Schiphol hijack false alarm. An insiders view of what happened

I had the misfortune of being at Schiphol last night as this unfolded: All ended well, delayed by about an hour. Had the incident been real, it could have been much worse. Here’s what the pilot had to say about it thanks to @asantosb: Our flight was at D16, the incident flight was directly the...

A View into Top Level Domain (TLD) Abuse

Data science and security research teams in the carrier organization at Akamai process massive volumes of DNS queries every day to detect and track malicious activity. The data is live-streamed from DNS resolvers deployed in diverse service provider networks in every region of the world. Provider...

A Brief History of Russian Hackers' Evolving False Flags

Most hackers know how to cover their tracks. But Russia’s elite groups are working at a whole other level...

CVE-2019-14859

A flaw was found in all python-ecdsa versions before 0.13.3, where it did not correctly verify whether signatures used DER encoding. Without this verification, a malformed signature could be accepted, making the signature malleable. Without proper verification, an attacker could use a malleable...

CVE-2019-14859

A flaw was found in python-ecdsa, where it did not correctly verify whether signatures used DER encoding. Without this verification, a malformed signature could be accepted, making the signature malleable. Without proper verification, an attacker could use a malleable signature to create false...

ALPINE-CVE-2019-16275

hostapd before 2.10 and wpasupplicant before 2.10 allow an incorrect indication of disconnection in certain situations because source address validation is mishandled. This is a denial of service that should have been prevented by PMF aka management frame protection. The attacker must send a...

Apple Claims Google is Spreading FUD Over Patched iPhone Bugs

Apple has called out Google for promoting a “false impression” about iOS vulnerabilities the iPhone maker said it fixed in February. It claims Google is unnecessarily panicking Apple customers. On Aug. 29, Ian Beer of Google’s Project Zero published a blog post that took a “very deep dive” into 1...

DNS Protection: A "Must" in Security Solutions for any Company

Domain name system DNS services are often a point of vulnerability for businesses, so DNS security has become a growing concern for many of them. DNS is a critical element for all companies because it turns domain names into internet protocol IP addresses. Cyber criminals have been digging into D...

OpenSSH < 3.7.1 Multiple Vulnerabilities

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CVE-2019-15053: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

The "HTML Include and replace macro" plugin before 1.5.0 for Confluence Server allows a bypass of the includeScripts=false XSS protection mechanism via vectors involving an IFRAME element...

Let Experts Do Their Job – Managed WAF by Indusface

WAF Web Application Firewall has been the first line of defence when it comes to application security for a while now. Many organizations have adopted WAF in one form or the other and most cases, compliance has been the driver for adoption. But unfortunately, when it comes to the efficacy of WAF ...

DEF CON 2019: MacOS Gets a Malware Beatdown in Attack Demo

LAS VEGAS – On Friday, Mac security researcher Patrick Wardle showed how an attacker can repurpose someone else’s Mac malware, create false attribution flags and sidestep Mac anti-malware defenses with ease. The attack scenarios were his own and meant to serve as cautionary examples and reasons w...

DDoS attacks in Q2 2019

News overview The second quarter of 2019 turned out to be richer than the first in terms of high-profile DDoS attacks. True, most of the campaigns that attracted media attention appeared to be politically, rather than commercially, motivated — and that despite the fact that some security experts...

For $8.6M, Cisco Settles Suit Over Bug-Riddled Video Surveillance Software

Cisco Systems has agreed to pay $8.6 million to settle a lawsuit that alleged it sold video security software with known security vulnerabilities to U.S. federal and state governments. The litigation, originally brought in 2011, was filed under the False Claims Act, claiming that the software...

Cisco 'Knowingly' Sold Hackable Video Surveillance System to U.S. Government

Cisco Systems has agreed to pay $8.6 million to settle a lawsuit that accused the company of knowingly selling video surveillance system containing severe security vulnerabilities to the U.S. federal and state government agencies. It's believed to be the first payout on a 'False Claims Act ' case...

Cisco 'Knowingly' Sold Hackable Video Surveillance System to U.S. Government

Cisco Systems has agreed to pay $8.6 million to settle a lawsuit that accused the company of knowingly selling video surveillance system containing severe security vulnerabilities to the U.S. federal and state government agencies. It's believed to be the first payout on a 'False Claims Act' case...

DHS Warning: Small Aircraft are Ripe for Hacking

The Department of Homeland Security issued an alert Tuesday warning that small aircraft are vulnerable to hackers that can gain physical access to a plane. It warned that a hacker can easily manipulate aircraft telemetry data, which can result in loss of control of the airplane. The bulletin was...

CVE-2019-1010316

pyxtrlock 0.3 and earlier is affected by: Incorrect Access Control. The impact is: False locking impression when run in a non-X11 session. The fixed version is: 0.4...

CVE-2019-1010316

CVE-2019-1010316 affects pyxtrlock versions ≤ 0.3 and earlier. The issue is an Incorrect Access Control that yields a false locking impression when run in a non-X11 session. The fix is in version 0.4 . No exploitation details are provided in the connected documents.

CVE-2019-1010316: Improper Access Control

pyxtrlock 0.3 and earlier is affected by: Incorrect Access Control. The impact is: False locking impression when run in a non-X11 session. The fixed version is: 0.4...