JDK: privilege escalation via insufficiently restricted access to Attach API

In Eclipse OpenJ9 version 0.8, users other than the process owner may be able to use Java Attach API to connect to an Eclipse OpenJ9 or IBM JVM on the same machine and use Attach API operations, which includes the ability to execute untrusted native code. Attach API is enabled by default on...

Partner Perspectives: Creating Your Own Threat Hunting Army

Idan Bellayev is the head of security research for empow. Cyber intelligence is one of the strongest tools that can be used to combat a potential attacker. Accessing the information needed to build cyber intelligence from a reliable source is typically difficult and very expensive - but it doesn’...

JDK: privilege escalation via insufficiently restricted access to Attach API

In Eclipse OpenJ9 version 0.8, users other than the process owner may be able to use Java Attach API to connect to an Eclipse OpenJ9 or IBM JVM on the same machine and use Attach API operations, which includes the ability to execute untrusted native code. Attach API is enabled by default on...

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-15869

An Amazon Web Services AWS developer who does not specify the --owners flag when describing images via AWS CLI, and therefore not properly validating source software per AWS recommended security best practices, may unintentionally load an undesired and potentially malicious Amazon Machine Image A...

Code injection

An Amazon Web Services AWS developer who does not specify the --owners flag when describing images via AWS CLI, and therefore not properly validating source software per AWS recommended security best practices, may unintentionally load an undesired and potentially malicious Amazon Machine Image A...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-15869

An Amazon Web Services AWS developer who does not specify the --owners flag when describing images via AWS CLI, and therefore not properly validating source software per AWS recommended security best practices, may unintentionally load an undesired and potentially malicious Amazon Machine Image A...

This Week in Security News: Facebook and Faxploits

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, Facebook removed 652 fake accounts originating from Russia and Iran. Also, Microsoft identified and removed fake internet domains that...

Security and Artificial Intelligence: Hype vs. Reality

While artificial intelligence and machine learning are far from new, many in security suddenly believe these technologies will transform their business and enable them to detect every cyber threat that comes their way. But instead, the hype may create more problems than it solves. Recently,...

AI and Machine Learning: Boosting Compliance and Preventing Spam

Some of the most advanced strategies in the current technology and analytics spaces include artificial intelligence and machine learning. These innovative approaches can hold nearly endless possibilities for technological applications: from the ability to eliminate manual work and enable software...

FreeBSD : FreeBSD -- L1 Terminal Fault (L1TF) Kernel Information Disclosure (2310b814-a652-11e8-805b-a4badb2f4699) (Foreshadow)

On certain Intel 64-bit x86 systems there is a period of time during terminal fault handling where the CPU may use speculative execution to try to load data. The CPU may speculatively access the level 1 data cache L1D. Data which would otherwise be protected may then be determined by using side...

Subdomain Enumeration Tool: Amass

Amass is the subdomain enumeration tool with the greatest number of disparate data sources that performs analysis of the resolved names in order to deliver the largest number of quality results. Amass performs scraping of data sources, recursive brute forcing, crawling of web archives, permuting...

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-10846

A cache-based side channel in GnuTLS implementation that leads to plain text recovery in cross-VM attack setting was found. An attacker could use a combination of "Just in Time" Prime+probe attack in combination with Lucky-13 attack to recover plain text using crafted packets...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-10846

A cache-based side channel in GnuTLS implementation that leads to plain text recovery in cross-VM attack setting was found. An attacker could use a combination of "Just in Time" Prime+probe attack in combination with Lucky-13 attack to recover plain text using crafted packets...

Kali Linux 2018.3 Release - Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking Linux Distribution

Kali 2018.3 brings the kernel up to version 4.17.0 and while 4.17.0 did not introduce many changes, 4.16.0 had a huge number of additions and improvements including more Spectre and Meltdown fixes, improved power management, and better GPU support. New Tools and Tool Upgrades Since our last...

Xen Denial of Service Vulnerability (CNVD-2020-23022)

Xen is an open source virtual machine monitor product developed at the University of Cambridge, UK. The product enables different and incompatible operating systems to run on the same computer and supports runtime migration to ensure uptime and avoid downtime. A security vulnerability exists in X...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : APT vulnerability (USN-3746-1)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3746-1 advisory. It was discovered that APT incorrectly handled the mirror method mirror://. If a remote attacker were able to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack, this flaw...

USN-3746-1: APT vulnerability

It was discovered that APT incorrectly handled the mirror method mirror://. If a remote attacker were able to perform a machine-in-the-middle attack, this flaw could potentially be used to install altered packages in environments configured to use mirror:// entries...

James Mickens on the Current State of Computer Security

James Mickens gave an excellent keynote at the USENIX Security Conference last week, talking about the social aspects of security -- racism, sexism, etc. -- and the problems with machine learning and the Internet. Worth watching...

MGASA-2018-0344 Updated microcode packages fix security vulnerabilities

This microcode update provides the Intel 20180807 microcode release that adds the processor microcode side of fixes and mitigations for the now publically known security issue affected Intel processors called L1 Terminal Fault L1TF for most Intel processors since Intel Core gen2: Systems with...

L1 Terminal Fault Side Channel Vulnerabilities - US

Lenovo Security Advisory: LEN-24163 Potential Impact: Malicious code running locally may be able to observe contents of privileged memory, circumventing expected privilege levels Severity: High Scope of Impact: Industry-wide CVE Identifier: CVE-2018-3615, CVE-2018-3620, CVE-2018-3646 Summary...