Apple Issues Silent Update Removing Zoom's Hidden Server

Apple has pushed a silent update to Mac users that removes a hidden web server from Zoom users’ machines. The Zoom web- and video-conferencing service has come under scrutiny for its handling of a zero-day bug CVE-2019–13450 found by researcher Jonathan Leitschuh, which would allow an attacker to...

Bug in Anesthesia Respirators Allows Cyber-Tampering

A vulnerability in GE Healthcare’s Aestiva and Aespire anesthesia devices would allow an unauthenticated cybercriminal on the same network as the device to modify gas composition parameters within the devices’ respirator function, thus changing sensor readings for gas density. According to GE...

Intel Patches High-Severity Flaw in Processor Diagnostic Tool

Intel has patched a high-severity vulnerability in its processor diagnostic tool, which could allow local attackers to launch several malicious attacks on affected devices, such as escalation of privilege or denial of service. The Intel Processor Diagnostic tool is a free product that allows user...

Full Insight into the Internal Environment with Cynet Free Visibility

Organizational IT security teams have the enormous job of protecting their assets while monitoring and eliminating exposed attack surfaces. Achieving real-time visibility and doing so quickly and efficiently is integral to this, unfortunately though, it eats into resources, frequently requiring...

Integrating Threat and Vulnerability Management with Patch Management: The (Feasible) Quantum Leap

The rise of sophisticated attacks combined with the security-skills shortage have driven many organizations to go back to basics and review their processes for vulnerability and patch management. The approach is definitely a winning one, given that shrinking and managing the vulnerability surface...

Windows RDP Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (BlueKeep) – How to Detect and Patch

This month's Microsoft Patch Tuesday included a very high-risk vulnerability CVE-2019-0708, aka BlueKeep in Remote Desktop that impacts Windows XP, Windows 7, Server 2003, Server 2008, and Server 2008 R2. This vulnerability allows an unauthenticated attacker or malware to execute code on the...

Verizon’s DBIR Highlights Key Drivers of Security Risk

It’s that time of the year when Verizon updates us on the latest trends in the global threat landscape with its Data Breach Investigations Report DBIR. The findings in this year’s report are based on data provided by more than 70 sources including Qualys about more than 41,000 security incidents,...

Cybersecurity Leaders Are Talking A Lot About Counterfeit Devices

Malice Vs Greed Most discussion about security in the supply chain has been focused on detecting tampering, or preventing backdoors or sneaky things being inserted into components and software. There’s another aspect emerging and will dwarf the tampering: devices that are counterfeited for profit...

Vulnerability Management vendors and Vulnerability Remediation problems

It's not a secret, that Vulnerability Management vendors don't pay much attention to the actual process of fixing vulnerabilities, that they detect in the infrastructure Vulnerability Remediation. Although it seems to be the main goal of VM products: to make vulnerabilities fixed and whole IT...

Patch: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Patch takes a patch file containing a difference listing produced by the diff program and applies those differences to one or more original files, producing patched versions. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Patch. Please review the CVE identifiers reference...

Integration Credential Status by Authentication Protocol - Valid Credentials Provided

Nessus was able to execute credentialed checks because it was possible to log in to the remote patch management system using provided credentials. TRUSTED...

Integration Credential Status by Authentication Protocol - Failure for Provided Credentials

Nessus was not able to execute patch management checks because it was not possible to log into the designated patch management system using the credentials that have been provided. TRUSTED...

Researcher: Not Hard for a Hacker to Capsize a Ship at Sea

Maritime transport still contributes in an important way to the world’s economy, with on-time shipments influencing everything from commodities availability and spot pricing to the stability of small countries. Unfortunately, capsizing a ship with a cyberattack is a relatively low-skill enterpris...

Guinea Pig and Vulnerability Management products

IMHO, security vendors use the term "Vulnerability Management" extremely inaccurate. Like a guinea pig, which is not a pig and is not related to Guinea, the current Vulnerability Management products are not about the actual practically exploitable vulnerabilities and not really about the...

Managing the Risk of IT-OT Convergence

A few years ago, it wasn’t easy getting executives on board with the concept of operational technology OT security. Having finally come around to acknowledging the need for information technology IT security, boards and C-suite executives at industrial enterprises were then faced with the...

CISO series: Lessons learned—4 priorities to achieve the largest security improvements

In my past life as CISO, Ive worked for small companies, state governments, and large enterprises, and one thing that has been true at all of them is that there is an infinite number of security initiatives in each organization you could implement, yet the resources to accomplish those tasks are...

Oracle Siebel CRM 8.1.1 - CSV Injection Vulnerability

Exploit for java platform in category web applications Exploit Title: Oracle Siebel CRM 8.1.1 - CSV Injection Exploit Author: Sarath Nair aka AceNeon13 Contact: @AceNeon13 Vendor Homepage: www.oracle.com Software Link:...

Oracle Siebel CRM 8.1.1 - CSV Injection

Exploit Title: Oracle Siebel CRM 8.1.1 - CSV Injection Date: 2018-10-21 Exploit Author: Sarath Nair aka AceNeon13 Contact: @AceNeon13 Vendor Homepage: www.oracle.com Software Link: http://www.oracle.com/us/products/applications/siebel/siebel-crm-8-1-1-066196.html Version: Oracle Siebel CRM Versio...

ICS Security Plagued with Basic, Avoidable Mistakes

At least 33 percent of the security issues found in industrial control systems ICS are rated as being of high or critical risk. FireEye iSIGHT Intelligence compiled data from dozens of ICS security health assessment engagements performed by its Mandiant division, and found that these issues inclu...

Local-Privilege Escalation Flaw in Linux Kernel Allows Root Access

A local-privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux kernel affects all current versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS, even in their default/minimal installations. It would allow an attacker to obtain full administrator privileges over the targeted system, and from there potentially...