“We Need COBOL Programmers!” No, You Probably Don’t

Editor's note: While this topic isn't entirely security-specific, Trend Micro leader William Malik, has career expertise on the trending topic and shared his perspective. ---- There was a provocative report recently that the Governor of New Jersey told reporters that the state of New Jersey neede...

CVE-2020-2822

Vulnerability in the Oracle Trade Management product of Oracle E-Business Suite component: Claims. Supported versions that are affected are 12.1.1-12.1.3. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle Trade Management. Successfu...

Design/Logic Flaw

Vulnerability in the Oracle Trade Management product of Oracle E-Business Suite component: Claims. Supported versions that are affected are 12.1.1-12.1.3. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle Trade Management. Successfu...

'Unbreakable' Smart Lock Draws FTC Ire for Deceptive Security Claims

The Federal Trade Commission has slapped Tapplock, the maker of smart padlocks that it bills as “unbreakable,” with an official complaint that could lead to fines down the road. The agency alleges that the company engaged in false and deceptive claims about its security practices, after the lock...

Google Bans Infowars Android App Over Coronavirus Claims

Apple kicked Alex Jones out of the App Store in 2018. The Google Play Store has finally followed suit...

legitclaims.co.uk Cross Site Scripting vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-1124384 Security Researcher g0bl1nsec Helped patch 3741 vulnerabilities Received 4 Coordinated Disclosure badges Received 3 recommendations , a holder of 4 badges for responsible and coordinated disclosure, found a security vulnerability affecting legitclaims.co.uk website...

UBUNTU-CVE-2020-10577

An issue was discovered in Janus through 0.9.1. janus.c has multiple concurrent threads that misuse the source property of a session, leading to a race condition when claiming sessions...

claims-portal.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-1101910 Security Researcher Gh05tPT Helped patch 6893 vulnerabilities Received 10 Coordinated Disclosure badges Received 48 recommendations , a holder of 10 badges for responsible and coordinated disclosure, found a security vulnerability affecting claims-portal.com websit...

New Comic Videos Take CISO/Security Vendor Relationship to the Extreme

Today's CISOs operate in an overly intensive environment. As the ones who are tasked with the unenviable accountability for failed protection and successful breaches, they must relentlessly strive to improve their defense lines with workforce education, training their security teams and last but...

New Comic Videos Take CISO/Security Vendor Relationship to the Extreme

Today's CISOs operate in an overly intensive environment. As the ones who are tasked with the unenviable accountability for failed protection and successful breaches, they must relentlessly strive to improve their defense lines with workforce education, training their security teams and last but...

For $8.6M, Cisco Settles Suit Over Bug-Riddled Video Surveillance Software

Cisco Systems has agreed to pay $8.6 million to settle a lawsuit that alleged it sold video security software with known security vulnerabilities to U.S. federal and state governments. The litigation, originally brought in 2011, was filed under the False Claims Act, claiming that the software...

Cisco 'Knowingly' Sold Hackable Video Surveillance System to U.S. Government

Cisco Systems has agreed to pay $8.6 million to settle a lawsuit that accused the company of knowingly selling video surveillance system containing severe security vulnerabilities to the U.S. federal and state government agencies. It's believed to be the first payout on a 'False Claims Act ' case...

Cisco 'Knowingly' Sold Hackable Video Surveillance System to U.S. Government

Cisco Systems has agreed to pay $8.6 million to settle a lawsuit that accused the company of knowingly selling video surveillance system containing severe security vulnerabilities to the U.S. federal and state government agencies. It's believed to be the first payout on a 'False Claims Act' case...

CVE-2019-10175

A flaw was found in the containerized-data-importer in virt-cdi-cloner, version 1.4, where the host-assisted cloning feature does not determine whether the requesting user has permission to access the Persistent Volume Claim PVC in the source namespace. This could allow users to clone any PVC in...

CVE-2019-10175

A flaw was found in the containerized-data-importer where the host-assisted cloning feature does not determine whether the requesting user has permission to access the Persistent Volume Claim PVC in the source namespace. This could allow users to clone any PVC in the cluster into their own...

‘Snowden Refugee’ Has No Regrets for Helping Whistleblower

LEIPZIG, GERMANY – Refugee families located in Hong Kong that helped shelter Edward Snowden in 2013 are under crushing pressure to cooperate with local authorities or face deportation to their countries of origin, where they face an uncertain fate. However, despite years of what their lawyer call...

Description of the security update for SharePoint Server 2019: December 11, 2018

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Propaganda and the Weakening of Trust in Government

On November 4, 2016, the hacker "Guccifer 2.0,: a front for Russia's military intelligence service, claimed in a blogpost that the Democrats were likely to use vulnerabilities to hack the presidential elections. On November 9, 2018, President Donald Trump started tweeting about the senatorial...

Description of the security update for SharePoint Enterprise Server 2016: October 9, 2018

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Smart Locks: Dumb Security

Dave Lodge and I presented at the BSides Manchester pre-party, aka ‘beersides’ on the subject of not very smart locks. Doubtless you’ve already seen our work on the Tapplock over BLE and the API, our hardware work on the Fipilock, and maybe even our smart lock security interview with hardware.io...