Conpot - An Open Industrial Control Honeypot

Conpot is an ICS honeypot with the goal to collect intelligence about the motives and methods of adversaries targeting industrial control systems Documentation The build of the documentations source can be found here. There you will also find the instructions on how to install conpot and the FAQ...

The Advanced Persistent Threat files: APT10

We've heard a lot about Advanced Persistent Threats APTs over the past few years. As a refresher, APTs are prolonged, aimed attacks on specific targets with the intention to compromise their systems and gain information from or about that target. While the targets may be anyone or anything—a...

PyLocky Ransomware Decryption Tool Released — Unlock Files For Free

If your computer has been infected with PyLocky Ransomware and you are searching for a free ransomware decryption tool to unlock or decrypt your files—your search might end here. Security researcher Mike Bautista at Cisco's Talos cyber intelligence unit have released a free decryption tool that...

Security Vulnerabilities in Cell Phone Systems

Good essay on the inherent vulnerabilities in the cell phone standards and the market barriers to fixing them. So far, industry and policymakers have largely dragged their feet when it comes to blocking cell-site simulators and SS7 attacks. Senator Ron Wyden, one of the few lawmakers vocal about...

SAP Business Objects Mobile for Android Input Validation Vulnerability

SAP Business Objects Mobile for Android is an Android-based business intelligence application from SAP. The program is able to connect to the SAP BussinessObjects business intelligence platform and view data. An input validation vulnerability exists in versions of SAP Business Objects Mobile prio...

20-Year-Old Man Arrested For Carrying Out Germany's Biggest Data Leak

German federal police have arrested a 20-year-old local student for stealing and publishing a massive trove of personal data of hundreds of politicians, journalists and other public figures last month. The young man, whose identity has not been revealed by the police, was arrested after police...

Machine Learning to Detect Software Vulnerabilities

No one doubts that artificial intelligence AI and machine learning ML will transform cybersecurity. We just don't know how, or when. While the literature generally focuses on the different uses of AI by attackers and defenders ­ and the resultant arms race between the two ­ I want to talk about...

Shipping operators, what you need to know about phishing and CEO fraud

Maybe second only to ransomware, the most likely type of attack a shipping operator will experience will be a phishing scam. Usually this will be carried out by email, or social media, or even messaging apps. It will likely include a link to what seems a plausible website, and/or have an...

Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher Multiple Vulnerabilities (October 2018 CPU)

The version of Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher running on the remote host is 11.1.1.7.x prior to 11.1.1.7.181016, 11.1.1.9.x prior to 11.1.1.9.181016, 12.2.1.3.x prior to 12.2.1.3.181016, or 12.2.1.4.x prior to 12.2.1.4.181016. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as note...

MISP - Malware Information Sharing Platform and Threat Sharing

The objective of MISP is to foster the sharing of structured information within the security community and abroad. MISP provides functionalities to support the exchange of information but also the consumption of the information by Network Intrusion Detection System NIDS, LIDS but also log analysi...

Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher Multiple Vulnerabilities (July 2018 CPU)

The version of Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher running on the remote host is 11.1.1.7.x prior to 11.1.1.7.180717 or 11.1.1.9.x prior to 11.1.1.9.180717, similarly, versions 12.2.1.2.x prior to 12.2.1.2.180717 and 12.2.1.3.x prior to 12.2.1.3.180717 are affected as noted in the July 2018...

These people don’t exist – They were created by tech using Artificial Intelligence

By Waqas Artificial intelligence is increasingly advanced and has entered more and more areas, even in the most unexpected and sensitive issues for society such as the world’s first AI lawyer Ross. Now, tech giant NVIDIA has developed a tool that uses Artificial Intelligence to create extremely...

Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher Multiple Vulnerabilities (January 2018 CPU)

The version of Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher running on the remote host is 11.1.1.9.x prior to 11.1.1.9.180116 or 12.2.1.2.x prior to 12.2.1.2.180116 or 12.2.1.3.x prior to 12.2.1.3.180116. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as noted in the January 2018 Critical Patch...

Shamoon Attackers Employ New Tool Kit to Wipe Infected Systems

ARCHIVED STORY Shamoon Attackers Employ New Tool Kit to Wipe Infected Systems By Thomas Roccia · December 19, 2018 Last week the McAfee Advanced Threat Research team posted an analysis of a new wave of Shamoon “wiper” malware attacks that struck several companies in the Middle East and Europe. In...

My Takeaways from the Gartner I&O Conference

By Renata Budko, Wallarm Last week I spent a few days in Las Vegas with the great folks at the Gartner IT Infrastructure, Operations & Cloud Strategies Conference. Gathered for the conference there were experts around the world from analysts to VPs to infrastructure and operations leaders to...

Security Bulletin: A Security Vulnerability has been Identified in Websphere Application Server Shipped with Predictive Customer Intelligence (CVE-2018-1904)

Summary Websphere Application Server is shipped with Predictive Customer Intelligence. Information about a security vulnerability affecting Websphere Application Server has been published in a security bulletin. Vulnerability Details Please consult the security bulletin Security Bulletin: Potenti...

Security Bulletin: A Security Vulnerability has been Identified in Websphere Application Server Shipped with Predictive Customer Intelligence (CVE-2018-1926)

Summary Websphere Application Server is shipped with Predictive Customer Intelligence. Information about a security vulnerability affecting Websphere Application Server has been published in a security bulletin. Vulnerability Details Please consult the security bulletin Security Bulletin: Potenti...

Security Bulletin: A Security Vulnerability has been Identified in Websphere Application Server Shipped with Predictive Customer Intelligence (CVE-2018-1957)

Summary Websphere Application Server is shipped with Predictive Customer Intelligence. Information about a security vulnerability affecting Websphere Application Server has been published in a security bulletin. Vulnerability Details Please consult the security bulletin Security Bulletin: Potenti...

Microsoft AI competition explores the next evolution of predictive technologies in security

Predictive technologies are already effective at detecting and blocking malware at first sight. A new malware prediction competition on Kaggle will challenge the data science community to push these technologies even furtherto stop malware before it is even seen. The Microsoft-sponsored competiti...

Grammarly Launches Public Bug Bounty Program

Online AI-based communications tool Grammarly is taking its private bug bounty program public in hopes of finding and fixing more vulnerabilities in its software. The company has run a private bug bounty program – which currently has 1,500 participants – in conjunction with HackerOne for over a...