CISA Orders Federal Agencies to Regularly Track Network Assets and Vulnerabilities

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has issued a new Binding Operational Directive BOD that directs federal agencies in the country to keep track of assets and vulnerabilities on their networks six months from now. To that end, Federal Civilian Executive Branch FCEB...

CISA Adds Three Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

CISA has added three vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. These types of vulnerabilities are a frequent attack vector for malicious cyber actors and pose significant risk to the federal enterprise. Note: to view the newly added...

ZINC weaponizing open-source software

In recent months, Microsoft has detected a wide range of social engineering campaigns using weaponized legitimate open-source software by an actor we track as ZINC. Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center MSTIC observed activity targeting employees in organizations across multiple industries includi...

Security Bulletin: IBM Operational Decision Manager and WebSphere ILOG JRules: Multiple security vulnerabilities in IBM JRE 6.0

Abstract IBM Java Runtime Environment 6.0 SR 13 release containing multiple fixes for CVEs covered in Oracle's Critical Patch Update release of October 2012, January 13, February 1 and February 19 releases 2013 contained in JDK 6.0 SR 10 and earlier Content VULNERABILITY DETAILS CVE ID:...

Security Bulletin: IBM Operational Decision Manager and WebSphere ILOG JRules: Multiple security vulnerabilities in IBM JRE

Abstract This Security Bulletin addresses the security vulnerabilities that have shipped with the IBM Java Runtime Environment JRE included in IBM Operational Decision Manager and IBM ILOG JRules. IBM ODM and ILOG JRules now include the most recent version of the IBM JRE which fixes the security...

Control System Defense: Know the Opponent

Summary Traditional approaches to securing OT/ICS do not adequately address current threats. Operational technology/industrial control system OT/ICS assets that operate, control, and monitor day-to-day critical infrastructure and industrial processes continue to be an attractive target for...

CISA and NSA Publish Joint Cybersecurity Advisory on Control System Defense

CISA and the National Security Agency NSA have published a joint cybersecurity advisory about control system defense for operational technology OT and industrial control systems ICSs. Control System Defense: Know the Opponent is intended to provide critical infrastructure owners and operators wit...

CVE-2022-29799

CVE-2022-29799 affects networkd-dispatcher. The flaw arises because OperationalState/AdministrativeState are not sanitized, enabling a directory traversal to escape the /etc/networkd-dispatcher base directory. A local attacker could exploit this to escalate privileges or trigger code execution as...

Prioritizing XDR in 2023: Stronger Detection and Response With Less Complexity

As we get closer to closing out 2022, the talk in the market continues to swirl around extended detection and response XDR solutions. What are they? What are the benefits? Should my team adopt XDR, and if yes, how do we evaluate vendors to determine the best approach? While there continue to be...

GHSA-GWP4-MCV4-W95J jwcrypto token substitution can lead to authentication bypass

The JWT code can auto-detect the type of token being provided, and this can lead the application to incorrect conclusions about the trustworthiness of the token. Quoting the private disclosure we received : "Under certain circumstances, it is possible to substitute a .. signed JWS with a JWE that...

jwcrypto token substitution can lead to authentication bypass

The JWT code can auto-detect the type of token being provided, and this can lead the application to incorrect conclusions about the trustworthiness of the token. Quoting the private disclosure we received : "Under certain circumstances, it is possible to substitute a .. signed JWS with a JWE that...

The vulnerability of the LivePreview function in the git-based software platform for collaborative code development on GitLab allows a perpetrator to gain unauthorized access to protected information.

The vulnerability of the LivePreview function in the Git-based software platform for collaborative code development on GitLab is related to the lack of protection for operational data. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker, operating remotely, to gain unauthorized access to...

The vulnerability of the Incidents Timeline feature on the Git-based software platform for collaborative code development on GitLab allows a malicious individual to gain unauthorized access to protected information.

The vulnerability of the Incidents Timeline feature on the Git-based software platform for collaborative code development on GitLab is related to the lack of protection for operational data. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker operating remotely to gain unauthorized access to...

You’re never going to be able to fix every security vulnerability, but knowing where to start helps

Milpitas, California, August 29, 2022 -- IT security operations, risk management and infrastructure teams face a daily challenge: do more with less. And in the face of increasing threats from cybercriminals and exponentially expanding attack vectors, teams are going to have to turn to intelligent...

App Layering - Stuck Tasks or new tasks hang at "pending" or "stalled"

Tasks won't progress, appear as stalled. New tasks sit at "Pending" From maservice.log: 2021-01-11 09:10:25,575 WARN 20193 UnitOfWorkImplemen: Transaction is implicitly being rolled back at Uni.Appliance.PersistenceLayer.UnitOfWork.UnitOfWorkImplementation.Dispose 0x00025 in :0 at...

The vulnerability of the VMware vRealize Orchestrator platform, related to the lack of protection for operational data, allows a perpetrator to disclose protected information.

The vulnerability of the VMware vRealize Orchestrator platform for automating processes is related to the lack of protection for operational data. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor to disclose the protected information...

New Evil PLC Attack Weaponizes PLCs to Breach OT and Enterprise Networks

Cybersecurity researchers have elaborated a novel attack technique that weaponizes programmable logic controllers PLCs to gain an initial foothold in engineering workstations and subsequently invade the operational technology OT networks. Dubbed "Evil PLC" attack by industrial security firm...

Security Bulletin: Multiple security vulnerabilities has been identified in IBM® DB2® shipped with IBM PureData System for Operational Analytics

Summary IBM® DB2® is shipped as a component of IBM PureData System for Operational Analytics. Information about security vulnerabilities affecting IBM DB2 have been published in a security bulletin CVE-2022-22389, CVE-2022-22390, CVE-2022-25313, CVE-2022-25236, CVE-2022-25235, CVE-2022-25314,...

The Truth About False Positives in Security

TL;DR: As weird as it might sound, seeing a few false positives reported by a security scanner is probably a good sign and certainly better than seeing none. Let's explain why. Introduction False positives have made a somewhat unexpected appearance in our lives in recent years. I am, of course,...

Industrial systems: What it takes to secure and staff them

The security community is continuously changing, growing, and learning from each other to better position the world against cyberthreats. In the latest post of our Community Voices blog series, Microsoft Security Senior Product Marketing Manager Brooke Lynn Weenig talks with Patrick C. Miller,...