CVE-2018-13201

The CVE pertains to TiTok - Ticket Token (Contract Name: MyAdvancedToken7), an Ethereum token, where the sell function has an integer overflow in the calculation amount * sellPrice, which can result in the sale value evaluating to zero and thereby reducing a seller’s assets. This issue is documen...

Five Ways Imperva Attack Analytics Helps You Cut Through the Event Noise

The maddening volume of events security teams have to deal with each day is growing at an exponential pace, making it increasingly difficult to effectively analyze and process credible threats. As more organizations move to cloud-based solutions, applications now reside at multiple locations – on...

Exploit Targets Nvidia Tegra-Based Nintendo Systems

UPDATE – Nvidia sought to downplay a vulnerability discovered in its Tegra X1-based systems in a recently published notice. “A researcher indicates that a person with physical access to older Tegra-based processors could connect to the device’s USB port, bypass the secure boot and execute...

Suppressing the Adversary via Threat Hunt Teams

What a brave new world. Global cyber insurgencies continue unabated. Decreasing dwell time is imperative in 2018. In order to achieve this goal, we must embrace the hunt. Every organization should stand up a threat hunt team. The team must be multidisciplinary with experience in e-forensics and...

How to mitigate rapid cyberattacks such as Petya and WannaCrypt

In the first blog post of this 3-part series, we introduced what rapid cyberattacks are and illustrated how rapid cyberattacks are different in terms of execution and outcome. In the second blog post, we provided some details on Petya and how it worked. In this final blog post, we will share:...

SUSE-SU-2018:0451-1 Security update for glibc

This update for glibc fixes the following issues: Security issues fixed: - CVE-2017-8804: Fix memory leak after deserialization failure in xdrbytes, xdrstring bsc1037930 - CVE-2017-12132: Reduce EDNS payload size to 1200 bytes bsc1051791 - CVE-2018-6485,CVE-2018-6551: Fix integer overflows in...

New Lossless Compression Codec (MDRLE) Added to HDX Thinwire Graphics

There are 3 Thinwire bitmap encoding modes used in current XenApp and XenDesktop Server OS and Desktop OS VDA graphics remoting: Full screen H.264 Thinwire Plus Thinwire Plus with selective H.264 Legacy GDI remoting uses the XPDM Remoting driver and so does not use a Thinwire bitmap encoder Curre...

Applying Lean to Information Risk Management

Lean Manufacturing brings significant benefits to industry, including cost reduction, quality improvement, reduced cycle time, and greater customer satisfaction See “The Machine that Changed the World”, Womak, J., Jones, D., and Roos, D., Free, Press, 1990 for the groundbreaking analysis of...

Implementing the CIS 20 Critical Security Controls: Make Your InfoSec Foundation Rock Solid

For almost 10 years, thousands of organizations eager to solidify their security and compliance foundations have found clarity and direction in the the Center for Internet Security’s Critical Security Controls CSCs. This structured set of 20 foundational InfoSec best practices, first published in...

Implementing the CIS 20 Critical Security Controls: Building Upon Foundational Cyber Hygiene

Most successful cyber attacks exploit known vulnerabilities for which patches are available, or take advantage of weak configuration settings that could have been easily hardened. You can significantly lower the risk of being victimized by this type of common, preventable attack by adopting the...

Boost productivity of your DevOps teams and deliver superior digital experiences with Akamai Cloud Delivery Platform - Part 3

In the first and second part of this blog series, we discussed the challenges associated with cloud adoption and how you can leverage Akamai Cloud Delivery Platform, the world's largest and most trusted cloud delivery platform, to achieve the scalability, availability, reliability, security and...

Microsoft Provides Guidance on Mitigating DDE Attacks

Despite a rash of attacks leveraging Dynamic Data Exchange fields in Office, including some spreading destructive ransomware, Microsoft has remained insistent that DDE is a product feature and won’t address it as a vulnerability. Microsoft on Wednesday did, however, put some guidance in admins’...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: check-mk-1.2.8p26-1.fc25

check-mk is a general purpose Nagios-plugin for retrieving data. It adopts a new approach for collecting data from operating systems and network compone nts. It obsoletes NRPE, checkbyssh, NSClient, and checksnmp and it has many benefits, the most important are a significant reduction of CPU usag...

UPDATE: OWASP Dependency-Check 3.0.0

PenTestIT RSS Feed My first post about this open source OWASP project was about an older version. This post discusses the changes made to the open source software composition analysis utility in the latest release yesterday. This is the OWASP Dependency-Check 3.0.0! This release comes with Java 9...

Exploit for CVE-2017-8759 detected and neutralized

The September 12, 2017 security updates from Microsoft include the patch for a previously unknown vulnerability exploited through Microsoft Word as an entry vector. Customers using Microsoft advanced threat solutions were already protected against this threat. The vulnerability, classified as...

SUSE-SU-2017:2266-1 Security update for SUSE Manager Proxy 3.1

This update for SUSE Manager Proxy 3.1 provides several fixes and improvements: The following security issues have been fixed: jabberd: - Fix offered SASL mechanism check. bsc1047282, CVE-2017-10807 Additionally, the following non-security issues have been fixed: jabberd: - Fix memory leak in pgs...

Clustering and Dimensionality Reduction: Understanding the “Magic” Behind Machine Learning

These days we hear about machine learning and artificial intelligence AI in all aspects of life. We see machines that learn and imitate the human brain in order to automate human processes. There are autonomous cars that learn the road conditions to drive, personal assistants we can converse with...

CVE-2017-11671

Under certain circumstances, the ix86expandbuiltin function in i386.c in GNU Compiler Collection GCC version 4.6, 4.7, 4.8, 4.9, 5 before 5.5, and 6 before 6.4 will generate instruction sequences that clobber the status flag of the RDRAND and RDSEED intrinsics before it can be read, potentially...

UPDATE: OWASP Dependency-Check 2.1.0!

PenTestIT RSS Feed My first post about this open source OWASP project was about an older version. This post discusses the changes made to the open source software composition analysis utility in the latest release yesterday. This is the OWASP Dependency-Check 2.1.0! What I like about this release...

SA153: NSS Vulnerabilities Apr-May 2017

SUMMARY Symantec Network Protection products using affected versions of NSS are susceptible to two security vulnerabilities. A remote attacker can send empty SSLv2 messages and cause denial of service through application crashes. An attacker can also have unspecified impact by exploiting a...