ICSA-17-180-01A_Siemens SIMATIC Industrial PCs, SINUMERIK Panel Control Unit, and SIMOTION P320 (Update A)

CVSS v3 9.8 ATTENTION: Remotely exploitable/low skill level to exploit. Vendor: Siemens Equipment: SIMATIC Industrial PCs, SINUMERIK Panel Control Unit PCU, SIMOTION P320 Vulnerability: Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls UPDATED INFORMATION This updated advisory is a follow-up to the...

Symantec Messaging Gateway Multiple Vulnerabilities

SUMMARY Symantec has released an update to address three issues that were discovered in the Symantec Messaging Gateway SMG. AFFECTED PRODUCTS Symantec Messaging Gateway SMG --- CVE | Affected Versions | Remediation CVE-2017-6326 CVE-2017-6324 CVE-2017-6325 | Prior to 10.6.3 | Upgrade to 10.6.3 an...

Microsoft Outlook Memory Corruption Vulnerability

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that Microsoft Outlook parses specially crafted email messages. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take control of an affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or...

SEI Issues Advice on Ransomware

The Software Engineering Institute SEI of Carnegie Mellon University has released a blog post on best practices for preventing and responding to ransomware. This common malware captures, encrypts, and holds your data to extort a ransom. SEI’s top recommendation to thwart ransomware attacks is to...

Best Practices for Configuring JIRA Security

h5. Issue Summary Can a documentation containing a collection of best practices for securing a JIRA instance be created similar to this one|https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/best-practices-for-configuring-confluence-security-216433533.html/?ga=2.68524696.801198909.1495105182-524443449.14914597...

Alerton Webtalk 2.5 / 3.3 Hash Disclosure / CSRF / Command Injection Vulnerabilities

Exploit for multiple platform in category web applications Security Issues in Alerton Webtalk ================================== Introduction ------------ Vulnerabilities were identified in the Alerton Webtalk Software supplied by Alerton. This software is used for the management of building...

DDoS of Past, Present and Future

The pervasiveness of technology has meant automation of tasks, allowing better productivity, with more time to do more. However, the dark side of technology would be that enterprises and individuals alike are vulnerable to cybercrimes, compromise of identities, loss of data and subject to malicio...

Personalized User Focused Security: Stethoscope

Stethoscope is a web application that collects information from existing device data sources e.g., JAMF or LANDESK on a given user’s devices and gives them clear and specific recommendations for securing their systems. Stethoscope consists of two primary pieces: a Python-based back-end and a...

Senator Demands Answers About CloudPets Breach

A U.S. senator has called Spiral Toys onto the carpet for its data security practices in light of the recent CloudPets breach. Sen. Bill Nelson D-FL, a ranking member of the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation and backer of a 2016 report on security and privacy concerns related to...

Symantec Endpoint Protection Clients Local Elevation of Privilege, CSV Formula Injection

SUMMARY Symantec has released updates to address security issues reported in both Symantec Endpoint Protection 12.1 and Symantec Endpoint Protection 14.0 Windows clients. AFFECTED PRODUCTS Symantec Endpoint Protection SEP --- CVE | Affected Versions | Remediation CVE-2016-9093 CVE-2016-9094 | Pri...

MongoDB Security Audit: mongoaudit

MongoDB Security Audit mongoaudit is a CLI tool for auditing MongoDB servers, detecting poor security settings and performing automated penetration testing. It is widely known that there are quite a few holes in MongoDB’s default configuration settings. This fact, combined with abundant lazy syst...

Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Activation

CVSS v3 8.8 REPOSTED INFORMATION This advisory was originally posted to the NCCIC Portal on February 16, 2017, and is being released to the ICS-CERT web site. AFFECTED PRODUCTS The following versions of FactoryTalk Activation, a component of FactoryTalk Services Platform, are affected: FactoryTal...

Server Message Block (SMB) Protocol Version 1 Enabled

The remote Windows host supports Server Message Block Protocol version 1 SMBv1. Microsoft recommends that users discontinue the use of SMBv1 due to the lack of security features that were included in later SMB versions. Additionally, the Shadow Brokers group reportedly has an exploit that affects...

Q&A: Web Application Security Scanning with Netsparker

Q&A with Huseyin Tufekcilerli, the lead developer of Netsparker Desktop web application security scanner More than 70% of all cyber breaches involve web applications, and almost 90% organizations believe their application security programs need to be improved. Web application security has risen t...

BINOM3 Electric Power Quality Meter

CVSS v3 10 ATTENTION: Remotely exploitable/low skill level to exploit Vendor: BINOM3 Equipment: Electric Power Quality Meter Vulnerabilities: Cross-site scripting, access control issues, cross-site request forgery CSRF, sensitive information stored in clear-text, and weak credentials management...

Information about LenovoEMC devices may be disclosed if the device has an Internet-accessible management interface

Lenovo Security Advisory: LEN-3846 Potential Impact: Disclosure of information about device Severity:Low Summary: An unauthenticated user may be able to view device information about the LenovoEMC device if the management interface accessible over the internet. Even with this vunerability, no dat...

Newly Discovered Mac Malware with Ancient Code Spying on Biotech Firms

Security researchers have discovered a rare piece of Mac-based espionage malware that relies on outdated coding practices but has been used in some previous real-world attacks to spy on biomedical research center computers. Dubbed Fruitfly, the malware has remained undetected for years on macOS...

Ashley Madison Dating Site Agrees to Pay $1.6 Million Fine Over Massive Breach

Ashley Madison, an American most prominent dating website that helps married people cheat on their spouses has been hacked, has agreed to pay a hefty fine of $1.6 Million for failing to protect account information of 36 Million users, after a massive data breach last year. Yes, the parent company...

Symantec VIP Access Desktop Arbitrary DLL Execution

SUMMARY Symantec has released an update to address a finding in VIP Access Desktop that could allow a local user to force VIP Access Desktop UI Manager to execute an arbitrary formatted DLL with logged-on user privileges. AFFECTED PRODUCTS Symantec VIP Access Desktop --- CVE | Affected Versions |...

OpenSSH Vulnerability

Palo Alto Networks makes use of a the OpenSSH tool. CVE-2016-6210 was recently confirmed to be applicable to the version in use by PAN-OS. Ref 100977/CVE-2016-6210. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would have to guess usernames defined as system administrators on the firewall. This issu...