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:...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: java-1.7.0-oracle security update

An update for java-1.7.0-oracle is now available for Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Oracle Java for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which giv...

TYPO3 End of Life (EOL) Detection - Windows

The TYPO3 version on the remote host has reached the end of life EOL and should not be used anymore. 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:...

A Framework for Cyber Security Insurance

New paper: "Policy measures and cyber insurance: a framework," by Daniel Woods and Andrew Simpson, Journal of Cyber Policy, 2017. Abstract: The role of the insurance industry in driving improvements in cyber security has been identified as mutually beneficial for both insurers and policy-makers. ...

Metasploit: The New Shiny

It's been a while since I've written a blog post about new stuff in Metasploit and I'm not sure if the editors will let me top the innuendo of the last one. But I'm privileged to announce that I'm speaking about Metasploit twice next month: once at the FSec 17 Conference in Varaždīn, Croatia...

Legal Robot: Code injection

A security researcher discovered that they were able to inject potentially malicious code into Legal Robot's newly created Roadmap page through improper input sanitization when submitting a new Idea for consideration by the community. A limited-scope attack was possible since the input sanitizati...

Yahoo Encryption Slammed for Lack of Forward Secrecy, HSTS

Yahoo, as promised, rolled out HTTPs by default this week for its email service, bringing it in line with other Internet companies that have been securing users’ communication for years. But if Yahoo expected applause from security experts, it can think again. The response from those well-versed ...

[PoshSec Framework v0.2] Graphical Interface for Powershell scripts

The PoshSec Framework is a tool that is designed to provide a graphical interface for powershell scripts, functions, modules, and cmdlets. It allows the community to write scripts that can interact with the interface by providing alerts, and output directly from their powershell scripts. This...