Incident Response Is Changing The enterprise security market has seen fast incorporation of more and more cloud, Internet of Things (IoT), and mobile devices into enterprise security environments, which traditionally abound with servers, workstations, and networking and security devices. In this context, enterprises are faced with decentralized services and products from a variety of service […]

Overview On April 16, 2019, local time, Oracle released its security advisory of the Critical Patch Update (CPU) for the second quarter. The CPU fixes 297 vulnerabilities of varying severity levels across the product families. For details about affected products and available patches, visit the following link: https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuapr2019-5072813.html

Overview Cisco officially released a security advisory, announcing the fix of a vulnerability (CVE-2019-1723) existing in the Cisco Common Service Platform Collector (CSPC). This vulnerability exists because the affected software has a default account with a fixed password. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to remotely access an affected device by using this account. This […]

Overview On April 10, local time, Apache Software Foundation officially released a security advisory, announcing the fix of a remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2019-0232). The Java Runtime Environment (JRE), when running on a Windows system with enableCmdLineArguments enabled, passes command-line parameters to Windows in an incorrect manner. This leads to the CGI servlet susceptible to […]

Overview On April 9, local time, Siemens officially released a security advisory, announcing the fix of vulnerabilities of different risk levels in a spectrum of products such as SIMATIC WinCC Open Architecture (SIMATIC WinCC OA), Spectrum Power, and RUGGEDCOM RXO II. Of all these vulnerabilities, two have a CVSS v3.0 base score of 10.

Top 10 countries in attack counts: The above diagram shows the top 10 regions with the most malicious IP addresses from the NSFOCUS IP Reputation databases at April 19, 2019.   Top 10 countries in attack percentage: The country Suriname (SR) has been in the first place for three weeks. The Laos is still in […]

3.2  DDoS Attack Type Analysis 3.2.1  Proportions of Different Attack Types  In 2018, the most frequently seen attacks were SYN flood, UDP flood, ACK flood, HTTP flood, and HTTPS flood attacks6, which altogether accounted for 96% of all DDoS attacks. In contrast, reflection attacks contributed to no more than 3% of attacks. Compared with 2017, […]

1 Vulnerability Overview Recently, Atlassian officially released a security bulletin, announcing a server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability and a remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2019-3396). The two vulnerabilities respectively reside in WebDAV and Widget Connector and could be exploited by an attacker for remote code execution and server-side request forgery.