Atlassian Resets HipChat Passwords Following Breach

Atlassian reset user passwords for its group chat service HipChat on Monday following an incident that may have resulted in unauthorized access to a server used by the service. The company began warning users Monday via email that as a result an attacker may have secured access to user informatio...

Information disclosure

V8 in Google Chrome prior to 57.0.2987.98 for Mac, Windows, and Linux and 57.0.2987.108 for Android had insufficient policy enforcement, which allowed a remote attacker to spoof the location object via a crafted HTML page, related to Blink information disclosure...

CVE-2017-5046

CVE-2017-5046 (Chrome/Blink): V8 policy enforcement flaw allowed a remote attacker to spoof the location object via a crafted HTML page, related to Blink information disclosure. Affected: Google Chrome prior to 57.0.2987.98 on Mac/Windows/Linux and 57.0.2987.108 on Android. Impact is information ...

CVE-2017-5046

Removed by vendor...

CVE-2017-5060

Insufficient Policy Enforcement in Omnibox in Google Chrome prior to 58.0.3029.81 for Mac, Windows, and Linux, and 58.0.3029.83 for Android, allowed a remote attacker to perform domain spoofing via IDN homographs in a crafted domain name...

Hackers Steal Payment Card Data From Over 1,150 InterContinental Hotels

InterContinental Hotels Group IHG is notifying its customers that credit card numbers and other sensitive information may have been stolen after it found malware on payment card systems at 1,174 franchise hotels in the United States. It's the second data breach that U.K.-based IHG, which owns...

NetScaler is forcing the SSL connection on sites browsed with Secure Web

Web Links for HTTP resources attempting to connect via Secure Web over HTTPs and failing as resource does not exist on HTTPs...

No More Ransom — 15 New Ransomware Decryption Tools Available for Free

No More Ransom, so is the Ransomware Threat. Launched less than a year ago, the No More Ransom NMR project has increased its capacity with new partners and new decryption tools added to its now global campaign to combat Ransomware. Started as a joint initiative by Europol, the Dutch National...

UK Demands Encryption Backdoor As London Terrorist Used WhatsApp Before the Attack

The government has once again started asking for backdoor in encrypted services, arguing that it can not give enough security to its citizens because the terrorists are using encrypted apps to communicate and plot an attack. Following last week's terrorist attack in London, the UK government is...

Paper Spells Out Tech, Legal Options for Encryption Workarounds

FBI Director James Comey’s dogged attachment to the argument that strong encryption hinders criminal investigations by law enforcement is heading into its third year with little signs of abatement. That insistence comes despite three years of arguments to the contrary from security experts, who...

Russian Hacker Pleads Guilty to Developing and Distributing Citadel Trojan

A Russian man accused of developing and distributing the Citadel Banking Trojan, which infected nearly 11 Million computers globally and caused over $500 Million in losses, has finally pleaded guilty to charges of computer fraud. Mark Vartanyan, 29, who was very well known as "Kolypto," pleaded...

GDPR Series, Part 4: The Penalties for Non-Compliance

In the first three parts of this series, we covered the GDPR basics: who is subject to the GDPR requirements, what rules require data protection technology, and how you can start preparing your organization for the regulation. In this final installment, we will cover what happens when you are not...

KLA10984 Privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Windows kernel

Multiple serious vulnerabilities have been found in Microsoft Windows kernel. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to gain privileges. Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities: 1. An improper check of a buffer length prior to copying memory to the buffer can be exploited remotely ...

CVE-2017-5046

V8 in Google Chrome prior to 57.0.2987.98 for Mac, Windows, and Linux and 57.0.2987.108 for Android had insufficient policy enforcement, which allowed a remote attacker to spoof the location object via a crafted HTML page, related to Blink information disclosure...

AIX 7.2 TL 1 : ntp (IV92067) (deprecated)

NTPv3 and NTPv4 are vulnerable to : https://vulners.com/cve/CVE-2016-7427 NTP is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an error in broadcast mode replay prevention functionality. By sending specially crafted NTP packets, a local attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial o...

Protection Mechanism Bypass

OpenSSL is vulnerable to protection mechanism bypass. This is because OpenSSL accepts several variations of certificate signature algorithms and signature encodings. It doesn't then enforce a match between the signature algorithm between the signed and unsigned portions of the certificate. This...

Police Arrest 5 Cyber Thieves Who Stole 3.2 Million From ATMs Using Malware

Law enforcement authorities from Europe and Russia have arrested five members of an international cyber criminal gang for stealing $3.2 million cash from ATMs using malware. Three of the suspects, Andrejs Peregudovs 41, of Latvia, Niklae Penkov 34 of Moldova, and Mihail Colibaba 30 of Romania, we...

Breach Database Site 'LeakedSource' Goes Offline After Alleged Police Raid

The biggest mistake companies make with data security is leaving all their secrets unprotected at one place, which if attacked, they are all gone in one shot. An unnamed law enforcement agency has reportedly accessed billions of compromised usernames, email IDs, and their passwords, collected by...

Half of Ransomware Victims Pay Criminals' Demands to Recover Data

A report on ransomware sheds new light on attacks in 2016, starting with the fact that 48 percent of businesses hit by ransomware said they paid the ransom. That’s in spite of pleas from cyber security experts and the FBI not to do so. Other insights include the average ransom payment was $2,500...

passfault - OWASP Passfault evaluates passwords and enforces password policy in a completely different way

Objective: Do Passwords Better! Running the Command-line Interface: 1. install java 2. cd core 3. gradlew installDist 4. run build/install/core/bin/core Running the jsonWebService: 1. cd jsonService 2. gradlew build jettyRunWar 3. browse to localhost:8080/jsonService Note the war will be located ...