VERT Threat Alert: February 2022 Patch Tuesday Analysis
Today’s VERT Alert addresses Microsoft’s February 2022 Security Updates. VERT is actively working on coverage for these vulnerabilities and expects to ship ASPL-985 on Wednesday, February 9th. In-The-Wild & Disclosed CVEs CVE-2022-21989 This month, only a single vulnerability, CVE-2022-21989 has been publicly disclosed and Microsoft is not reporting any known ... Read More
VERT Threat Alert: January 2022 Patch Tuesday Analysis
Today’s VERT Alert addresses Microsoft’s January 2022 Security Updates. VERT is actively working on coverage for these vulnerabilities and expects to ship ASPL-981 on Wednesday, January 12th. In-The-Wild & Disclosed CVEs CVE-2022-21919 This vulnerability was a bypass to CVE-2021-34484, released by the same researcher, Abdelhamid Naceri. The researcher first tweeted ... Read More
VERT Threat Alert: December 2021 Patch Tuesday Analysis
Today’s VERT Alert addresses Microsoft’s December 2021 Security Updates. VERT is actively working on coverage for these vulnerabilities and expects to ship ASPL-978 on Wednesday, December 15th. In-The-Wild & Disclosed CVEs CVE-2021-43890 Up first this month is a vulnerability in the Windows AppX Installer that could allow spoofing. This vulnerability ... Read More
VERT Research Tips: Understanding Word Splitting
Word splitting is a function of BASH that I was unfamiliar with, but it is definitely one that impacted my recent research. From the bash(1) man page: IFS The Internal Field Separator that is used for word splitting after expansion and to split lines into words with the read builtin ... Read More
VERT Research Tips: Byting into Python
The past few weeks, I’ve been spending a lot of my free time preparing for the OSCP exam, which means refreshing a lot of skills that I haven’t used in years. A large part of that is rebuilding muscle memory around buffer overflows, so that’s how I spent my four-day ... Read More
VERT Threat Alert: November 2021 Patch Tuesday Analysis
Today’s VERT Alert addresses Microsoft’s November 2021 Security Updates. VERT is actively working on coverage for these vulnerabilities and expects to ship ASPL-972 on Wednesday, November 10th. In-The-Wild & Disclosed CVEs CVE-2021-42292 Up first this month, we have a 0-day in Microsoft Excel that allows an attacker to bypass security ... Read More
CIS Control 10: Malware Defenses
With the continuing rise of ransomware, malware defenses are more critical than ever before with regard to securing the enterprise. Anti-Malware technologies have become an afterthought in many organizations, a technology that they’ve always had, always used, and never really thought about. This control serves as a reminder that this ... Read More
#TripwireBookClub – Practical IoT Hacking: The Definitive Guide to Attacking the Internet of Things
Previously, we reviewed The Ghidra Book: The Definitive Guide because several of us were working with Ghidra, and it was a topic that made sense. Similarly, we spend a lot of time thinking and talking about Internet of Things (IoT) Security. Whether it is Craig Young winning the first-ever SOHOpelessly ... Read More
VERT Threat Alert: October 2021 Patch Tuesday Analysis
Today’s VERT Alert addresses Microsoft’s October 2021 Security Updates. VERT is actively working on coverage for these vulnerabilities and expects to ship ASPL-968 on Wednesday, October 13th. In-The-Wild & Disclosed CVEs CVE-2021-40449 Up first this month, we have an elevation of privilege in Win32k that has been exploited in-the-wild via ... Read More
CIS Control 07: Continuous Vulnerability Management
When it comes to cybersecurity, vulnerability management is one of the older technologies that still play a critical role in securing our assets. It is often overlooked, disregarded, or considered only for checkbox compliance needs, but a proper vulnerability management program can play a critical role in avoiding a series ... Read More
