Introduction to Bluetooth Low Energy

Bluetooth Low Energy BLE is used by almost everyone in our everyday lives, from wireless headphones, to car stereos, computer keyboards and mice, and other everyday items. Even though this standard is popular there seems a general lack of understanding of how it works and what certain terms mean...

The vulnerability of the Microsoft Outlook client and the Microsoft Office and Office 365 ProPlus software packages relates to a security feature that allows an attacker to bypass existing security restrictions. This feature enables the attacker to redirect users to malicious URIs and execute malicious code in conjunction with other vulnerabilities.

The vulnerability of the Microsoft Outlook client and the Microsoft Office and Office 365 ProPlus software packages is related to the bypassing of security features. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to circumvent existing security restrictions, redirect users to malicious...

Cumulative Update 40 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2017 (Build 30192)

Cumulative Update 40 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2017 Build 30192 This article applies to Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2017 for all countries and all language locales.A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Microsoft Dynamics NAV. A user who has the permission to access certain features that...

Cumulative Update 17 for Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central October'18 on-premises (Application Build 41201, Platform Build 41152)

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Cumulative Update 27 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2018 (Build 41203)

Cumulative Update 27 for Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2018 Build 41203 This article applies to Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2018 for all countries and all language locales.A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Microsoft Dynamics NAV. A user who has the permission to access certain features that...

WiFi Passview v2.0 - An Open Source Batch Script Based WiFi Passview For Windows!

WiFi Passview is an open source batch script based program that can recover your WiFi Password easily in seconds. This is for Windows OS only. Basically, this scripted program has the same function as other passview softwares such as webpassview and mailpassview. Disclaimer : WiFi Passview is NOT...

Patrick Wardle: Apple Devices Hit With Recycled macOS Malware

SAN FRANCISCO – Advanced persistent threat APT groups are hitting Apple devices with malware that has been reverse engineered and redeployed for malicious acts. This technique is complicating attribution efforts, Patrick Wardle, security researcher with Jamf, said this week during RSA Conference...

Improper Access Control Vulnerability in RICOH printers

Overview Multiple RICOH printers contain Improper Access Control CWE-284. RICOH COMPANY, LTD. reported this vulnerability to IPA to notify users of its solution through JVN. JPCERT/CC and RICOH COMPANY, LTD. coordinated under the Information Security Early Warning Partnership. Impact A user who c...

Liffy - Local File Inclusion Exploitation Tool

LFI Exploitation tool A little python tool to perform Local file inclusion. Liffy v2.0 is the improved version of liffy which was originally created by rotlogix/liffy. The latter is no longer available and the former hasn't seen any development for a long time. Main feature data:// for code...

Introduction and Application of Model Hacking

ARCHIVED STORY Introduction and Application of Model Hacking By Steve Povolny · Febraury 19, 2020 Catherine Huang, Ph.D., and Shivangee Trivedi contributed to this blog. The term “Adversarial Machine Learning” AML is a mouthful! The term describes a research field regarding the study and design o...

Introduction and Application of Model Hacking

ARCHIVED STORY Introduction and Application of Model Hacking By Steve Povolny · Febraury 19, 2020 Catherine Huang, Ph.D., and Shivangee Trivedi contributed to this blog. The term “Adversarial Machine Learning” AML is a mouthful! The term describes a research field regarding the study and design o...

Improper access control

Improper access control vulnerability in Configuration Tool in McAfee Mcafee Endpoint Security ENS Prior to 10.6.1 February 2020 Update allows local users to disable security features via unauthorised use of the configuration tool from older versions of ENS...

CVE-2020-7251

The CVE-2020-7251 issue affects McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows specifically its Configuration Tool. The root cause is improper access control in the Configuration Tool prior to ENS 10.6.1 (February 2020 Update), enabling local users to disable security features via unauthorized use of...

Signal Is Finally Bringing Its Secure Messaging to the Masses

The encryption app is putting a $50 million infusion from WhatsApp cofounder Brian Acton to good use, building out features to help it go mainstream...

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : MariaDB vulnerability (USN-4250-2)

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4250-2 advisory. It was discovered that an unspecified vulnerability existed in the C API component of MariaDB. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service for MariaDB...

USN-4250-2 mariadb-10.1, mariadb-10.3 vulnerability

It was discovered that an unspecified vulnerability existed in the C API component of MariaDB. An attacker could use this to cause a denial of service for MariaDB clients. MariaDB has been updated to 10.3.22 in Ubuntu 19.10 and 10.1.44 in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. In addition to security fixes, the updat...

Jaeles v0.4 - The Swiss Army Knife For Automated Web Application Testing

Jaeles is a powerful, flexible and easily extensible framework written in Go for building your own Web Application Scanner. Installation Download precompiled version here. If you have a Go environment, make sure you have Go = 1.13 with Go Modules enable and run the following command. GO111MODULE=...

Hackers Exploited Twitter Bug to Find Linked Phone Numbers of Users

Twitter today issued a warning revealing that attackers abused a legitimate functionality on its platform to unauthorizedly determine phone numbers associated with millions of its users' accounts. According to Twitter, the vulnerability resided in one of the APIs that has been designed to make it...

Pen Testing Ships. A year in review

Partially driven by the upcoming inclusion of Cyber Security by the IMO International Maritime Organisation, 2019 was a really busy year for maritime security testing at PTP. What can we all learn from a year of evaluating the security of ships? We’ve been involved in all sorts of ship testing,...

USN-4250-1 mysql-5.7, mysql-8.0 vulnerabilities

Multiple security issues were discovered in MySQL and this update includes new upstream MySQL versions to fix these issues. MySQL has been updated to 8.0.19 in Ubuntu 19.10. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS have been updated to MySQL 5.7.29. In addition to security fixes, the updated package...