Threat Source newsletter (March 19, 2020)

Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week. We hope everyone is staying home if possible and staying safe. Unfortunately, the bad guys aren’t going anywhere, so we’re still pluggin...

OpenWrt uhttpd Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

OpenWrt is a Linux operating system for embedded devices. uhttpd is one of the HTTP services. A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in uhttpd in OpenWrt versions 18.06.5 and earlier and versions 19.x through 19.07.0-rc2. The vulnerability originates when a network system or product performs an...

Authorities Eye Using Mobile Phone Tracking COVID-19's Spread

Authorities in the United States and Israel are eyeing ways to use mobile-phone and other location-based data to help control the spread of the new coronavirus COVID-19, raising serious privacy concerns about the practice of using and sharing people’s personal data during the time of a global...

A COVID-19 Cybersecurity Poll: Securing a Remote Workforce

This poll is now closed. For the results, please see our article, Cyberattacks Ramp Up, WFH Prep Uneven, available here. As the coronavirus pandemic continues to sweep the globe, and cities and states impose social-distancing measures, businesses are sending their users home to work. And this...

Qualys Cloud Platform: Continuity of Service in Response to COVID-19

I would like to share Qualys' response to the heightening coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak and outline the steps we are taking to ensure continuity of service for our customers and also ensure the health and well-being of our employees. Qualys has a comprehensive business continuity and emergency...

Google & Microsoft launch tools to address Coronavirus outbreak

By Deeba Ahmed Google's Coronavirus tool is called COVID-19 risk screening and testing while Microsoft calls it Bing COVID Tracker. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Google & Microsoft launch tools to address Coronavirus outbreak...

GLSA-202003-19 : PPP: Buffer overflow

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202003-19 PPP: Buffer overflow It was discovered that bounds check in PPP for the rhostname was improperly constructed in the EAP request and response functions. Impact : A remote attacker, by sending specially crafted...

Working from Home: COVID-19's Constellation of Security Challenges

As the threat of coronavirus continues to spread, businesses are sending employees home to work remotely, and students are moving to online classes. But with the social distancing comes a new threat – a cyber-related one. As organizations rush to shift their businesses and classes online,...

High-Stakes Security Setups Are Making Remote Work Impossible

Staffers at power grids, intelligence agencies, and more often don’t have the option to work from home, even in light of Covid-19...

COVID-19 Phishing Tests: WRONG

Malware Jake Tweeted a poll last night which asked the following: "I have an interesting ethical quandary. Is it ethically okay to use COVID-19 themed phishing emails for assessments and user awareness training right now? Please read the thread before responding and RT for visibility. 1/"...

Threat Source newsletter (March 12, 2020)

Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week. Obviously, COVID-19 is dominating headlines everywhere, and for good reason. We hope everyone out there is staying safe and healthy and...

Statement from Akamai Executive Vice President and GM, Media & Carrier, Adam Karon, on the 2020 NAB Show

Akamai fully supports and appreciates NAB's decision to put off the 2020 NAB Show. We recognize the weight of the decision and subsequent, wide-ranging ramifications that had to be considered. While we're disappointed to miss this annual opportunity to personally connect with customers, partners...

Defending Against COVID-19 Cyber Scams

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA warns individuals to remain vigilant for scams related to Coronavirus Disease 2019 COVID-19. Cyber actors may send emails with malicious attachments or links to fraudulent websites to trick victims into revealing sensitive information or...

Security of Health Information

The world is racing to contain the new COVID-19 virus that is spreading around the globe with alarming speed. Right now, pandemic disease experts at the World Health Organization WHO, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC, and other public-health agencies are gathering information...

Growing, Exploring and My First Conference

By now, we are all subject in one way or another to the far-reaching impact of COVID-19. As we see on the news each day, the numbers of those infected by this deadly coronavirus continue to grow in terrifying increments. And even for those of us without family members or friends directly impacted...

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Eggs

Cool photo. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here. EDITED TO ADD 3/4: I just deleted a slew of comments about COVID 19. I may reinstate some of them later; right now I want some time t...

eLection 2.0 - (id) SQL Injection Vulnerability

Exploit for php platform in category web applications Title: eLection 2.0 - 'id' SQL Injection Exploit Author: J3rryBl4nks Vendor Homepage: https://sourceforge.net/projects/election-by-tripath/ Software Link: https://sourceforge.net/projects/election-by-tripath/files/Version 2.0 Tested on Ubuntu...

eLection 2.0 SQL Injection

Title: eLection 2.0 - 'id' SQL Injection Date: 2020-02-21 Exploit Author: J3rryBl4nks Vendor Homepage: https://sourceforge.net/projects/election-by-tripath/ Software Link: https://sourceforge.net/projects/election-by-tripath/files/Version 2.0 Tested on Ubuntu 19/Kali Rolling The eLection Web...

eLection 2.0 - 'id' SQL Injection

Title: eLection 2.0 - 'id' SQL Injection Date: 2020-02-21 Exploit Author: J3rryBl4nks Vendor Homepage: https://sourceforge.net/projects/election-by-tripath/ Software Link: https://sourceforge.net/projects/election-by-tripath/files/Version 2.0 Tested on Ubuntu 19/Kali Rolling The eLection Web...

eLection 2.0 - id SQL Injection

eLection 2.0 - id SQL Injection Title: eLection 2.0 - 'id' SQL Injection Date: 2020-02-21 Exploit Author: J3rryBl4nks Vendor Homepage: https://sourceforge.net/projects/election-by-tripath/ Software Link: https://sourceforge.net/projects/election-by-tripath/files/Version 2.0 Tested on Ubuntu 19/Ka...