Windows Defender ATP machine learning and AMSI: Unearthing script-based attacks that ‘live off the land’

Scripts are becoming the weapon of choice of sophisticated activity groups responsible for targeted attacks as well as malware authors who indiscriminately deploy commodity threats. Scripting engines such as JavaScript, VBScript, and PowerShell offer tremendous benefits to attackers. They run...

Windows Defender ATP machine learning and AMSI: Unearthing script-based attacks that ‘live off the land’

Scripts are becoming the weapon of choice of sophisticated activity groups responsible for targeted attacks as well as malware authors who indiscriminately deploy commodity threats. Scripting engines such as JavaScript, VBScript, and PowerShell offer tremendous benefits to attackers. They run...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: moodle-3.1.9-1.fc25

Moodle is a course management system CMS - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators crea te effective online learning communities...

[SECURITY] Fedora 26 Update: moodle-3.2.6-1.fc26

Moodle is a course management system CMS - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators crea te effective online learning communities...

Machine Learning Image Steganalysis: Aletheia

Aletheia is a steganalysis tool for the detection of hidden messages in images. The goal of steganalysis is to identify suspected packages, determine whether or not they have a payload encoded into them, and, if possible, recover that payload. Unlike cryptanalysis, steganalysis generally starts...

Intel Deep Learning Training Tool Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Intel Deep Learning Training Tool Beta is a set of deep learning training tools from Intel USA. The tool supports visual tuning and running deep learning algorithms. An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Intel Deep Learning Training Tool Beta 1. A remote attacker could exploit this...

Design/Logic Flaw

A vulnerability in the Intel Deep Learning Training Tool Beta 1 allows a network attacker to remotely execute code as a local user...

CVE-2017-5719

A vulnerability in the Intel Deep Learning Training Tool Beta 1 allows a network attacker to remotely execute code as a local user...

CVE-2017-5719

A vulnerability in the Intel Deep Learning Training Tool Beta 1 allows a network attacker to remotely execute code as a local user...

CVE-2017-5719

The CVE-2017-5719 entry pertains to Intel Deep Learning Training Tool Beta 1 and is supported by CNVD records describing an elevation-of-privilege vulnerability that could let a remote attacker execute code as a local user. Public details in the connected CNVD item indicate an elevation-of-privil...

Customer-driven Rapid Innovation for Hybrid Cloud Security

Cyber threats have no boundaries; they come in new and evolving forms, capable of striking at any time … so it becomes important that your threat protection extends beyond conventional boundaries as well. In the past, on premise versions of security solutions were held up by long development cycl...

Intel® Deep Learning Training Tool Beta 1 security vulnerability

Summary: A vulnerability in the Intel® Deep Learning Training Tool Beta 1 allows a network attacker to remotely execute code as a local user. Description: A vulnerability in the Intel® Deep Learning Training Tool Beta 1 allows a network attacker to remotely execute code as a local user. High 8.3...

ECS Online Learning System v3.1.0 SQL Injection Vulnerability in Frontend ShitiController.class.php Page

E-learning Online Learning System is an online learning platform system developed with thinkphp+bootstrap as the framework. A SQL injection vulnerability exists in the ShitiController.class.php page in the frontend of ECS Online Learning System v3.1.0. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability t...

A decade inside Microsoft Security

Ten years ago, I walked onto Microsofts Redmond campus to take a role on a team that partnered with governments and CERTs on cybersecurity. Id just left a meaningful career in US federal government service because I thought it would be fascinating to experience first-hand the security challenges...

Study Vulnerability Assessment in Tenable University for free

Not so long ago, Tenable presented renewed online training platform - Tenable University. It is publicly available even for non-customers, for example, for Nessus Home users. However, not all courses are available in this case. I decided to check it out, registering as non-customer. Logged in...

From Regular Expressions to AI

Three generations of attack detection methodology The oldest and well-studied approach is based on signatures and heuristics. From before the internet times, this approach was implemented in most kinds of detection systems from firewalls to anti-viruses. The second genera- tion represents an...

Reduce cloud adoption risks and deliver superior digital experiences with Akamai Cloud Delivery Platform - Part 1

Businesses are rapidly moving to the cloud and a recent IDG survey indicates that 70% of businesses have at least 1 application in the cloud and 16% plan to take their first app to the cloud in the next 12 months. However public cloud providers present their own challenges. They are unreliable...

Fraud Detection in Pokémon Go

I play Pokémon Go. There, I've admitted it. One of the interesting aspects of the game I've been watching is how the game's publisher, Niantic, deals with cheaters. There are three basic types of cheating in Pokémon Go. The first is botting, where a computer plays the game instead of a person. Th...

Machine Learning: Identify the Unpredictable – Whiteboard Wednesday [Video]

When it comes to identifying insider threats, the fundamental challenge is how to determine when data access appears out of the ordinary for a typical user or system, and of those instances, which ones are dangerous versus merely unusual. A lot of solutions today serve up so many policy violation...

Monitor More, Worry Less. Outpace Threats With Machine Learning.

In the past two years, enterprises have created more data than has been created in the entire history of humankind. At scale, securing this amount of data requires a re-think of how we grant and revoke access to sensitive files and, more importantly, how we identify and track the inevitable acces...