July 26, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Wright Brothers” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! July 26, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Security expert shares tips...

Book Review: Twitter and Tear Gas, by Zeynep Tufekci

There are two opposing models of how the Internet has changed protest movements. The first is that the Internet has made protesters mightier than ever. This comes from the successful revolutions in Tunisia 2010-11, Egypt 2011, and Ukraine 2013. The second is that it has made them more ineffectual...

kernel: nfsd: Incorrect handling of long RPC replies

The NFS2/3 RPC client could send long arguments to the NFS server. These encoded arguments are stored in an array of memory pages, and accessed using pointer variables. Arbitrarily long arguments could make these pointers point outside the array and cause an out-of-bounds memory access. A remote...

[SECURITY] Fedora 26 Update: dolphin-emu-5.0-14.fc26

Dolphin is a Gamecube, Wii and Triforce the arcade machine based on the Gamecube emulator, which supports full HD video with several enhancements such as compatibility with all PC controllers, turbo speed, networked multiplaye r, and more. Most games run perfectly or with minor bugs...

[SECURITY] Fedora 26 Update: authconfig-7.0.1-1.fc26

Authconfig is a command line utility which can configure a workstation to use shadow more secure passwords. Authconfig can also configure a system to be a client for certain networked user information and authentication schemes...

Hardcoded credentials

Foscam networked devices use the same hardcoded SSL private key across different customers' installations, which allows remote attackers to defeat cryptographic protection mechanisms by leveraging knowledge of this key from another installation...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: openslp-2.0.0-10.fc25

Service Location Protocol is an IETF standards track protocol that provides a framework to allow networking applications to discover the existence, location, and configuration of networked services in enterprise networks. OpenSLP is an open source implementation of the SLPv2 protocol as defined b...

Strategic Principles for Securing the IoT

DHS has released a set of Strategic Principles for Securing the Internet of Things IoT to help inform consumers, operators and manufacturers in their decision-making regarding networked and networkable devices. While the IoT can provide efficiency, convenience, and interactivity features that are...

PLC Blaster Worm Targets Industrial Control PLCs

LAS VEGAS – Security researchers at Black Hat USA described a proof-of-concept worm that targets weaknesses within automated industrial control systems used to manage critical infrastructure and manufacturing. The worm, according to OpenSource Security, has the capability to autonomously search f...

D-Links Wi-Fi Camera in the presence of a vulnerability will affect more than 1 2 0 different products-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! According to foreign media reports, security experts discovered a software plug-in, this component will be D-Links Wi-Fi camera is exposed to a remote attack risk. In addition, making the current situation worse, in the company's products, there are about 1 2 0 more products are using this...

[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: openslp-2.0.0-8.fc23

Service Location Protocol is an IETF standards track protocol that provides a framework to allow networking applications to discover the existence, location, and configuration of networked services in enterprise networks. OpenSLP is an open source implementation of the SLPv2 protocol as defined b...

[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: openslp-2.0.0-9.fc24

Service Location Protocol is an IETF standards track protocol that provides a framework to allow networking applications to discover the existence, location, and configuration of networked services in enterprise networks. OpenSLP is an open source implementation of the SLPv2 protocol as defined b...

Juniper Networks Junos OS TCP Timestamp DoS Vulnerability

Junos OS is prone to a denial of service vulnerability. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE = "cpe:/o:juniper:junos"; if...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: krb5 security update

Updated krb5 packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for eac...

Security update for glibc (critical)

This update for glibc fixes the following security issues: fix stack overflow in the glibc libresolv DNS resolver function getaddrinfo, known as CVE-2015-7547. It is a client side networked/remote vulnerability...

RPISEC: Malware Analysis

This material was developed and used by RPISEC to teach Malware Analysis at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Fall 2015. This was a university course developed and run solely by students, primarily using the Practical Malware Analysis book by Michael Sikorski and Andrew Honig, to teach skills i...

Filet-o-Firewall UPnP Security Vulnerability in Home Routers

Security vulnerabilities in UPnP continue to crop up and continue to put millions of home networking devices at risk for compromise. The latest was revealed in early August, but prompted an advisory yesterday from the DHS-sponsored CERT at the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon...

[SECURITY] [DLA 297-1] wesnoth-1.8 security update

Package : wesnoth-1.8 Version : 1:1.8.5-1+deb6u2 CVE ID : CVE-2015-5069 CVE-2015-5070 Wesnoth implements a text preprocessing language that is used in conjunction with its own game scripting language. It also has a built-in Lua interpreter and API. Both the Lua API and the preprocessor make use o...

Researchers Hack TrackingPoint Rifle's Precision Targeting System

TrackingPoint rifles are state-of-the-art precision hunting and sniper rifles that come equipped with a networked tracking scope that’s accessible via Wi-Fi, and comes complete with USB ports and a mobile app. It’s almost foolproof shooting, albeit at a $13,000 price tag. And the security of all ...

Hacking exposed Tesla Model S the memory 5 of the digital vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

According to Forbes reports, next month's Defcon hacker conference the eve of the opening, Tesla Model S models are exposed there are still 5 at the digital security vulnerabilities, and these vulnerabilities are still not being blocked. As global probably the most popular consumer interest in th...