AlphaBay Dark Web Marketplace Hacked; Exposes Over 200,000 Private Messages

AlphaBay, possibly the largest active dark web marketplace at the moment, has paid a hacker after he successfully exploited vulnerabilities in the internal mailing system of the website and hijacked over 200,000 private unencrypted messages from several users. The hacker, using the pseudonym...

AG Nominee Backs Law Enforcement's Ability to 'Overcome' Encryption

President Donald Trump’s attorney general pick Jeff Sessions has amplified the encryption debate with comments he made during Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings last week stating law enforcement should be able to “overcome” digital locks in criminal investigations. Sessions’ positio...

Andrew Macpherson on Intelligence Gathering with Maltego

Ryan Naraine talks with Operations Manager at Paterva Andrew Macpherson who outlines the details of the “Digital Intelligence Gathering using Maltego” course being offered at the SAS 2017 and talks about the benefits for data mining by pen testers, malware analysts and law enforcement agencies...

White House Approves New Rules for Sharing of Raw Intelligence Data

President Obama last week approved a change in the way the National Security Agency shares raw signals intelligence data with the rest of the U.S. intelligence community, a shift that privacy experts worry will erode the civil liberties of Americans. An unclassified document released by the Offic...

Court Documents Reveal How Feds Spied On Connected Cars For 15 Years

It's not always necessary to break into your computer or smartphone to spy on you. Today all are day-to-day devices are becoming more connected to networks than ever to add convenience and ease to daily activities. But here's what we forget: These connected devices can be turned against us becaus...

Lawmakers Reintroduce Popular Email Privacy Act

A group of bipartisan lawmakers reintroduced the Email Privacy Act, a bill that would require law enforcement to get a warrant before searching email, Facebook messages and files stored on cloud services no matter how old the archives. The Email Privacy Act is an attempt to reform the decade-old...

Congressional Group Says Encryption Backdoors Are a Bad Idea

The Congressional Encryption Working Group released its year-end report that concluded that encryption backdoors do more harm than good. The 12-page report said that “any measure that weakens encryption works against the national interest.” The bipartisan congressional panel recommended that the...

F5 Networks BIG-IP : libxml2 vulnerability (K14338030)

The xmlNextChar function in libxml2 before 2.9.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service heap-based buffer over-read via a crafted XML document. CVE-2016-1762 File data f5bigipSOL14338030.nasl...

Yahoo Admits 1 Billion Accounts Compromised in Newly Discovered Data Breach

In what believe to be the largest data breach in history, Yahoo is reporting a massive data breach that disclosed personal details associated with more than 1 Billion user accounts in August 2013. …And it's separate from the one disclosed by Yahoo! in September, in which hackers compromised as ma...

Mirai Giving DDoS-as-a-Service Industry a Boost

The availability of the Mirai malware source code online isn’t a guarantee that just anyone can quickly convert it into a money-making IoT-based DDoS botnet. Researchers at Digital Shadows have been combing dark web sites such as the Hackforums where black hat Anna-Senpai dropped the Mirai code i...

Law Enforcement Targets Users of DDoS-For-Hire Services

Law enforcement authorities from more than a dozen countries last week carried out a series of operations designed to crack down on DDoS-for-hire services. Thirty four individuals who are alleged to have purchased stressers and booter services were arrested as part of the operation. Stressers and...

Europol arrests 34 Teenagers for using DDoS Attack Tools

Europol has announced that the law enforcement agencies from 13 countries around the globe have arrested 34 users of Netspoof DDoS attack tool and interviewed and warned 101 suspects in a global crackdown. According to the report published on the official website of Europol, law enforcement...

CVE-2016-6624

An issue was discovered in phpMyAdmin involving improper enforcement of the IP-based authentication rules. When phpMyAdmin is used with IPv6 in a proxy server environment, and the proxy server is in the allowed range but the attacking computer is not allowed, this vulnerability can allow the...

FBI Hacked into 8,000 Computers in 120 Countries Using A Single Warrant

The FBI hacked into more than 8,000 computers in 120 different countries with just a single warrant during an investigation into a dark web child pornography website, according to a newly published court filings. This FBI's mass hacking campaign is related to the high-profile child pornography...

NTP.org ntpd contains multiple denial of service vulnerabilities

Overview NTP.org ntpd versions ntp-4.2.7p385 up to but not including ntp-4.2.8p9 and ntp-4.3.0 up to but not including ntp-4.3.94 contain multiple denial of service vulnerabilities. Description NTP.org's ntpd, versions ntp-4.2.7p385 up to but not including ntp-4.2.8p9 and ntp-4.3.0 up to but not...

iPhone Secretly Sends Your Call History to Apple Even If iCloud Backups are Turned Off

In the fight against encryption, Apple has positioned itself as a staunch defender of its user privacy by refusing the federal officials to provide encryption backdoors into its products, as well as implementing better encryption for its products. However, a new report from a security firm sugges...

topix.com XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: http://www.topix.com/ext/law-enforcement?school="%3E%0A%3Cimg src="x"onerror=alertOPENBUGBOUNTY " Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| No Latest check for patch:| 30.07.2017 Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:| Publicly disclosed Alexa Rank| 797 VIP website...

Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services Information Disclosure Vulnerability

An information disclosure vulnerability exists in Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services when it improperly enforces permissions. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability if the attacker's credentials allow access to an affected SQL server database. An attacker who successfully exploited the...

Tesco Bank Stops Online Transactions

Tesco Bank, a U.K. retail bank, today put a halt to online transactions from current accounts after some customers reported over the weekend money missing from their accounts. The bank, which has more than seven million customers, told the BBC that 40,000 accounts were accessed and half of which...

Google Handles Record Number of Government Requests for Data

Google fielded a record number of government requests for user data during the first half of 2016, according to its updated Transparency Report. It was also able to report that it received at least one National Security Letter during the six months between July and December 2015. “Pursuant to the...