Spam and phishing in Q2 2019

Quarterly highlights Spam through Google services In the second quarter of 2019, scammers were making active use of cloud-based data storage services such as Google Drive and Google Storage to hide their illegal content. The reasoning behind this is simple: a link from a legitimate domain is seen...

[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: gnupg2-2.2.17-1.fc29

GnuPG is GNU's tool for secure communication and data storage. It can be used to encrypt data and to create digital signatures. It includes an advanced key management facility and is compliant with the proposed OpenPGP Internet standard as described in RFC2440 and the S/MIME standard as described...

DCMS Practical Guidelines. Actionable information

The DCMS guidelines for IoT security are an excellent set of recommendations. They help developers secure devices by outlining the basic ways one can prevent common security weaknesses from being present in their devices and infrastructure. The recommendations are well thought out, and encourage...

Unpatched Flaws in IoT Smart Deadbolt Open Homes to Danger

UPDATE Researchers have uncovered vulnerabilities in a popular smart deadbolt could allow attackers to remotely unlock doors and break into homes. The manufacturer behind the smart lock, Hickory Hardware, has deployed patches to the affected apps on the Google Play Store and Apple App Store. The...

[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: gnupg2-2.2.17-1.fc30

GnuPG is GNU's tool for secure communication and data storage. It can be used to encrypt data and to create digital signatures. It includes an advanced key management facility and is compliant with the proposed OpenPGP Internet standard as described in RFC2440 and the S/MIME standard as described...

The vulnerability of the SCALANCE X switch’s microprogramming software, related to incorrect data storage formatting, allows a intruder to restore passwords.

The vulnerability of the SCALANCE X microcontroller’s software is related to incorrect storage of user credentials. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an intruder to retrieve passwords from the device access to the device’s configuration files is required...

IBM Patches Critical, High-Severity Flaws in Spectrum Protect

IBM has disclosed critical and high-severity vulnerabilities in Spectrum Protect, Big Blue’s security tool under the umbrella of its Spectrum data storage software branding. The most severe of these flaws could cause a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on impacted systems. Overall, IBM...

CVE-2019-12763

The Security Camera CZ application through 1.6.8 for Android stores potentially sensitive recorded video in external data storage, which is readable by any application...

CVE-2019-12763

CVE-2019-12763 affects the Security Camera CZ Android app up to version 1.6.8. The vulnerability is due to recorded video being stored in external storage, which is readable by any other app, enabling potential information disclosure. The connected sources (NVD/Red Hat/CVE records) confirm the st...

The vulnerability of the Enterprise Resource Management System “Galaktika ERP” lies in the fact that it stores user accounting data in an open manner, allowing a malicious actor to access and disclose the accounting information of privileged users.

The vulnerability of the Galaktika ERP resource management system lies in the fact that information related to user account data is stored publicly. This information is privileged administrator-sensitive and used for configuring software. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a malicious acto...

Gmail wittingly storing your online purchase data for years

By Waqas Google knows "what, when, where & how much" about your online shopping but claims it does not use the data for advertisement. Gmail is home to more than 1.5 billion users which makes it a lucrative service for Google whose business model demands data collected from users' online searches...

Vulnerabilities in financial mobile apps put consumers and businesses at risk

Security hubris. It’s the phrase we use to refer to our feeling of confidence grounded on assumptions we all have but may not be aware of or care to admit about cybersecurity—and, at times, privacy. It rears its ugly head when 1 we share the common notion that programmers know how to code securel...

Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Communications Processor Communications Processor Detection

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Omron Multiple Products Reversible Password Storage

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Siemens SIPLUS CP 1543-1 Communications Adapter Detection

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Arbitrary Code Execution

Red Hat Gluster Storage is a software only scale-out storage solution that provides flexible and affordable unstructured data storage. It unifies data storage and infrastructure, increases performance, and improves availability and manageability to meet enterprise-level storage challenges. Red Ha...

Facial Recognition is Here: But Are We Ready?

When MacKenzie Fegan was boarding her morning flight to Mexico City last Wednesday, she noticed something odd at her gate at the JFK International Airport. Instead of a JetBlue employee scanning her boarding pass or taking a look at her passport, she – and other passengers at the gate – was...

Default credentials

The Zalora application 6.15.1 for Android stores confidential information insecurely on the system i.e. plain text, which allows a non-root user to find out the username/password of a valid user via /data/data/com.zalora.android/sharedprefs/logindata.xml...

8 Tips and Best Practices to Build a Solid Cloud Migration Strategy for 2019

Here are eight fool-proof practices that can help you move your workloads to the cloud. A quick look at cloud migration. Cloud migration involves moving an organization’s data storage and IT operations to a cloud network. Cloud computing services are hosted in a multi-tenant environment and can b...

Facebook stored 600m user passwords in plain text exposed to 20k employees

By Uzair Amir The company says it discovered the issue in January and there is no need to change passwords. The social media giant Facebook has revealed that its internal data storage systems saved user passwords in plain text that could be accessed by employees. The social media said an ongoing...