Re: Adobe Flash

[Greg Williams <gwillia5 () UCCS EDU>]

Dave, are you sure about Flash and VMWare?  I have vSphere installed on my system and use it almost every day, but do 
not have Flash installed.

Greg Williams, M.E.
Director of Networks and Infrastructure
University of Colorado Colorado Springs
Department of Information Technology


From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Tevlin, 
Dave
Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2015 7:24 AM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Adobe Flash

Deploy Microsoft Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) along side Flash and Java deployments where there is a 
need for Flash or Java. If you are a VMware shop you can't get away from Flash as it is part of vSphere administration.

EMET is one of only three tools that I know of that block the attack methods instead of relying on heuristic or 
signature based detection which always require someone else to find it first.

One of the last Flash 0 day attacks used a Heap-Spay method for the attack, which EMET is built to counter. I have no 
information if it would have worked on this specific attack through.

EMET is free, and controllable through GPO. It is Windows only though.

The list of tools in the market that work on mitigating the method of attack, that I know of are:
Microsoft EMET (Free)
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/jj653751

Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit ($)
https://www.malwarebytes.org/antiexploit/premium/

Palo Alto Traps Endpoint Security ($$$)
https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/products/endpoint-security.html

Dave Tevlin, MS
Network/ Systems Administrator
Georgetown Visitation Prep School
dtevlin () visi org<mailto:dtevlin () visi org>


On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 12:53 PM, Kevin Reedy <KReedy () excelsior edu<mailto:KReedy () excelsior edu>> wrote:
Flash is a tough one for us, since most of our online offerings utilize it
we can't simply disable it.  I am keeping an eye on all the Cryptolocker
type IDS alerts, as well as 'emergency' patching as soon as is reasonable
after the fix is released.

I am putting quite a bit of faith in our URL classification subscription as
well as the Palo Alto 'wild fire' detections, but obviously if the content
is on a compromised but otherwise good page it will be a problem.

Long term solution is to move away from Flash in our offerings, and while
we had already been doing that, this will hasten the timeline.

-Kevin

Kevin Reedy
Executive Director, Information Security
Excelsior College
(518) 464-8720<tel:%28518%29%20464-8720>



From:   Chris Green <CGreen () UTTYLER EDU<mailto:CGreen () UTTYLER EDU>>
To:     SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU<mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU>,
Date:   07/22/2015 12:17 PM
Subject:        [SECURITY] Adobe Flash
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All,

I just wanted to reach out and see if anyone might be willing to share if
and what has been done at your respective institutions in response to the
multiple zero day vulnerabilities that have been exposed within Adobe
Flash.

Thank you for your feedback!

-C.

Chris Green
Information Security Officer
University of Texas at Tyler
cgreen () uttyler edu<mailto:cgreen () uttyler edu>



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