The need and opportunity for adaptive prevention in the cloud

This post is authored by Michael Bargury, Data Scientist, C+E Security. The need The cloud introduces new security challenges, which differ from classic ones by diversity and scale. Once a Virtual Machine VM is up and running with an open internet port, it is almost instantaneously subject to...

QSC18 Virtual Edition: Securing Hybrid IT Environments from Endpoints to Clouds

As organizations embrace digital transformation to boost business processes, traditional IT environments get altered, becoming distributed, elastic and hybrid. “That’s creating a new challenge for security,” Chris Carlson, Qualys’ Product Management VP, said during QSC18 Virtual Edition. As...

Scan QR Codes Safely with the Trend Micro QR Scanner

Using your camera and a QR code scanner on your mobile device, it’s easy to scan a code to download an app or go to a website—a bit too easy, some might say. What if the QR code is for a malicious app, or takes you to a dangerous website? How would you know before it’s too late? Trend Micro’s fre...

VOOKI - Web Application Vulnerability Scanner

Vooki is a free web application vulnerability scanner. Vooki is a user-friendly tool that you can easily scan any web application and find the vulnerabilities. Vooki includes Web Application Scanner, Rest API Scanner, and reporting section. Vooki – Web Application Scanner can help you to find the...

Security Bulletin: IBM Datacap Taskmaster Capture ActiveX Vulnerability (CVE-2014-0879)

Summary Taskmaster Web uses ActiveX controls to perform scanning and to display images in the browser on the client computer. One of the controls was found vulnerable to crafted hacking. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2014-0879 DESCRIPTION: Security vulnerability with Datacap ActiveX installed ...

Security Bulletin: Denial of Service with WebSphere Application Server affecting IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager and IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager Business Gateway (CVE-2014-0964)

Summary There is a potential denial of service with WebSphere Application Server versions 6.0.2 and 6.1. These affected versions of WebSphere Application Server are supported for use with IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager and IBM Tivoli Federated Identity Manager Business Gateway. Vulnerabili...

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-1121

procps-ng, procps is vulnerable to a process hiding through race condition. Since the kernel's procpidreaddir returns PID entries in ascending numeric order, a process occupying a high PID can use inotify events to determine when the process list is being scanned, and fork/exec to obtain a lower...

Metateta - Automated Tool For Scanning And Exploiting Network Protocols Using Metasploit

Metateta Automated Tool For Scanning And Exploiting Network Protocols Using Metasploit For faster pen testing for large networks What You Can Do Scanning with all metasploit modules for specific network Protocol like smb,smtp,snmp Run all Auxiliary modules against specific network Protocol Run al...

Securing Containers at Scale: Amazon EKS, Amazon ECS and Deep Security Smart Check

Containers present a new opportunity for teams. An opportunity to deploy faster, more consistently, and with a simplicity rarely seen. But in order to make that happen a lot of infrastructure needs to be setup ahead of time. A cluster of hosts for the container runtime, an orchestration layer,...

Microsoft Windows Defender AV: Turn on e-mail scanning

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: defavemailscanning.nasl 11495 2018-09-20 10:06:25Z emoss $ Check value for Windows Defender AV: Turn on e-mail scanning Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This...

Over 115,000 Drupal Sites Still Vulnerable to Drupalgeddon2 Exploit

Hundreds of thousands of websites running on the Drupal CMS—including those of major educational institutions and government organizations around the world—have been found vulnerable to a highly critical flaw for which security patches were released almost two months ago. Security researcher Troy...

Logitech Harmony Hub Detection via HTTP

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SearchBlox 8.6.7 XML External Entity Injection

Exploit Title: SearchBlox 8.6.7 Out-Of-Band XML eXternal Entity OOB-XXE Exploit Author: Ahmet GUREL, Canberk BOLAT Software Link: https://www.searchblox.com/ Version: = SearchBlox Version 8.6.7 Platform: Java Tested on: Windows CVE: CVE-2018-11586 1. DETAILS An XML External Entity attack is a typ...

New allowAnyone Bug Identified in Multiple ERC20 Smart Contracts (CVE-2018-11397, CVE-2018-11398)

Our vulnerability-scanning system at PeckShield has so far discovered several dangerous smart contract vulnerabilities batchOverflow1, proxyOverflow2, transferFlaw3, ownerAnyone4, multiOverflow5, burnOverflow6, ceoAnyone7. Some of them could be used by attackers to generate tokens out of nowhere ...

Qualys Cloud Platform 2.33 New Features

This release of the Qualys Cloud Platform version 2.33 includes the release for CertView, plus updates and new features for AssetView, Cloud Agent, EC2 Connector, Security Assessment Questionnaire, Web Application Scanning, and Web Application Firewall, highlights as follows. This posting has bee...

Outpost24 Appsec Scale for Web Application Scanning

Today I would like to write about yet another Outpost24 product - cloud Web Application Scanner Appsec Scale. It is available in the same interface as Outpost24 Outscan, that I reviewed earlier. Select APPSEC SCALE in the start menu and you can scan web applications: New application If you don't...

Microsoft Windows Defender AV: Turn off Windows Defender Antivirus

This policy setting turns off Windows Defender Antivirus. If you enable this policy setting, Windows Defender Antivirus does not run, and computers are not scanned for malware or other potentially unwanted software. If you disable or do not configure this policy setting, by default Windows Defend...

Honeybits - A Simple Tool Designed To Enhance The Effectiveness Of Your Traps By Spreading Breadcrumbs & Honeytokens Across Your Systems

A simple tool designed to enhance the effectiveness of your traps by spreading breadcrumbs & honeytokens across your production servers and workstations to lure the attacker toward your honeypots. Author: Adel "0x4D31" Karimi. Background The problem with the traditional implementation of honeypot...

PAVELOW - Exploit Toolbox

PAVELOW helps you with your exploiting and vulnerability searching adventures on KALI Linux by using a few different pre-installed tools among several others that PAVELOW will installed & setup for youthey all can be found right here on Github too. FEATURES 1. Passive Recon Menu DORK OSINT Extern...

RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2018:1348)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:1348 advisory. The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system. Security Fixes: Kernel: KVM: error in exception handli...