CVE-2017-5655

CVE-2017-5655 affects Apache Ambari 2.2.2–2.4.2 and 2.5.0, where sensitive data can be written to temporary files on the Ambari Server host and remain readable by any user on the host. The underlying issue is storage of sensitive data in on-disk temp files. Public references indicate remediation ...

iOS Security Testing Framework: needle

iOS Security Testing Framework Needle is an open source, modular framework to streamline the process of conducting security assessments of iOS apps. Assessing the security of an iOS application typically requires a plethora of tools, each developed for a specific need and all with different modes...

Auto Lender Exposes Loan Data For Up To 1 Million Applicants

A California auto loan company left the names, addresses, credit scores and partial Social Security numbers of up to 1 million people exposed on an insecure online database. The company behind the database is Alliance Direct Lending Corporation, according to Kromtech Security Research Center, whi...

Design/Logic Flaw

OSRAM SYLVANIA Osram Lightify Home before 2016-07-26 stores a PSK in cleartext under /private/var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application...

5 Red Flags That Tell You Vendors Are Lying About AI

This is the original version of this article: The term Artificial Intelligence has become a buzzword that people use in sales pitches all the time. You will hear about it in the latest ad copy for new gadgets and programs. It also happens to be the most important tool in the cyber security field...

WMImplant – A WMI Based Agentless Post-Exploitation RAT Developed in PowerShell

Just over one year ago November 2015, I released WMIOps, a PowerShell script that enables a user to carry out different actions via Windows Management Instrumentation WMI on the local machine or a remote machine. WMIOps can: Start or stop a process. Return a list of all running processes. Power...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.2.0 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An update is now available for Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.2.0 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An update is now available for Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each...

Scientists Store One Bit of Data on a Single Atom — Future of Data Storage

Imagine a pocket-sized hard drive capable of storing the entire list of 35 Million Songs? This isn't yet practical, but IBM has just taken a big step towards improving computing technology: IBM researchers just discovered a way to store data on a single atom. Data storage is undergoing dramatic...

Scientists Store an Operating System, a Movie and a Computer Virus on DNA

Do you know — 1 Gram of DNA Can Store 1,000,000,000 Terabyte of Data for 1000+ Years. Just last year, Microsoft purchased 10 Million strands of synthetic DNA from San Francisco DNA synthesis startup called Twist Bioscience and collaborated with researchers from the University of Washington to foc...

CVE-2016-9346

CVE-2016-9346 affects Moxa MiiNePort E1 (before 1.8), E2 (before 1.4), and E3 (before 1.1). The issue is cleartext storage of configuration data in an unencrypted file, enabling potential information disclosure. NVD notes CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (L: Low impact on confidentiality) with network acce...

EMC ScaleIO Local Denial of Service Vulnerability

EMC ScaleIO is a software-defined solution that converts existing DAS storage to shared data block storage using the user's existing hardware or EMC servers. A local denial of service vulnerability exists in EMC ScaleIO. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service...

idb - iOS App Security Assessment Tool

idb is a tool to simplify some common tasks for iOS app security assessments and research. Please see the Documentation for a more detailed summary of each function. Features Assessment Setup SSH port forwarding Installation of helper utilities App Information Bundle information Registered URL...

needle - The iOS Security Testing Framework

Needle is an open source, modular framework to streamline the process of conducting security assessments of iOS apps. Description Assessing the security of an iOS application typically requires a plethora of tools, each developed for a specific need and all with different modes of operation and...

Mindoktor: Storing sensitive information on cookie post-registration

Hello, I've noticed that upon registering the server sets a cookie named clinicclinic.PENTESTFLASH. In it, it stores all the information the user used to register. Sample request: POST /user/register HTTP/1.1 Host: clinic.pentest.mindoktor.io User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.1...

Information disclosure

Siemens SIMATIC STEP 7 TIA Portal before 14 improperly stores pre-shared key data in TIA project files, which makes it easier for local users to obtain sensitive information by leveraging access to a file and conducting a brute-force attack...

CVE-2016-7959

Siemens SIMATIC STEP 7 TIA Portal before 14 improperly stores pre-shared key data in TIA project files, which makes it easier for local users to obtain sensitive information by leveraging access to a file and conducting a brute-force attack...

Disappearing Messages Added to Signal App

The Signal encrypted messaging application on Tuesday added disappearing messages to its array of privacy features. Disappearing messages gives users the ability to designate how long conversations live on respective devices. And while developer Moxie Marlinspike said the feature won’t necessaril...

Open Source Disk Encryption: VeraCrypt

VeraCrypt is a software for establishing and maintaining an on-the-fly-encrypted volume data storage device. On-the-fly encryption means that data is automatically encrypted right before it is saved and decrypted right after it is loaded, without any user intervention. No data stored on an...

WhoDat - Pivotable Reverse WhoIs / PDNS Fusion with Registrant Tracking & Alerting plus API for automated queries (JSON/CSV/TXT)

The WhoDat project is a front-end for whoisxmlapi data, or any whois data living in a MongoDB. It integrates whois data, current IP resolutions and passive DNS. In addition to providing an interactive, pivotable application for analysts to perform research, it also has an API which will allow...