Science Fiction Writers Helping Imagine Future Threats

The French army is going to put together a team of science fiction writers to help imagine future threats. Leaving aside the question of whether science fiction writers are better or worse at envisioning nonfictional futures, this isn't new. The US Department of Homeland Security did the same thi...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: [████████] Boolean SQL Injection (/personnel.php?content=profile&rcnum=*)

In this report, I want to describe a dangerous SQL injection, with the help of which I was able to extract certain data from the database. I used the insights from this report 648222. Using the bug from the aforementioned report, I could find this endpoint and done SQL injection. Steps to reprodu...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: [███████] Reflected GET XSS (/mission.php?...&missionDate=*)

I will combine this vulnerability with this vulnerability described in this report 648222. If you have not read this report, I recommend reading that report first, and then studying this report. I want to note that this report cannot be closed as a duplicate to the above described report. why?...

Facebook to Pay $5 Billion Fine to Settle FTC Privacy Investigation

After months of negotiations, the United States Federal Trade Commission FTC has approved a record $5 billion settlement with Facebook over its privacy investigation into the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The settlement will put an end to a wide-ranging probe that began more than a year ago and...

Youzer - Fake User Generator For Active Directory Environments

Fake User Generator for Active Directory Environments Introduction The goal of Youzer is to create information rich Active Directory environments. This uses the python3 library 'faker' to generate random accounts. pip3 install faker You can either supply a wordlist or have the passwords generated...

The Latest Julian Assange Indictment Is an Assault on Press Freedom

By invoking the Espionage Act against Julian Assange, the Justice Department will effectively put national security journalism on trial...

Beers with Talos Ep. #53: Shiny happy election security (and ninjas)

Beers with Talos BWT Podcast Ep. 53 is now available. Download this episode and subscribe to Beers with Talos: If iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing, click here. Recorded May 10, 2019 — Election security has been a dominant headline for some time, so it’s high time we take a look at what th...

Sim swapping hackers charged with stealing $2.5m worth of crypto

By Uzair Amir These hackers are part of the group called "The Community." According to an announcement made by the U.S. Department of Justice DoJ, six men have been charged for SIM swapping fraud that resulted in the theft of nearly $2.5 million $2,416,352 worth of cryptocurrency. The six men are...

Philips Tasy EMR (Update A)

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY --------- Begin Update A Part 1 of 7 --------- CVSS v3 4.3 ATTENTION: Low skill level to exploit --------- End Update A Part 1 of 7 --------- Vendor: Philips Equipment: Tasy EMR --------- Begin Update A Part 2 of 7 --------- Vulnerability: Cross-site Scripting, Information...

Evil TeamViewer Attacks Under the Guise of the U.S. State Department

UPDATE A targeted, email-borne attack against embassy officials and government finance authorities globally is making use of a malicious attachment disguised as a top-secret U.S. document. It weaponizes TeamViewer, the popular remote-access and desktop-sharing software, to gain full control of th...

Coalfire participates in cybersecurity disaster exercise at the 2019 HSCC Spring Summit

The Healthcare and Public Health Sector Coordinating Council HSCC conducted their biannual Joint Cybersecurity Working Group JCWG All-Hands Meeting on April 3-4, 2019. As a member of HSCC, Coalfire participated in the JCWG meeting with other security leaders from across the healthcare industry an...

A "Department of Cybersecurity"

Presidential candidate John Delaney has announced a plan to create a Department of Cybersecurity. I have long been in favor of a new federal agency to deal with Internet -- and especially Internet of Things -- security. The devil is in the details, of course, and it's really easy to get this wron...

North Korea's Hidden Cobra Strikes U.S. Targets with HOPLIGHT

A never-before-seen spyware variant called HOPLIGHT is targeting U.S. companies and government agencies in active attacks, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. In an advisory this week, the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team US-CERT said that there are nine differen...

Georgia Tech Data Breach Exposes 1.3 Million Users' Personal Data

The Georgia Institute of Technology, well known as Georgia Tech, has confirmed a data breach that has exposed personal information of 1.3 million current and former faculty members, students, staff and student applicants. In a brief note published Tuesday, Georgia Tech says an unknown outside...

Supply Chain Integrity Month

April is Supply Chain Integrity Month. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence ODNI, and the Department of Defense DOD are partnering to promote the importance of supply chain security and risk management. Breaches in the supp...

Emotet revisited: pervasive threat still a danger to businesses

One of the most common and pervasive threats for businesses today is Emotet, a banking Trojan turned downloader that has been on our list of top 10 detections for many months in a row. Emotet, which Malwarebytes detects as Trojan.Emotet, has been leveled at consumers and organizations across the...

SQL Injection Vulnerability in Zhirui Elementary and Middle School Students' School Registration Information Management System

Zhirui Elementary and Middle School Students' School Registration Information Management System is an information system that collects students' basic information and reports it to the education administration department. SQL injection vulnerability exists in Zhirui Primary and Secondary School...

Federal Focus on Cyber Plays Out in President's Budget, IoT Legislation

The federal government is stepping up its game this week on the cybersecurity front, with both proposed budget line items that would requisition nearly $11 billion for cyber, and the introduction of the Internet of Things IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2019, which would require that devices...

HackerOne: A small set of users were assigned someone else's payout preference

On December 20th, 2016, HackerOne introduced a new payout preference that allowed employee bounties to be paid through payroll. At the time, a feature was added to our support backend that allowed the IT department to provision this special payout preference for HackerOne employees. To help the I...

Bomb Threat Hoaxer Exposed by Hacked Gaming Site

Federal authorities this week arrested a North Carolina man who allegedly ran with a group of online hooligans that attacked Web sites including this one, took requests on Twitter to call in bomb threats to thousands of schools, and tried to frame various online gaming sites as the culprits. In a...