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FreeRADIUS
Vulnerability opens FreeRADIUS servers to unauthenticated attackers

A vulnerability in the free, open source FreeRADIUS server could be exploited by remote attackers to bypass authentication via PEAP or TTLS. There is currently no indication …

biohazard
European companies hit with highly customizable ransomware

Panda Security researchers have been following and analyzing ransomware attacks that have been targeting European business for a few months now, and have tied them to the same …

Microsoft
Actively exploited zero-day in IIS 6.0 affects 60,000+ servers

Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) 6.0 sports a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2017-7269) that was exploited in the wild last summer and is likely also being exploited …

healthcare
Cyber criminals targeting healthcare orgs’ FTP servers

FBI’s Cyber Division has sent out another notification to healthcare organizations, alerting them to the danger of cyber criminals using their FTP servers for various …

chess
Deception security doesn’t have to be onerous or expensive

When talking about deception security, most infosec pros’ mind turns to honeypots and decoy systems – additional solutions that companies have to buy, deploy, and …

magnifying glass
Security audit of Dovecot mailserver reveals good security practices

Dovecot – a popular open source IMAP and POP3 server for Linux/UNIX-like systems – is as secure as its developers claim it is. A security audit performed by German …

NetSess
Net Cease: Microsoft researchers unveil anti-reconnaissance tool

Microsoft researchers Itai Grady and Tal Be’ery have released Net Cease, a PowerShell script that prevents attackers who have already compromised an endpoint from …

terminal
Quickly audit and adjust SSH server configurations with SSH-audit

SSH-audit is a standalone open source tool for auditing and fixing SSH server configurations. It has no dependencies and will run wherever Python is available. It supports …

Compromising Linux virtual machines via FFS Rowhammer attack

A group of Dutch researchers have demonstrated a variant of the Rowhammer attack that can be used to successfully compromise Linux virtual machines on cloud servers. The Flip …

https
Faulty TLS implementation opens VISA sites, users to attack

A group of researchers has discovered 184 HTTPS servers that are wide open to attackers looking to inject seemingly valid content into encrypted sessions. Some of these …

servers
Attackers keep flinging assorted ImageMagick 0day exploits

It’s been a week since the existence of several flaws affecting popular image processing library ImageMagick have been made public. At the time, one of these, a remote …

Web servers and sites under attack via ImageMagick zero-day flaw

A zero-day remote code execution flaw has been found in ImageMagick, an image processing library that allows image uploads from untrusted users (site visitors) and is widely …

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