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VERT Threat Alert: September 2022 Patch Tuesday Analysis
By Tyler Reguly on Tue, 09/13/2022
Today’s VERT Alert addresses Microsoft’s September 2022 Security Updates. VERT is actively working on coverage for these vulnerabilities and expects to ship ASPL-1021 on Wednesday, September 14th.
In-The-Wild & Disclosed CVEs
CVE-2022-23960
The first disclosed vulnerability this month is Spectre-BHB that is discussed in great detail on arm Developer....
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Extra, Extra, VERT Reads All About It: Cybersecurity News for the Week of September 5, 2022
By Andrew Swoboda on Mon, 09/12/2022
All of us at Tripwire’s Vulnerability Exposure and Research Team (VERT) are constantly looking out for interesting stories and developments in the infosec world. Here’s what cybersecurity news stood out to us during the week of September 5th, 2022. I’ve also included some comments on these stories.
Critical RCE Vulnerability Affects Zyxel NAS Devices —...
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Extra, Extra, VERT Reads All About It: Cybersecurity News for the Week of August 29, 2022
By Andrew Swoboda on Mon, 09/05/2022
All of us at Tripwire’s Vulnerability Exposure and Research Team (VERT) are constantly looking out for interesting stories and developments in the infosec world. Here’s what cybersecurity news stood out to us during the week of August 29th, 2022. I’ve also included some comments on these stories.
WordPress 6.0.2 Patches Vulnerability That Could Impact...
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Defense and Development: Key points from The Complete Guide to Application Security for PCI-DSS
By Tripwire Guest Authors on Wed, 08/31/2022
The increasing popularity of online payment systems results from the world’s gradual transition to a cashless and contactless digital economy — an economy, projected in a recent Huawei white paper, to be worth $23 trillion by 2025. With digital commerce emerging as the largest segment in the projected $8.49 trillion global digital payments market in...
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Extra, Extra, VERT Reads All About It: Cybersecurity News for the Week of August 22, 2022
By Andrew Swoboda on Mon, 08/29/2022
All of us at Tripwire’s Vulnerability Exposure and Research Team (VERT) are constantly looking out for interesting stories and developments in the infosec world. Here’s what cybersecurity news stood out to us during the week of August 22nd, 2022, including some commentary of mine.
VMware fixed a privilege escalation issue in VMware Tools
VMware this...
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Extra, Extra, VERT Reads All About It: Cybersecurity News for the Week of August 15, 2022
By Andrew Swoboda on Mon, 08/22/2022
All of us at Tripwire’s Vulnerability Exposure and Research Team (VERT) are constantly looking out for interesting stories and developments in the infosec world. Here’s what cybersecurity news stood out to us during the week of August 15th, 2022. I’ve also included some comments on these stories.
Newly Uncovered PyPI Package Drops Fileless Cryptominer...
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Extra, Extra, VERT Reads All About It: Cybersecurity News for the Week of August 8, 2022
By Andrew Swoboda on Tue, 08/16/2022
All of us at Tripwire’s Vulnerability Exposure and Research Team (VERT) are constantly looking out for interesting stories and developments in the infosec world. Here’s what cybersecurity news stood out to us during the week of August 8st, 2022. I’ve also included some comments on these stories.
Slack leaked hashed passwords from its servers for years
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A 5 Step Checklist for Complying with PCI DSS 4.0
By Tripwire Guest Authors on Mon, 08/15/2022
In March 2022, the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) was updated with a number of new and modified requirements. Since their last update in 2018, there has been a rapid increase in the use of cloud technologies, contactless payments have become the norm, and the COVID-19 pandemic spurred a massive growth in e-commerce and online...
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How to Balance NERC CIPv6 vs. CIPv5 Compliance (and Why it Matters)
Mon, 08/15/2022
The extension of the NERC CIPv5 deadline to July 2016 means that registered entities have gained a small window of time for their compliance projects, but they now face a combined compliance deadline for CIPv5 and CIPv6 in July.
