Facebook Blames Malicious Extensions in Breach of 81K Private Messages

Hackers have published what they claim are private messages from at least 81,000 Facebook accounts – and they say the trove contains a fraction of the details they have from a larger cadre of 120 million accounts. In an English-language Dark Web advertisement now taken down, the perpetrators...

Information security: How Hackers Leverage Stolen Data for Profit

Data theft is inarguably big business for hackers. This has been proven time and time again when big-name companies and their customers are involved in a data breach. As these instances appear to take place more often, and the number of stolen or compromised files continues to rise, it's worth...

Mozilla: Same-origin policy violation using meta refresh and performance.getEntries to steal cross-origin URLs

A same-origin policy violation allowing the theft of cross-origin URL entries when using a meta http-equiv="refresh" on a page to cause a redirection to another site using performance.getEntries. This is a same-origin policy violation and could allow for data theft. This vulnerability affects...

Nation-State Phishing: A Country-Sized Catch

Thanks to the traditional role of phishing in widespread email scams, there is a general tendency to equate it with clearly fraudulent and obnoxiously implausible emails. While this misperception has not evolved, phishing campaigns have. Andrea Little Limbago Once a threat that went hand-in-hand...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2956-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

X (Formerly Twitter): CORS misconfig | Account Takeover

Summary: CORS misconfig is found on niche.co as Access-Control-Allow-Origin is dynamically fetched from client Origin header with credential true and different methods are enabled as well. Description: Basically, the application was only checking whether "//niche.co" was in the Origin header, tha...

Adobe Experience Manager cross-site scripting vulnerability (CNVD-2019-06895)

Adobe Experience Manager AEM is a set of content management solutions that can be used to build websites, mobile applications and forms from the American company Odobie Adobe. The program supports mobile content management, marketing and sales campaign management and multi-site management. A...

PT-2018-2358

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools versions 8.55 through 8.57 Description The issue is related to inadequate access control in the PIA Core Technology component of Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools. This can be exploited by a remote...

30 Million Facebook Accounts Were Hacked: Check If You're One of Them

Late last month Facebook announced its worst-ever security breach that allowed an unknown group of hackers to steal secret access tokens for millions of accounts by taking advantage of a flaw in the 'View As' feature. At the time of the initial disclosure, Facebook estimated that the number of...

CVE-2018-0059

A persistent cross-site scripting vulnerability in the graphical user interface of ScreenOS may allow a remote authenticated user to inject web script or HTML and steal sensitive data and credentials from a web administration session, possibly tricking a follow-on administrative user to perform...

Cross site scripting

A persistent cross-site scripting vulnerability in the graphical user interface of ScreenOS may allow a remote authenticated user to inject web script or HTML and steal sensitive data and credentials from a web administration session, possibly tricking a follow-on administrative user to perform...

Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in Multiple Cisco Products

Cisco Webex Events Center, etc. are video conferencing solutions from Cisco USA. A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in the web-based management interface of several Cisco products, which can be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary script code in the context of the affected...

PT-2018-8591

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Juniper Networks ScreenOS versions prior to 6.3.0r26 Description: A persistent cross-site scripting issue in the graphical user interface of ScreenOS may allow a remote authenticated user to inject web script or HTML, potentially stealing...

PT-2018-14241

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Coaster CMS version 5.5.0 Description A Stored Cross-site Scripting issue has been discovered. This issue allows for the storage of malicious scripts that can be executed by other users, potentially leading to unauthorized actions or data thef...

CVE-2018-12471: Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference

A External Entity Reference 'XXE' vulnerability in SUSE Linux SMT allows remote attackers to read data from the server or cause DoS by referencing blocking elements. Affected releases are SUSE Linux SMT: versions prior to 3.0.37...

Fortnite gamers targeted by data theft malware

The new season of the incredibly popular video game Fortnite is upon us, and so too are the scams. It’s no surprise that con artists would jump on this bandwagon, eager to peddle their fakeouts. Only this time, scammers had something a little more dangerous in mind than your typical low-level...

Nine NAS Bugs Open LenovoEMC, Iomega Devices to Attack

Lenovo is warning of nine vulnerabilities rated “high” and impacting 20 separate network attached storage NAS devices sold by the company, including its LenovoEMC, Iomega and its Lenovo-branded NAS devices. By exploiting one of several command-injection vulnerabilities in the devices’ operating...

Directory traversal

It was discovered that sos-collector does not properly set the default permissions of newly created files, making all files created by the tool readable by any local user. A local attacker may use this flaw by waiting for a legit user to run sos-collector and steal the collected data in the...

CVE-2018-14650

It was discovered that sos-collector does not properly set the default permissions of newly created files, making all files created by the tool readable by any local user. A local attacker may use this flaw by waiting for a legit user to run sos-collector and steal the collected data in the...

CVE-2018-14650

CVE-2018-14650 affects sos-collector. Root cause: newly created files in /var/tmp may have overly permissive permissions due to incorrect default settings, enabling local users to access collected data. Impact is data exposure of collected sosreports. Remediation: update to sos-collector 1.5 or a...