The EARN IT Act Is Back

Senators have reintroduced the EARN IT Act, requiring social media companies among others to administer a massive surveillance operation on their users: A group of lawmakers led by Sen. Richard Blumenthal D-CT and Sen. Lindsey Graham R-SC have re-introduced the EARN IT Act, an incredibly unpopula...

act-in.com Open Redirect vulnerability OBB-2348677

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

Mageia: Security Advisory (MGASA-2021-0368)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Senate Committee passes new antitrust bill aimed at Big Tech companies

The American Innovation and Choice Online Act AICOA, a bill that forbids Big Tech platforms like Apple, Alphabet Google’s parent company, and Amazon from generally behaving in an anti-competitive manner, was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee late last week with a 16-6 vote. US Senator Am...

Vulnerabilities fixed in Oracle Financial Services Applications

Oracle has fixed vulnerabilities in the following Oracle Financial Services Applications products: Financial Services Analytical Applications Infrastructure FLEXCUBE Investor Servicing FLEXCUBE Private Banking Banking Platform Financial Services Behavior Detection Platform Financial Services...

FTC to Go After Companies that Ignore Log4j

The Federal Trade Commission FTC will muster its legal muscle to pursue companies and vendors that fail to protect consumer data from the risks of the Log4j vulnerabilities, it warned on Tuesday. “The FTC intends to use its full legal authority to pursue companies that fail to take reasonable ste...

Thawing Out the Chilling Effect Of DMCA Section 1201

The Copyright Office has issued the latest rules on exemptions to Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act DMCA. Great news: Legal protections for independent security research have once again been meaningfully strengthened. On the whole, these protections are now significantly greate...

Congress Mulls Banning Big Ransomware Payouts

A U.S. lawmaker has introduced a bill – the Ransomware and Financial Stability Act H.R.5936 PDF – that would make it illegal for financial firms to pay ransoms over $100,000 without first getting the government’s permission. The legislation was introduced on Wednesday by the top Republican on the...

Simplephpscripts Simple CMS 2.1 Cross Site Scripting

Document Title: =============== Simplephpscripts Simple CMS v2.1 - Persistent Vulnerability References Source: ==================== https://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=2302 Release Date: ============= 2021-10-19 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID: ==================================...

A week in security (Oct 11 – Oct 17)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs Google warns some users that FancyBear’s been prowling around Inside Apple: How macOS attacks are evolving The joy of phishing your employees ExpressVPN made a choice, and so did I: Lock and Code S02E19 Update now! Apple patches another privilege escalation bug in i...

New Bill to Require Cyber Attack Reporting in the US

The Cyber Incident Notification Act of 2021 would also require CISA to launch a program that would notify organizations of various vectors that malicious actors exploit...

Ransom Disclosure Act would mandate ransomware payment reporting

In an effort to better understand and clamp down on the ransomware economy and its related use of cryptocurrencies, US Senator and past presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren and US House Representative Deborah Ross introduced a new bill last week that would require companies and organizations to...

New U.S. Government Initiative Holds Contractors Accountable for Cybersecurity

The U.S. government on Wednesday announced the formation of a new Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative that aims to hold contractors accountable for failing to meet required cybersecurity requirements in order to safeguard public sector information and infrastructure. "For too long, companies have chosen...

CVE-2020-19047

Cross Site Request Forgey CSRF in iWebShop v5.3 allows remote atatckers to execute arbitrary code via malicious POST request to the component '/index.php?controller=system&action=admineditact'...

Cross site request forgery (csrf)

Cross Site Request Forgery CSRF vulnerability exist in PopojiCMS 2.0.1 in po-admin/route.php?mod=user&act=multidelete...

CVE-2021-28070

CVE-2021-28070 describes a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in PopojiCMS 2.0.1, specifically in po-admin/route.php?mod=user&act=multidelete. The connected Red Hat, CNVD, CNVD-like and other listings confirm the same issue but do not provide concrete exploit details in these documen...

Reforming the UK’s Computer Misuse Act

The UK Home Office recently ran a Call for Information to investigate the Computer Misuse Act 1990 CMA. The CMA is the UK’s anti-hacking law, and as Rapid7 is active in the UK and highly engaged in public policy efforts to advance security, we provided feedback on the issues we see with the...

Updated lib3mf packages fix security vulnerability

A use-after-free vulnerability exists in the NMR::COpcPackageReader::releaseZIP functionality of 3MF Consortium lib3mf 2.0.0. A specially crafted 3MF file can lead to code execution. An attacker can provide a malicious file to trigger this vulnerability CVE-2021-21772. A new package 'act' is...

US offers huge reward in fight against state-sponsored cybercriminals

The US Department of State has announced that its Rewards for Justice RFJ program is now offering: …up to $10 million for information leading to the identification or location of any person who, while acting at the direction or under the control of a foreign government, participates in malicious...

New CISA Director Confirmed, W.H. Gains Cyber-Director

The U.S. has made a key move to shore up its cybersecurity strategy, with the confirmation of Jen Easterly as the director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Monday. Easterly, a former official at the National Security Agency from 2011 to 2013 and two-time Bronze Star...