Top 10 Practices for Securing Cloud Workloads

Public cloud is one of the biggest challenges in every IT organization. While driving greater scalability, performance, and access for a competitive edge, it also introduces new security risks. More than just hosted data center infrastructure, public cloud offers the promise of agility, efficienc...

What We Can Learn from the Capital One Hack

On Monday, a former Amazon employee was arrested and charged with stealing more than 100 million consumer applications for credit from Capital One. Since then, many have speculated the breach was perhaps the result of a previously unknown "zero-day" flaw, or an "insider" attack in which the accus...

AppTrana — Website Security Solution That Actually Works

Data loss and theft continues to rise, and hardly a day goes by without significant data breaches hit the headlines. In January 2019 alone, 1.76 billion records were leaked, and according to IBM's Data Breach study, the average cost of each lost or stolen record has reached about $148. Most of...

Personalized Customer Support that Garners a Personalized Thank You

In my two-plus years as a Technical Support Engineer at Imperva, I’ve handled a wide variety of customer cases. And I’ve had the satisfaction of helping resolve them quickly and successfully. But never before have I received a handwritten thank you note from an effusive customer. Let me start at...

SEMrush Plugs Remote Code Execution Bug in Its SaaS Platform

UPDATE Search engine optimization and analytics firm SEMrush patched a remote code execution vulnerability that allowed an attacker to send a malicious image to its service and generate a reverse shell, a typical first stage in a cyberattack. Public disclosure of the vulnerability was Monday when...

Fortinet FortiWeb Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability (CNVD-2019-18595)

Fortinet FortiWeb is a Web application layer firewall from the U.S. company Fita Fortinet, which can block threats such as cross-site scripting, SQL injection, cookie poisoning, schema poisoning and other attacks to ensure the security of Web applications and protect sensitive database content. A...

WAFW00F v1.0.0 - Detect All The Web Application Firewall!

WAFW00F identifies and fingerprints Web Application Firewall WAF products. How does it work? To do its magic, WAFW00F does the following: Sends a normal HTTP request and analyses the response; this identifies a number of WAF solutions. If that is not successful, it sends a number of potentially...

Raptor WAF v0.6 - Web Application Firewall using DFA

Raptor is a Web application firewall made in C, uses DFA to block SQL injection, Cross site scripting and path traversal. http://funguscodes.blogspot.com.br/ to run: $ git clone https://github.com/CoolerVoid/raptorwaf $ cd raptorwaf; make; bin/raptor Note: Don't execute with "cd bin; ./raptor" us...

Qualys Cloud Platform 2.38 New Features

This release of the Qualys Cloud Platform version 2.38 includes updates and new features for AssetView, Web Application Firewall, and Web Application Scanning, highlights as follows. AssetView Azure Instance State search token and Dynamic Tag Support – A new search token "azure.vm.state" is added...

Latest Drupal RCE Flaw Used by Cryptocurrency Miners and Other Attackers

Another remote code execution vulnerability has been revealed in Drupal, the popular open-source Web content management system. One exploit — still working at time of this writing — has been used in dozens of unsuccessful attacks against our customers, with an unknown number of attacks, some like...

CVE-2019-8933

In DedeCMS 5.7SP2, attackers can upload a .php file to the uploads/ directory without being blocked by the Web Application Firewall, and then execute this file, via this sequence of steps: visiting the management page, clicking on the template, clicking on Default Template Management, clicking on...

CVE-2019-8933

CVE-2019-8933 affects DedeCMS 5.7SP2. An attacker can upload a PHP file to uploads/ and execute it by abusing the management/template workflow: navigate to Default Template Management, create a New Template, and alter the filename from ../index.html to ../index.php. This indicates a path/filename...

Citrix Web Application Firewall : 400 Bad Request

Getting the error "The request failed with HTTP status 400:." when opening an application hosted using a Load balancing Virtual Server when Application Firewall Profile is bound. Sample entry seen in /var/log/ns.log : Nov 22 09:49:45 172.25.224.219 11/22/2018:09:49:45 GMT qahvpxlb09 0-PPE-1 :...

Security Bulletin: Security Vulnerability in IBM WebSphere Application Server shipped with IBM Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager(CVE-2015-3183)

Summary There are vulnerabilities reported in IBM Websphere 7.0.0.37. IBM Tivoli Netcool Configuration Manager is affected by the following. Request smuggling vulnerability may affect the IBM HTTP Server used by IBM WebSphere Application Server Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2015-3183...

Fortnite Flaws Allowed Hackers to Takeover Gamers' Accounts

Check Point researchers have discovered multiple security vulnerabilities in Fortnite, a massively popular online battle game, one of which could have allowed remote attackers to completely takeover player accounts just by tricking users into clicking an unsuspectable link. The reported Fortnite...

Fortnite Flaws Allowed Hackers to Takeover Gamers' Accounts

Check Point researchers have discovered multiple security vulnerabilities in Fortnite, a massively popular online battle game, one of which could have allowed remote attackers to completely takeover player accounts just by tricking users into clicking an unsuspectable link. The reported Fortnite...

bypass-firewalls-by-DNS-history - Firewall Bypass Script Based On DNS History Records

This script will try to find: the direct IP address of a server behind a firewall like Cloudflare, Incapsula, SUCURI ... an old server which still running the same inactive and unmaintained website, not receiving active traffic because the A DNS record is not pointing towards it. Because it's an...

Akamai Received Top Scores in Gartner's New Report "Critical Capabilities for Cloud Web Application Firewalls Services"

Are you in the process of selecting a web application firewall WAF or thinking about whether your current solution is adequate? For many organizations selecting the right WAF to protect their business is not an easy task. The threat landscape is changing fast and hackers are very creative in thei...

App Security and PCI; Are you ready for the audit?

As most people know, merchants, financial institutions and anybody else who is involved in processing credit cards are subject to the PCI DSS compliance to reduce fraud and cybersecurity risks. This affects both brick-n-mortar stores and banks as well as card-not-present CNP transactions that...

Design/Logic Flaw

VeryNginx 0.3.3 allows remote attackers to bypass the Web Application Firewall feature because there is no error handler for geturiargs or getpostargs to block the API misuse described in CVE-2018-9230...