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Falco, or Sysdig Falco, is a behavior activity monitoring tool for keeping track of what’s going on on your servers in real time. It works similarly to tools like OSSEC, but only detects and alerts, lacking the means to take any action, like block offensive traffic. It’s a kernelspace tool which works by loading a kernel module onto the system and monitors all syscalls the system sees. In this way, Falco keeps track of any activity passing through the system. When Falco is started, it reads settings from a configuration file named falco.yaml, and rules from a file named falco_rules.yaml, both under the etc directory. Falco’s rules determines what the application alerts on, and are very easy to write and[…]

👉 Run a free WordPress Security Scan at WPScans.com > WordPress 4.8.2 is now available for download at WordPress.org. This is a security release for all previous versions and WPScans strongly encourage you to update your sites immediately. WordPress versions 4.8.1 and earlier are affected by these security issues: $wpdb->prepare() can create unexpected and unsafe queries leading to potential SQL injection (SQLi). WordPress core is not directly vulnerable to this issue, but we’ve added hardening to prevent plugins and themes from accidentally causing a vulnerability. Reported by Slavco A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability was discovered in the oEmbed discovery. Reported by xknown of the WordPress Security Team. A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability was discovered in the visual editor. Reported by Rodolfo Assis (@brutelogic) of Sucuri Security.[…]