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:|...

National Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Careers in Cybersecurity

October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, an annual campaign to raise awareness about cybersecurity. The month’s themes educate students and professionals about cybersecurity attack methods, best practices, and preventive measures and are geared toward informing the next generation of...

icgioiosa.gov.it XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-683939 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| icgioiosa.gov.it 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:| hidden...

A Good Password Law, Hardware Hacks, and More Security News This Week

Hardware hacks, the government gets two-factor, and more security news this week...

Chinese Spying Chips Found Hidden On Servers Used By US Companies

A media report today revealed details of a significant supply chain attack which appears to be one of the largest corporate espionage and hardware hacking programs from a nation-state. According to a lengthy report published today by Bloomberg, a tiny surveillance chip, not much bigger than a gra...

The Presidential Text Alert Has a Long, Strange History

While the presidential text that hits your phone Wednesday will be the first of its kind, it's part of a decades-long lineage of official government Doomsday alerts...

California, U.S. Government Battle Over Net Neutrality State Law

The U.S. government and the state of California are butting heads over a newly-passed state law that enforces net neutrality regulations on internet service providers ISPs. And experts say that the outcome of the feud between federal and state law has long-standing implications for the future of...

Cybersecurity Researchers Spotted First-Ever UEFI Rootkit in the Wild

Cybersecurity researchers at ESET have unveiled what they claim to be the first-ever UEFI rootkit being used in the wild, allowing hackers to implant persistent malware on the targeted computers that could survive a complete hard-drive wipe. Dubbed LoJax , the UEFI rootkit is part of a malware...

Leading in Privacy

On September 24, I was pleased to represent Coalfire and private-sector expertise by attending the kickoff for the Privacy Framework at the Brookings Institute in Washington, D.C. The event was attended by notable leaders in the industry and government: The Departments of Transportation and...

bangladesh.gov.bd XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-678161 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| bangladesh.gov.bd Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

Click It Up: Targeting Local Government Payment Portals

FireEye has been tracking a campaign this year targeting web payment portals that involves on-premise installations of Click2Gov. Click2Gov is a web-based, interactive self-service bill-pay software solution developed by Superion. It includes various modules that allow users to pay bills associat...

vpn.pmc.sc.gov.br XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-677645 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| vpn.pmc.sc.gov.br Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

Why Big Tech and the Government Need to Work Together

Opinion: Former Secretary of Defense Ash Carter argues for cooperation between tech workers and the DoD...

OilRig APT Continues Its Ongoing Malware Evolution

OilRig, an APT group believed to have ties to Iran, has been spotted in yet another campaign in the Middle East – this time targeting victims within an undisclosed government using an evolved variant of the BondUpdater trojan. The group, which is also called Cobalt Gypsy, Crambus, Helix Kitten or...

Security Risks of Government Hacking

Some of us -- myself included -- have proposed lawful government hacking as an alternative to backdoors. A new report from the Center of Internet and Society looks at the security risks of allowing government hacking. They include: Disincentive for vulnerability disclosure Cultivation of a market...

morecambe.gov.uk Improper Access Control vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-675886 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| morecambe.gov.uk Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| IAC Improper Access Control / CWE-284 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.5...