WhatsApp Group Video Call and Instagram Video Chat Are Coming Soon

Facebook announced a whole lot of new features at its 2018 Facebook F8 developers conference, including Dating on Facebook, letting users clear their web browsing history, real-time language translation within Messenger, and many more. Besides announcing exciting features for its social media...

First things first: Envisioning your security deployment

This blog post is part of a series that responds to common questions we receive from customers about deployment of Microsoft 365 Security solutions. In this series youll find context, answers, and guidance for deployment and driving adoption within your organization. Check out our last blog...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : MySQL vulnerabilities (USN-3629-3)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3629-3 advisory. USN-3629-1 fixed vulnerabilities in MySQL. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. Tenable has extracted the preceding...

Citrix ADC Deprecated Classic Policy Based Features and Functionalities FAQs

Q. Which all Classic policy based features and functionalities are being removed from Citrix ADC? Answer: All the features and functionalities mentioned in “Feature Description” column in Table 1 below are being removed from Citrix ADC. These features were deprecated in 12.0 builds and will be...

Google Redesigns Gmail – Here's a List of Amazing New Features

Google has finally been rolling out its new massively redesigned Gmail for desktop and mobile to 1.4 billion of users worldwide, which might be the most significant single upgrade in Gmail's history. This huge revamped version of the email service now offers plenty of new features such as...

Google Redesigns Gmail – Here's a List of Amazing New Features

Google has finally been rolling out its new massively redesigned Gmail for desktop and mobile to 1.4 billion of users worldwide, which might be the most significant single upgrade in Gmail's history. This huge revamped version of the email service now offers plenty of new features such as...

SUSE-SU-2018:1076-1 Recommended update for LibreOffice

LibreOffice was updated to version 6.0.3. Following new features were added: - The Notebookbar, although still an experimental feature, has been enriched with two new variants: Grouped Bar Full for Writer, Calc and Impress, and Tabbed Compact for Writer. The Special Characters dialog has been...

USN-3629-1: MySQL vulnerabilities

Multiple security issues were discovered in MySQL and this update includes new upstream MySQL versions to fix these issues. MySQL has been updated to 5.5.60 in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 17.10 have been updated to MySQL 5.7.22. In addition to security fixes, the updated packag...

Introducing Windows Defender System Guard runtime attestation

At Microsoft, we want users to be in control of their devices, including knowing the security health of these devices. If important security features should fail, users should be aware. Windows Defender System Guard runtime attestation, a new Windows platform security technology, fills this need...

Hashtopolis - A Hashcat Wrapper For Distributed Hashcracking

Hashtopolis is a multi-platform client-server tool for distributing hashcat tasks to multiple computers. The main goals for Hashtopolis's development are portability, robustness, multi-user support, and multiple groups management. The application has two parts: Agent Multiple clients C, Python,...

OPENSUSE-SU-2018:0953-1 Security update for pdns-recursor

This update for pdns-recursor fixes the following issues: - update to 4.1.2 - New Features - 6344: Add FFI version of gettag. - Improvements - 6298, 6303, 6268, 6290: Add the option to set the AXFR timeout for RPZs. - 6172: IXFR: correct behavior of dealing with DNS Name with multiple records and...

Information disclosure

In Android before security patch level 2018-04-05 on Qualcomm Snapdragon Mobile and Snapdragon Wear MDM9206, MDM9607, MDM9640, MDM9650, QCA4531, QCA6174A, QCA6564, QCA6574, QCA6574AU, QCA6584, QCA6584AU, QCA9377, QCA9378, QCA9379, SD 210/SD 212/SD 205, SD 410/12, SD 425, SD 427, SD 430, SD 435, S...

Microsoft Office 365 Gets Built-in Ransomware Protection and Enhanced Security Features

Ransomware has been around for a few years, but it has become an albatross around everyone's neck, targeting big businesses, hospitals, financial institutions and individuals worldwide and extorting millions of dollars. Last year, we saw some major ransomware outbreaks, including WannaCry and...

A Deep Dive into Database Attacks [Part IV]: Delivery and Execution of Malicious Executables through SQL Commands (MySQL)

In a previous post we covered different techniques for execution of SQL and OS commands through Microsoft SQL server that can be used for delivering and executing malicious payloads on the target system. In this post we’ll discuss the same topic for MySQL database. Creating an executable directly...

UPDATE: Prowler 2.0 Beta

PenTestIT RSS Feed My older post about Prowler was about a good NINE months ago. Since then, a lot has changed and hence, this post is about the recently released update made to the AWS CIS Benchmark tool – Prowler 2.0 Beta! This new beta version has lots of improvements which you shall read abou...

Design/Logic Flaw

OSIsoft PI System software Applications using PI Asset Framework AF Client versions prior to PI AF Client 2016, Version 2.8.0; Applications using PI Software Development Kit SDK versions prior to PI SDK 2016, Version 1.4.6; PI Buffer Subsystem, versions prior to and including, Version 4.4; and PI...

[SECURITY] Fedora 28 Update: kst-2.0.8-20.fc28

Kst is a real-time data viewing and plotting tool with basic data analysis functionality. Kst contains many powerful built-in features and is expandable with plugins and extensions. Main features of kst include: Robust plotting of live "streaming" data. Powerful keyboard and mouse plot...

What You Need To Know: "SNIPR" Credential Stuffing Tool

Overview Credential abuse CA is a trend that is here to stay. It affects almost every one of us. There are attackers trying to break into every online account and the vast majority of these attacks are happening silently in the background. In the past, credential abuse tools were written and...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : qemu (SUSE-SU-2018:0831-1) (Spectre)

This update for qemu fixes the following issues: This update has the next round of Spectre v2 related patches, which now integrate with corresponding changes in libvirt. CVE-2017-5715 bsc1068032 The January 2018 release of qemu initially addressed the Spectre v2 vulnerability for KVM guests by...

Multiple AMD product design vulnerabilities

AMD EPYC Server, etc. are central processing unit CPU products of AMD, USA. A security vulnerability exists in a number of AMD products that stems from a program failing to adequately enforce the Hardware Validated Boot.An attacker could use this vulnerability to install malicious software that...