Friday Squid Blogging: Humboldt Squid Backlight Themselves to Communicate More Clearly

This is neat: Deep in the Pacific Ocean, six-foot-long Humboldt squid are known for being aggressive, cannibalistic and, according to new research, good communicators. Known as "red devils," the squid can rapidly change the color of their skin, making different patterns to communicate, something...

Security update for crawl (moderate)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for crawl Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2020:0549-1 Rating: moderate References: 1169381 Cross-References: CVE-2020-11722 Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.1 openSUSE Backports SLE-15-SP1 An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available...

Google Sees State-Sponsored Hackers Ramping Up Coronavirus Attacks

More than 12 government-backed groups are using the pandemic as cover for digital reconnaissance and espionage, according to a new report...

Policy Compliance Library Updates, April 2020

Qualys’ library of built-in policies makes it easy to comply with the security standards and regulations that are most commonly used and adhered to. Qualys provides a wide range of policies, including many that have been certified by CIS as well as the ones based on security guidelines from OS an...

Talos Incident Response announces new, lower price through July 25

Today’s world looks very different than three months ago. More people work remotely than ever before. IT teams work around the clock to expand capacity and new software and services are being deployed to handle the load. Within this new remote environment, we have seen new malware families and...

“We Need COBOL Programmers!” No, You Probably Don’t

Editor's note: While this topic isn't entirely security-specific, Trend Micro leader William Malik, has career expertise on the trending topic and shared his perspective. ---- There was a provocative report recently that the Governor of New Jersey told reporters that the state of New Jersey neede...

CVE-2020-11968

In the web-panel in IQrouter through 3.3.1, remote attackers can read system logs because of Incorrect Access Control. Note: The vendor claims that this vulnerability can only occur on a brand-new network that, after initiating the forced initial configuration which has a required step for settin...

PT-2020-12957 · Linux +2 · Linux +2

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: IQrouter versions 3.3.1 and earlier Description: The issue allows remote attackers to change the root password arbitrarily using the Lua function reset password in the web-panel. This can occur on a brand-new network that has not been...

Exploit for Missing Authentication for Critical Function in Vmware Vcenter_Server

Proof of concept for CVE-2020-3952https://www.guardicore.co...

GitLab: Unauthorized access to private project security dashboard

Summary User with guest permissions can't view security dashboard of the private project. However, this is not applied when user permission changes from maintainer to guest. As a result, if user was previously a maintainer in the project he/she can add the project to their security dashboard and...

Exploit for Missing Authentication for Critical Function in Vmware Vcenter_Server

Proof of concept for CVE-2020-3952https://www.guardicore.co...

SQL Injection Vulnerability in the New Member Module mo**** Parameters of 120 Emergency Command Center Web Service System

120 Emergency Command Center Web Service System is a set of web application services for 120 Emergency Command Center, including internal training, learning and assessment functions. A SQL injection vulnerability exists in the mo parameter of the new membership module of the 120 Emergency Command...

Cumulative Update 18 for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central October'18 on-premises (Application Build 41909, Platform Build 41879)

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Audix - A PowerShell Tool To Quickly Configure The Windows Event Audit Policies For Security Monitoring

Audix will allow for the SIMPLE configuration of Windows Event Audit Policies. Window's Audit Policies are restricted by default. This means that for Incident Responders, Blue Teamers, CISO's & people looking to monitor their environment through use of Windows Event Logs, must configure the audit...

An update that provides new APIs for conversion between local time and UTC in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2 is available

An update that provides new APIs for conversion between local time and UTC in Windows 7 or in Windows Server 2008 R2 is available INTRODUCTION This article introduces an update that provides new APIs for conversion between local time and Coordinated Universal Time UTC in Windows 7 or in Windows...

Update changes the game rating systems in Windows 7

Update changes the game rating systems in Windows 7 INTRODUCTION This article describes an update that enables the game rating systems in Windows 7 to reflect the changes to the game rating systems in Windows 8. After you install this update, the game rating systems in Windows 7 will be compliant...

SUSE-SU-2020:0693-1 Security update for wireshark

This update for wireshark and libmaxminddb fixes the following issues: Update wireshark to new major version 3.2.2 and introduce libmaxminddb for GeoIP support bsc1156288. New features include: - Added support for 111 new protocols, including WireGuard, LoRaWAN, TPM 2.0, 802.11ax and QUIC -...

Advantech WebAccess/NMS Authentication Missing Vulnerability

Advantech WebAccess/NMS is a web browser based software suite for Network Management Systems NMS. An authentication missing vulnerability exists in Advantech WebAccess/NMS, which can be exploited by an attacker to create a new administrator account...

CVE-2020-11515

The Rank Math plugin through 1.0.40.2 for WordPress allows unauthenticated remote attackers to create new URIs that redirect to an external web site via the unsecured rankmath/v1/updateRedirection REST API endpoint. In other words, this is not an "Open Redirect" issue; instead, it allows the...

CVE-2020-11515

The Rank Math plugin through 1.0.40.2 for WordPress allows unauthenticated remote attackers to create new URIs that redirect to an external web site via the unsecured rankmath/v1/updateRedirection REST API endpoint. In other words, this is not an "Open Redirect" issue; instead, it allows the...