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Baking the Best ACET Pie for Your Credit Union 800 588 Andrew Hay

Baking the Best ACET Pie for Your Credit Union

At the recent CUNA Technology Council and CUNA Operations and Member Experience Council Conferences in Chicago earlier this month, CUNA Chief Compliance Officer Jared Ihrig emphasized that cybersecurity is among the organization’s top examination priorities in 2019 and beyond. “Security, confidentiality, and integrity of member information remains a key supervisory priority for NCUA,” said Ihrig.…

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Tribe of Hackers: Red Team Edition 353 499 Christopher Nickerson

Tribe of Hackers: Red Team Edition

At the beginning of the year, I was approached by the infamous Marcus J Carey (@marcusjcarey) to help create content for a Red Team focused book. The format was something new to me but quite fun to contribute to. Marcus had a series of questions asked to a group of all star red teamers —…

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Use-After-Free (UAF) Vulnerability CVE-2019-1199 in Microsoft Outlook 2048 1536 Andrew Hay

Use-After-Free (UAF) Vulnerability CVE-2019-1199 in Microsoft Outlook

Overview R.J. McDown (@BeetleChunks) of the Lares® Research and Development Team discovered a Critical Remote Code Execution vulnerability in the latest version of Microsoft Outlook. R.J. and the Lares R&D team immediately submitted a report to Microsoft detailing this issue. The vulnerability, now designated CVE-2019-1199, was validated against Microsoft Outlook Slow Ring Build Version 1902…

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Announcing The Lares Top 5 Penetration Test Findings For 1H 2019 683 402 Andrew Hay

Announcing The Lares Top 5 Penetration Test Findings For 1H 2019

Lares® is pleased to announce its inaugural Top 5 Penetration Test Findings Report for the first half of 2019 (1H2019). Lares encounters a seemingly endless number of vulnerabilities when we conduct a penetration test or red team engagement, regardless of organization size or maturity. Though not every engagement is identical, we have analyzed the similarities…

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ARM Ret2ZP 2048 1367 Thomas Whitmire

ARM Ret2ZP

So straight off the bat, the first thing to understand when working with ARM when compared to x86 is the difference between RISC and CISC architecture designs.

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Branch Network Transformation: 5 Questions For Credit Unions 2048 1360 Andrew Hay

Branch Network Transformation: 5 Questions For Credit Unions

Danielle Havlicek from the La Macchia Group published a detailed blog post over at CUInsight entitled the 5 Steps to Tackling a Branch Network Transformation. The one step that caught our attention was the Integrate Technology portion of the blog post. From the post: Technology is a powerful tool that when integrated properly can maximize member…

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Join Lares for the Best Bowling Party in Las Vegas! 1100 616 Andrew Hay

Join Lares for the Best Bowling Party in Las Vegas!

Lares is pleased to announce it’s “Hacker Summer Camp” (a.k.a. Black Hat, BSidesLV, DEF CON week) party at Brooklyn Bowl in Las Vegas. What: Bowling, food, drinks, and conversation away before you head out to the various other parties that night. Come, be social, and get some food in you before the night gets away…

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Meet With Lares Executives in Las Vegas 1667 542 Andrew Hay

Meet With Lares Executives in Las Vegas

It’s that time of year again and Lares is headed back to Las Vegas. This year we’re holding meetings in our multi-floor suite at the Cosmopolitan on Tuesday, August 6th through Thursday, August 8th between the hours of 10 am and 7 pm PST (with limited availability on the afternoon of Monday, August 5th). Who…

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Abusing Common Cluster Configuration for Privileged Lateral Movement 2048 1365 Tim McGuffin

Abusing Common Cluster Configuration for Privileged Lateral Movement

Tech sites have published articles that walk a Windows Systems Administrator through the process of adding a machine account to the Local Administrators group on another machine.  

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Lares Chill Out Suite at The Cosmopolitan 1667 542 Andrew Hay

Lares Chill Out Suite at The Cosmopolitan

We just wanted to invite our readers to the Lares chill out suite at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas during BSidesLV, Black Hat, the Diana Initiative, and DEF CON. Please note, we will not have the suite number until we check in on Monday, August 5th so look for an update on Monday evening (via…

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