U.S. Charges WikiLeaks' Julian Assange With Violating Espionage Act

The United States Justice Department has unveiled charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with 17 new counts on the alleged violation of the Espionage Act by publishing classified information through WikiLeaks website. If convicted for all counts, Assange could face a maximum sentence of...

U.S. Charges WikiLeaks' Julian Assange With Violating Espionage Act

The United States Justice Department has unveiled charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with 17 new counts on the alleged violation of the Espionage Act by publishing classified information through WikiLeaks website. If convicted for all counts, Assange could face a maximum sentence of...

The Latest Julian Assange Indictment Is an Assault on Press Freedom

By invoking the Espionage Act against Julian Assange, the Justice Department will effectively put national security journalism on trial...

The Law Being Used to Prosecute Julian Assange Is Broken

Opinion: Julian Assange is being prosecuted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, a minimally defined statute that can have maximally destructive consequences...

The top six takeaways for corporate data privacy compliance

For nearly two months, Malwarebytes Labs has led readers on a journey through data privacy laws around the world, exploring the nuances between “personal information” and “personal data,” as well as between data breach notification laws in Florida, Utah, California, and Iowa. We explored the risk...

Ex-NSA Contractor Pleads Guilty to 20-Year-Long Theft of Classified Data

A former National Security Agency contractor—who stole an enormous amount of sensitive information from the agency and then stored it at his home and car for over two decades—today changed his plea to guilty. The theft was labeled as the largest heist of classified government material in America'...

Ex-NSA Contractor Pleads Guilty to 20-Year-Long Theft of Classified Data

A former National Security Agency contractor—who stole an enormous amount of sensitive information from the agency and then stored it at his home and car for over two decades—today changed his plea to guilty. The theft was labeled as the largest heist of classified government material in America'...

CVE-2019-9594

BlueCMS 1.6 allows SQL Injection via the userid parameter in an uploads/admin/user.php?act=edit request...

RSA Conference 2019: Cryptographers' Panel Decries Adi Shamir's Visa Issues

SAN FRANCISCO – This year’s RSA Conference Cryptographers’ Panel started on a sour note when it was announced that longtime participant Adi Shamir, one of the inventors of the RSA algorithm, would be absent because of visa issues with the U.S. Department of State. Shamir, who addressed the...

CVE-2019-9594: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command

BlueCMS 1.6 allows SQL Injection via the userid parameter in an uploads/admin/user.php?act=edit request...

CVE-2019-9549: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

An issue was discovered in PopojiCMS v2.0.1. It has CSRF via the po-admin/route.php?mod=user&act=addnew URI, as demonstrated by adding a level=1 account, a similar issue to CVE-2018-18935...

Phishers Target Anti-Money Laundering Officers at U.S. Credit Unions

A highly targeted, malware-laced phishing campaign landed in the inboxes of multiple credit unions last week. The missives are raising eyebrows because they were sent only to specific anti-money laundering contacts at credit unions, and many credit union sources say they suspect the non-public da...

CVE-2019-7568: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command

An issue was discovered in baijiacms V4 that can result in time-based blind SQL injection to get data via the cate parameter in an index.php?act=index request...

CVE-2019-6707

CVE-2019-6707 affects PHPSHE 1.7 and is a SQL injection vulnerability in the admin interface. The injection targets the product_id[] parameter via admin.php?mod=product&act=state, enabling manipulation of the underlying database according to the description. The connected sources confirm the vuln...

FBI Denies Service to 15 DDoS-for-Hire Sites, Charges Operators

The Justice Department has taken 15 internet domains associated with DDoS-for-hire services offline, and has filed charges against three defendants who allegedly ran them. DDoS for hire or DDoS-as-a-service operations make it simple for any layperson to carry out DDoS attacks, flooding targets wi...

Australia Anti-Encryption Law Triggers Sweeping Backlash

A controversial Australian bill, which could give the government access to data protected by end-to-end encryption, was passed Thursday. The bill, called the Assistance and Access Act, empowers Australian police to essentially force companies that are operating in the country to help the governme...

Backup job fails with a SQL VSS Writer error after installing ACT! Software

Article Applicability This article is only applicable to a scenario involving all four of the following: 1. A Backup Job using Application-Aware Processing 2. A Guest OS with ACT! Software Installed 3. This VSS error: Writer's state: VSSWSFAILEDATPREPARESNAPSHOT. Error code: 0x800423f4. 4. This...

CVE-2018-19468: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an SQL Command

HuCart 5.7.4 has SQL injection in getip in system/class/helperclass.php via the X-Forwarded-For HTTP header to the user/index.php?load=login&act=actlogin URI...

HuCart SQL Injection Vulnerability

HuCart HuCart is an open source enterprise building system. HuCart 5.7.4 version of the system/class/helperclass.php file of the 'getip' function there is a SQL injection vulnerability , the vulnerability stems from the program fails to HTTP packet header data security filtering , remote attacker...

CVE-2018-19463: Improper Control of Generation of Code

zbsystem/function/lib/upload.php in Z-BlogPHP through 1.5.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code by using the image/jpeg content type in an upload to the zbsystem/admin/index.php?act=UploadMng URI. NOTE: The vendor's position is "We have no dynamic including. No one can run PHP b...