Black Hat 2019 News Wrap: The Best and Worst of the Show

LAS VEGAS – Black Hat and DEF CON 2019 may be wrapping up, but the dual conferences last week in Las Vegas left the security industry with a flurry of new security flaws, topics and announcements to discuss for the weeks to come. Threatpost editors Tara Seals and Lindsey O’Donnell get together to...

DEF CON 2019: New Class of SQLite Exploits Open Door to iPhone Hack

LAS VEGAS – Researchers at Check Point have identified a new class of vulnerabilities targeting SQLite, outside the context of a browser for the first time. The new attack techniques exploit memory-corruption issues in the SQLite engine itself — leading to a host of new hacks, including code...

DEF CON 2019: Researchers Demo Hacking Google Home for RCE

LAS VEGAS – The Tencent Blade Team of researchers demonstrated several ways they have developed to hack and run remote code on Google Home smart speakers. The hacks center around what is known as a Magellan vulnerability, which can be used to exploit the massively popular SQLite database engine...

DEF CON 2019: 35 Bugs in Office Printers Offer Hackers an Open Door

LAS VEGAS — At least 35 significant vulnerabilities in six commonly used enterprise printers have been uncovered, manufactured by HP, Ricoh, Xerox, Lexmark, Kyocera and Brother. The bugs will be presented by NCC Group at a DEF CON session entitled “Why You Should Fear Your Mundane Office Equipmen...

PTP at DEF CON 27

Here's the lowdown on our 14 DEF CON 27 talks, workshops, and panel sessions: Main Stage Track 3 Paris: Saturday 13:00 Chris Wade presents Tag-side attacks against NFC Track 2 Paris: Saturday 15:00 G Richter presents Reverse-Engineering 4g Hotspots for Fun, Bugs and Net Financial Loss Villages...

Black Hat USA 2019 Preview

Las Vegas – Despite bizarre reports of a grasshopper infestation, Black Hat USA 2019 and DEF CON are set to kick off next week in Las Vegas, bringing on a wave of sessions, keynotes and security-themed villages. The Threatpost team, which will be on the frontlines of next week’s shows, discuss wh...

Social engineering. When you’re the mark…

Who am I? I am Scott, and you may have met me, if you did your recollection of me will be unique most likely. I am a social chameleon. I can be your best mate, the lost friend you never knew you lost and even an expert in things you are interested in. I live off your stories and I weave my way in...

UBUNTU-CVE-2019-12379

An issue was discovered in coninsertunipair in drivers/tty/vt/consolemap.c in the Linux kernel through 5.1.5. There is a memory leak in a certain case of an ENOMEM outcome of kmalloc. NOTE: This id is disputed as not being an issue...

PT-2019-6460 · Linux +2 · Linux Kernel +2

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions through 5.1.5 Description: The issue is related to the con insert unipair function in the drivers/tty/vt/consolemap.c component of the Linux kernel, which is associated with incorrect memory deallocation before removing...

SQL Injection Vulnerability in the art***.php and con***.php Modules of iCMS

iCMS is an efficient and simple content management system built with PHP and MySQL. The art.php and con.php modules of iCMS have a SQL injection vulnerability module, which can be exploited by attackers to obtain sensitive database information...

DARPA Is Developing an Open-Source Voting System

This sounds like a good development: ...a new $10 million contract the Defense Department's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA has launched to design and build a secure voting system that it hopes will be impervious to hacking. The first-of-its-kind system will be designed by an...

PA Toolkit - A Collection Of Traffic Analysis Plugins Focused On Security

PA Toolkit is a collection of traffic analysis plugins to extend the functionality of Wireshark from a micro-analysis tool and protocol dissector to the macro analyzer and threat hunter. PA Toolkit contains plugins both dissectors and taps covering various scenarios for multiple protocols,...

Critical Flaws in Syringe Pump, Device Gateways Threaten Patient Safety

Two previously undocumented, critical vulnerabilities in widely deployed medical devices have sparked patient-safety and data-privacy concerns. Flaws in the Qualcomm Life Capsule Datacaptor Terminal Server and the Becton Dickinson BD Alaris TIVA Syringe Pump have been acknowledged by the vendors...

ThreatList: Almost All Security Pros Believe Election Systems Are at Risk

As the U.S. midterm election season gets underway in earnest, concerns about the ability to hack the vote is more in the spotlight than ever. A fresh survey from Venafi has found that a full 93 percent of security pros are concerned about cyber-attacks targeting election infrastructure. The poll,...

Podcast: Black Hat USA and DEF CON 2018 Wrap

Las Vegas was filled with researchers, executives, and hackers last week for the Black Hat USA and DEF CON 2018 conferences. In our wrap-up podcast, Threatpost’s Lindsey O’Donnell and Tara Seals talk about their favorite parts of the show. Among the most interesting topics at the shows included I...

ex-NSA Hacker Discloses macOS High Sierra Zero-Day Vulnerability

Your Mac computer running the Apple's latest High Sierra operating system can be hacked by tweaking just two lines of code, a researcher demonstrated at the Def Con security conference on Sunday. Patrick Wardle, an ex-NSA hacker and now Chief Research Officer of Digita Security, uncovered a...

Playback: A TLS 1.3 Story

Introduction Secure communications are one of the most important topics in information security, and the Transport Layer Security TLS protocol is currently the most used protocol to provide secure communications on the internet. For example, when you are connecting to your online banking...

The Official Talos Guide to Security Summer Camp 2018

It is once again time for the week in the summer when many of us descend on Las Vegas for Black Hat, DEF CON, and B-Sides LasVegas. This is your official guide to what the Cisco Talos Threat Intelligence team is doing at these shows and what some of our colleagues around Cisco Security are doing,...

Why ArtsSEC decided to partner with Wallarm

by Maximiliano Soler, @maxisoler by Maximiliano Soller, CTO of ArtsSEC The greatest thing with partnerships is how well the organisations’ expertise complement each other. Our partnership with Wallarm has incredibly exceeded our expectations in their innovation and expertise in web application...

comic-con-portugal.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-292619 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| comic-con-portugal.com Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...