Schneider Electric Modicon M340 PLC Station P34 Module HMI Vulnerabilities

Update Vulnerabilities in Schneider Electric SCADA gear remain unpatched close to two weeks after they were disclosed during DEF CON. The Industrial Control System Cyber Emergency Response Team ICS-CERT released an alert late last week and patches are currently being validated according to ICS-CE...

NeuroServer 0.7.4 - EEG TCP/IP Transceiver Remote Denial of Service

!/usr/bin/env python NeuroServer 0.7.4 Remote DoS Shown at DEF CON 23 BioHacking Village Brain Waves Surfing - InSecurity in EEG Electroencephalography Technologies Slides: http://goo.gl/44r1HH NeuroServer is an EEG Electroencephalography TCP/IP Transceiver...

NeuroServer 0.7.4 - EEG TCPIP Transceiver Remote Denial of Service

NeuroServer 0.7.4 - EEG TCPIP Transceiver Remote Denial of Service !/usr/bin/env python NeuroServer 0.7.4 Remote DoS Shown at DEF CON 23 BioHacking Village Brain Waves Surfing - InSecurity in EEG Electroencephalography Technologies Slides: http://goo.gl/44r1HH NeuroServer is an EEG...

Thunderstrike 2: World's First Firmware Worm That Infects Mac Computers Without Detection

If you think Apple’s Mac computers are much more secure than Windows-powered systems, you need to think again. This isn’t true, and security researchers have finally proved it. Two security researchers have developed a proof-of-concept computer worm for the first time that can spread automaticall...

OwnStar Device Can Remotely Locate, Unlock, and Start GM Cars

Car hacking just jumped up a few levels. A security researcher has built a small device that can intercept the traffic from the OnStar RemoteLink mobile app and give him persistent access to a user’s vehicle to locate, unlock, and start it. The device is called OwnStar and it’s the creation of Sa...

Samy Kamkar's ProxyGambit Picks Up for Defunct ProxyHam

Without fail in the weeks leading up to Black Hat and DEF CON, there are inevitably talks that are either pulled by organizers, cancelled by presenters, or strong suggestions are made that the talks don’t happen. This year’s first casualty, Ben Caudill’s scheduled DEF CON demonstration of ProxyHa...

How to Anonymously Access Wi-Fi from 2.5 Miles Away Using This Incredible Device

Anonymity is something that seems next to impossible in this era of government surveillance. Even Tor and VPNs are no longer seem to be enough to protect user privacy. Once your IP address is discovered, your Game Over! However, a method have been devised that not only allow users to anonymously...

Memory Corruption Bug Patched in Blackphone Silent Text App

Blackphone and Silent Circle have patched a serious vulnerability in Silent Text, the messaging application bundled with the smartphone that’s marketed as secure and surveillance resistant. Mark Dowd, a prominent security researcher and founder of Azimuth Security, on Tuesday disclosed details of...

OpenGraphiti: Data Visualization Engine

OpenGraphiti is a free and open source 3D data visualization engine for data scientists to visualize semantic networks and to work with them. It offers an easy-to-use API with several associated libraries to create custom-made datasets. It leverages the power of GPUs to process and explore the da...

Avoiding the Dark Security Future

LAS VEGAS—Nick Percoco has been thinking a lot about the future of technology, and some of the things he’s dreamed up aren’t very pretty: farms of people renting out their spare brain cycles, autonomous cars that freak out and careen into oncoming traffic and hacking groups hijacking users’...

CVE-2014-7362

The Naranjas Con Tocados aka com.NaranjasConTocados.com application 0.1 for Android does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate...

CVE-2014-7362

CVE-2014-7362 affects the Naranjas Con Tocados Android app (version 0.1). The root cause is that the application does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, enabling man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate. Public records (N...

CVE-2014-7362

The Naranjas Con Tocados aka com.NaranjasConTocados.com application 0.1 for Android does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate...

Blackphone Bug Bounty Program Launches on Bugcrowd

During DEF CON in August, Twitter became the preferred medium for submitting bugs found in secure smartphone Blackphone, including one high-profile claim on the social network that the phone had been rooted. That wasn’t the final straw that led to today’s announcement of a bug bounty, rather it w...

Blackphone DEF CON Vulnerabilities Difficult to Exploit

If ever there was a hacking story screaming for clarity, it’s the Blackphone saga that unfolded during DEF CON. First off, yes, the device was rooted by a researcher who goes by the handle Justin Case @TeamandIRC on Twitter—but not in five minutes as has been previously reported. Yes, it requires...

Researcher to Demonstrate Poor SSL Implementations Using Pineapple WiFi

A leading provider of advanced threat, security and compliance solutions, Tripwire, has announced that Craig Young, a security researcher from its Vulnerability and Exposure Research Team VERT, is working on a paper about SSL vulnerabilities that will be presented at DEF CON 22 Wireless Village...

FTC Asking DEF CON to Help Catch Robocallers

The United States Federal Trade Commission is sick and tired of illegal robocalling, and it’s hosting a contest this year at the DEF CON hacker conference in Las Vegas in an attempt to do something about it. The consumer protection agency’s weariness likely stems from the more than 150,000...

DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge Finale Set For DEF CON 2016

DARPA’s announcement last October that it would sponsor a $2 million contest, challenging academics and security industry stalwarts to come up with an automated network defense system, has already attracted 35 entrants and a high-profile venue to stage the tournament finale. The final stage of th...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso Discuss Day Two at the RSA Conference

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso run down the news from day two of the RSA Conference, including the new FBI director’s speech and preview Trusty Con. Download: digitalunderground147.mp3...

vBulletin Zero Day Used to Hack MacRumors, vBulletin

A hacker group calling itself Inj3ct0r is taking responsibility for the compromise of more than 860,000 passwords at MacRumors.com as well as a separate attack on vBulletin.com, makers of the vBulletin software powering a number of high-profile forums including MacRumors and Ubuntu Forums. The...