Back to Basics: Why We Need to Encourage More Secure IoT Development

The Internet of Things IoT is radically reshaping the way we live and work. Before our very eyes, organizations are becoming more agile, efficient and cost effective to run, all while consumers marvel at the wonders of the smart home, fitness trackers and connected cars. There’s just one major...

ThreatList: Financial Services Firms Lag in Patching Habits

Almost half 45 percent of financial services firms in a recent survey have reported a data breach in the last two years – with many of those attacks being completely avoidable if known vulnerabilities were patched. In a Ponemon Institute survey of nearly 3,000 cybersecurity professionals at...

COSCO incident. Phishing frenzy and exploding goods?

If you haven’t seen the coverage, COSCO the world’s 4th largest shipping line has had a ransomware outbreak. Sounds terribly familiar, doesn’t it. One wonders why on earth they didn’t carry out a thorough review after the Maersk incident, so as to be rather better prepared. Phishing time Breaches...

Zero Day Initiative: A 1H2018 Recap

When the Zero Day Initiative ZDI was formed in 2005, the cyber threat landscape was a bit different from what we see today. Threats were a little less sophisticated, but there was one thing that we saw then that we still see now: the shortage of cybersecurity professionals and researchers. The te...

QSC18 Virtual Edition: Vulnerability Risk Management

When vulnerability risk management is proactive, organizations don’t have to hurriedly react to attacks that exploit bugs for which patches are available, as happened with WannaCry. “The vast majority of WannaCry remediation took place as an emergency type process,” Jimmy Graham, a Qualys Directo...

Qualys Security Conference Virtual 2018. New Agents, Patch Management and Free Services

Today I attended a very interesting online event - Qualys Security Conference Virtual 2018. It consisted of 11 webinars, began at 18:00 and will end at 03:45 Moscow time. Not the most convenient timing for Russia, but it was worth it. Last time I was at offline QSC event in 2016, so for me it was...

Ransomware Attack Hits Ukrainian Energy Ministry, Exploiting Drupalgeddon2

The Ukrainian Energy Ministry has been hit by a ransomware attack – and for once it looks like this is the work of amateurs, not nation-state attackers bent on making a geopolitical point. However, the bad actors appear to have made use of the recently patched Drupal vulnerability, pointing out y...

Vulnerabilities are a Cybercriminal’s Best Friend

When discussions around the ways cybercriminals and hackers are able to compromise and penetrate an organization, it regularly leads to the use of exploits and exploit kits. Because all software can contain flaws and bugs, a threat actor only has to either find a new, undisclosed vulnerability...

[SECURITY] Fedora 26 Update: patch-2.7.6-3.fc26

The patch program applies diff files to originals. The diff command is used to compare an original to a changed file. Diff lists the changes made to the file. A person who has the original file can then use the patch command with the diff file to add the changes to their original file patching th...

Solaris 10 (x86) : 125138-71

JavaSE 6x86: update 71 patch equivalent to JDK 6u71. Date this patch was last updated by Sun : Jan/14/14 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text in this plugin was extracted from the Oracle SunOS Patch Updates. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc...

Solaris 10 (sparc) : 139291-02

SunOS 5.10: pgadmin3 sources patch. Date this patch was last updated by Sun : Apr/13/12 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text in this plugin was extracted from the Oracle SunOS Patch Updates. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if description...

Solaris 10 (sparc) : 148004-01

SunOS 5.10: libpixbufloader-gif.so patch. Date this patch was last updated by Sun : May/07/12 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text in this plugin was extracted from the Oracle SunOS Patch Updates. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include'compat.inc'; if...

Recline on the Qualys Couch: Examining Patching Behavior

In a perfect world, organizations would patch vulnerabilities immediately after they’re disclosed, preemptively blocking exploits and dodging most cyber attacks. Of course, reality is far from that hypothetically ideal state. Organizations often leave critical vulnerabilities unpatched for months...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of February 19, 2018

Earlier this week, Trend Micro released its Security Roundup for 2017, which reveals an increase in ransomware, cryptocurrency mining and business email compromise BEC attempts over the past year as cybercriminals refined and targeted their attacks for greater financial return. Surprisingly, some...

Securing IT Assets By Prioritizing Protection And Remediation

As hackers get faster at weaponizing exploits for disclosed bugs, InfoSec teams need — more than ever — automated, continuous and precise IT asset inventorying, vulnerability management, threat prioritization and patch deployment. Critical vulnerabilities that linger unpatched for weeks or months...

Meltdown and Spectre Aren’t Business as Usual

The new year brought a new vulnerability type — the CPU-based Meltdown and Spectre bugs — that’s forcing vendors and IT departments to modify long-standing ways of identifying threats, prioritizing remediation, managing patches and evaluating risk. “Meltdown and Spectre are different...

“Ready Player One” – Are you Ready to Protect Your Endpoints from the Bad Guys?

At times it can feel like a game as you watch the cyber-breach scorecards. Yahoo 3 billion users, Equifax 143 million consumers, Uber 57 million users, Imgur 1.7 million users are just a sample of the companies that have released new information on large breaches in the last few months...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of December 4, 2017

It snowed in Austin, Texas last night. It’s not a big deal for those of you who live in areas where you’re used to snow, but for those of us who are native Texans, it’s a big deal. Funny enough, I had scheduled a maintenance appointment for later today to make sure our heater is in working order...

abc.com.lb XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: http://www.abc.com.lb/site/search?type=1='" Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| No Latest check for patch:| 16.11.2017 Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:| Publicly disclosed Alexa Rank| 691434 VIP website status:| No Check abc.com.lb SSL connection:| Grade: B...

The Latest on WannaCry, UIWIX, EternalRocks and ShadowBrokers

Ransomware has gained global attention over the course of the last two weeks due to the huge spread of WannaCry. Following the initial attacks, we’ve seen UIWIX, Adylkuzz and now EternalRocks come onto the scene leveraging the same core set of vulnerabilities. The common thread between the three...