New Mac Malware steals iPhone text messages from iTunes backups

By Waqas The IT security researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 have discovered a dangerous new Mac malware capable of targeting devices for multi-purposes including stealing cryptocurrency. Dubbed CookieMiner by researchers; the Mac malware is a variant of OSX.DarthMiner, another nasty piece...

CVE-2019-3908

Premisys Identicard version 3.1.190 stores backup files as encrypted zip files. The password to the zip is hard-coded and unchangeable. An attacker with access to these backups can decrypt them and obtain sensitive data...

Procedure to migrate a Cloud Connect tenant to vCloud Director

Challenge SPs who have vCloud Director deployed in their infrastructure can expose vCloud Director resources as cloud hosts for tenant VM replicas. This article describes a procedure of migrating existing tenants to vCloud Director. Solution On the Tenant side: 1. Delete all Cloud Backup and...

Using the blockchain to create secure backups

“Oh no! I’ve got a ransomware notice on my workstation. How did this happen?” “Let’s figure that out later. First, apply the backup from a few minutes ago, so we can continue to work.” Now that wasn't so painful, was it? Having a rollback solution or a recent backup could make this ideal post...

WordPress Plugin MagicMembers Information Disclosure Vulnerability

WordPress is a set of WordPress Software Foundation's blogging platform developed using the PHP language, which supports personal blog sites on servers with PHP and MySQL. An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the WordPress plugin MagicMembers. An attacker can exploit the vulnerabilit...

WordPress Plugin Ithemes-BackupBuddy Amazon WP-S3 Information Disclosure Vulnerability

WordPress is a set of WordPress Software Foundation's blogging platform developed using the PHP language, which supports personal blog sites on servers with PHP and MySQL. An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the WordPress plugin Ithemes-BackupBuddy Amazon WP-S3. An attacker can...

WordPress Mirrorwp-Backups Information Disclosure Vulnerability

WordPress is a set of WordPress Software Foundation's blogging platform developed using the PHP language, which supports personal blog sites on servers with PHP and MySQL. An information disclosure vulnerability exists in WordPress Mirrorwp-Backups. An attacker can exploit the vulnerability to...

WordPress Plugin Lumise Database Backup Leakage Vulnerability

WordPress is a set of WordPress Software Foundation's blogging platform developed using the PHP language, which supports personal blog sites on servers with PHP and MySQL. A security vulnerability exists in the WordPress plugin Lumise. An attacker can exploit the vulnerability to obtain sensitive...

WordPress Mirrorwp-Backups 4.8 Database Disclosure

Exploit Title : WordPress Mirrorwp-Backups 4.8 Database Backup Disclosure Author Discovered By : KingSkrupellos from Cyberizm Digital Security Army Date : 17/12/2018 Vendor Homepage : wordpress.org codecanyon.net/tags/wpmirror wpmirrorobj.com Software Download Link : N/A Tested On : Windows and...

Dell Encryption Enterprise Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Dell Encryption Enterprise is a suite of data protection solutions from Dell USA. The product includes features such as compliance management, authentication, disk data encryption and port encryption. An information disclosure vulnerability exists in Dell Encryption Enterprise version 10.1.0 and...

CVE-2018-15773

Dell Encryption formerly Dell Data Protection | Encryption v10.1.0 and earlier contain an information disclosure vulnerability. A malicious user with physical access to the machine could potentially exploit this vulnerability to access the unencrypted RegBack folder that contains back-ups of...

Versa Networks: Plaintext Credentials in Backups & Configs

In Versa Director, the unencrypted backup files stored on the Versa deployment contain credentials stored within configuration files. These credentials are for various application components such as SNMP, and SSL and Trust keystores...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: openstack-cinder security and bug fix update

An update for openstack-cinder is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0 Queens. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each...

Google to Encrypt Android Cloud Backups With Your Lock Screen Password

In an effort to secure users' data while maintaining privacy, Google has announced a new security measure for Android Backup Service that now encrypts all your backup data stored on its cloud servers in a way that even the company can't read it. Google allows Android users to automatically backup...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-16947

An issue was discovered in OpenAFS before 1.6.23 and 1.8.x before 1.8.2. The backup tape controller butc process accepts incoming RPCs but does not require or allow for authentication of those RPCs. Handling those RPCs results in operations being performed with administrator credentials, includin...

Patch Tuesday, September 2018 Edition

Adobe and Microsoft today each released patches to fix serious security holes in their software. Adobe pushed out a new version of its beleaguered Flash Player browser plugin. Redmond issued updates to address at least 61 distinct vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and related programs, includi...

How to secure your content management system

Suppose you want to start your own blog or set up a website where you can easily manage its content, the way it looks, and how often it changes. What you need is a content management system CMS. WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla are some of the most popular content management systems used by both...

Reddit Hacked – Emails, Passwords, Private Messages Stolen

Another day, another significant data breach. This time the victim is Reddit... seems someone is really pissed off with Reddit's account ban policy or bias moderators. Reddit social media network today announced that it suffered a security breach in June that exposed some of its users' data,...

Huawei Backup App Session Vulnerability

Huawei Backup App is a cell phone file backup tool. A session vulnerability exists in Huawei Backup App, which allows a local attacker to reset the password of the backup encrypted area to access the backup files and restore or copy them...

Password-Guessing Was Used to Hack Gentoo Linux Github Account

Maintainers of the Gentoo Linux distribution have now revealed the impact and "root cause" of the attack that saw unknown hackers taking control of its GitHub account last week and modifying the content of its repositories and pages. The hackers not only managed to change the content in compromis...