weak RC4 Cipher” QID 42366 “SSLv3.0/TLSv1.0 Protocol Weak CBC Mode Server Side Vulnerability BEAST” Last revision of ASV Program Guide ver. 3.1 has the following for SSL/TLS component: “...

Wallarm to Sponsor KubeCon + CloudNative Con

If you have not registered yet for the main Kubernetes event in North America which will start on December 10th in Seattle, you may be out of luck. The event is sold out and is only taking the waitlist applications. But if you are going, KubeCon + CloudNativeCon promises to be a treat with the...

Bing Warns VLC Media Player Site is ‘Suspicious’ in Likely False-Positive Gaff

Microsoft’s Bing search engine warned its users the official VLC media player website was “suspicious” and dissuaded users from visiting the popular destination, suggesting the site contained “malicious software.” The site is no longer listed as unsafe. In a red warning message presented to users...

CVE-2018-13420

Google gperftools 2.7 has a memory leak in mallocextension.cc, related to MallocExtension::Register and InitModule. NOTE: the software maintainer indicates that this is not a bug; it is only a false-positive report from the LeakSanitizer program...

AZL-6453 CVE-2018-13420 affecting package gperftools for versions less than 2.7-4

Google gperftools 2.7 has a memory leak in mallocextension.cc, related to MallocExtension::Register and InitModule. NOTE: the software maintainer indicates that this is not a bug; it is only a false-positive report from the LeakSanitizer program...

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-13420

Google gperftools 2.7 has a memory leak in mallocextension.cc, related to MallocExtension::Register and InitModule. NOTE: the software maintainer indicates that this is not a bug; it is only a false-positive report from the LeakSanitizer program...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-13420

Google gperftools 2.7 has a memory leak in mallocextension.cc, related to MallocExtension::Register and InitModule. NOTE: the software maintainer indicates that this is not a bug; it is only a false-positive report from the LeakSanitizer program...

CVE-2018-13420

Google gperftools 2.7 has a memory leak in mallocextension.cc, related to MallocExtension::Register and InitModule. NOTE: the software maintainer indicates that this is not a bug; it is only a false-positive report from the LeakSanitizer program...

PT-2018-11815 · Google +2 · Gperftools +2

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Google gperftools version 2.7 Description: The issue is related to a memory leak in malloc extension.cc, specifically involving MallocExtension::Register and InitModule. However, the software maintainer disputes this, stating it is a...

UPDATE: OWASP Dependency-Check 3.1.0

PenTestIT RSS Feed My first post about this open source OWASP project was about an older version. This post discusses the changes made to the open source software composition analysis utility in the latest release yesterday. This is the OWASP Dependency-Check 3.1.0! This release comes with...

UPDATE: OWASP Dependency-Check 3.0.0

PenTestIT RSS Feed My first post about this open source OWASP project was about an older version. This post discusses the changes made to the open source software composition analysis utility in the latest release yesterday. This is the OWASP Dependency-Check 3.0.0! This release comes with Java 9...

DGA-Detection - DGA Domain Detection using Bigram Frequency Analysis

More and more malware is being created with advanced blocking circumvention techniques. One of the most prevalent techniques being used is the use of Domain Generation Algorithms which periodically generates a set of Domains to contact a C&C server. The majority of these DGA domains generate rand...

Facebook Awards $100K to Researchers for Credential Spearphishing Detection Method

A group of researchers recently identified a real-time way to detect credential spearphishing attacks in enterprise settings. The discovery net the researchers $100,000 last week from Facebook, which awards money as part of its annual Internet Defense Prize partnership with USENIX Association. Th...

UPDATE: OWASP Dependency-Check 2.1.0!

PenTestIT RSS Feed My first post about this open source OWASP project was about an older version. This post discusses the changes made to the open source software composition analysis utility in the latest release yesterday. This is the OWASP Dependency-Check 2.1.0! What I like about this release...

OracleVM 3.2 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2017-0106)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - nfsd: stricter decoding of write-like NFSv2/v3 ops J. Bruce Fields Orabug: 25986995 CVE-2017-7895 - ocfs2/o2net: o2netlistendataready should do nothing if socket state is not TCPLISTEN Tariq Saeed...

Webroot 'mistakenly' flags Windows as Malware and Facebook as Phishing site

Popular antivirus service Webroot mistakenly flagged core Windows system files as malicious and even started temporarily removing some of the legit files, trashing user computers around the world. The havoc caused after the company released a bad update on April 24, which was pulled after...

Opera installer mistakenly marked as malicious

Security Opera installer mistakenly marked as malicious Share February 22nd, 2017 During the past few days some of our users have contacted us raising the concern that the Qihoo 360 Total Security anti-virus software has been labelling the Opera installer executable for Windows as some form of...

Does Reliable Real Time Detection Demand Prevention?

Chris Sanders started a poll on Twitter asking "Would you rather get a real-time alert with partial context immediately, or a full context alert delayed by 30 mins?" I answered by saying I would prefer full context delayed by 30 minutes. I also replied with the text at left, from my first book Th...

itBit Exchange: Open Redirect in https://exchange.itbit.com - False Positive

Hi there Vulnerability Title: Open Redirect in https://exchange.itbit.com Reproduction Steps: example link HTTP Response: HTTP/1.1 303 See Other .................................. Location: /google.com/%2f../ Regards, SMIT...