Tesla Motors Starts Bug Bounty--But Not For Its Cars

Tesla Motors has started a bug bounty program that will pay researchers up to $1,000 for disclosing vulnerabilities. However, the rewards don’t apply to bugs found in the company’s vehicles. The program’s scope is quite narrow, with only the main teslamotors.com domain and other domains owned by...

WordPress Landing Pages 1.8.4 Cross Site Scripting / SQL Injection Vulnerabilities

WordPress Landing Pages plugin version 1.8.4 suffers from cross site scripting and remote SQL injection vulnerabilities. Title: Multiple vulnerabilities in WordPress plugin "WordPress Landing Pages" Author: Adrián M. F. - adrimf85atgmaildotcom Date: 2015-05-25 Vendor Homepage:...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID13387: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on February 3, 2015

Medium Alert ID: 37329 First Published: 2015 February 3 15:23 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID13387 may contain the following files: Name |...

Google Ups Chrome Rewards, Offers More Money For Exploits

Google is again increasing the amount of money it offers to researchers who report vulnerabilities in Chrome as part of the company’s bug bounty program. Now, researchers will be able to earn $15,000 at the high end of the scale, and Google also is offering more cash for researchers who can submi...

Robert Hansen on Aviator and the $250,000 Security Guarantee

Dennis Fisher talks with Robert Hansen of WhiteHat Security about the company’s decision to change default search providers in their Aviator browser to Disconnect and the $250,000 guarantee for users of the Sentinel Elite product. ​Download: Robert Hansen on Aviator, Search Revenue and the $250,0...

New Facebook Internet Defense Prize Pays Out $50,000 Award

Large technology companies may already have bug bounty programs in place that reward researchers who attack and find holes in software or web platforms. Slowly, some are also starting to institute programs that pay for defensive measures. Facebook is the latest to do so with the implementation of...

Mozilla MDN Password Disclosure Affects 76,000 Developers

Some members of the Mozilla Developer Network are being advised to change their passwords after email addresses and encrypted credentials were disclosed on a public server. Mozilla director of developer relations Stormy Peters said the organization has been investigating the disclosure for 10 day...

Cmseasy最新版存在存储型XSS及代码分析（2）

简要描述： cmseasy某处存在存储型xss 影响版本：CmsEasy5.x（包括最新版CmsEasy5.5UTF-820140420） 详细说明： 影响版本：CmsEasy5.x（包括最新版CmsEasy5.5UTF-820140420） 存在漏洞的文件：bbspublic.php 用户量级：250，000 BBS下所有POST提交，都会经过bbspublic.php文件里的removexss函数过滤，此函数在bbspublic.php文件的35行，存在问题的代码如下： function removexss$val $val =...

Heartbleed Vulnerability Bug: What You Need to Know

The widely publicized heartbleed bug http://heartbleed.com/ may be impacting as many as 500,000 systems across the Internet. Heartbleed is the name of a vulnerability in the OpenSSL program that powers encrypted communication to many of the worlds web sites and private networks. Below you will fi...

Meetup.com Back Online After DDoS Attacks, Extortion

Social networking site Meetup.com is finally back online today, yet officials at the site are warning it could still face future outages following a series of sustained distributed denial of service attacks DDoS over the weekend. Meetup is a social networking portal that allows individuals with...

Pony Botnet Steals $200,000, 700,000 Usernames, Passwords

Attackers leveraged a Pony botnet controller to not only siphon away a large batch of account credentials but also to make off with over $200,000 in Bitcoin and other virtual currencies over a four month span, according to researchers this week. It’s the second high profile instance of the Pony...

Pony Botnet steals $220,000 from multiple Digital Wallets

Are you the one of the Digital Currency Holder? PONY is after You. A Group of cyber criminals has used hundreds of thousands of infected computers of the digital currency holders to filch approximately $220,000 worth of Bitcoins and other virtual currencies. The researchers at the security firm,...

Free Online Game website offers $13,000 Reward to expose details on DDoS attack

Currently there are more than Million people worldwide playing Windows Games, Computer Games and Online Video Games, at least an hour a day, but the gaming servers are often insecure and misconfigured. Yesterday, a popular multiplayer Free Online Game 'Wurm' servers were knocked offline by...

Microsoft Mitigation Bypass Bug Bounty Winner Yang Yu

Yang Yu is no stranger to writing mitigation bypasses for Microsoft Windows products. A year ago at the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, the 35-year-old security researcher from Beijing did an extensive presentation on bypassing Address Space Layout Randomization ASLR and Data Execution...

800,000 Customers' detail stolen in Data Breach at French Telecom 'Orange'

One of the world’s largest mobile operator 'Orange' has been hit by data breach. The French multinational telecommunication company announced recently, it was targeted by unknown hackers on 16th January 2014, who allegedly gained access to the accounts of up to 800,000 customers of Orange website...

DDoS attack from Browser-based Botnets that lasted for 150 hours

Browser-based botnets are the T-1000s of the DDoS world. Just like the iconic villain of the old Judgment Day movie, they too are designed for adaptive infiltration. This is what makes them so dangerous. Where other more primitive bots would try to brute-force your defenses, these bots can simply...

Super Micro IPMI zero-day vulnerabilities disclosed

Metasploit creator and Rapid7 CSO HD Moore today disclosed seven zero-day vulnerabilities in IPMI firmware from vendor Super Micro. The security issues were reported to the vendor in August, however the vendor, beyond acknowledging receipt of the vulnerabilities never communicated with Rapid7...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Portuguese Personal Picture Notification Email Messages on October 5, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 31128 First Published: 2013 October 7 14:08 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to Portuguese-language spam email messages that claim to contain personal images for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the...

19-year-old Argentine Hacker arrested for stealing $50,000 monthly

Argentinian police have arrested a 19-year-old "superhacker" who was making $50,000 a month, working from his bedroom in Buenos Aires, by targeting international money transfer and gambling websites. Police say it took them a year to close in on the teenager, who was part of a six-strong gang whi...

Google Fixes 17 Flaws in Chrome 28

Google has fixed more than 15 vulnerabilities in Chrome and paid out nearly $35,000 in rewards to security researchers for reporting the bugs. One researcher earned an unusually large reward of $21,500 for a series of vulnerabilities he reported in Chrome. Google Chrome 28 includes fixes for thre...