New Book! The Best of TaoSecurity Blog, Volume 2

I published a new book! The Best of TaoSecurity Blog, Volume 2: Network Security Monitoring, Technical Notes, Research, and China and the Advanced Persistent Threat It's in the Kindle Store, and if you're Unlimited it's free. Print edition to follow. The book lists as having 413 pages for the...

A Hands-On Introduction to Mandiant's Approach to OT Red Teaming

Operational technology OT asset owners have historically considered red teaming of OT and industrial control system ICS networks to be too risky due to the potential for disruptions or adverse impact to production systems. While this mindset has remained largely unchanged for years, Mandiant's...

Dopple-Ganging Up on Facial Recognition

ARCHIVED STORY Dopple-ganging up on Facial Recognition Systems By Steve Povolny · August 25, 2020 Co-authored with Jesse Chick, OSU Senior and Former McAfee Intern, Primary Researcher. Special thanks to Dr. Catherine Huang, McAfee Advanced Analytics Team Special thanks to Kyle Baldes, Former McAf...

Voice Phishers Targeting Corporate VPNs

The COVID-19 epidemic has brought a wave of email phishing attacks that try to trick work-at-home employees into giving away credentials needed to remotely access their employers networks. But one increasingly brazen group of crooks is taking your standard phishing attack to the next level,...

Attribution: A Puzzle

By Martin Lee, Paul Rascagneres and Vitor Ventura. Introduction The attribution of cyber attacks is hard. It requires collecting diverse intelligence, analyzing it and deciding who is responsible. Rarely does the evidence available to researchers reach a level of proof that would be acceptable in...

SAP Business Objects Business Intelligence Platform Access Control Error Vulnerability (CNVD-2020-62944)

SAP Business Objects Business Intelligence Platform is a suite of business intelligence software and enterprise performance solutions from SAP, Germany. The product features report generation, analytics, and data visualization. An access control error vulnerability exists in Xvfb in SAP Business...

Threat Roundup for August 7 to August 14

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between Aug. 7 and Aug. 14. As with previous roundups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavioral characteristics,...

DAGOBAH - Open Source Tool To Generate Internal Threat Intelligence, Inventory & Compliance Data From AWS Resources

Dagobah is an open source tool written in python to automate the internal threat intelligence generation, inventory collection and compliance check from different AWS resources. Dagobah collects information and save the state into an elasticsearch index. Dagobah runs into the a LAMBDA and looks a...

Oracle BI Publisher Mobile Service Insufficient Validation Unauthorized Access

The vulnerability of the Mobile Service sub-component of the BI Publisher software development platform, Oracle Fusion Middleware, is related to insufficient validation of input data. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker, operating remotely, to gain unauthorized access to protect...

CVE-2020-6297

Under certain conditions the upgrade of SAP Data Hub 2.7 to SAP Data Intelligence, version - 3.0, allows an attacker to access confidential system configuration information, that should otherwise be restricted, leading to Information Disclosure...

CVE-2020-6297

Under certain conditions the upgrade of SAP Data Hub 2.7 to SAP Data Intelligence, version - 3.0, allows an attacker to access confidential system configuration information, that should otherwise be restricted, leading to Information Disclosure...

CVE-2020-6297

Under certain conditions the upgrade of SAP Data Hub 2.7 to SAP Data Intelligence, version - 3.0, allows an attacker to access confidential system configuration information, that should otherwise be restricted, leading to Information Disclosure...

Information disclosure

Under certain conditions the upgrade of SAP Data Hub 2.7 to SAP Data Intelligence, version - 3.0, allows an attacker to access confidential system configuration information, that should otherwise be restricted, leading to Information Disclosure...

CVE-2020-6297

Technical details about CVE-2020-6297 (affected product/version, root cause, exploitability) are not publicly available in the provided documents. Monitor for updates from SAP and CVE trackers.

CVE-2020-6297

Under certain conditions the upgrade of SAP Data Hub 2.7 to SAP Data Intelligence, version - 3.0, allows an attacker to access confidential system configuration information, that should otherwise be restricted, leading to Information Disclosure...

CVE-2020-6300: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

SAP Business Objects Business Intelligence Platform Central Management Console, versions- 4.2, 4.3, allows an attacker with administrator rights can use the web application to send malicious code to a different end user victim, as it does not sufficiently encode user-controlled inputs for...

CVE-2020-6297: Undefined Security Weakness

Under certain conditions the upgrade of SAP Data Hub 2.7 to SAP Data Intelligence, version - 3.0, allows an attacker to access confidential system configuration information, that should otherwise be restricted, leading to Information Disclosure...

PT-2020-5168

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions SAP Data Intelligence versions 3.0 SAP Data Hub version 2.7 Description The issue is related to the lack of protection for internal data in the SAP Data Intelligence platform. Under specific conditions, such as the upgrade from SAP Data Hub 2....

PT-2020-5167

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions SAP Business Objects Business Intelligence Platform versions 4.2, 4.3 Description The issue exists due to insufficient protection of the web page structure, allowing a remote attacker to conduct Cross-Site Scripting XSS attacks. An attacker wi...

Analytics Web Answers component

The vulnerability of the Analytics Web Answers component of the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition software is related to deficiencies in access control. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to gain access to modify, add, or delete data, or cause a service failure...