Fewer False Alarms, Faster Reporting: InsightVM Introduces New One-Click Fix For False Positives

Let’s talk about false positives. They’re frustrating and faulty, but also about as certain as death and taxes for anyone working in IT security. The good news? We’ve added even more ways to reduce the noise they cause. According to Forrester Consulting’s 2019 study, customers have experienced a...

Contrast Community Edition Empowers Developers to Write Secure Code Faster

As software eats the world, the world faces a software security crisis. The movement to modern software such as cloud technologies and microservice architectures is essential to innovate quickly. Yet, nearly three in four developers say that security slows down Agile and DevOps. Neither developer...

Avoid Alert Fatigue: How to Automatically Get Rid of WAF False Positive

Alert fatigue - introducing false positives in WAF All WAF experts know what it’s like handling massive amounts of alerts. They’re also very likely wasting a lot of time fishing false positives out of all these alerts. The WAF’s purpose is to block attacks and let legitimate traffic through. Fals...

Testing ModSecurity for false positives by books texts

The main things that prevent enabling security solutions like WAF/RASP/IDS/IPS in a blocking mode are false positives. Probably the second one is their inline performance and additional latency, but still. As a cloud-native WAF vendor, we at Wallarm are actively checking our products for false...

Me on COVID-19 Contact Tracing Apps

I was quoted in BuzzFeed: "My problem with contact tracing apps is that they have absolutely no value," Bruce Schneier, a privacy expert and fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, told BuzzFeed News. "I'm not even talking about the privacy concerns, I mea...

New Research Paper: Prevalence and impact of low-entropy packing schemes in the malware ecosystem

Detection of malware is a constant battle between the technologies designed to detect and prevent malware and the authors creating them. One common technique adversaries leverage is packing binaries. Packing an executable is similar to applying compression or encryption and can inhibit the abilit...

Intuitive and Ready-to-Use Monitoring Profiles for Compliance Regulations

Detecting changes from a baseline established for files and file paths and receiving instant alerts about them is crucial to ensure security within a monitored environment. File tampering is an indicator of illicit activity, and authorized users must be alerted whenever changes in a critical file...

RansomCoin - A DFIR Tool To Extract Cryptocoin Addresses And Other Indicators Of Compromise From Binaries

Extracting metadata and hardcoded Indicators of Compromise from ransomware, in a scalable, efficient, way with cuckoo integrations. Ideally, is it run during cuckoo dynamic analysis, but can also be used for static analysis on large collections of ransomware. Designed to be fast, with low false...

How to Maximize Your WAF

Whenever new WAF clients are brought aboard, there’s a procedure they must follow in order to properly configure their servers to work behind the WAF protection. You can find an example of the Imperva Cloud WAF onboarding procedure here. Sometimes, however, customers can miss important procedures...

A View into Top Level Domain (TLD) Abuse

Data science and security research teams in the carrier organization at Akamai process massive volumes of DNS queries every day to detect and track malicious activity. The data is live-streamed from DNS resolvers deployed in diverse service provider networks in every region of the world. Provider...

DNS Protection: A "Must" in Security Solutions for any Company

Domain name system DNS services are often a point of vulnerability for businesses, so DNS security has become a growing concern for many of them. DNS is a critical element for all companies because it turns domain names into internet protocol IP addresses. Cyber criminals have been digging into D...

Let Experts Do Their Job – Managed WAF by Indusface

WAF Web Application Firewall has been the first line of defence when it comes to application security for a while now. Many organizations have adopted WAF in one form or the other and most cases, compliance has been the driver for adoption. But unfortunately, when it comes to the efficacy of WAF ...

Wesng - Windows Exploit Suggester

WES-NG is a tool based on the output of Windows' systeminfo utility which provides the list of vulnerabilities the OS is vulnerable to, including any exploits for these vulnerabilities. Every Windows OS between Windows XP and Windows 10, including their Windows Server counterparts, is supported...

Security update for glib2 (important)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for glib2 Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2019:1650-1 Rating: important References: 1103678 1137001 Cross-References: CVE-2019-12450 Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.0 An update that solves one vulnerability and has one errata is now available. Descriptio...

SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : glib2 (SUSE-SU-2019:1594-1)

This update for glib2 fixes the following issues : Security issue fixed : CVE-2019-12450: Fixed an improper file permission when copy operation takes place bsc1137001. Other issue addressed: glib2 was handling an UNKNOWN connectivity state from NetworkManager as if there was a connection thus...

RapidScan - The Multi-Tool Web Vulnerability Scanner

Evolution: It is quite a fuss for a pentester to perform binge-tool-scanning running security scanning tools one after the other sans automation. Unless you are a pro at automating stuff, it is a herculean task to perform binge-scan for each and every engagement. The ultimate goal of this program...

Vulners Scanner for Android - Passive Vulnerability Scanning Based On Software Version Fingerprint

Vulners Scanner is developed by Vulners Team, the founders and maintainers of one of the world largest security databases. It implements technology of passive vulnerability scanning based on software version fingerprint. Is it legal? Absolutely. The application does not perform any malicious...

Google Makes it Tough for Rogue App Developers Get Back on Android Play Store

Even after Google's security oversight over its already-huge Android ecosystem has evolved over the years, malware apps still keep coming back to Google Play Store. Sometimes just reposting an already detected malware app from a newly created Play Store account, or using other developers' existin...

"Insider Threat" Detection Software

Notice this bit from an article on the arrest of Christopher Hasson: It was only after Hasson's arrest last Friday at his workplace that the chilling plans prosecutors assert he was crafting became apparent, detected by an internal Coast Guard program that watches for any "insider threat." The...

SUSE-SU-2019:0505-1 Security update for amavisd-new

This update for amavisd-new fixes the following issues: wmavisd-new was updated to version 2.11.1 bsc1123389: removed a trailing dot element from @INC, as a workaround for a perl vulnerability CVE-2016-1238 bsc987887 amavis-services: bumping up syslog level from LOGNOTICE to LOGERR for a message...