FedRAMP Prioritization

Coalfire has been participating in the American Council for Technology and the Industry Advisory Council ACT-IAC Cloud Computing community of interest in order to contribute in developing the new FedRAMP JAB Prioritization process...

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Obama's Executive Order urges Companies to Share CyberSecurity Threat Data

President Barack Obama signed an executive order on Friday that encourages and promotes sharing of information on cybersecurity threats within the private sector and between the private sector companies and the government agencies as well. AREAS TO IMPROVE During his speech at the White House...

Microsoft Shuts Down Patch Tuesday Advanced Notifications

Microsoft today pulled the plug on its Advanced Notification Service ANS, offering it going forward only to paying Premier customers. ANS preceded the release of Microsoft’s monthly Patch Tuesday security bulletins; on the Thursday prior, Microsoft would provide users via its security website a...

Assessing Risk for the October 2014 Security Updates

Today we released eight security bulletins addressing 24 unique CVE’s. Three bulletins have a maximum severity rating of Critical, and five have a maximum severity rating of Important. This table is designed to help you prioritize the deployment of updates appropriately for your environment...

Assessing risk for the September 2014 security updates

Today we released four security bulletins addressing 42 unique CVE’s. One bulletin has a maximum severity rating of Critical and the other three have maximum severity Important. This table is designed to help you prioritize the deployment of updates appropriately for your environment. Bulletin Mo...

Moscrack v2.08b - Multifarious On-demand Systems Cracker (cracking WPA keys in parallel on a group of computers)

Moscrack is a perl application designed to facilitate cracking WPA keys in parallel on a group of computers. This is accomplished by use of either Mosix clustering software, SSH or RSH access to a number of nodes. With Moscrack's new plugin framework, hash cracking has become possible. SHA256/512...

Assessing risk for the July 2014 security updates

Today we released six security bulletins addressing 29 unique CVE’s. Two bulletins have a maximum severity rating of Critical, three have maximum severity Important, and one is Moderate. We hope that the table below helps you prioritize the deployment of the updates appropriately for your...

Assessing risk for the May 2014 security updates

Today we released eight security bulletins addressing 13 unique CVE’s. Two bulletins have a maximum severity rating of Critical while the other six have a maximum severity rating of Important. The table is designed to help you prioritize the deployment of updates appropriately for your environmen...

Assessing risk for the April 2014 security updates

Today we released four security bulletins addressing 11 unique CVE’s. Two bulletins have a maximum severity rating of Critical while the other two have a maximum severity rating of Important. We hope that the table below helps you prioritize the deployment of the updates appropriately for your...

The March 2014 Security Updates

This month we release five bulletins to address 23 unique CVEs in Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer and Silverlight. If you need to prioritize, the update for Internet Explorer addresses the issue first described in Security Advisory 2934088, so it should be at the top of your list. While that...

Assessing risk for the December 2013 security updates

Today we released eleven security bulletins addressing 24 CVE’s. Five bulletins have a maximum severity rating of Critical while the other six have a maximum severity rating of Important. We hope that the table below helps you prioritize the deployment of the updates appropriately for your...

Assessing risk for the November 2013 security updates

Today we released eight security bulletins addressing 19 CVE’s. Three bulletins have a maximum severity rating of Critical while the other five have a maximum severity rating of Important. We hope that the table below helps you prioritize the deployment of the updates appropriately for your...

WPA Cluster Cracker: Moscrack

Moscrack WPA Cluster Cracker Moscrack facilitates the use of a WPA cracker on a cluster. Currently it works with Mosix clustering software, SSH, RSH and Pyrit. It works by reading a word list from STDIN or a file, breaking it into chunks and passing those chunks off to seperate processes that run...

The Rise of Data-Driven Security

The phrase “you’re doing it wrong” is a common refrain in the security community these days as people wander around in various states of disillusionment with the technology and processes that have led to what many perceive as a systemic failure. But that refrain usually is not followed by any...

rgmanager security, bug fix, and enhancement update

2.0.52-1.0.1 - Update summary and description to be vendor neutral 2.0.52-1 - When vm.sh does a status check and gets 'no state' it is now treated as a running state. - Resolves: rhb514044 2.0.51-1 - In some cases virtual machines will be restarted after a successful migration when the cluster...

It is Time for Obama to Move on Cybersecurity Job

In his short time in office, Barack Obama has moved swiftly to address many of the problems facing the country: the financial crisis, the impending death of the auto industry and the lack of a playoff system in college football. But, despite his reassurances at a press conference in May, Obama ha...

CVE-2006-4407

The Security Framework in Apple Mac OS X 10.3.x up to 10.3.9 does not properly prioritize encryption ciphers when negotiating the strongest shared cipher, which causes Secure Transport to user a weaker cipher that makes it easier for remote attackers to decrypt traffic...