China's Hacking Spree Will Have a Decades-Long Fallout

Equifax. Anthem. Marriott. OPM. The data that China has amassed about US citizens will power its intelligence activities for a generation...

The vulnerability of the Security and Authentication component of the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition allows a perpetrator to gain access to modify, add, or delete data, or to unauthorizedly access protected information.

The vulnerability of the Security and Authentication component of the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition is related to deficiencies in access control. Exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker, operating remotely, to modify, add, or delete data, or to gain unauthoriz...

The vulnerability of the Analytics Server component of the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition allows a perpetrator to gain unauthorized access to protected information.

The vulnerability of the Analytics Server component of the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition software is related to deficiencies in access control. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a malicious actor, operating remotely, to gain unauthorized access to protected information...

The vulnerability of the BI Platform Security component of the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition allows a perpetrator to gain unauthorized access to protected information.

The vulnerability of the BI Platform Security component of the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition is related to access control deficiencies. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker, operating remotely, to gain unauthorized access to protected information using the HTTP...

Afternoon Cyber Tea—From threat intelligence to chatbots: A look at AI in cybersecurity

I’ve often said our teams should be as diverse as the problems we are trying to solve. Hiring a diverse security team isn’t just the right thing to do, it’s also good business. This is a topic I’m very passionate about, so I was delighted to interview Jane Frankland for the second podcast of...

Introducing Cisco Talos Incident Response: Stories from the Field

By Jon Munshaw. As another way of bringing our boots-on-the-ground intelligence to defenders, customers and users, we are introducing a new video series called "Cisco Talos Incident Response: Stories from the Field." In each entry, a CTIR team member will cover one specific incident or lesson tha...

Misp-Dashboard - A Dashboard For A Real-Time Overview Of Threat Intelligence From MISP Instances

A dashboard showing live data and statistics from the ZMQ feeds of one or more MISP instances. The dashboard can be used as a real-time situational awareness tool to gather threat intelligence information. The misp-dashboard includes a gamification tool to show the contributions of each...

Threat Source newsletter (Feb. 6, 2020)

Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week. There’s never been a better time to be into cyber security podcasts. Our Podcasts page on TalosIntelligence.com got a facelift this week...

Security Bulletin: IBM Tivoli Common Reporting Security Updater: TCR, a part of IBM Jazz for Service Management (JazzSM) is affected by multiple vulnerabilities

Summary There are multiple vulnerabilities in IBM® Runtime Environment Java™ Version 7 used by IBM Cognos Business Intelligence. These issues were disclosed as part of the IBM Java SDK updates in October 2018, January 2019, April 2019, July 2019 and October 2019. IBM Cognos Business Intelligence...

RSA Conference 2020—Empower your defenders with artificial intelligence and automation

The RSA Conference 2020 kicks off in less than three weeks, and the Microsoft Security team can’t wait. This is one of our most important annual events because it provides an invaluable opportunity for us to connect with customers, partners, and other security thought leaders. New ideas are...

Abusing DLL Misconfigurations — Using Threat Intelligence to Weaponize R&D

DLL Abuse Techniques Overview Dynamic-link library DLL side-loading occurs when Windows Side-by-Side WinSxS manifests are not explicit about the characteristics of DLLs being loaded by a program. In layman’s terms, DLL side-loading can allow an attacker to trick a program into loading a malicious...

Collating Hacked Data Sets

Two Harvard undergraduates completed a project where they went out on the dark web and found a bunch of stolen datasets. Then they correlated all the information, and combined it with additional, publicly available, information. No surprise: the result was much more detailed and personal. "What w...

Afternoon Cyber Tea—The State of Cybersecurity: How did we get here? What does it mean?

Every year the number and scale of cyberattacks grows. Marc Goodman, a global security strategist, futurist, and author of the book, Future Crimes: Everything is Connected, Everyone is Vulnerable, and What We Can Do About It, thinks a lot about how we got here and what it means, which is why he w...

Security Bulletin: IBM has announced a release for IBM Security Identity Governance and Intelligence in response to security vulnerability (CVE-2018-11214, CVE-2018-11213, CVE-2018-11212)

Summary IBM has announced a release for IBM Security Identity Governance and Intelligence IGI in response to security vulnerability. The libjpeg-turbo packages contain a library of functions for manipulating JPEG images. They also contain simple client programs for accessing the libjpeg functions...

Security Bulletin: IBM has announced a release for IBM Security Identity Governance and Intelligence in response to security vulnerability (CVE-2018-12404)

Summary IBM has announced a release for IBM Security Identity Governance and Intelligence IGI in response to security vulnerability. A cached side channel attack during handshakes using RSA encryption could allow for the decryption of encrypted content. This is a variant of the Adaptive Chosen...

Security Bulletin: IBM has announced a release for IBM Security Identity Governance and Intelligence in response to security vulnerability (CVE-2019-11479, CVE-2019-11478, CVE-2019-11477)

Summary IBM has announced a release for IBM Security Identity Governance and Intelligence IGI in response to security vulnerability. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. An integer overflow flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's networking...

The vulnerability of the Web Intelligence component of the SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform allows a perpetrator to gain unauthorized access to protected information.

The vulnerability of the Web Intelligence component of the SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform is related to the lack of protection for operational data. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker operating remotely to gain unauthorized access to protected information...

The vulnerability of the API interface of the Threat Intelligence Exchange Server allows attackers to compromise the integrity of the protected information.

The vulnerability of the Threat Intelligence Exchange Server’s API interface is related to deficiencies in authentication procedures. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor, operating remotely, to compromise the integrity of the protected information through specially crafted...

Guardicore Centra Release v 31

Guardicore Centra v 31 includes such features as user-based rules and a threat intelligence firewall. Read more about the updates and improvements...

How we Developed a Unified Binary Store (UBS): Part 1

Like most technology companies, VMware Carbon Black has a combination of acquired and built technologies that all utilize their own data stores. As our products have evolved to include the benefits of a centralized cloud offering, our data stores needed to similarly evolve. A new goal was formed:...