Closing the Door on Hackers – from the New York Times
I recently had the pleasure of contributing an Op-Ed piece to The New York Times. In the article, I talk about some of the aspects of cyber-security that I think are far too-often left out of mainstream media discussions. Specifically, the shared burden that all of us in the technology industry should feel in helping…
A Brief Overview of Darkleech
A piece of malware, Darkleech, has been making the news rounds as of late. This one targets web servers, specifically Apache 2.2.2 and above. Instead of merely compromising a web server and uploading malicious content to be served to unsuspecting victims, Darkleech goes a step further by installing a special module that is loaded by…
Vendor-Disclosed Zero Days and Targeted Trojans
Here at BeyondTrust, we are constantly keeping an eye on the underground parts of the internet, monitoring for things like zero day vulnerabilities and how malware authors are exploiting vulnerabilities in the wild. As such, we wanted to keep you apprised of a vulnerability that was addressed within VMware ESXi 5.0. A patch was released…
Least Privilege and South Korea
No, this isn’t some editorial piece about the interrelationships of varying social strata in South Korean society and Gangnam Style. Despite how interesting that may be, we are instead taking a quick look at the latest “wiper” malware to strike fear in the hearts of CTOs and IT admins alike – DarkSeoul (or Jokra or…
Creating a Gold Image SCAP Template for Windows
One of the challenges of Benchmark Configuration management is creating or modifying SCAP OVAL content to match your business policies and requirements. The following procedure is recommended to create custom Windows benchmarks for the Retina Network Security Scanner and Retina CS via local system policy, Local GPO, and Microsoft Security and Compliance Manager. For starters,…
University of Winchester secures its applications with the help of BeyondTrust
A PowerBroker for Windows customer, University of Winchester, was recently highlighted in the Spring 2013 Government and Public Sector Journal (GPSJ). GPSJ is a great source for professionals in the government & public sectors, and informs them of the latest breaking news and exclusive footage. We are very happy and proud of our customer being…
March VEF Participant Wins a Kindle Fire
As you all know, every month we host our Vulnerability Expert Forum (VEF) webinar. This is a time where our experts share valuable insight regarding new vulnerabilities that are discovered and the actions that need to be taken as a result. It’s a quick way to get up to speed on current potential risks to your organization…
BeyondTrust CTO sits down with IT Harvest’s Richard Steinnon
BeyondTrust’s CTO, Marc Maiffret, recently sat down with IT Harvest’s Richard Steinnon to discuss a wide range of topics surrounding the security industry today, including the accelerated rate of attacks we’re currently seeing, what our customers are doing to protect themselves, and they even discuss BeyondTrust’s new tagline, Beyond Traditional Security and what that means…
March 2013 Patch Tuesday: Cleaning House
Patch Tuesday is upon us and this month, Microsoft is doing a little spring cleaning of vulnerabilities, fixing a well-rounded collection of client-side vulnerabilities, along with a few server-side vulnerabilities for good measure. This month, the affected software includes Internet Explorer, Silverlight, Visio Viewer, SharePoint, OneNote, Outlook for Mac, and a Windows kernel-mode driver. In…
Oracle’s Java Hates Least-Privilege
Recently, there has been a lot of commentary and discussions about what to do about the state of security and the seemingly endless attacks that we are facing. There are, of course, many recommendations that are being made at a governmental level of how best to approach this problem through the use of information sharing…
