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...

The vulnerability of Blink rendering module in Google Chrome browsers allows attackers to trigger false browser messages.

The vulnerability of Google Chrome’s Blink engine exists due to insufficient validation of input data. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to trigger false browser messages using a specially created HTML page...

Umeng Push SDK Export Service Component Code Execution Vulnerability

Umeng Push SDK is a set of software development kits for developing message push programs from China AUO Umeng. Export Service component is one of the export components. A security vulnerability exists in the Export Service component in Umeng Push SDK version 3.1.X prior to 3.1.3. An attacker can...

How Reputation Intelligence Improves Application Security

Reputation intelligence is information about cyber entities known for specific activity, whether malicious or benign, which can be fed to and actioned on by a web application firewall WAF. It provides an additional application security layer by effectively identifying and blocking threats from...

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 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 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...

DHS Alert on Dragonfly APT Contains IOCs, Rules Likely to Trigger False Positives

A joint Technical Alert, TA17–293A, released over the weekend by the FBI and Department of Homeland Security describing the activities of a Russian APT may contain signatures and rules likely to trigger false positives in some security systems. The alert, made available Saturday morning, dissects...

cabinetgiant.com XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: http://www.cabinetgiant.com/kitchencabinets/catalogsearch/result/?q=%3C%2Fscript%3E%22%3E%3Cscript%3Eprompt%22OPENBUGBOUNTY%22%3C%2Fscript%3E Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| No Latest check for patch:| 19.01.2018 Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:| Public...

UPDATE: OWASP Dependency-Check 3.0.0

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 3.0.0! This release comes with Java 9...

Canadian Man Gets 9 Months Detention for Serial Swattings, Bomb Threats

A 19-year-old Canadian man was found guilty of making almost three dozen fraudulent calls to emergency services across North America in 2013 and 2014. The false alarms, two of which targeted this author -- involved phoning in phony bomb threats and multiple attempts at "swatting" -- a dangerous...

7 Predictions for Ransomware’s Evolution

During the past six months, the Carbon Black Threat Analysis Unit TAU analyzed more than 1,000 ransomware samples, categorizing them into 150 families, and found attackers are looking to make quick, easy money with unsophisticated malware, combined with sophisticated delivery methods. Our samplin...

httpd: ap_some_auth_required() does not properly indicate authenticated request in 2.4

It was discovered that in httpd 2.4, the internal API function apsomeauthrequired could incorrectly indicate that a request was authenticated even when no authentication was used. An httpd module using this API function could consequently allow access that should have been denied...

DGA-Detection - DGA Domain Detection using Bigram Frequency Analysis

More and more malware is being created with advanced blocking circumvention techniques. One of the most prevalent techniques being used is the use of Domain Generation Algorithms which periodically generates a set of Domains to contact a C&C server. The majority of these DGA domains generate rand...

A week in security (September 4 – September 10)

Last week, we looked into expired domain names being used for malvertising, delved into dubious Facebook apps, and checked out Chinese seminar scams. We also explained the whys and wherefores of false positives, explained what Google is doing with HTTPs, warned you away from a fake DHS email, and...

A Hardware Privacy Monitor for iPhones

Andrew "bunnie" Huang and Edward Snowden have designed a hardware device that attaches to an iPhone and monitors it for malicious surveillance activities, even in instances where the phone's operating system has been compromised. They call it an Introspection Engine, and their use model is a...

Explained: False positives

What are false positives? False positive, which is sometimes written as f/p, is an expression commonly used in cybersecurity to denote that a file or setting has been flagged as malicious when it’s not. In statistics, false positives are called Type I errors, because they check for a particular...

Easy Video to iPod/MP4/PSP/3GP Converter 1.5.20 - Local Buffer Overflow (SEH)

!/usr/bin/python Exploit Title: Easy Video to iPod/MP4/PSP/3GP Converter 1.5.20 - 'Enter User Name' Field Buffer Overflow SEH Date: 24-08-2017 Exploit Author: Anurag Srivastava Website: www.pyramidcyber.com Vulnerable Software: Easy Video to iPod/MP4/PSP/3GP Converter Vendor Homepage:...

Facebook Awards $100K to Researchers for Credential Spearphishing Detection Method

A group of researchers recently identified a real-time way to detect credential spearphishing attacks in enterprise settings. The discovery net the researchers $100,000 last week from Facebook, which awards money as part of its annual Internet Defense Prize partnership with USENIX Association. Th...