Join Nick Santora, CEO of Curricula, and Tim Erlin, Director of IT Risk & Security Strategist at Tripwire, for a discussion on the potential impact of CIPv6 on your...
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AAA: Getting Roadside Assistance from Tripwire
Mon, 08/15/2022
Tim Masey, Director of Enterprise Information Security at AAA, shared his company’s PCI journey: beginning with a small implementation of Tripwire, then running into roadblocks by Management for the expansion of products, and eventually moving forward with the implementation of Tripwire’s policy driven dashboards, rules and tasks for over 500 servers.
Case Study
Payment Processor for Businesses
As a recognized leader in the payment processing sector, this company offers its clients hundreds of secure payment methods across multiple platforms, around the globe. Onan average day it processes tens of millions of mobile, online and in-store transactions in 100+ currencies.
After experiencing a security incident that was quickly contained, the company took the opportunity to revamp its...
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Security and Compliance in Federal Agencies: 3 Tripwire Use Cases
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Ensuring compliance and minimizing
Automating manual tasks and enhancing breach detection
Monitoring critical assets in the public cloud
Tripwire understands the security demands faced by federal government agencies. Security decision makers at these agencies aren’t only tasked with securing operations in a complex threat landscape—they also have to prove regulatory...
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Tripwire and Astro Making Best Practices a Daily Show
Assessing and managing vulnerabilities is a core cybersecurity practice, but it can put a heavy strain on IT security and operations teams. In many cases, introducing vulnerability management as a service is what’s necessary to overcome the challenge of accumulating vulnerabilities across complex IT environments—especially when time and resources are limited.
This was the case for one mid-size U...
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VERT Threat Alert: August 2022 Patch Tuesday Analysis
By Tyler Reguly on Tue, 08/09/2022
Today’s Patch Tuesday VERT Alert addresses Microsoft’s August 2022 Security Updates. VERT is actively working on coverage for these vulnerabilities and expects to ship ASPL-1015 on Wednesday, August 10th.
In-The-Wild & Disclosed CVEs
CVE-2022-34713
According to Microsoft, CVE-2022-34713 is a variant of the Dogwalk vulnerability. There has been a lot...
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Extra, Extra, VERT Reads All About It: Cybersecurity News for the Week of August 1, 2022
By Andrew Swoboda on Mon, 08/08/2022
All of us at Tripwire’s Vulnerability Exposure and Research Team (VERT) are constantly looking out for interesting stories and developments in the infosec world. Here’s what cybersecurity news stood out to us during the week of August 1st, 2022. I’ve also included some comments on these stories.
Windows 11 Smart App Control blocks files used to push...
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Extra, Extra, VERT Reads All About It: Cybersecurity News for the Week of July 25, 2022
By Andrew Swoboda on Mon, 08/01/2022
All of us at Tripwire’s Vulnerability Exposure and Research Team (VERT) are constantly looking out for interesting stories and developments in the infosec world. Here’s what cybersecurity news stood out to us during the week of July 25, 2022. I’ve also included some comments on these stories.
SonicWall fixed critical SQLi in Analytics and GMS products
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VERT Threat Alert: July 2022 Patch Tuesday Analysis
By Tyler Reguly on Tue, 07/12/2022
Today’s VERT Alert addresses Microsoft’s July 2022 Security Updates. VERT is actively working on coverage for these Patch Tuesday vulnerabilities and expects to ship ASPL-1011 on Wednesday, July 13th.
In-The-Wild & Disclosed CVEs
CVE-2022-22047
Microsoft is reporting this month that a single vulnerability in the Windows Client/Server Runtime...
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PCI 4.0: The wider meanings of the new Standard
By David Bruce on Wed, 07/06/2022
The new PCI DSS Standard, version 4.0, contains all the steps, best practices, and explanations required for full compliance. In fact, even an organization that does not process cardholder data could follow the PCI Standard to implement a robust cybersecurity program for any of its important data.
In our series about how the new standard differs from...