EFF Files Lawsuit Challenging DMCA's Restrictions Security Researchers

The Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a lawsuit Thursday against the U.S. Government over a provision within the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that it says impinges on free speech and hobbles security researchers ability to do their job. The lawsuit asks the court to strike down the highly...

Medical Study Blasts Hospitals' Security Practices

A scathing rebuke of medical professionals’ attitudes toward information security reveals nurses and doctors fumble over protocols often putting patients at risk. The revealing study, “Workarounds to Computer Access in Healthcare Organizations PDF,” offers a fascinating look behind the privacy...

Data Breaches Feed Password Reuse Crimes: No Simple Fixes

It was June 2012 when Dale Meredith was shopping online for a BBQ grill for Father’s Day and found one at Sears.com. The only snag, he had to create a username and password to buy it. That irked him. He was annoyed because it was literally the hundredth-plus service—including his local newspaper,...

Facebook CTF: Capture the Flag Platform

The Facebook CTF is a platform to host Jeopardy and “King of the Hill” style Capture the Flag competitions. Due to the high cost and technical requirements of building and running CTF environments, few publicly available resources exist for schools, students, and non-profit organizations to use...

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...