ID Systems Throughout the 50 States

Jim Harper at CATO has a good survey of state ID systems in the US...

New APT Could Signal Reemergence of Notorious Comment Crew

A recently observed APT campaign, dubbed Operation Oceansalt, could herald the return of the infamous China-linked hacking group known as Comment Crew or APT1. Attacks are cunning and are defined by their their deep targeting and use of an innovative multi-wave attack methodology. Operation...

October 16, 2018 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Yale” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! October 16, 2018 - Headlines U.K. Cyber Security Center Says Most Attacks Are...

Up to 35 Million 2018 Voter Records For Sale on Hacking Forum

Up to 35 million voter records have been found up for sale on a popular hacking forum from 19 states, researchers discovered. Researchers at Anomali Labs and Intel 471 on Monday said that they discovered Dark Web communications offering a large quantity of voter databases for sale – including...

The US National Cyber Strategy

Last month, the White House released the "National Cyber Strategy of the United States of America. I generally don't have much to say about these sorts of documents. They're filled with broad generalities. Who can argue with: Defend the homeland by protecting networks, systems, functions, and dat...

Honeywell Mobile Computers with Android Operating Systems

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 7.6 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely Vendor: Honeywell Equipment: Mobile Computers Vulnerability: Improper Privilege Management 2. RISK EVALUATION A vulnerability in a system service on CT60, CN80, CT40, CK75, CN75, CT50, D75e, CN51, and EDA series mobile computers...

The vulnerability of the microprogrammed software of Schneider Electric Modicon M221, caused by errors in handling exceptional states, allows a intruder to perform a system reboot.

The vulnerability of the microprogrammed software in Schneider Electric Modicon M221 programmable logic controllers arises due to errors in handling exceptional states. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to remotely perform a system reboot...

Microsoft Detects More Russian Cyber Attacks Ahead of Mid-Term Election

Microsoft claims to have uncovered another new Russian hacking attempts targeting United States' Senate and conservative think tanks ahead of the 2018 midterm elections. The tech giant said Tuesday that the APT28 hacking group—also known as Strontium, Fancy Bear, Sofacy, Sednit, and Pawn Storm,...

Microsoft Windows: Allow standby states (S1-S3) when sleeping (on battery)

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: winstandbystatesbattery.nasl 11344 2018-09-12 06:57:52Z emoss $ Check value for Allow standby states S1-S3 when sleeping on battery Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Microsoft Windows: Allow standby states (S1-S3) when sleeping (plugged in)

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: winstandbystatesplugged.nasl 11344 2018-09-12 06:57:52Z emoss $ Check value for Allow standby states S1-S3 when sleeping plugged in Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Carbon Black Report: China, Russia & North Korea Launching Sophisticated, Espionage-Focused Cyberattacks

Even as a steady drumbeat of headlines keeps the world’s attention focused on cybercrimes, such as ransomware and cryptojacking, in the dark corners of the internet, attackers are busy refining their craft. According to the world’s top incident response IR professionals, cyberattackers are honing...

HTTPS+TLS and IPv6-enablement both in the majority for World Cup streaming

The underlying protocols of the Internet continue to evolve, and massive events such as the World Cup are a great opportunity to see this in action. A single-match peak for live video streaming of 22.5 Tbps was set on Akamai on Tuesday July 10 during the semi-final in Russia between France and...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3696-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the 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-only ifdescription...

Summer SOTI - Web Attacks

Continuing Changes Welcome to the second blog post for the Summer 2018 State of the Internet / Security. If you've read the SOTI / Security report before, much of what you see here should be familiar, though the time frame we're looking at is the six months from November 2017 to April 2018, inste...

Debian DSA-4232-1 : xen - security update

This update provides mitigations for the 'lazy FPU' vulnerability affecting a range of Intel CPUs, which could result in leaking CPU register states belonging to another vCPU previously scheduled on the same CPU. For additional information please refer to...

Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in Open Source Struts affects the IBM FlashSystem V840 (CVE 2015-1831)

Summary There is a vulnerability in the Open Source Struts used by the IBM FlashSystem V840. An exploit of this vulnerability could result in an attacker gaining control of internal states which affect the FlashSystem V840. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2015-1831 DESCRIPTION: An unspecified...

Security Bulletin: A vulnerability in Open Source Struts affects the IBM FlashSystem V9000 (CVE 2015-1831)

Summary There is a vulnerability in the Open Source Struts used by the IBM FlashSystem V9000. An exploit of this vulnerability could result in an attacker gaining control of internal states which affect the FlashSystem V9000. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2015-1831 DESCRIPTION: An unspecified...

Security Bulletin: Privilege escalation vulnerability affects IBM® DB2® LUW (CVE-2017-1134)

Summary DB2 LUW is affected by a vulnerability in IBM Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms TSAMP. Vulnerability Details A privilege escalation vulnerability affects IBM Reliable Scalable Cluster Technology shipped with IBM Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms. CVEID: CVE-2017-1134...

U.S. Builds World's Fastest Supercomputer – Summit

China no longer owns the fastest supercomputer in the world; It is the United States now. Though China still has more supercomputers on the Top 500 list, the USA takes the crown of "world's fastest supercomputer" from China after IBM and the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laborato...

Yahoo Hacker linked to Russian Intelligence Gets 5 Years in U.S. Prison

A 23-year-old Canadian man, who pleaded guilty last year for his role in helping Russian government spies hack into email accounts of Yahoo users and other services, has been sentenced to five years in prison. Karim Baratov a.k.a Karim Taloverov, a.k.a Karim Akehmet Tokbergenov, a Kazakhstan-born...