Bejtlich Joining Splunk

Since posting Bejtlich Moves On I've been rebalancing work, family, and personal life. I invested in my martial arts interests, helped more with home duties, and consulted through TaoSecurity. Today I'm pleased to announce that, effective Monday May 21st 2018, I'm joining the Splunk team. I will ...

Sending Inaudible Commands to Voice Assistants

Researchers have demonstrated the ability to send inaudible commands to voice assistants like Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant. Over the last two years, researchers in China and the United States have begun demonstrating that they can send hidden commands that are undetectable to the human ear t...

This Week in Security News: Exposure and Susceptibility

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, a new report revealed that the Equifax breach had a larger impact than previously thought. In addition, The Senate Intelligence Committee...

SAP Web Intelligence BI Launchpad SSRF Security Bypass Vulnerability

SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform is the German SAP SAP company's set of business intelligence BI solution platform. An SSRF security bypass vulnerability exists in SAP Web Intelligence BI Launchpad. An attacker can exploit the vulnerability to perform unauthorized actions, leading to further attac...

Enhancing Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection with detonation-based heuristics and machine learning

Email, coupled with reliable social engineering techniques, continues to be one of the primary entry points for credential phishing, targeted attacks, and commodity malware like ransomware and, increasingly in the last few months, cryptocurrency miners. Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection ATP...

Securing the modern workplace with Microsoft 365 threat protection – part 3

This post is authored by Debraj Ghosh, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Microsoft 365 Security. Detecting ransomware in the modern workplace Over the last two weeks, we have shared with you the roots of Microsoft 365 threat protection and how Microsoft 365 threat protect helps protect the modern...

How To Prioritize Vulnerabilities in a Modern IT Environment

Here’s a stat that shows the importance of prioritizing vulnerability remediation: Almost 30% of the CVEs disclosed in 2017 had a CVSS score of “High” or “Critical.” That works out to about 3,000 such vulnerabilities, or about 58 every week. Given this large number of severe vulnerabilities, it’s...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of April 30, 2018

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Hyland Perceptive Document Filters OpenDocument to JPEG conversion SkCanvas Code Execution vulnerability

Summary An exploitable double free exists in the OpenDocument to JPEG conversion functionality of the Hyland Perspective Document Filters version 11.4.0.2647. A crafted OpenDocument document can lead to a SkCanvas object double free resulting in direct code execution. Tested Versions Perceptive...

Hyland Perceptive Document Filters DOCX to HTML Code Execution Vulnerability

Summary An exploitable use after free exists in the DOCX to HTML conversion functionality of the Hyland Perspective Document Filters version 11.4.0.2647. A crafted DOCX document can lead to a use-after-free resulting in direct code execution. Tested Versions Perceptive Document Filters 11.4.0.264...

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Information Disclosure Vulnerability

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence BI is a suite of business intelligence software from IBM in the United States. The software includes reports, dashboards and scorecards, and can assist companies in adjusting their decisions by analyzing key factors and key stakeholders. A security vulnerability...

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability (CNVD-2018-08270)

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence BI is a suite of business intelligence software from IBM in the United States. The software includes reports, dashboards and scorecards, and can assist companies in adjusting their decisions by analyzing key factors and key stakeholders. A cross-site scripting...

Muhstik Botnet Exploits Highly Critical Drupal Bug

Researchers are warning a recently discovered and highly critical vulnerability found in Drupal’s CMS platform is now being actively exploited by hackers who are using it to install cryptocurrency miners and to launch DDoS attacks via compromised systems. At the time of the disclosure, last month...

CVE-2017-1764

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10.2, 10.2.1, 10.2.1.1, and 10.2.2, under specialized circumstances, could expose plain text credentials to a local user. IBM X-Force ID: 136149...

CVE-2017-1486

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10.2, 10.2.1, 10.2.1.1, and 10.2.2 is vulnerable to cross-site scripting. This vulnerability allows users to embed arbitrary JavaScript code in the Web UI thus altering the intended functionality potentially leading to credentials disclosure within a trusted...

CVE-2017-1764

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10.2, 10.2.1, 10.2.1.1, and 10.2.2, under specialized circumstances, could expose plain text credentials to a local user. IBM X-Force ID: 136149...

CVE-2017-1764

IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10.2, 10.2.1, 10.2.1.1, and 10.2.2, under specialized circumstances, could expose plain text credentials to a local user. IBM X-Force ID: 136149...

CVE-2017-1764

CVE-2017-1764 affects IBM Cognos Business Intelligence 10.2, 10.2.1, 10.2.1.1, and 10.2.2, where under specialized circumstances a local attacker could access plaintext credentials. This entry is linked to IBM Cognos-related advisories and IBM X-Force references. The NVD metrics indicate a local ...

TiE Inflect 2018 announces Wallarm as a 2018 TiE50 Finalist

We are excited to share one more win for the Wallarm team. Wallarm has been selected as a “2018 TiE50 Finalist” for the prestigious TiE50 Awards Program recognizing the world’s most innovative tech startups. This awards competition is part of TiE Inflect 2018, a prominent conference for tech...

Teaming up in the war on tech support scams

Editors note: Erik Wahlstrom spoke about the far-reaching impact of tech support scams and the need for industry-wide cooperation in his RSA Conference 2018 talk Tech Scams: Its Time to Release the Hounds. Social engineering attacks like tech support scams are so common because theyre so effectiv...