Is it Time to Can the CAN-SPAM Act?

Regulators at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission FTC are asking for public comment on the effectiveness of the CAN-SPAM Act, a 14-year-old federal law that seeks to crack down on unsolicited commercial email. Judging from an unscientific survey by this author, the FTC is bound to get an earful...

Legislation to Strengthen IoT Marketplace Transparency

Senator Ed Markey D-MA is poised to introduce legislation to develop a voluntary cybersecurity standards program for the Internet of Things IoT. The legislation, called the Cyber Shield Act, would enable IoT products that comply with the standards to display a label indicating a strong level of...

Revised Active Defense Bill Allows Victims to Recover or Destroy Stolen Data

A controversial bill that would allow organizations that have been breached to hack back has undergone revisions that include an exemption permitting victims to recover or destroy their data on an attacker’s infrastructure. Rep. Tom Graves R-GA introduced the updated Active Cyber Defense Certaint...

Apple Receives First National Security Letter

Apple revealed this week that it received a National Security Letter during the last six months of 2016. The news, which came as part of the company’s latest biannual transparency report, marks the first NSL Apple has reported receiving. The iPhone manufacturer released the report via a portal on...

PATCH Act Calls for VEP Review Board

The U.S. government took the first steps toward codifying the Vulnerabilities Equities Process into law yesterday through the introduction of the Protecting Our Ability to Counter Hacking PATCH Act of 2017. The VEP is the internal process by which the government decides which software...

CVE-2017-8853

Fiyo CMS v2.0.7 has an arbitrary file delete vulnerability in dapur/apps/appconfig/controller/backuper.php via directory traversal in the file parameter during an act=db action...

Directory traversal

Fiyo CMS v2.0.7 has an arbitrary file delete vulnerability in dapur/apps/appconfig/controller/backuper.php via directory traversal in the file parameter during an act=db action...

Cross site request forgery (csrf)

GeniXCMS 1.0.2 allows remote attackers to bypass the alertDanger MSGUSEREMAILEXIST protection mechanism via a register.php?act=edit&id=1 request...

act-service.fr XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: http://www.act-service.fr/catalogue/indexrecherche.php?motcle=" Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| No Latest check for patch:| 28.07.2017 Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:| Publicly disclosed Alexa Rank| 14206393 VIP website status:| No Check act-service.fr...

Industry Braces for Repeal of ISP Privacy Rules

The U.S. House of Representatives voted Tuesday to overturn rules scheduled to go into effect later this year that would have banned internet service providers such as Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Verizon from tracking user online activities and reselling the data without consumers first...

Hacker Who Used Linux Botnet to Send Millions of Spam Emails Pleads Guilty

A Russian man accused of infecting tens of thousands of computer servers worldwide to generate millions in illicit profit has finally entered a guilty plea in the United States and is going to face sentencing in August. Maxim Senakh, 41, of Velikii Novgorod, Russia, pleaded guilty in a US federal...

US Senate Just Voted to Let ISPs Sell Your Web Browsing Data Without Permission

The ISPs can now sell certain sensitive data like your browsing history without permission, thanks to the US Senate. The US Senate on Wednesday voted, with 50 Republicans for it and 48 Democrats against, to roll back a set of broadband privacy regulations passed by the Federal Communication...

Senator Demands Answers About CloudPets Breach

A U.S. senator has called Spiral Toys onto the carpet for its data security practices in light of the recent CloudPets breach. Sen. Bill Nelson D-FL, a ranking member of the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation and backer of a 2016 report on security and privacy concerns related to...

Proposed Bill Would Legally Allow Cyber Crime Victims to Hack Back

Is it wrong to hack back in order to counter hacking attack when you have become a victim? — this has been a long time debate. While many countries, including the United States, consider hacking back practices as illegal, many security firms and experts believe it as "a terrible idea" and...

Lawmakers Reintroduce Popular Email Privacy Act

A group of bipartisan lawmakers reintroduced the Email Privacy Act, a bill that would require law enforcement to get a warrant before searching email, Facebook messages and files stored on cloud services no matter how old the archives. The Email Privacy Act is an attempt to reform the decade-old...

act-on.com XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: https://www.act-on.com/?s=asd"'--!" Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| No Latest check for patch:| 30.07.2017 Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:| Publicly disclosed Alexa Rank| 119766 VIP website status:| No Check act-on.com SSL connection:| Grade: A...

Google Discloses Contents of Eight National Security Letters

Google on Tuesday disclosed the contents of eight National Security Letters it received between 2010 and 2015, becoming the latest company under reforms afforded by the USA Freedom Act to do so. The requests made by United States Federal Bureau of Investigation were made to Google to identify 21...

developer.act-on.com XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: https://developer.act-on.com/?s=%22%3E%3Cimg+src%3Dx+onerror%3Dprompt%28%2FOPENBUGBOUNTY%2F%29%3E%22 Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| Yes, at Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:| Publicly disclosed Alexa Rank| Unknown / Not calculated VIP website status:| N...

act-on.com XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: https://www.act-on.com/pricing/get-started/ Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| Yes, at 29.11.2016 Latest check for patch:| 29.11.2016 08:26 GMT Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:| Publicly disclosed Alexa Rank| 97489 VIP website status:| No Check act-on.com...

Mirai Vulnerability Disclosed, But Exploits May Constitute Hacking Back

The Mirai botnet apparently has a weakness that could shut down its ability to flood targets with HTTP requests. But exploiting that vulnerability puts defenders in a gray area with regard to hacking back. Researchers at Invincea Labs discovered three vulnerabilities in Mirai, one of which is the...