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🦿 Linux: How to quickly check to see if your server is under a DoS attack from a single IP address 🦿

Jack Wallen shows you an easy way to determine if your Linux server is under a DDoS attack and how to quickly stop it.

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via "Tech Republic".
🛠 Zeek 4.0.0 🛠

Zeek is a powerful network analysis framework that is much different from the typical IDS you may know. While focusing on network security monitoring, Zeek provides a comprehensive platform for more general network traffic analysis as well. Well grounded in more than 15 years of research, Zeek has successfully bridged the traditional gap between academia and operations since its inception. Today, it is relied upon operationally in particular by many scientific environments for securing their cyber-infrastructure. Zeek's user community includes major universities, research labs, supercomputing centers, and open-science communities. This is the source code release.

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via "Packet Storm Security".
🛠 Suricata IDPE 6.0.2 🛠

Suricata is a network intrusion detection and prevention engine developed by the Open Information Security Foundation and its supporting vendors. The engine is multi-threaded and has native IPv6 support. It's capable of loading existing Snort rules and signatures and supports the Barnyard and Barnyard2 tools.

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via "Packet Storm Security".
Compromised Website Images Camouflage ObliqueRAT Malware

Emails spreading the ObliqueRAT malware now make use of steganography, disguising their payloads on compromised websites.

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via "Threat Post".
Ryuk Ransomware: Now with Worming Self-Propagation

The Ryuk scourge has a new trick in its arsenal: Self-replication via SMB shares and port scanning.

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via "Threat Post".
CVE-2021-21514

Dell EMC OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA) versions 9.5 and prior contain a path traversal vulnerability. A remote user with admin privileges could potentially exploit this vulnerability to view arbitrary files on the target system by sending a specially crafted URL request.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
CVE-2021-21513

Dell EMC OpenManage Server Administrator (OMSA) version 9.5 Microsoft Windows installations with Distributed Web Server (DWS) enabled configuration contains an authentication bypass vulnerability. A remote unauthenticated attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability to gain admin access on the affected system.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
🦿 Infrastructure modernization remains the biggest use case for enterprise open source 🦿

A new Red Hat report also finds that app development and digital transformation are important to users and that security perceptions have improved.

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via "Tech Republic".
🕴 4 Ways Health Centers Can Stop the Spread of Cyberattacks 🕴

Health centers must shift the perception of cyberattacks from potential risk to real threat in order to take the first step toward a safer, healthier security posture.

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via "Dark Reading".
Jailbreak Tool Works on iPhones Up to iOS 14.3

The UnC0ver team took advantage of an iOS flaw patched in January in its latest tool allowing developers and other enthusiasts to hack into their own devices.

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via "Threat Post".
🦿 Why it's time to stop setting SELinux to Permissive or Disabled 🦿

Too many people shrug off SELinux on their data center systems. Jack Wallen says it's time to stop giving into that siren song so your operating systems are weakened.

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via "Tech Republic".
CVE-2020-4726

The IBM Application Performance Monitoring UI (IBM Cloud APM 8.1.4) allows web pages to be stored locally which can be read by another user on the system. IBM X-Force ID: 187975.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
CVE-2020-4725

IBM Monitoring (IBM Cloud APM 8.1.4 ) could allow an authenticated user to modify HTML content by sending a specially crafted HTTP request to the APM UI, which could mislead another user. IBM X-Force ID: 187974.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
CVE-2021-3384

A vulnerability in Stormshield Network Security could allow an attacker to trigger a protection related to ARP/NDP tables management, which would temporarily prevent the system to contact new hosts via IPv4 or IPv6. This affects versions 2.0.0 to 2.7.7, 2.8.0 to 2.16.0, 3.0.0 to 3.7.16, 3.8.0 to 3.11.4, and 4.0.0 to 4.1.5. Fixed in versions 2.7.8, 3.7.17, 3.11.5, and 4.2.0.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
CVE-2020-23518

Cross Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in UltimateKode Neo Billing - Accounting, Invoicing And CRM Software up to version 3.5 which allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
CVE-2021-25330

Calling of non-existent provider in MobileWips application prior to SMR Feb-2021 Release 1 allows unauthorized actions including denial of service attack by hijacking the provider.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
CVE-2020-4719

The IBM Cloud APM 8.1.4 server will issue a DNS request to resolve any hostname specified in the Cloud Event Management Webhook URL configuration definition. This could enable an authenticated user with admin authorization to create DNS query strings that are not hostnames. IBM X-Force ID: 187861.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
🕴 Google Partners With Insurers to Create Risk Protection Program 🕴

Google Cloud, Allianz, and Munich Re teamed up to build a program that aims to reduce risk and potentially cut costs for customers.

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via "Dark Reading".
🕴 Thycotic and Centrify to Merge In $1.4B Deal 🕴

TPG Capital will combine privileged access management providers into one company.

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via "Dark Reading".
🦿 Should you pay up when hit by ransomware? There are several things to consider first 🦿

Whether paying ransom for data held hostage makes sense depends on many variables. Experts define the variables and why they're important.

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via "Tech Republic".
🦿 Android 11: How to enable enhanced randomize MAC addresses 🦿

Android 11 allows users to enable the Wi-Fi-Enhanced MAC randomization. Jack Wallen shows you how.

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via "Tech Republic".