Snowden Ten Years Later

In 2013 and 2014, I wrote extensively about new revelations regarding NSA surveillance based on the documents provided by Edward Snowden. But I had a more personal involvement as well. I wrote the essay below in September 2013. The New Yorker agreed to publish it, but the Guardian asked me not to...

PT-2023-24664

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Kyverno versions prior to 1.10.0 Description The issue allows resources with the deletionTimestamp field defined to bypass validate, generate, or mutate-existing policies, even when the validationFailureAction field is set to Enforce. This...

Code injection

OX App Suite before backend 7.10.6-rev37 does not enforce 2FA for all endpoints, e.g., reading from a drive, reading contact data, and renaming tokens...

CVE-2023-24605

OX App Suite before backend 7.10.6-rev37 does not enforce 2FA for all endpoints, e.g., reading from a drive, reading contact data, and renaming tokens...

[SECURITY] [DSA 5414-1] docker-registry security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-5414-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff May 27, 2023 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

Red Hat Keycloak security vulnerabilities

Red Hat Keycloak is a suite of software from Red Hat, Inc. that provides authentication and management capabilities for modern applications and services. A security vulnerability exists in Red Hat Keycloak that stems from a token type not being properly enforced when verifying signatures locally...

CVE-2023-2885

Improper Enforcement of Message Integrity During Transmission in a Communication Channel vulnerability in CBOT Chatbot allows Adversary in the Middle AiTM. This issue affects Chatbot: before Core: v4.0.3.4 Panel: v4.0.3.7...

Indiana, Iowa, and Tennessee Pass Comprehensive Privacy Laws

Its been a big month for US data privacy. Indiana, Iowa, and Tennessee all passed state privacy laws, bringing the total number of states with a privacy law up to eight. No private right of action in any of those, which means its up to the states to enforce the laws...

CVE-2023-31459

A vulnerability in the Connect Mobility Router component of Mitel MiVoice Connect versions 9.6.2208.101 and earlier could allow an unauthenticated attacker with internal network access to authenticate with administrative privileges, because the initial installation does not enforce a password...

New WinTapix.sys Malware Engages in Multi-Stage Attack Across Middle East

An unknown threat actor has been observed leveraging a malicious Windows kernel driver in attacks likely targeting the Middle East since at least May 2020. Fortinet Fortiguard Labs, which dubbed the artifact WINTAPIX WinTapix.sys, attributed the malware with low confidence to an Iranian threat...

CVE-2023-22654

Client-side enforcement of server-side security issue exists in T&D Corporation and ESPEC MIC CORP. data logger products, which may lead to an arbitrary script execution on a logged-in user's web browser. Affected products and versions are as follows: T&D Corporation data logger products TR-71W/7...

Design/Logic Flaw

Client-side enforcement of server-side security issue exists in T&D Corporation and ESPEC MIC CORP. data logger products, which may lead to an arbitrary script execution on a logged-in user's web browser. Affected products and versions are as follows: T&D Corporation data logger products TR-71W/7...

Cisco Identity Services Engine Arbitrary File Deletion Vulnerability

Cisco Identity Services Engine ISE is an environment-aware platform ISE Identity Services Engine from Cisco. The platform collects real-time information from the network, users and devices, and develops and enforces policies to regulate the network. An arbitrary file deletion vulnerability exists...

Multiple vulnerabilities in T&D and ESPEC MIC data logger products

Overview Multiple data logger products provided by T Corporation and ESPEC MIC CORP. contain multiple vulnerabilities listed below. Client-side enforcement of server-side security CWE-602 - CVE-2023-22654 Improper authentication CWE-287 - CVE-2023-27388 Missing authentication for critical functio...

JVN#14778242: Multiple vulnerabilities in T&D and ESPEC MIC data logger products

Multiple data logger products provided by T&D Corporation and ESPEC MIC CORP. contain multiple vulnerabilities listed below. Client-side enforcement of server-side security CWE-602 - CVE-2023-22654 Version| Vector| Score ---|---|--- CVSS v3| CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N| Base...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: OpenShift Container Platform 4.13.0 CNF vRAN extras security update

An update for ztp-site-generate-container, topology-aware-lifecycle-manager and bare-metal-event-relay is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS...

Re-Victimization from Police-Auctioned Cell Phones

Countless smartphones seized in arrests and searches by police forces across the United States are being auctioned online without first having the data on them erased, a practice that can lead to crime victims being re-victimized, a new study found. In response, the largest online marketplace for...

[SECURITY] [DLA 3422-1] postgresql-11 security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian LTS Advisory DLA-3422-1 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/lts/security/ Emilio Pozuelo Monfort May 15, 2023 https://wiki.debian.org/LTS -...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-5401-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 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...

Spanish Police Takes Down Massive Cybercrime Ring, 40 Arrested

The National Police of Spain said it arrested 40 individuals for their alleged involvement in an organized crime gang called Trinitarians. Among those apprehended include two hackers who carried out bank scams through phishing and smishing techniques and 15 other members of the crime syndicate, w...