Subway Elevators and Movie-Plot Threats

Local residents are opposing adding an elevator to a subway station because terrorists might use it to detonate a bomb. No, really. There's no actual threat analysis, only fear: "The idea that people can then ride in on the subway with a bomb or whatever and come straight up in an elevator is awf...

Apple Preps ChaiOS iMessage Bug Fix for Next Week

UPDATE The so-called ChaiOS message bug identified this week in Apple iOS devices will receive a fix with the rollout of the update for iOS 11.2.5, expected next week. The update will address a flaw software developer Abraham Masri publicly identified in a tweet earlier this week, according to...

chaiOS “Text Bomb” Can Freeze & Crash Your iPhone

By Uzair Amir A software developer Abraham Masri has managed to identify a This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: chaiOS Text Bomb Can Freeze Crash Your iPhone...

Serial SWATter Tyler “SWAuTistic” Barriss Charged with Involuntary Manslaughter

Tyler Raj Barriss, a 25-year-old serial "swatter" whose phony emergency call to Kansas police last month triggered a fatal shooting, has been charged with involuntary manslaughter and faces up to eleven years in prison. Tyler Raj Barriss, in an undated selfie. Barriss's online alias -- "SWAuTisti...

CommuniGatePro 6.2 Missing XIMSS Tag Validation

Exploit Title: CommuniGatePro 6.2 - Missing XIMSS tags validation Date: 02/01/2018 Exploit Author: Boumediene KADDOUR Unit: Algerie Telecom R&D Unit Vendor Homepage: https://www.stalker.com/ Software Link: http://www.stalker.com/ paid product Version: 6.2.x tags by tags and vice versa, ending up...

Serial Swatter “SWAuTistic” Bragged He Hit 100 Schools, 10 Homes

The individual who allegedly made a fake emergency call to Kansas police last week that summoned them to shoot and kill an unarmed local man has claimed credit for raising dozens of these dangerous false alarms -- calling in bogus hostage situations and bomb threats at roughly 100 schools and at...

Kansas Man Killed In ‘SWATting’ Attack

A 28-year-old Kansas man was shot and killed by police officers on the evening of Dec. 28 after someone fraudulently reported a hostage situation ongoing at his home. The false report was the latest in a dangerous hoax known as "swatting," wherein the perpetrator falsely reports a dangerous...

X (Formerly Twitter): No Rate Limit in email leads to huge Mass mailings

Hi Team, I have found a logical flawNOT DoS in the website 'https://app.mopub.com/' 1.Use Burp Suite and capture below request upon navigation to Code integration 2.Click on Send button after entering email address in the input field of 'Enter one or more email addresses and we'll send you links ...

Updated git packages fix security vulnerability

Git through 2.14.2 mishandles layers of tree objects, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption via a crafted repository, aka a Git bomb. This can also have an impact of disk consumption; however, an affected process typically would not survive its attempt to...

Fedora 26 : git (2017-742be0e59c)

Previous versions of git mishandled layers of tree objects, which allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption via a crafted repository, aka a git bomb. This can also have an impact of disk consumption; however, an affected process typically would not survive its attem...

CVE-2017-15298

Git through 2.14.2 mishandles layers of tree objects, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption via a crafted repository, aka a Git bomb. This can also have an impact of disk consumption; however, an affected process typically would not survive its attempt to...

Daphne Caruana Galizia's Murder and the Security of WhatsApp

Daphne Caruana Galizia was a Maltese journalist whose anti-corruption investigations exposed powerful people. She was murdered in October by a car bomb. Galizia used WhatsApp to communicate securely with her sources. Now that she is dead, the Maltese police want to break into her phone or the app...

Large GZip Denial Of Service (DoS)

superagent is vulnerable to large GZip denial of service DoS attacks aka ZIP bomb attacks. The attacks can be triggered when malicious HTTP servers send extremely large responses in a compressed form. Since the client does not limit the size of responses, it will end up consuming large amounts of...

CVE-2017-15298

Git through 2.14.2 mishandles layers of tree objects, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption via a crafted repository, aka a Git bomb. This can also have an impact of disk consumption; however, an affected process typically would not survive its attempt to...

Code injection

Git through 2.14.2 mishandles layers of tree objects, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption via a crafted repository, aka a Git bomb. This can also have an impact of disk consumption; however, an affected process typically would not survive its attempt to...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-15298

Git through 2.14.2 mishandles layers of tree objects, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption via a crafted repository, aka a Git bomb. This can also have an impact of disk consumption; however, an affected process typically would not survive its attempt to...

CVE-2017-15298

Git through 2.14.2 mishandles layers of tree objects, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption via a crafted repository, aka a Git bomb. This can also have an impact of disk consumption; however, an affected process typically would not survive its attempt to...

CVE-2017-15298: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Git through 2.14.2 mishandles layers of tree objects, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption via a crafted repository, aka a Git bomb. This can also have an impact of disk consumption; however, an affected process typically would not survive its attempt to...

Canadian Man Gets 9 Months Detention for Serial Swattings, Bomb Threats

A 19-year-old Canadian man was found guilty of making almost three dozen fraudulent calls to emergency services across North America in 2013 and 2014. The false alarms, two of which targeted this author -- involved phoning in phony bomb threats and multiple attempts at "swatting" -- a dangerous...

Linux/x86 - Fork Bomb Shellcode (9 bytes)

/ ;Title: Linux/x86 - Fork Bomb Shellcode ; Author: Touhid M.Shaikh ; Contact: https://github.com/touhidshaikh ; Category: Shellcode ; Architecture: Linux x86 ; Description: This shellcode may crash ur system if executed in ur sys. Length: 9 bytes ===COMPILATION AND EXECUTION=== nasm -f elf32...