Acronym Overdose – Navigating the Complex Data Security Landscape

In the modern enterprise, data security is often discussed using a complex lexicon of acronyms—DLP, DDR, DSPM, and many others. While these acronyms represent critical frameworks, architectures, and tools for protecting sensitive information, they can also overwhelm those trying to piece together...

What NIST’s latest password standards mean, and why the old ones weren’t working

Say goodbye to the days of using the "@" symbol to mean "a" in your password or replacing an "S" with a "$." The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST recently announced new guidelines for the ways website and organizations should handle password creation and management that wi...

FreeBSD : Slixmpp -- Lack of SSL Certificate hostname validation in XMLStream (f9cfdb00-7f43-11ef-9b27-592d55dd336d)

The version of FreeBSD installed on the remote host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the f9cfdb00-7f43-11ef-9b27-592d55dd336d advisory. NIST reports: Slixmpp before 1.8.3 lacks SSL Certificate hostname validation in XMLStream, allowing an...

AI Pulse: What's new in AI regulations?

Fall is in the air and frameworks for mitigating AI risk are dropping like leaves onto policymakers’ desks. From California’s SB 1047 bill and NIST’s model-testing deal with OpenAI and Anthropic to REAIM’s blueprint for military AI governance, AI regulation is proving to be a hot and complicated...

The FIPS Compliance of HKDF

HKDF is an HMAC-based key-derivation function specified in RFC 5869. It’s nice and we generally like using it. FIPS Federal Information Processing Standards is used generally as a moniker for the set of standards, recommendations, and guidance published by the U.S. National Institute of Standards...

CBL Mariner 2.0 Security Update: curl (CVE-2024-6197_-_A)

The version of curl installed on the remote CBL Mariner 2.0 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CVE-2024-6197-A advisory. - NIST NVD Details CVE-2024-6197 Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on...

Google Chrome Switches to ML-KEM for Post-Quantum Cryptography Defense

Google has announced that it will be switching from KYBER to ML-KEM in its Chrome web browser as part of its ongoing efforts to defend against the risk posed by cryptographically relevant quantum computers CRQCs. "Chrome will offer a key share prediction for hybrid ML-KEM codepoint 0x11EC," David...

Microsoft Is Adding New Cryptography Algorithms

Microsoft is updating SymCrypt, its core cryptographic library, with new quantum-secure algorithms. Microsofts details are here. From a news article: The first new algorithm Microsoft added to SymCrypt is called ML-KEM. Previously known as CRYSTALS-Kyber, ML-KEM is one of three post-quantum...

CBL Mariner 2.0 Security Update: krb5 (CVE-2024-26458)

The version of krb5 installed on the remote CBL Mariner 2.0 host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CVE-2024-26458 advisory. - Kerberos 5 aka krb5 1.21.2 contains a memory leak in /krb5/src/lib/rpc/pmaprmt.c. CVE-2024-26458 Note that...

Exploit for Out-of-bounds Write in Mikrotik Routeros

cve-2023-30800-multithread-doser Multithredded DoS Python Scri...

openSUSE Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2024:3106-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 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 ifdescription...

NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) and CTEM – Better Together

It's been a decade since the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST introduced its Cybersecurity Framework CSF 1.0. Created following a 2013 Executive Order, NIST was tasked with designing a voluntary cybersecurity framework that would help organizations manage cyber risk, providing...

Android Users Urged to Install Latest Security Updates to Fix Actively Exploited Flaw

Google has released its monthly security updates for the Android operating system to address a known security flaw that it said has come under active exploitation in the wild. The high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-32896 CVSS score: 7.8, relates to a case of privilege escalation in...

SUSE SLED15: libopenssl-3-devel / libopenssl-3-devel-32bit / etc (SUSE-SU-2024:3106-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLEDSAP15 / SLES15 / SLESSAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:3106-1 advisory. - CVE-2024-6119: Fixed denial of service in X.509 name checks bsc1229465 Other fixes: - FIPS: Deny SHA-1...

SUSE-SU-2024:3106-1 Security update for openssl-3

This update for openssl-3 fixes the following issues: - CVE-2024-6119: Fixed denial of service in X.509 name checks bsc1229465 Other fixes: - FIPS: Deny SHA-1 signature verification in FIPS provider bsc1221365. - FIPS: RSA keygen PCT requirements. - FIPS: Check that the fips provider is available...

Windows IIS HTTP Protocol Stack Denial of Service

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'Windows IIS HTTP Protocol Stack DOS', 'Description' = %q This module exploits CVE-2021-31166, a UAF bug in http.sys when parsing specially crafte...

Inside the NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 and API Security

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Google Warns of CVE-2024-7965 Chrome Security Flaw Under Active Exploitation

Google has revealed that a security flaw that was patched as part of a software update rolled out last week to its Chrome browser has come under active exploitation in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2024-7965, the vulnerability has been described as an inappropriate implementation bug in the V8...

Let’s All Agree to Use Seeds as ML-KEM Keys

Last week, NIST published the final version of the ML-KEM1 specification, FIPS 203. One change from the draft is that the final document explicitly allows storing the private decapsulation key as a seed. This is a plea to the cryptography engineering community: let’s all agree to only use seeds a...

NIST Releases First Post-Quantum Encryption Algorithms

From the Federal Register: After three rounds of evaluation and analysis, NIST selected four algorithms it will standardize as a result of the PQC Standardization Process. The public-key encapsulation mechanism selected was CRYSTALS-KYBER, along with three digital signature schemes:...