Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency

On November 16, 2018, the President signed into law the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Act of 2018. This Act elevates the mission of the former Department of Homeland Security DHS National Protection and Programs Directorate NPPD and establishes the Cybersecurity and...

Hidden Cameras in Streetlights

Both the US Drug Enforcement Administration DEA and Immigration and Customs Enforcement ICE are hiding surveillance cameras in streetlights. According to government procurement data, the DEA has paid a Houston, Texas company called Cowboy Streetlight Concealments LLC roughly $22,000 since June 20...

IT threat evolution Q3 2018

Targeted attacks and malware campaigns Lazarus targets cryptocurrency exchange Lazarus is a well-established threat actor that has conducted cyber-espionage and cybersabotage campaigns since at least 2009. In recent years, the group has launched campaigns against financial organizations around th...

Sue Gordon: Silicon Valley Should Work With the Government

In an expansive on-the-record interview with WIRED, the principal deputy director of national intelligence made her pitch for public-private partnerships...

new.enfield.gov.uk Improper Access Control vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-695918 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| new.enfield.gov.uk Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| hidden until disclosure Vulnerability Type:| IAC Improper Access Control / CWE-284 CVSSv3 Score:|...

Program Looks to Tap Military Vets for Cyber-Jobs

Cisco Talos, NetApp and Maryland’s state government announced an initiative to help military veterans in that state transition into civilian positions in cybersecurity. The hope is that it will address twin goals: To help the hundreds of thousands of discharged veterans flowing into the workplace...

hengqin.gov.cn Open Redirect vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-695578 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| hengqin.gov.cn Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| hidden until disclosure Vulnerability Type:| Open Redirect / CWE-601 CVSSv3 Score:| hidden until...

Employee infects US govt network with malware after visiting 9,000 porn sites

By Uzair Amir Due to the carelessness of an employee, who apparently was a porn fan, the network of the satellite imaging facility, the U.S. Geological Survey USGS at the EROS Center, South Dakota got infected with malware. An audit carried out by the U.S. Department of the Interior’s inspector...

Cell Phone Security and Heads of State

Earlier this week, the New York Times reported that the Russians and the Chinese were eavesdropping on President Donald Trump's personal cell phone and using the information gleaned to better influence his behavior. This should surprise no one. Security experts have been talking about the potenti...

Pentagon Expands Bug-Bounty Program to Include Physical Systems

The Department of Defense is expanding its “Hack the Pentagon” bug-bounty program to include hardware assets, tapping the Synack, HackerOne and Bugcrowd platforms to attract more white hats to the effort. The news comes two weeks after the Government Accountability Office GAO released a report...

City Pays $2K in Ransomware, Stirs ‘Never Pay’ Debate

The city of West Haven, Conn. made the hard choice to pay cyberattackers a $2,000 ransom after being hit with malware that ground their operations to a halt. West Haven said that its City Hall offices were the victim of a ransomware attack, which the U.S. Department of Homeland Security determine...

TRITON Attribution: Russian Government-Owned Lab Most Likely Built Custom Intrusion Tools for TRITON Attackers

Overview In a previous blog post we detailed the TRITON intrusion that impacted industrial control systems ICS at a critical infrastructure facility. We now track this activity set as TEMP.Veles. In this blog post we provide additional information linking TEMP.Veles and their activity surrounding...

Personal data of 75,000 individuals exposed after HealthCare.gov system hack

By Waqas Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services CMS experienced a data breach leading to exposure of highly sensitive personal data of nearly 75,000 people. The CMS is a government system linked with healthCare.gov which assists insurance agents and brokers in helping people register for its...

Safeguarding the Nation’s Critical Infrastructure

In May of 1998, President Clinton issued Presidential Decision Directive 63: Protecting America’s Critical Infrastructures. This Directive proposed steps to enact the recommendations of the President’s Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection, published in October 1997. Twenty years on, h...

Government Perspective on Supply Chain Security

This is an interesting interview with a former NSA employee about supply chain security. I consider this to be an insurmountable problem right now...

S-CMS Government Website Building System SQL Injection Vulnerability in Frontend

S-CMS government station building system is Zibo Shining Network Technology Co., Ltd. developed a specialized enterprise to provide solutions for station building products. There is a SQL injection vulnerability in the frontend of the S-CMS government website builder system. Attackers can use the...

Bloomberg blunder highlights supply chain risks

Ooh boy! Talk about a back-and-forth, he said, she said story! No, we’re not talking about that Supreme Court nomination. Rather, we’re talking about Supermicro. Supermicro manufacturers the type of computer hardware that is used by technology behemoths like Amazon and Apple, as well as governmen...

Security Vulnerabilities in US Weapons Systems

The US Government Accounting Office just published a new report: "Weapons Systems Cyber Security: DOD Just Beginning to Grapple with Scale of Vulnerabilities" summary here. The upshot won't be a surprise to any of my regular readers: they're vulnerable. From the summary: Automation and connectivi...

CVE-2018-8497

creationtimestamp| type| source ---|---|--- 2018-10-10 04:00:00+00:00| seen| https://www.govcert.gov.hk/en/alertsdetail.php?id=331...

sanfrancisco.gov.ar XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-684084 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| sanfrancisco.gov.ar Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| hidden until disclosure Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:|...