Tenable
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Founded:
2002
Company Size:
501-1000 employees
Company Type:
Private
Tenable™, Inc. is the Cyber Exposure company. Over 24,000 organizations of all sizes around the globe rely on Tenable to manage and measure their modern attack surface to accurately understand and reduce cyber risk. As the creator of Nessus®, Tenable built its platform from the ground up to deepl ...
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Oracle JavaVM Database Takeover
A new vulnerability discovered in the Oracle Database JavaVM component can result in complete database compromise and shell access to the underlying server.
Background
Oracle released an out-of-band update to its flagship database product for an authenticated vulnerability in the JavaVM component. According to Oracle, the vulnerability "can result in complete compromise of the Oracle Database and shell access to the underlying server." The same issue was found and patched in the July 2018 cri ...
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Foreshadow: Speculative Execution Attack Targets Intel SGX
A flaw in Intel’s Software Guard Extensions implementation allows an attacker to access data stored in memory of other applications running on the same host, without the need for privilege escalation.
Background
Researchers discovered a flaw in Intel’s Software Guard Extensions (SGX) implementation that opens up a new speculative execution attack called Foreshadow (CVE-2018-3615). In addition, Intel has discovered variants allowing for Foreshadow attacks against microprocessors, sy ...
SaveShareLike08/15/2018
Faxsploit Allows Remote Code Execution Through HP All-in-One Printers
A new exploit demonstrated by Checkpoint Research at DEF CON last week leverages vulnerabilities in all-in-one printers, potentially allowing attackers to take control of other devices on the network.
Background
Checkpoint Research published a proof of concept (PoC) for exploiting two remote code execution vulnerabilities on HP All-in-One printers solely through the printer’s fax line. These critical vulnerabilities score CVSS v3 as 9.8 and include CVE-2018-5924 and CVE-2018-5925.
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SaveShareLike08/14/2018
Leaky Amazon S3 Buckets: Challenges, Solutions and Best Practices
Amazon Web Service (AWS) S3 buckets have become a common source of data loss for public and private organizations alike. Here are five solutions you can use to evaluate the security of data stored in your S3 buckets.
For business professionals, the public cloud is a smorgasbord of micro-service offerings which provide rapid delivery of hardware and software solutions. For security and IT professionals, though, public cloud adoption represents a constant struggle to secure data and prevent unexp ...
SaveShareLike08/09/2018
How Mature Are Your Cyber Defender Strategies?
Our latest research examines real-world vulnerability assessment practices at 2,100 organizations to understand how defenders are approaching this crucial step in cyber hygiene.
For our latest research study, "Cyber Defender Strategies: What Your Vulnerability Assessment Practices Reveal," we explore how organizations are practicing vulnerability assessment (VA), and what these practices teach us about cyber maturity.
Our curiosity was piqued by our previous study, “Quantifying the Atta ...
SaveShareLike08/08/2018
Underminer Exploit Kit: How Tenable Can Help
The “Underminer” exploit kit is having widespread impact in Asian countries, particularly Japan. Thankfully, mitigation is relatively simple and involves patching and other well-known security best practices.
Contrary to popular belief, the exploit kit is not dead yet. “Underminer,” an exploit kit named and discovered by Trend Micro, is having widespread impact in Asian countries, particularly Japan. Its nefarious bootkit affects the system’s boot sectors and delive ...
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July Vulnerability of the Month: Two Zero-Days Caught in Development
An Adobe Reader double free vulnerability on Windows and macOS systems earns the nod for its interesting discovery and patch story.
Novelty, sophistication or just plain weirdness are some of the potential criteria we use to select the Tenable vulnerability of the month. We collect nominations from our 70+ research team members, shortlist the finalists and give the entire team the chance to vote -- combining the total experience and knowledge of Tenable Research to identify the vulnerability of ...
SaveShareLike07/31/2018
Cybersecurity Benchmarking: Where’s The Data?
When it comes to communicating with the C-suite and Board of Directors about their organization’s cyber exposure, few IT and security professionals are happy with the benchmarking data currently available.
The ability to proactively measure and demonstrate how cyber exposure risk changes over time is crucial to communicating the value of cybersecurity investments to the C-suite and Board of Directors. Equally important is the ability to show how an organization’s cyber exposure manag ...
SaveShareLike07/30/2018
Tenable IPO: Accelerating Our Vision
Today, Tenable officially became a public company, trading on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol TENB.
As we embark on our new chapter as a public company, I want to take this moment to thank each of you, our loyal customers. Our company was founded on a mission to help you solve some of the hardest challenges around understanding where you are vulnerable. We built this company in close collaboration with the security community to make sure we are continuously adapting and growing as your needs ...
SaveShareLike07/26/2018
Cisco Issues Patches for 4 Critical Vulnerabilities in Cisco Policy Suite
Cisco’s Policy Suite for Mobile controls billing and access control for customer devices. Root access to this suite is concerning because of the breadth of user device access.
The latest batch of Cisco patches includes fixes for four critical vulnerabilities related to unauthenticated access and default credentials in the Cisco Policy Suite for the Cisco Mobility Services Engine. All four were discovered by internal security testing. In addition, nine high-severity vulnerabilities and 12 ...
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