State of the Internet, Volume 5, Issue 1

Is it too late to still say "Happy New Year?" We don't think so. We're kicking off 2019 with our first issue of the State of the Internet / Security. Goal setting is something that security teams around the world are doing right now. What are your team's goals? How do your goals align with the...

Securing Social / Locking Login / Armoring Authentication

Authentication might be the single biggest hazard for web security over the next decade. It's not that the fundamentals of authentication are particularly challenging; we've understood the basic principles behind password management, push-based authorization, and device certificates for some time...

Imperva Increases Self-Service Capability Fourfold with Custom Security Rules

Back in 2014, we introduced Rules previously IncapRules to give our customers advanced control over their application security. Today we’re putting even more of this custom tuning power in the hands of our customers by quadrupling the number of filters available via self-service. Rules Basics Rul...

Digital Identity, Digital Trust, Janrain and Akamai

Authentication on the World Wide Web is badly broken. We all know it, or at least sense it. Every web site or mobile app that we want to use asks us to register and set up yet another account with yet another username and password. With the typical end user having tens of online accounts, this...

Fedora 28 : mediawiki (2018-e022ecbc52)

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Releasenotes/1.29MediaWiki1.29.3 - T169545, CVE-2018-0503 SECURITY: $wgRateLimits entry for 'user' overrides 'newbie'. - T194605, CVE-2018-0505 SECURITY: BotPasswords can bypass CentralAuth's account lock. - T180551 Fix LanguageSrTest for language converter - T18055...

Akamai Received Top Scores in Gartner's New Report "Critical Capabilities for Cloud Web Application Firewalls Services"

Are you in the process of selecting a web application firewall WAF or thinking about whether your current solution is adequate? For many organizations selecting the right WAF to protect their business is not an easy task. The threat landscape is changing fast and hackers are very creative in thei...

Will good prevail over bad as bots battle for the internet?

By Ian Trump This is the third in a series of blog posts “on all things Bot” - The first two posts are available here and here. From bad to good and looking towards the future, Bots remain an information security issue which has the potential to impact all commercial and recreational online...

Spam and phishing in Q3 2018

Quarterly highlights Personal data in spam We have often said that personal data is candy on a stick to fraudsters and must be kept safe that is, not given out on dubious websites. It can be used to gain access to accounts and in targeted attacks and ransomware campaigns. In Q3, we registered a...

Telebix - An Application That Communicates With A Bot On The Telegram To Receive Commands And Send Information From An Infrastructure Monitored By Zabbix

Telebix is an application that communicates with a Bot on the Telegram to receive commands and send information from an infrastructure monitored by Zabbix, which also sends messages in real time if any problems occur in the infrastructure, it is totally written in Python with Shell Script and has...

Android Ad-Fraud Scheme

BuzzFeed is reporting on a scheme where fraudsters buy legitimate Android apps, track users' behavior in order to mimic it in a way that evades bot detectors, and then uses bots to perpetuate an ad-fraud scheme. After being provided with a list of the apps and websites connected to the scheme,...

Baby Got Bots

By Ian Trump This is the first in a series of blog posts “on all things Bot.” From bad to good and looking towards the future, Bots remain an information security issue which has the potential to impact all commercial and recreational online activity. This series will explore the security and...

New Drupalgeddon Attacks Enlist Shellbot to Open Backdoors

Researchers are warning of a new wave of cyberattacks targeting unpatched Drupal websites that are vulnerable to Drupalgeddon 2.0. What’s unique about this latest series of attacks is that adversaries are using PowerBot malware, an IRC-controlled bot also called PerlBot or Shellbot. Researchers a...

Introducing the Bot Endpoint Protection Report

Todays comprehensive monitoring capabilities in Security Center provide great insight into bot activity and countermeasures applied across your valuable web properties. Filter options allow you to focus on almost any desired detail. However, understanding what is happening on specific protected...

Authentication Bypass

mediawiki/core is vulnerable to authentication bypass attacks. The vulnerability exists due to the lack of account lock status check during a botpassword login, allowing accounts to be logged in through a bot password...

Chaturbate: No rate limiting in starting up a bot.

hi security team, I was able to start up a bot numerous times. 1. Goto https://chaturbate.com/b/username 2. Choose a bot and capture the request. 3. Send to intruder and repeat the step numerous times. 4. I did this 196times 5.I was able to activate a bot numerous times 6. My room was flooded wit...

Telegram Vulners Bot - Exploit Search Engine And Security Feed In Your Pocket

Vulners Bot is a Telegram interface for popular vulnerability database. It gives you availability of searching for exploits, tools, patches and many more using Telegram inline queries. But the most powerful feature is customizable security subscriptions feeds. You can select predefined themes or...

Loki Bot: On a hunt for corporate passwords

Starting from early July, we have seen malicious spam activity that has targeted corporate mailboxes. The messages discovered so far contain an attachment with an .iso extension that Kaspersky Lab solutions detect as Loki Bot. The malware's key objective is to steal passwords from browsers,...

libsbmlsim (>=0.0.1 <=0.0.2), wa-bisnis-bot (=1.0.0) potentially affected by CVE-2016-10642 via cmake (>=0.0.1 <=0.0.4)

cmake NPM version =0.0.1, =0.0.1, =0.0.2 - wa-bisnis-bot =1.0.0 Source cves: CVE-2016-10642 Source advisory: OSV:GHSA-4J59-HFW6-6W7H...

A week in security (August 6 – August 12)

Last week, we published a review of exploit kits, talked about everyday tech that can give you a headache, and showed how to protect RDP access from ransomware. We also published a study on the true cost of cybercrime. Other news: Discovered at Black Hat: WhatsApp "message manipulation" Source: T...

Idisagree - Control Remote Computers Using Discord Bot

Control remote computers using discord bot and python 3. ! If your target is a windows system, you may want to compile your payload. Do this with py2exe or pyinstaller. MAINTAINERS Alisson Moretto | Twitter: @A1S0N Github: @A1S0N PREREQUISITES Python 3.x pip3 subprocess from python3 Discord from...