Facebook Capture The Flag Platform Open Source

If you’ve been to DEF CON or any number of other technical hacker conferences, you’re familiar with Capture the Flag contests. These events pit teams of hackers and researchers against each other in a series of challenges until a winner is determined. Capture the Flag is also a valuable teaching...

30 Day Fit Challenges Workout - External URLs, Suspicious files, Unsafe deleting vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application 30 Day Fit Challenges Workout published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Steve Adegbite on Data Integrity

Mike Mimoso talks with Steve Adegbite, Chief Information Security Officer at ETRADE, about data integrity and some of the challenges he encounters when it comes to encrypting data and dealing with third-party access to data...

How to Crack GCHQ Crypto Puzzle? — Here's the Solution

GCHQ has finally released the solution to their head spinning Xmas Puzzle, after all, the participants failed to reach the final answer. GCHQ had released a crypto puzzle, dubbed Xmas Puzzle, on 9th December in the form of a Christmas Card that went viral online soon after its release. Nearly...

CVE-2015-4334

The default configuration of SGOS in Blue Coat ProxySG before 6.2.16.5, 6.5 before 6.5.7.1, and 6.6 before 6.6.2.1 forwards authentication challenges from upstream origin content servers OCS when used in an explicit proxy deployment, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain sensitive...

Default configuration

The default configuration of SGOS in Blue Coat ProxySG before 6.2.16.5, 6.5 before 6.5.7.1, and 6.6 before 6.6.2.1 forwards authentication challenges from upstream origin content servers OCS when used in an explicit proxy deployment, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain sensitive...

China-based Cyber Threat Group Uses Dropbox for Malware Communications and Targets Hong Kong Media Outlets

FireEye Threat Intelligence analysts identified a spear phishing campaign carried out in August 2015 targeting Hong Kong-based media organizations. A China-based cyber threat group, which FireEye tracks as an uncategorized advanced persistent threat APT group and other researchers refer to as...

Black Hat 2015 Keynote Jennifer Granick

LAS VEGAS – The Internet is barreling down the same road of regulation and not-so-subtle censorship that has turned every other means of mass communication into a centralized and vanilla fountain of useless information. Kinda like television. That’s the fear that today Black Hat keynoter Jennifer...

Damn Vulnerable iOS App: DVIA

Damn Vulnerable iOS App DVIA is an iOS application that is damn vulnerable. Its main goal is to provide a platform to mobile security enthusiasts/professionals or students to test their iOS penetration testing skills in a legal environment. This application covers all the common vulnerabilities...

UK Student's Research a Wassenaar Casualty

U.S.-based security researchers may soon be championing the case of Grant Wilcox, a young U.K. university student whose work is one of the few publicly reported casualties of the Wassenaar Arrangement. Wilcox last week published his university dissertation, presented earlier this spring for an...

Facebook Hires Ex-Yahoo CISO Alex Stamos

Facebook has hired away the top security executive at Yahoo, Alex Stamos, to become the company’s new CSO. Stamos said Wednesday that he is joining Facebook because he believes the company is in the best position to address some of the large security challenges facing users and companies right no...

Operation Cleaver Critical Infrastructure Hacking Attacks

Iranian state-sponsored hackers have been singled out for attacks on critical infrastructure worldwide, including 10 targets in the United States. Security firm Cylance today released an 86-page report on Operation Cleaver that lays out Iran’s hacking capabilities and motivations to attack global...

CVE-2012-5619

The Sleuth Kit TSK 4.0.1 does not properly handle "." dotfile file system entries in FAT file systems and other file systems for which . is not a reserved name, which allows local users to hide activities it more difficult to conduct forensics activities, as demonstrated by Flame...

Patching Bash Vulnerability a Challenge for ICS, SCADA

While the most urgent focus where the Bash vulnerability is concerned is around Internet-facing web servers, embedded systems and industrial control systems are not exempt from worry. Experts are concerned about Linux-based industrial control systems and SCADA equipment, in particular, that may b...

As Bug Bounties Become the Norm, Challenges Remain

SEATTLE–For many years, Microsoft and other large software vendors resisted the idea of providing bug bounties or other financial incentives for researchers to report vulnerabilities. That changed when the landscape began to shift and more researchers began reporting vulnerabilities through broke...

Zoom X4/X5 ADSL Modem - Multiple Vulnerabilities

No description provided by source. Vulnerable Products - Zoom X4 ADSL Modem and Router running Nucleus/4.3 UPnP/1.0Virata-EmWeb/R620 Server All GS Firmware versions Zoom X5 ADSL Modem and Router running Nucleus/4.3 UPnP/1.0Virata-EmWeb/R620 Server All GS Firmware versions Note: A similar...

Crowdsourcing a Tool for Application Vulnerability Research

Pulling in security help on a project has traditionally meant either hiring more full-time help, or bringing in an outside consultant. Enterprises and vendors alike, however, are starting to really go outside the perimeter these days and are taking advantage of crowdsourcing. Given the paranoia i...

Time Warner Cable Publishes First Transparency Report

Time Warner Cable has joined a half-dozen telecommunications and technology companies that, in the past six months, have published their first transparency report on government and law enforcement requests for user data and content. Since the Edward Snowden leaks began last June, transparency...

Gap Widens Between Attackers, BIOS Forensics, Research

Vendors have made important strides in locking down operating systems, patching memory-related vulnerabilities and other bugs that could lead to remote code execution or give hackers a stealthy presence on a machine. As the hurdles get higher for the bad guys, the better ones will certainly look...

[DVIA] Damn Vulnerable iOS Application

.png Damn Vulnerable iOS App DVIA is an iOS application that is damn vulnerable. Its main goal is to provide a platform to mobile security enthusiasts/professionals or students to test their iOS penetration testing skills in a legal environment. This application covers all the common...