Solution Corner: Malwarebytes for Android

People have become increasingly reliant on their mobile devices in recent years. Smartphones and tablets have revolutionized daily life. Unfortunately, such rapid growth has also attracted criminals, bringing Android up to par with Windows in terms of infection rates. Android threat landscape A...

How To Automate Security Analysis with the RIPS API

RIPS API RIPS exposes a powerful REST-API, an interface specifically designed for developers and their applications. It is used to provide the web interface with analysis results, to start scans through plugins, to manage users, and much more. In short, the API enables easy automation of all RIPS...

[SECURITY] Fedora 26 Update: postgresql-9.6.4-1.fc26

PostgreSQL is an advanced Object-Relational database management system DBM S. The base postgresql package contains the client programs that you'll need to access a PostgreSQL DBMS server, as well as HTML documentation for the whole system. These client programs can be located on the same machine ...

CVE-2017-1000117

A malicious third-party can give a crafted "ssh://..." URL to an unsuspecting victim, and an attempt to visit the URL can result in any program that exists on the victim's machine being executed. Such a URL could be placed in the .gitmodules file of a malicious project, and an unsuspecting victim...

CVE-2017-3636

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Cybersecurity Wants You!

At Black Hat in Las Vegas last week, Trend Micro’s Kevin Simzer spoke about the global, dire need for cybersecurity talent. The number of open jobs in cybersecurity continues to increase dramatically. A report from Cisco stated that there were over one million unfilled positions globally in 2016...

The CIO Will Report to the CISO: The Why

Note: This article originally appeared on LinkedIn Pulse. If you disagree with me, please visit the LinkedIn post to join the comments we've gotten so far. As a community we need the open discussion to advance our collective thinking. If you agree, please like, comment and/or share the post. It’s...

Measuring Vulnerability Rediscovery

New paper: "Taking Stock: Estimating Vulnerability Rediscovery," by Trey Herr, Bruce Schneier, and Christopher Morris: Abstract: How often do multiple, independent, parties discover the same vulnerability? There are ample models of vulnerability discovery, but little academic work on this issue o...

Me on Restaurant Surveillance Technology

I attended the National Restaurant Association exposition in Chicago earlier this year, and looked at all the ways modern restaurant IT is spying on people. But there's also a fundamentally creepy aspect to much of this. One of the prime ways to increase value for your brand is to use the Interne...

Announcing the Windows Bounty Program

Windows 10 represents the best and newest in our strong commitment to security with world-class mitigations. One of Microsoft’s longstanding strategies toward improving software security involves investing in defensive technologies that make it difficult and costly for attackers to find, exploit...

The CIO Will Report to the CISO

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MySQL 5.6.x < 5.6.37 Multiple Vulnerabilities (July 2017 CPU) (October 2017 CPU)

The version of MySQL running on the remote host is 5.6.x prior to 5.6.37. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - An unspecified flaw exists in the Memcached component that allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to impact integrity and availability. CVE-2017-3633 - Multiple...

CVE-2017-11349

dataTaker DT8x dEX 1.72.007 allows remote attackers to compose programs or schedules, for purposes such as sending e-mail messages or making outbound connections to FTP servers for uploading data...

More on the NSA's Use of Traffic Shaping

"Traffic shaping" -- the practice of tricking data to flow through a particular route on the Internet so it can be more easily surveiled -- is an NSA technique that has gotten much less attention than it deserves. It's a powerful technique that allows an eavesdropper to get access to communicatio...

Microsoft Windows Search Multiple Vulnerabilities (KB4024402)

This host is missing a critical security update according to Microsoft KB4024402. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

USN-3323-2: GNU C Library vulnerability

USN-3323-1 fixed a vulnerability in the GNU C Library. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 12.04 ESM. Original advisory details: It was discovered that the GNU C library did not properly handle memory when processing environment variables for setuid programs. A local attacker...

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : GNU C Library vulnerability (USN-3323-1)

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3323-1 advisory. It was discovered that the GNU C library did not properly handle memory when processing environment variables for setuid programs. A local attacker...

USN-3323-1 eglibc, glibc vulnerability

It was discovered that the GNU C library did not properly handle memory when processing environment variables for setuid programs. A local attacker could use this in combination with another vulnerability to gain administrative privileges...

Microsoft Office Word Viewer Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (KB3203427)

This host is missing a critical security update according to Microsoft KB3203427. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Microsoft Windows Multiple Vulnerabilities (KB4022722)

This host is missing a critical security update according to Microsoft KB4022722 SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...