Calif. Law Takes Aim at Weak IoT Passwords

In a first of its kind law, California Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill that bans the use of default “admin” passwords on internet-connected devices sold in the state and requires manufacturers use strong passwords instead. California has been taking aggressive legislative action in 2018 to...

Pumping the Brakes on Artificial Intelligence

While the push-pull between defenders and attackers using artificial intelligence continues, there’s another security dimension to machine intelligence that should be of concern. Just as the rise of IoT devices has created an inadvertent new threat surface ripe for introducing vulnerabilities, so...

How's that Security Back Door Doing? (Part 2)

In the first part of this blog post I wrote about how recursive DNS rDNS is an attack surface that many enterprises don't currently protect. Bad actors are exploiting that fact and developing advanced targeted threats that use DNS to bypass conventional security tools such as firewalls, secure we...

Dispelling the Myths Surrounding Security Technology and GDPR

Many of our customers conducting business in Europe are concerned about how the new General Data Protection Regulation "GDPR" impacts the ability to protect their organization's data, network and IT system resources. In particular, many worry that the requirements of GDPR will restrict their...

ThreatList: Telecom Sector Plagued with Advanced Malware

The telecom sector is being plagued with dangerous types of malware that can lead to significant loss of confidential or regulated data, a report has found. Lastline’s findings, published today, found that telecom sector threats are “ahead of the curve,” based on an analysis of threats to the...

The Key to EDR You Didn’t Know You Were Missing

It’s no longer enough for companies to simply “keep up” in the world of cybersecurity. To prevent attackers from infiltrating your systems, you need to be one step ahead at all times. It’s no wonder, then, that the majority of companies are spending more on cybersecurity than ever before.1 While...

FBI Warns of ‘Unlimited’ ATM Cashout Blitz

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI is warning banks that cybercriminals are preparing to carry out a highly choreographed, global fraud scheme known as an "ATM cash-out," in which crooks hack a bank or payment card processor and use cloned cards at cash machines around the world to...

Portainer UI No Authentication Vulnerability (HTTP)

The script checks if the Portainer Dashboard UI has no authentication enabled at the remote web server. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier:...

Microsoft ASP.NET Core Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability (Jul 2018)

This host is missing an important security update according to Microsoft advisory CVE-2018-8171. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 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-onl...

The Trickster Hackers – Backdoor Obfuscation and Evasion Techniques

A backdoor is a method for bypassing the normal authentication or encryption of a system. Sometimes developers construct backdoors to their own programs for various reasons. For example, to provide easy maintenance, developers introduce a backdoor that enables them to restore the manufacturer’s...

Extending Trend Micro’s Container Protection with Deep Security Smart Check

DevOps is not a single person or business unit, it is a development philosophy that exists within many organizations. DevOps teams build new applications for business growth, and extend critical monolithic applications into modern architectures. A key tenet of this philosophy uses microservices t...

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 Internet Explorer Security Bypass Vulnerability (CNVD-2018-11937)

Internet Explorer is a web browser from Microsoft. A security bypass vulnerability exists in Microsoft Internet Explorer. An attacker could use this vulnerability to bypass Mark of the Web MOTW, which could be used to bypass security controls based on the MOTW tag...

Baby Cam Creeper Actively Watched New Mom

It’s a bad week for connected parents: A South Carolina mom says a stranger hacked into her baby monitor to spy on her and her family. She shared the experience on Facebook after she noticed someone had taken control of the 360-degree motion feature and was moving the camera toward her bed to see...

DARKSURGEON - A Windows Packer Project To Empower Incident Response, Digital Forensics, Malware Analysis, And Network Defense

DARKSURGEON is a Windows packer project to empower incident response, digital forensics, malware analysis, and network defense. DARKSURGEON has three stated goals: Accelerate incident response, digital forensics, malware analysis, and network defense with a preconfigured Windows 10 environment...

couchdb -- administrator privilege escalation

Apache CouchDB PMC reports: Database Administrator could achieve privilege escalation to the account that CouchDB runs under, by abusing insufficient validation in the HTTP API, escaping security controls implemented in previous releases...

Malware in the age of IoT

Now that technology providers are bringing connectivity to a whole host of different items and appliances, the full force of the Internet of Things is beginning to be felt by businesses and consumers alike. From simple items like home routers to more complex, machine-to-machine systems, the IoT i...

Leveraging Imperva Solutions for GDPR Compliance Part II: Pseudonymization

Down to the wire- the GDPR compliance deadline is here. It’s May 25 and the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation GDPR is live. As you know by now, the risk and potential costs associated with a failure to comply with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation GDPR are substantial. GDPR...

GDPR Is Here:  Assess the Security Configurations of Your IT Systems

In prior installments of this GDPR compliance blog series, we’ve discussed the importance of key security practices such as IT asset inventory and vulnerability management. Today, we’ll focus on another core component for GDPR: policy compliance. As we’ve stated before, to comply with the EU’s...

SA167: SAML Authentication Bypass

SUMMARY When configured to authenticate network users with a SAML authentication realm, Symantec ASG and ProxySG incorrectly handle SAML responses that have XML nodes with comments. A remote attacker can modify a valid SAML response without invalidating its cryptographic signature to bypass SAML...