Compilers permit Unicode control and homoglyph characters

Overview Attacks that allow for unintended control of Unicode and homoglyphic characters, described by the researchers in this report leverage text encoding that may cause source code to be interpreted differently by a compiler than it appears visually to a human reviewer. Source code compilers,...

‘Trojan Source’ Bug Threatens the Security of All Code

Virtually all compilers -- programs that transform human-readable source code into computer-executable machine code -- are vulnerable to an insidious attack in which an adversary can introduce targeted vulnerabilities into any software without being detected, new research released today warns. Th...

Security Risks of Client-Side Scanning

Even before Apple made its announcement, law enforcement shifted their battle for backdoors to client-side scanning. The idea is that they wouldnt touch the cryptography, but instead eavesdrop on communications and systems before encryption or after decryption. Its not a cryptographic backdoor, b...

The Third Edition of Ross Anderson’s Security Engineering

Ross Andersons fantastic textbook, Security Engineering, will have a third edition. The book wont be published until December, but Ross has been making drafts of the chapters available online as he finishes them. Now that the book is completed, I expect the publisher to make him take the drafts o...

CVE-2018-10933

Description libssh versions 0.6 and above have an authentication bypass vulnerability in the server code. By presenting the server an SSH2MSGUSERAUTHSUCCESS message in place of the SSH2MSGUSERAUTHREQUEST message which the server would expect to initiate authentication, the attacker could...

UPDATE: FudgeC2 0.5.4

FudgeC2 0.5.4 was released recently. As you may remember, this awesome adversary emulation system was listed in my older post titled – List of Open Source C2 Post-Exploitation Frameworks. This newer version brings in refactored code, improvements to the stager, bug fixes among other changes...

OracleVM 3.4 : Unbreakable / etc (OVMSA-2019-0026) (SACK Panic) (SACK Slowness)

The remote OracleVM system is missing necessary patches to address critical security updates : - Add CVE numbers for CVE-2019-11477 CVE-2019-11478 CVE-2019-11479 Chuck Anderson Orabug: 29890820 CVE-2019-11477 CVE-2019-11478 CVE-2019-11479 CVE-2019-11477 CVE-2019-11478 CVE-2019-11479 - tcp: fix...

Workshop on the Economics of Information Security

Last week, I hosted the eighteenth Workshop on the Economics of Information Security at Harvard. Ross Anderson liveblogged the talks...

Security and Human Behavior (SHB) 2019

Today is the second day of the twelfth Workshop on Security and Human Behavior, which I am hosting at Harvard University. SHB is a small, annual, invitational workshop of people studying various aspects of the human side of security, organized each year by Alessandro Acquisti, Ross Anderson, and...

Why Are Cryptographers Being Denied Entry into the US?

In March, Adi Shamir -- that's the "S" in RSA -- was denied a US visa to attend the RSA Conference. He's Israeli. This month, British citizen Ross Anderson couldn't attend an awards ceremony in DC because of visa issues. You can listen to his recorded acceptance speech. I've heard of two other...

Third Annual Cybercrime Conference

Ross Anderson liveblogged the Third Annual Cybercrime Conference...

Ross Anderson on the History of the Crypto Wars in the UK

Ross Anderson gave a talk on the history of the Crypto Wars in the UK. I am intimately familiar with the US story, but didn't know as much about Britain's verson. Hour-long video. Summary...

Details from the 2017 Workshop on Economics and Information Security

The 16th Workshop on Economics and Information Security was this week. Ross Anderson liveblogged the talks...

Safety and Security and the Internet of Things

Ross Anderson blogged about his new paper on security and safety concerns about the Internet of Things. See also this short video. It's very much along the lines of what I've been writing...

Security and Human Behavior (SHB 2017)

I'm in Cambridge University, at the tenth Workshop on Security and Human Behavior. SHB is a small invitational gathering of people studying various aspects of the human side of security, organized each year by Ross Anderson, Alessandro Acquisti, and myself. The 50 or so people in the room include...

Interview with Ross Anderson

Cybersecurity researcher Ross Anderson has a good interview on edge.org...

Path Breadcrumbs - Less Critical - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) - SA-CONTRIB-2015-133

This module enables you to configure breadcrumbs for any Drupal page. The module didn't sufficiently filter user input values the in administration interface. This vulnerability was mitigated by the fact that an attacker must have a role with the permission "Administer Path Breadcrumbs". CVE...

[SECURITY] [DSA 3085-1] wordpress security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3085-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Yves-Alexis Perez December 03, 2014 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

CVE-2014-7521

The CVE-2014-7521 entry concerns the Android app Anderson Musaamil (com.app_andersonmusaamil.layout) version 1.400, where TLS/SSL X.509 certificate validation is not performed. Root cause: the app fails to verify server certificates, enabling a MITM to spoof servers and exfiltrate sensitive data ...

freebsd/x86-64 exec("/bin/sh") shellcode 31 bytes

No description provided by source. / | | | | | | | \ | | | | || |/ |/ | |/ / ' \ | | / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | || ||,|||\| || || \/||| http://www.hacknroll.com Description: FreeBSD x86-64 exec/bin/sh Shellcode - 31 bytes Authors: Maycon M. Vitali 0ut0fBound Milw0rm .:...