This Week in Security News: Rules and Roles

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, The New York Times critiqued the S.E.C.’s new cybersecurity guidance, Github suffered a record-breaking DDoS attack, and Forbes outlined the...

New SEC Cyber Risk Disclosure Guidance: What Does It Mean for Public Companies?

On February 21, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission SEC issued the long overdue cybersecurity interpretive guidance to address the methods and timing of cybersecurity risks and incidents disclosures. To signify the importance of this updated guidance, five SEC commissioners issued the...

NIST SP 800-171: What U.S. Government Contractors Need to Know

In December 2016, NIST released Special Publication 800-171, Revision 1: Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information in Nonfederal Systems. Since that publication, I have worked with dozens of government contractors to help them understand this publication and determine if and how it applies t...

FTC Releases Article on Choosing VPN Apps for Mobile Phones

The Federal Trade Commission FTC has issued guidance to consumers considering using a Virtual Private Network VPN for their mobile phones. Some mobile phone users choose to use VPNs to shield the information on their phones when using public Wi-Fi networks. NCCIC/US-CERT encourages consumers to...

Security and Quality Rollup for .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, 4.5.2, 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.7, and 4.7.1 for Windows Server 2012 (KB 4076493)

Security and Quality Rollup for .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, 4.5.2, 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.7, and 4.7.1 for Windows Server 2012 KB 4076493 Notice This update has been released as part of the Preview of the Quality Rollup for .NET Framework 3.5 SP1, 4.5.2, 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.7, and 4.7.1 for Windows...

kirkandassociates.ie XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-561276 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| kirkandassociates.ie Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

Cyber resilience for the modern enterprise

Many organizations are undergoing a digital transformation that leverages a mix of cloud and on-premises assets to increase business efficiency and growth. While increased dependence on technology is necessary for this transformation, and to position the business for success, it does pose risks...

Cyber resilience for the modern enterprise

Many organizations are undergoing a digital transformation that leverages a mix of cloud and on-premises assets to increase business efficiency and growth. While increased dependence on technology is necessary for this transformation, and to position the business for success, it does pose risks...

Open Source Static Code Analyser: StaCoAn

StaCoAn is a crossplatform tool which aids developers, bugbounty hunters and ethical hackers performing static code analysis on mobile applications. This tool will look for interesting lines in the code which can contain: Hardcoded credentials API keys URL’s of API’s Decryption keys Major coding...

timestelegram.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-557219 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| timestelegram.com Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Disclosure Standard:| Coordinated Disclosure...

leapwifi.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-556127 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| leapwifi.com Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Disclosure Standard:| Coordinated Disclosure based ...

Remote Code Execution

Overview Affected versions of electron may be susceptible to a remote code execution flaw when certain conditions are met: 1. The electron application is running on Windows. 2. The electron application registers as the default handler for a protocol, such as nodeapp://. This vulnerability is caus...

Elastic Stack 6.1.2 and 5.6.6 security update

Logstash sensitive information disclosure issue ESA-2018-01 When logging warnings regarding deprecated settings, Logstash could inadvertently log sensitive information. Affected Versions All versions before 6.1.2 and 5.6.6 Solutions and Mitigations: Users should upgrade to Logstash version 6.1.2 ...

Hiro: Missing restriction on string size of Full Name at browser.blockstack.org

Hi there Vulnerability Title: During my regular testing, I have found that there was no restriction on the amount of text that can be inserted into a user's Full name field. Security Impact: When the text size was large enough the service resulting in a momentary outage in our non-production...

PT-2018-16856 · Malwarebytes · Malwarebytes Premium

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Malwarebytes Premium version 3.3.1.2183 Description: The issue allows local users to cause a denial of service BSOD or possibly have unspecified other impact because of not validating input values from IOCtl 0x9C40E020 in the driver file...

web2002.co.kr XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-494403 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| web2002.co.kr Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

PT-2017-4058 · Spring +2 · Spring +3

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: FasterXML jackson-databind versions 2.8.10 and earlier FasterXML jackson-databind versions 2.9.x through 2.9.3 Description: The issue allows for unauthenticated remote code execution due to an incomplete fix for a deserialization flaw. This c...

RHEL 7 : procmail (RHSA-2017:3269)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2017:3269 advisory. The procmail packages contain a mail processing tool that can be used to create mail servers, mailing lists, sort incoming mail into separate folders...

National Tax Security Awareness Week: IRS Helps Taxpayers Protect Against Cyber Criminals

As part of National Tax Security Awareness Week—November 27 to December 1—the Internal Revenue Service IRS is releasing daily security tips to help taxpayers protect their data and identities against tax-related identity theft. US-CERT encourages taxpayers to visit the IRS National Tax Security...

Microsoft ASP.NET Core Denial of Service Vulnerability

This host is missing an important security update according to Microsoft advisory CVE-2017-11883. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-on...