Misunderstanding APT Indicators of Compromise

Threatpost Op-Ed is a regular feature where experts contribute essays and commentary on what’s happening in security and privacy. Today’s contributors are Dave Dittrich and Katherine Carpenter. Reports of APT activities detail compromises spanning multiple organizations, sectors, industry...

What is Threat Intelligence and How It Helps to Identify Security Threats

Simply put, threat intelligence is knowledge that helps you identify security threats and make informed decisions. Threat intelligence can help you solve the following problems: How do I keep up to date on the overwhelming amount of information on security threats…including bad actors, methods,...

CISA Passes Senate Without Addressing Privacy Concerns

To the consternation of many — tech companies, privacy advocates, and civil liberties groups included — members of the Senate voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to pass a version of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, a bill that many opposed argue will lead to continued pervasive government...

Noriben - Your Personal, Portable Malware Sandbox

Noriben is a Python-based script that works in conjunction with Sysinternals Procmon to automatically collect, analyze, and report on runtime indicators of malware. In a nutshell, it allows you to run your malware, hit a keypress, and get a simple text report of the sample's activities. Noriben...

Free Tool Looks for HackingTeam Malware

UPDATE–Researchers at Rook Security have released a new tool that looks for HackingTeam malware on target systems, and also have published a set of indicators of compromise to help organizations look for signs of an infection from the intrusion software. The HackingTeam Remote Control System is t...

U.S. and Japan to Cooperate on Cybersecurity, Information Sharing

The United States and Japan have agreed to cooperate more closely on cybersecurity and information sharing initiatives as a way to help both countries defend against future threats and attacks. The new initiative will include a variety of components, most notably cooperation during serious...

DHS Releases Destover Wiper Malware Indicators of Compromise

US-CERT released a not-so-cryptic advisory this weekend providing enterprises with indicators of compromise and detailed descriptions of the malware used against “a major entertainment company,” the Department of Homeland Security’s description of Sony Pictures Entertainment. DHS describes in gre...

Google Proposes Marking 'HTTP' as Insecure in 2015

The Chromium security team is devising a plan to explicitly and actively inform users that ‘HTTP’ connections provide no data security protections. Google’s grand vision is that some day, HTTPS will become so widespread and commonplace that secure connections can be unmarked in the way that HTTP...

Operation Cleaver Critical Infrastructure Hacking Attacks

Iranian state-sponsored hackers have been singled out for attacks on critical infrastructure worldwide, including 10 targets in the United States. Security firm Cylance today released an 86-page report on Operation Cleaver that lays out Iran’s hacking capabilities and motivations to attack global...

openSUSE Security Update : chromium (openSUSE-SU-2014:0243-1)

Chromium was updated to version 32.0.1700.102: Stable channel update : - Security Fixes : - CVE-2013-6649: Use-after-free in SVG images - CVE-2013-6650: Memory corruption in V8 - and 12 other fixes - Other : - Mouse Pointer disappears after exiting full-screen mode - Drag and drop files into...

Draft Bill to Protect Threat Information Sharing

The fear of lawsuits has – for a very long time – been among the primary reasons that public-private cyber-threat information sharing practices have never really materialized. This failure is reality in spite of repeated calls for such partnerships year after year from government and industry...

Comtrend CT 5361T Password Disclosure

Author: TUNISIAN CYBER + Exploit Title: Comtrend CT 5361T Password Disclosure Vulnerability + Date: 07-04-2014 + Category: WebApp + Tested on: Windows 7 Pro + Vendor: http://www.comtrend.com/ + Product:...

SuSE Update for chromium openSUSE-SU-2014:0243-1 (chromium)

Check for the Version of chromium OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbsuse201402431.nasl 8044 2017-12-08 08:32:49Z santu $ SuSE Update for chromium openSUSE-SU-2014:0243-1 chromium Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright C 2014 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This...

chromium to 32.0.1700.102 (important)

Chromium was updated to version 32.0.1700.102: Stable channel update: - Security Fixes: CVE-2013-6649: Use-after-free in SVG images CVE-2013-6650: Memory corruption in V8 and 12 other fixes - Other: Mouse Pointer disappears after exiting full-screen mode Drag and drop files into Chromium may not...

[PeStudio v7.98] The Static Investigation tool for Windows executable binary

PeStudio is a free tool performing the static investigation of any Windows executable binary. A file being analyzed with PeStudio is never launched. Therefore you can evaluate unknown executable and even malware with no risk. PeStudio runs on any Windows Platform and is fully portable , no...

Threat, Attack Data Intelligence Sharing Efforts Fall Short

DENVER – When it comes to information sharing, are companies too scared or too selfish to trade attack data? A number of information security officers from high-profile companies debated the topic this week at the NG Security Summit and came to the conclusion that it’s a little bit of both. Shari...

UPDATE: Ongoing Malicious Cyber Activity Against U.S. Government and Private Sector Entities

UPDATE: The United States Department of Homeland Security, in collaboration with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other partners, has released a second Joint Indicator Bulletin JIB through secure channels. Confirmed members of the cybersecurity community of practice, which may include...

An In-Depth Look Into Data Stacking

Mandiant's Nick Bennett and Jake Valletta discussed data stacking at MIRcon™ last month. If you were unable to attend the talk, we will discuss this data analysis technique here on the M-Unition blog. What is Data Stacking? Data stacking is the application of frequency analysis to large volumes o...

Making an Application Security Program Succeed, Part Two

“Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, only this time more wisely,” is a quote attributed to legendary automaker Henry Ford. While it seemingly has nothing to do with secure application development, all you need to do is talk to a handful of enterprises who have tried to implement a...

USN-878-1: Firefox 3.5 and Xulrunner 1.9.1 regression

USN-874-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox and Xulrunner. The upstream changes introduced a regression when using NTLM authentication. This update fixes the problem and adds additional stability fixes. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Jesse Ruderman, Josh Soref,...