Yet Another Biometric: Ear Shape

This acoustic technology identifies individuals by their ear shapes. No information about either false positives or false negatives...

VX Search 10.6.18 Local Buffer Overflow

!/usr/bin/python Title: VX Search 10.6.18 Local Buffer Overflow Author: Kevin McGuigan Twitter: @h3xagram Author Website: https://www.7elements.co.uk Vendor Website: http://www.vxsearch.com Version: 10.6.18 Date: 18/04/2018 Tested on: Windows 7 32-bit Vendor did not respond to advisory. Copy the...

Introducing Web Security Analytics

Every security team knows that the success of any security product relies heavily on the ability to maintain an optimal security configuration. Any misconfiguration can result in malicious or undesired traffic reaching the application, or worse - legitimate traffic being blocked. In addition, it...

ATI Systems Emergency Mass Notification Systems False Alert Vulnerability

ATI Systems designs, builds and installs mass notification systems for the community, campus, industrial and military markets.Emergency Mass Notification Systems is an emergency mass notification system. ATI Systems Emergency Mass Notification Systems Unauthorized Operation Vulnerability An...

ATI Systems Emergency Mass Notification Systems False Alert Vulnerability (CNVD-2018-07875)

ATI Systems designs, builds and installs mass notification systems for the community, campus, industrial and military markets.Emergency Mass Notification Systems is an emergency mass notification system. An unauthorized operation vulnerability exists in ATI Systems Emergency Mass Notification...

Yokogawa CENTUM and Exaopc

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 6.5 Vendor : Yokogawa Equipment : CENTUM series and Exaopc Vulnerability : Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow a local attacker to generate false system or process alarms, or block...

Flaw in Emergency Alert Systems Could Allow Hackers to Trigger False Alarms

A serious vulnerability has been exposed in "emergency alert systems" that could be exploited remotely via radio frequencies to activate all the sirens, allowing hackers to trigger false alarms. The emergency alert sirens are used worldwide to alert citizens about natural disasters, man-made...

ATI Systems Emergency Mass Notification Systems

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 5.3 ATTENTION : Exploitable remotely. Vendor : Acoustic Technology, Inc. ATI Systems Equipment : ATI Emergency Mass Notification Systems Vulnerabilities : Improper Authentication, Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data. 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of...

Olympic Destroyer: A False Flag Confusion Bomb

CANCUN, Mexico – A postmortem of the Olympic Destroyer malware used in the PyeongChang Olympics attack reveals a deliberate attempt by adversaries to plant a false flags when it comes to attribution, according to researchers. Days after the crippling attack on the backend networks tied to the...

tomcat: Remote Code Execution via JSP Upload

A vulnerability was discovered in Tomcat where if a servlet context was configured with readonly=false and HTTP PUT requests were allowed, an attacker could upload a JSP file to that context and achieve code execution...

tomcat: Remote Code Execution bypass for CVE-2017-12615

A vulnerability was discovered in Tomcat where if a servlet context was configured with readonly=false and HTTP PUT requests were allowed, an attacker could upload a JSP file to that context and achieve code execution...

tomcat: Remote Code Execution bypass for CVE-2017-12615

A vulnerability was discovered in Tomcat where if a servlet context was configured with readonly=false and HTTP PUT requests were allowed, an attacker could upload a JSP file to that context and achieve code execution...

Explained: SQL injection

Even though SQL injection is a type of attack that is relatively easy to prevent, it is one of the most common web hacking techniques. So, what’s it all about? The basics SQL is short for Structured Query Language and usually pronounced as “sequel.” SQL is a standard language used to query and...

Russia hacked Winter Olympics & framed N.Korea in false-flag attack: US

By Carolina On February 9th, 2017, during the opening ceremony of the PyeongChang 2018 This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Russia hacked Winter Olympics & framed N.Korea in false-flag attack: US...

Beers with Talos EP23 - Eternal Fauxmance: Attribution Easter Eggs

Beers with Talos BWT Podcast Episode 23 is now available. Download this episode and subscribe to Beers with Talos: If iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing: www.talosintelligence.com/podcast EP23 Show Notes: Recorded 2/16/18 - This week, Mitch learns about starting a show without Matt with no...

tomcat: Remote Code Execution bypass for CVE-2017-12615

A vulnerability was discovered in Tomcat where if a servlet context was configured with readonly=false and HTTP PUT requests were allowed, an attacker could upload a JSP file to that context and achieve code execution...

Stolen security logos used to falsely endorse PUPs

To gain the trust of users, many websites and companies feature the logos of reputable firms who endorse their products. Unfortunately, some unseemly companies do the same, using logos of companies who have not, in fact, endorsed their product in order to trick people into thinking that what they...

Algorithms, Alerts, and Akamai Threat Intelligence

Let me start by posing a question: If in one week security solution A produces 120 alerts and security solution B produces 45 alerts, which solution is providing you with more effective protection? The answer is: It depends. On the face of it, solution A appears to be more effective because it's...

Lies and More Lies

Following the release of the Spectre and Meltdown CPU attacks, the security community wondered if other researchers would find related speculative attack problems. When the following appeared, we were concerned: "Skyfall and Solace More vulnerabilities in modern computers. Following the recent...

UPDATE: OWASP Dependency-Check 3.1.0

PenTestIT RSS Feed My first post about this open source OWASP project was about an older version. This post discusses the changes made to the open source software composition analysis utility in the latest release yesterday. This is the OWASP Dependency-Check 3.1.0! This release comes with...