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Finding the Solarwinds Flaw

Several months back I was updating our vulnerability scanner checks for various Solarwinds products. As I added a detection script for a product called Log and Event Manager (LEM), I realized that there were really no significant publicly disclosed vulnerabilities for it. This spurred me to download their trial, which comes as a virtual appliance, and look for some flaws. After initially setting...
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DDIVRT-2015-55 SolarWinds Log and Event Manager Remote Command Execution

Title: DDIVRT-2015-55 SolarWinds Log and Event Manager Remote Command ExecutionSeverity: HighDate Discovered: August 15, 2015Discovered By: Chris Graham @cgrahamsevenVulnerability Description:SolarWinds Log and Event Manager (LEM) is vulnerable to an Extensible Markup Language (XML) external entity injection through the agent message processing service. This service listens on TCP port 37891....
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What Is File Fingerprinting?

File fingerprinting, also known as data fingerprinting or document fingerprinting, is a technique employed by many network data loss prevention solutions for identifying and tracking data across a network. Read on to learn more about fingerprinting and the security benefits of a DLP solution with data fingerprinting capabilities.
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What Is Content Inspection?

Get a definition of content inspection and learn how content inspection technology plays a key role in data loss prevention and regulatory compliance.
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The Long Goodbye to SSL/Early TLS

If your organization is required to comply with the Payment Card Industry-Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS), particularly Requirement 11, then you are likely familiar with the problems plaguing SSL, early TLS (i.e. TLSv1.0) and their supported ciphers over the past several months. High profile vulnerabilities such as HeartBleed, POODLE, FREAK and LogJam have sent merchants scrambling to patch...
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3 Ways to Protect Your Company Against USB Drops

Recently in Arstechnica.com there was an article bringing light to how Windows computers can be exploited when booby-trapped USB fobs are inserted into the machine that then executes malicious code.Microsoft has acknowledged this and released a security bulletin regarding the issue stating, “To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would have insert a malicious USB device into a target system.”So...