In my day job I publish two large information security studies a year. This involves completing hundreds of live interviews with security professionals in all types of industries. What’s produced is some of the most comprehensive market research on information security I’ve ever been involved with. But I need your help.
Upon logging into AT&T online to place an order for the new iPhone, some users are reporting that another user’s information is coming up including billing information, call history, and so forth.
After a busy April patch month, May’s patch Tuesday proves to be much quieter with two updates released by Microsoft. Although deemed critical, read the details below to see how your environment may or may not be affected. Microsoft Updates ID: MS10-030 Title: Vulnerability in Outlook Express and Windows Mail Could Allow Remote Code Execution [...]
We begin a new year and arrive at the first patch Tuesday of the decade. The news and spread of malware related to Adobe Reader continues to gain momentum and the information security community believes that this year will produce more exploits using Reader. I will include both the Microsoft and Adobe updates in these [...]
About a month ago, there was much news about the release of COFEE into the torrent wild. I even gave my two cents about the much hyped forensics toolkit which is provided to law enforcement for the purposes of easily capturing volatile data from personal computers during evidence collection. A tool to counter COFEE, aptly [...]
Today marks the last Microsoft patch Tuesday of 2009, and Microsoft has released patches to six bulletins: MS09-071 – Vulnerabilities in Internet Authentication Service Could Allow Remote Code Execution (974318) MS09-074 – Vulnerability in Microsoft Office Project Could Allow Remote Code Execution (967183) MS09-072 – Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (976325) MS09-069 – Vulnerability [...]
For many users, PDF’s are simply a mechanism for providing documents to read. Given the spate of vulnerabilities identified in Acrobat and Reader in 2009, and the likely promise of more in 2010, we are releasing by request this general instruction for disabling Javascript in Adobe Acrobat. An advisable approach, depending on your usage of these products, may be to disable Javascript and only re-enable when performing an activity with a PDF that requires Javascript be enabled, such as with an eForm.
It’s been a while since my last post regarding Powershell which showed how to scan hosts for network interfaces in promiscuous mode. This time around, we’ll scan for some well known ports in our Active Directory to see who has a local IIS or SQL Express running on their machine. I know what you’re thinking. [...]
In my last OSSEC post “OSSEC: Agentless to save the day” I went over how to setup agentless monitoring using the built in scripts. With this post I am going to get into the details of how to modify the OSSEC supplied scripts to do your bidding.
OSSEC is a Host Intrusion detection system (HIDS) in name, but in reality it is far more. It’s able to look for rootkits, monitor logs (LIDS), and even actively respond to defined events. While all these features are great the unsung hero is agentless monitoring.
