Free Press Advocates Decry Cybercrime Charges Against Glenn Greenwald

Brazil has accused journalist Glenn Greenwald of aiding a hacking ring, with seemingly scant evidence...

PayPal: Token leak in security challenge flow allows retrieving victim's PayPal email and plain text password

A bug was identified whereby sensitive, unique tokens were being leaked in a JS file used by the recaptcha implementation. In certain cases, a user must solve a CAPTCHA challenge after authenticating. When the security challenge is completed, the authentication request is replayed to log in. The...

CVE-2019-1322

creationtimestamp| type| source ---|---|--- 2019-11-14 15:02:06+00:00| seen| https://t.me/canyoupwnme/6135 2019-11-15 19:29:39+00:00| published-proof-of-concept| https://t.me/canyoupwnme/6143 2019-11-16 12:53:34+00:00| published-proof-of-concept| https://t.me/DC8044Info/473 2019-12-18...

GandCrab Operators Resurface with REvil Malware

The malware that hit 22 Texas municipalities and various dentist offices around the country recently is likely the work of the crew behind the GandCrab ransomware – indicating that the group didn’t really retire after all. In late May, the GandCrab operators said they decided to ride off into the...

Kirjuri - Web Application For Managing Cases And Physical Forensic Evidence Items

Kirjuri is a simple php/mysql web application for managing physical forensic evidence items. It is intended to be used as a workflow tool from receiving, booking, note-taking and possibly reporting findings. It simplifies and helps in case management when dealing with a large or small! number of...

Forced Password Reset? Check Your Assumptions

Almost weekly now I hear from an indignant reader who suspects a data breach at a Web site they frequent that has just asked the reader to reset their password. Further investigation almost invariably reveals that the password reset demand was not the result of a breach but rather the site's...

How Privacy Laws Hurt Defendants

Rebecca Wexler has an interesting op-ed about an inadvertent harm that privacy laws can cause: while law enforcement can often access third-party data to aid in prosecution, the accused don't have the same level of access to aid in their defense: The proposed privacy laws would make this situatio...

Council of EU Law Enforcement Protocol improves cross-border cooperation

Last March, the Council of the European Union announced the new EU Law Enforcement Emergency Response Protocol to address the growing problem of planning and coordinating between governments, agencies, and companies when cyberattacks occur across international boundaries. Remember well-known...

The null choice. A social engineering example in the wild

With social engineering there are lots of ways to get what you want, depending on the circumstance of course. The null choice is one that works really well when your desired outcome isn't obvious to the people you're trying to dupe. There are ways and means of overcoming a null choice scenario...

Memory corruption

Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 65, Firefox ESR 60.5, and Thunderbird 60.5. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort that some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code. This...

G7 Comes Out in Favor of Encryption Backdoors

From a G7 meeting of interior ministers in Paris this month, an "outcome document": Encourage Internet companies to establish lawful access solutions for their products and services, including data that is encrypted, for law enforcement and competent authorities to access digital evidence, when i...

Memory corruption

Mozilla developers and community members reported memory safety bugs present in Firefox 63. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort that some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox 64...

Enabling Clients to Cope with ASV Scans

Gathering evidence, applying patches, and configuring your systems in preparation for submitting your vulnerability disputes can be a nerve-wracking and daunting task. To better enhance your understanding of the Approved Scanning Vendor ASV process, Ive outlined some coping mechanisms and tools t...

Ryuk Ransomware Attack: Rush to Attribution Misses the Point

ARCHIVED STORY Ryuk Ransomware Attack: Rush to Attribution Misses the Point By John Fokker · January 09, 2019 Senior analyst Ryan Sherstobitoff contributed to this report. During the past week, an outbreak of Ryuk ransomware that impeded newspaper printing services in the United States has garner...

Become a Certified Hacker With This Hands-On Training Course

It seems as though not a day goes by without news spreading over another major cyber attack. Hackers are becoming increasingly efficient at targeting everything from small startups to Fortune 500 companies and even entire government agencies, and as the world moves further away from traditional...

CVE-2018-18955

creationtimestamp| type| source ---|---|--- 2018-11-16 00:00:00+00:00| exploited| https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45886 2018-11-20 07:03:47+00:00| published-proof-of-concept| https://t.me/antichat/2692 2018-11-27 22:33:29+00:00| seen|...

More on the Supermicro Spying Story

I've blogged twice about the Bloomberg story that China bugged Supermicro networking equipment destined to the US. We still don't know if the story is true, although I am increasingly skeptical because of the lack of corroborating evidence to emerge. We don't know anything more, but this is the...

Memory corruption

Memory safety bugs present in Firefox 61 and Firefox ESR 60.1. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption and we presume that with enough effort that some of these could be exploited to run arbitrary code. This vulnerability affects Firefox 62, Firefox ESR 60.2, and Thunderbird 60.2....

CVE-2018-17538

Axon formerly TASER International Evidence Sync 3.15.89 is vulnerable to process injection. NOTE: the vendor's position is that this CVE is not associated with information that supports any finding of any type of vulnerability...

CVE-2018-17538

Axon formerly TASER International Evidence Sync 3.15.89 is vulnerable to process injection. NOTE: the vendor's position is that this CVE is not associated with information that supports any finding of any type of vulnerability...