PT-2019-4774 · Gnome +2 · Libsoup +2

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: libsoup versions 2.65.1 through 2.68.1 Description: The issue is caused by a heap-based buffer over-read in the soup ntlm parse challenge function, located in soup-auth-ntlm.c, which fails to properly check the length of an NTLM message befor...

2019 Flare-On Challenge Solutions

We are pleased to announce the conclusion of the sixth annual Flare-On Challenge. The popularity of this event continues to grow and this year we saw a record number of players as well as finishers. We will break down the numbers later in the post, but right now let’s look at the fun stuff: the...

FBI Safe Online Surfing Challenge

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has launched the Safe Online Surfing SOS Challenge, encouraging educators to promote web literacy and safety for students during the 2019-20 school year. FBI developed the program to educate children on how to navigate the web securely using activities that...

Facebook, Microsoft Challenge Industry to Detect, Prevent ‘Deepfakes’

Facebook, Microsoft and a number of universities have joined forces to sponsor a contest promoting research and development to combat deepfakes, or videos altered through artificial intelligence AI to mislead viewers. The two tech giants—along with the Partnership on AI and academics from Cornell...

Wanted: Cybersecurity Imagery

Eli Sugarman of the Hewlettt Foundation laments about the sorry state of cybersecurity imagery: The state of cybersecurity imagery is, in a word, abysmal. A simple Google Image search for the term proves the point: It's all white men in hoodies hovering menacingly over keyboards, green...

Security update for teeworlds (moderate)

openSUSE Security Update: Security update for teeworlds Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2019:1793-1 Rating: moderate References: 1112910 1131729 Cross-References: CVE-2018-18541 CVE-2019-10877 CVE-2019-10878 CVE-2019-10879 Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.1 An update that fixes four vulnerabiliti...

The Future is Female: A Key to the Cybersecurity Workforce Challenge

By 2022, 2 million cybersecurity positions globally are projected to be open, even as the threat landscape accelerates and becomes more complex. To meet this growing workforce shortage, women are a crucial, largely untapped reservoir of talent that businesses should be courting. In this Threatpos...

Preparing your enterprise to eliminate passwords

Anyone who uses the internet knows the hassles of using a user name and password to access their own information, whether it’s their banking, online shopping, social media, medical information, etc. If you’re a CIO, a CISO, or any other exec at a company who is thinking about digital security, th...

autoPwn - Automate Repetitive Tasks For Fuzzing

Warning Completely re-writing this right now. Focus will be on interactive Linux apps that only take input from stdin for starters. Attempting to use Shellphish's Driller and Fuzzer functionality. autoPwn in it's current state will do this in limited form. Simply run autoPwn ./binary then select...

50m-ctf: Writeup

h1 50M CTF =========== This is my solution for the h1 ctf. On the 27th of february h1 posted this tweet: Since there is no link no any sort of challenge I supposed the challenges is self contained inside this tweet. My guess was the first clue is inside the embeded picture, and since the second o...

50m-ctf: $50 million CTF Writeup

Summary: For a brief overview of the challenge you can take a look at the following image: F451370 Below I will detail each step that I took to solve the CTF, moreover all the bad assumptions that led me to a dead end in some cases. Twitter The CTF begins with this tweet: F451371 What is this...

Why It's So Hard to Restart Venezuela's Power Grid

Approaching a full week, Venezuela's national power outage shows just how hard it is to restart a grid from scratch...

A week in security (February 25 – March 3)

Last week, we delved into the realm of K-12 schools and security, explored the world of compromised websites and Golang bruteforcers, and examined the possible realms of pay for privacy. We also looked at identity management solutions, Google’s Universal Read Gadget, and did the deepest of dives...

RSAC 2019: 58% of Orgs Have Unfilled Cyber Positions

SAN FRANCISCO – Much has been made of the cybersecurity workforce gap, and it appears to be a persistent issue: A full 69 percent of respondents in a recent survey said that they have cybersecurity teams that are understaffed. According to ISACA’s State of Cybersecurity 2019 survey, released at t...

Apache 2.4.x < 2.4.34 Multiple Vulnerabilities

According to its banner, the version of Apache running on the remote host is 2.4.x prior to 2.4.34. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerabilities: - By specially crafting HTTP/2 requests, workers would be allocated 60 seconds longer than necessary, leading to worker exhaustion and a...

Facebook's '10 Year Challenge' Is Just a Harmless Meme—Right?

Opinion: The 2009 vs. 2019 profile picture trend may or may not have been a data collection ruse to train its facial recognition algorithm. But we can't afford to blithely play along...

TCP Session Hijack

kernel-rt is vulnerable to TCP session hijack attacks. The vulnerability exists as net/ipv4/tcpinput.c in the Linux kernel before 4.7 does not properly determine the rate of challenge ACK segments, which makes it easier for remote attackers to hijack TCP sessions via a blind in-window attack...

Meet the teen who won Technovation 2017

This summer Akamai hosted Girls Who Code for its fourth year in a row. Girls Who Code is a nonprofit organization that aims to support and increase the number of women in computer science. This is a spotlight article on one of the Girls Who Code participants, Aruzhan Koshkarova. Aruzhan, along wi...

CVE-2018-18541

In Teeworlds before 0.6.5, connection packets could be forged. There was no challenge-response involved in the connection build up. A remote attacker could send connection packets from a spoofed IP address and occupy all server slots, or even use them for a reflection attack using map download...

2018 Flare-On Challenge Solutions

We are pleased to announce the conclusion of the fifth annual Flare-On Challenge. The numbers are in and we can safely say that this was by far the most difficult challenge we’ve ever hosted. We plan to reduce the difficulty next year, so it may be that the 114 people who solved this year’s...