Forrester names Microsoft a Leader in 2020 Enterprise Detection and Response Wave

I’m proud to announce that Microsoft is positioned as a Leader in The Forrester Wave: Enterprise Detection and Response, Q1 2020. Among the Leaders in the report, Microsoft received the highest score in the current offering category. Microsoft also received the highest score of all participating...

Evaluating EPP in the Time of XDR

The endpoint detection and response EDR market is not only more critical than ever, it is also going through the biggest period of innovation in its history – bigger than when EDR was first introduced by Carbon Black 7 years ago. This next wave of innovation is about extending EDR beyond the...

Endless Group: CVE-2017-8779 exploit on open rpcbind port could lead to remote DoS

Summary: An open rpcbind port on https://da.theendlessweb.com allows for possible exploitation by an existing Metasploit module. This could lead to large and unfreed memory allocations for XDR strings. Description: Port scanning on 149.56.38.19 which is the IP of https://da.theendlessweb.com show...

Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for rpcbind (EulerOS-SA-2017-1103)

The remote host is missing an update for the Huawei EulerOS SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 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...

3 Reasons MSPs Must Evolve Beyond Endpoint Detection and Response

Endpoint protection is a critical component of a security strategy. But it’s not enough. Today’s threat landscape is so wide and varied, it requires round-the-clock monitoring, full visibility into IT environments and a multilayered approach to keep hackers at bay. For MSPs, this creates a sizabl...

DEBIAN-CVE-2010-2061

rpcbind 0.2.0 does not properly validate 1 /tmp/portmap.xdr and 2 /tmp/rpcbind.xdr, which can be created by an attacker before the daemon is started...

This Week in Security News: Trend Micro Launches its XDR Center in India and EU Reports 5G Cybersecurity Risks

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about Trend Micro’s new XDR Center in India that will help solve data sovereignty issues. Also, read about 5G network software use bei...

This Week in Security News: Fake Apps on iOS and Google Play and Social Media Security Issues

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about the evolution of EDR to XDR and why your CISO should care, stock trading app attacks and fake gambling apps. Also, read about ho...

Why Should CISOs Care About XDR?

We have been collectively saying in our industry for the last 15-20 years that a layered approach to your security stack is a “best practice,” but as with all best practices, these are ideals rather than reality for so many charged with protecting their organizations. The vast majority of CISOs a...

Trend Micro Named A Leader in 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms

Leadership. It’s a weighty term, although frequently it is used too lightly and all too often it’s a self-declared position. We believe, leaders can come and go, and leadership can be fleeting depending on the factors for long term success. It is for all these reasons, that we are proud, not only...

This Week in Security News: Phishing Campaigns and a Biometric Data Breach

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about ever-increasing amounts of phishing campaigns and how Trend Micro caught 2.4 million attacks of this type — a 59% increase from...

XDR Is The Best Remedy As Attackers Increasingly Seek To Evade EDR

Real enterprises are messy places. One messy reality is that enterprises don’t manage all their endpoints. A smart colleague turned me onto using the % of endpoints and servers managed as a prime security metric. On one end of the spectrum are places like universities that maybe manage 10% of the...

NewStart CGSL MAIN 4.05 : rpcbind Vulnerability (NS-SA-2019-0100)

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version MAIN 4.05, has rpcbind packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability: - It was found that due to the way rpcbind uses libtirpc libntirpc, a memory leak can occur when parsing specially crafted XDR messages. An attacker sending thousands of...

NewStart CGSL MAIN 4.05 : libtirpc Vulnerability (NS-SA-2019-0106)

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version MAIN 4.05, has libtirpc packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability: - It was found that due to the way rpcbind uses libtirpc libntirpc, a memory leak can occur when parsing specially crafted XDR messages. An attacker sending thousands of...

This Week in Security News: Ransomware Campaigns and Cryptocurrency Miners

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about continuing cybersecurity attacks targeting small governments. Also, read how XDR, Trend Micro’s newest solution, is more...

Why XDR Is A Big Deal, and Is Different from SIEM and Platforms

In Jon Clay’s post, he does a great job of explaining the evolution from EDR to XDR. In short, he explained that Endpoint Detection and Response EDR is great, but that having sources of information beyond endpoint is better. The ‘X’ in XDR is essentially ‘many’ or whatever we can add to provide a...

XDR Needs Network Data and Here’s Why

As we’ve discussed in previous blogs, XDR is a better way to detect attacks within a network since it is able to coordinate and collaborate threat intelligence and data across multiple threat vectors, including endpoint including mobile and IIoT, server, network, messaging, web, and cloud. In thi...

This Week in Security News: Ransomware Campaigns and Cryptocurrency Miners

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about three different ransomware campaigns that caused havoc in different public sectors. Also, read how threat actors are infecting...

Learn How XDR Can Take Breach Protection Beyond Endpoint Security

How do you know whether an attacker has infiltrated your network? Can you really rely on an Endpoint Detection and Response EDR solution to be your go-to technology for identifying security breaches? Endpoint detection and response EDR platform has been an important technology to detect...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

libntirpc is vulnerable to denial of service. It was found that due to the way rpcbind uses libtirpc libntirpc, a memory leak can occur when parsing specially crafted XDR messages. An attacker sending thousands of messages to rpcbind could cause its memory usage to grow without bound, eventually...