From the Data Scientist’s Desk: How to Tune a Model Using Simple Analytics on the Feature Contribution Data

My story: My model looked good. It was as accurate as I wanted it to be and I was happy with it from one experiment to another. When I decided to change the test data set a bit, everything fell apart. Accuracy dropped and I had no clue why. I had to run the test again. And again. Ten tests later,...

HPSBHF03713 rev. 1 - Intel® Extreme Tuning Utility (XTU) February 2021 Security Update

Potential Security Impact Denial of Service Source: HP, HP Product Security Response Team PSRT Reported By: Intel VULNERABILITY SUMMARY Intel has informed HP of a potential security vulnerability identified in the Intel® Extreme Tuning Utility XTU which may allow denial of service. Intel is...

How to Change High Availability Timeout Settings

This article describes how to increase High Availability HA timeout, for pools in danger of fencing with, because of existing timeout values. Requirements Licensed XenServer Pool with three or more hosts A dedicated HA storage repository Background By default, the timeout settings for HA are...

Exploit for Insufficiently Protected Credentials in Zyxel Usg20-Vpn_Firmware

Scanner for Zyxel products which are vulnerable due to an undo...

Aura - Python Source Code Auditing And Static Analysis On A Large Scale

Aura is a static analysis framework developed as a response to the ever-increasing threat of malicious packages and vulnerable code published on PyPI. Project goals: provide an automated monitoring system over uploaded packages to PyPI, alert on anomalies that can either indicate an ongoing attac...

SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : salt (SUSE-SU-2020:3243-1)

This update for salt fixes the following issues : Avoid regression on 'salt-master': set passphrase for salt-ssh keys to empty string bsc1178485 Properly validate eauth credentials and tokens on SSH calls made by Salt API bsc1178319, bsc1178362, bsc1178361, CVE-2020-25592, CVE-2020-17490,...

The vulnerability of software for adjusting Intel XTU performance, related to insecure management of privileges, allows a perpetrator to escalate their privileges.

The vulnerability of software for adjusting Intel XTU performance is related to insecure management of privileges. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow attackers to enhance their privileges...

CVE-2020-12350

Improper access control in the IntelR XTU before version 6.5.1.360 may allow an authenticated user to potentially enable escalation of privilege via local access...

Repurposing Neural Networks to Generate Synthetic Media for Information Operations

FireEye’s Data Science and Information Operations Analysis teams released this blog post to coincide with our Black Hat USA 2020 Briefing, which details how open source, pre-trained neural networks can be leveraged to generate synthetic media for malicious purposes. To summarize our presentation,...

RHEL 8 : kernel-rt (RHSA-2020:2428)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:2428 advisory. The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirements. Securi...

tuning-france.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-1163065 Following coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspa. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspb. notified the website...

Microtik SSH Daemon 6.44.3 - Denial of Service (PoC)

Excploit Title: Microtik SSH Daemon 6.44.3 - Denial of Service PoC Author: Hosein Askari Date: 2020-03-18 Vendor Homepage: https://mikrotik.com/ Model: hAP lite Processor architecture: smips Affected Version: through 6.44.3 CVE: N/A Description: An uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability ...

Let Experts Do Their Job – Managed WAF by Indusface

WAF Web Application Firewall has been the first line of defence when it comes to application security for a while now. Many organizations have adopted WAF in one form or the other and most cases, compliance has been the driver for adoption. But unfortunately, when it comes to the efficacy of WAF ...

Let Experts Do Their Job – Managed WAF by Indusface

WAF Web Application Firewall has been the first line of defence when it comes to application security for a while now. Many organizations have adopted WAF in one form or the other and most cases, compliance has been the driver for adoption. But unfortunately, when it comes to the efficacy of WAF ...

RHEL 7 : kernel-rt (RHSA-2019:1891)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:1891 advisory. The kernel-rt packages provide the Real Time Linux Kernel, which enables fine-tuning for systems with extremely high determinism requirement...

7 Easy-to-Use Java Performance Tuning Tips

By Owais Sultan Are you looking for easy-to-use Java performance tuning tips because you want to learn more developer knowledge and experience because of the current over-complicated process of optimization techniques? With a bit of practice, there are a few easy ways to learn best practices that...

WhatWeb v0.5.0 - Next Generation Web Scanner

Developed by Andrew Horton urbanadventurer and Brendan Coles bcoles Latest Release: v0.5.0. June 9th, 2019 License: GPLv2 This product is subject to the terms detailed in the license agreement. For more information about WhatWeb visit: Homepage: https://www.morningstarsecurity.com/research/whatwe...

Arjun v1.3 - HTTP Parameter Discovery Suite

Features Multi-threading 4 modes of detection A typical scan takes 30 seconds Regex powered heuristic scanning Huge list of 25,980 parameter names Makes just 30-35 requests to the target Usage Note: Arjun doesn't work with python 3.4 Discover parameters To find GET parameters, you can simply do:...

CDN Tuning for OTT - "Why Doesn't it Already do That?"

When you initially onboarded your OTT traffic to a CDN, you probably went with default settings. And to be honest, why wouldn't you? A standard media configuration is designed for the short http-based segment delivery at scale. It removes the bottleneck of your origin connectivity, taking you fro...

SUSE-RU-2019:0341-1 Security update for SUSE Manager Server 3.2

This update fixes the following issues: branch-network-formula: - Netconfig update requires bind directory to exists for bind forward, ensure it bsc1116365 - Rework network update in branch-network formula bsc1116365 py26-compat-salt: - Remove arch from name when pkg.listpkgs is called with 'attr...