Category: Under our observation

  • Synopsis- NIST plan to retire SMS function deployed for two Factor Authentication

    As of today, we are enjoying the security protection of 2 factor authentication with SMS-based one-time passwords (OTP). This protection mechanism was distributed widely. For instance, online banking, Visa,Master credit card online payment system and mobile application payment system. However NIST plan to retire SMS base 2 factor authentication. This decision has similar a open topic…

  • Are you aware of the need to improve the security of Internet-enabled devices?

    Since IoT device only contained limited free space and memory and therefore it is hard to install the defense solution. A concern of the intellectual property right and therefore vendor do not want to disclose the firmware of their products. So it lack of knowledge let 3rd party vendor developer value-add defense solution. IoT looks…

  • 1st Aug 2018 – Cisco Secuirty Advisory CVE-2018-0391

    Cisco Prime Collaboration Provisioning provides a scalable web-based solution to manage your company’s next-generation communication services. CiscoPrimeCollaboration Provisioning manages IPcommunication endpoints and services in an integrated IP telephony, video, voicemail and unified messaging environment that includes Cisco Unified Communications Manager, Cisco Unified Communications  Manager Express, Cisco Unity Express, Cisco Unity Connection systems and analog gateways.…

  • 2018-07-18 – Jenkins Security Advisory

    Jenkins is the leading open-source automation server. Built with Java, it provides over 1000 plugins to support automation. Is it a robot? Basically, Jenkins is commonly used for building projects, running tests to detect bugs and other issues as soon as they are introduced, static code analysis and deployment. For instance combining Jenkins and Docker…

  • CYBER SECURITY ADVISORY – Panel Builder 800,Improper input validation vulnerability (CVE-2018-10616)

    Retrospectively cyber attack encountered on Nuclear power facility in past. The SCADA system facilities vendor are working hard to hardening their device and provided cyber security advisory. An cyber security alert announced by ABB that a software engineering tool for configure Panel 800 has vulnerability occurs. ABB Panel Builder 800 all versions has an improper…

  • 25th JUl 2018 – Malicious Cyber Activity Targeting ERP Applications (Stay alert!)

      A consulting firm observe that the abuse of the SAP Invoker Servlet rapidly increase (built-in functionality in SAP NetWeaver Application Server Java systems (SAP Java platforms)). The fact is that customer may not aware or encounter technical difficulties to remediate a former vulnerability. May be a new attack (former vulnerability + Zero day) let…

  • Lost of civilization – Enterprise MDM solution may not detect these apps

    The installation packages of Android apps (.APK files) are deploy with.ZIP files. Because of the fundemental design concept. It let malware has way for infection. Yes, threat actor can place a malicious DEX file at the start of the APK file. But V2 signing mechanism can avoid above types of infection. However of the compatiblity…

  • Defending the Power Grid From Hackers – Jul 2018

    Cyber defense facilities today are very strong and effecive to fight against different of cyber attacks. Even though stealer deploy DNS steal technique to exfiltrate the data from a firm. Anti cyber technology have their way to quarantine and deny such activities. Perhaps you said the IoT devices attack that wreaked hovac worldwide. It is…

  • Node.js hits arbitrary command injection (CVE-2018-13797)

    Node.js framework become popular today. Node.js can build the application on ethereum (cryptocurrency). Node.js is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient. Node.js’ package ecosystem, npm, is the largest ecosystem of open source libraries in the world. Meanwhile, npm is…

  • Jul 2018 – Siemens Security Advisory by Siemens ProductCERT

    Selective Availability (SA) was an intentional degradation of public GPS signals implemented for national security reasons. In May 2000, at the direction of President Bill Clinton, the U.S government discontinued its use of Selective Availability in order to make GPS more responsive to civil and commercial users worldwide. And therefore the GPS open to public…