Pentagon Subcontractor Inadvertently Leaks 11 Gigs of Sensitive Data

A slew of sensitive data pertaining to psychologists, doctors and other healthcare professionals involved with an arm of the U.S. Department of Defense was recently left unsecured online. Chris Vickery, a security researcher with MacKeeper who has stumbled across unsecured internal databases...

FBI-DHS Report Links Fancy Bear Gang to Election Hacks

In a report released Thursday the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the US Department of Homeland Security implicated Russian hacking group Fancy Bear in attacks against several election-related targets. According to the Joint Analysis Report, the hacking group Fancy Bear, believed to have ties...

GRIZZLY STEPPE - Russian Malicious Cyber Activity

The Department of Homeland Security DHS has released a Joint Analysis Report JAR that details Russian malicious cyber activity, designated as GRIZZLY STEPPE. This activity by Russian civilian and military intelligence services RIS is part of an ongoing campaign of cyber-enabled operations directe...

Four New Normals for 2017

Let’s not talk about cybersecurity predictions for 2017. Let’s talk instead about new normals, things that have ceased to be novel because, well, they happen all the time and everywhere. Let’s concede that things such as greedy ransomware, imposing IOT botnets, high-profile bug bounties and...

Russia Wants Apple to Unlock iPhone belonging to Killer of Russian Ambassador

You might have also seen a viral video of the assassination of the Russian ambassador to Turkey that quickly spread through the Internet worldwide. Russian Ambassador Andrei Karlov was shot dead by an off-duty police officer in Ankara on December 19 when the ambassador was giving a speech at an a...

Weak Password Vulnerability in Sichuan Green Blue e-Government System Website

Sichuan green blue e-government system is an e-government building system. Weak password vulnerability exists in some websites of Sichuan Green Blue e-government system. Allow attackers to use the account password admin/scjg888 to log in to the system background, to obtain sensitive information...

Russia proposes 10 Year in Prison Sentence for Hackers and Malware Authors

The Russian government has introduced a draft bill that proposes prison sentences as punishment for hackers and cyber criminals creating malicious software used in targeting critical Russian infrastructure, even if they have no part in actual cyber attacks. The bill, published on the Russian...

tsp.gov XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: https://www.tsp.gov/search/search.html?page=18%27%22%3E%3Csvg%20onload=alert/OPENBUGBOUNTY/%3E=Withdrawal+of+funds Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| No Latest check for patch:| 28.07.2017 Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:| Publicly disclosed Alexa Rank|...

linked.glasgow.gov.uk Open Redirect vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: http://linked.glasgow.gov.uk/resource?uri=https://www.openbugbounty.org Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| Yes, at 30.08.2017 Latest check for patch:| 30.08.2017 07:01 GMT Vulnerability type:| Open Redirect Vulnerability status:| Publicly disclosed Alexa Rank| Unknown /...

Rule 41 Opponents Vow to Fight Government's New Hacking Powers

A new rule goes into effect Thursday that gives law enforcement the ability to hack millions of computers or smartphones at once with a single search warrant. But opponents of the controversial Rule 41 say they are committed to fight the government’s expanded powers. “The most important thing is...

Mozilla Patches Firefox Zero Day Used to Unmask Tor Browser Users

As expected, Mozilla released a new version of Firefox on Wednesday to address a zero-day vulnerability that was actively being exploited to de-anonymize Tor Browser users. The vulnerability, disclosed on a public Tor Project mailing list late Tuesday night, forced the Tor Project to also issue a...

Tor Patched Against Zero Day Under Attack

Update The Tor Project has provided a browser update that patches a zero-day vulnerability being exploited in the wild to de-anonymize Tor users. “The security flaw responsible for this urgent release is already actively exploited on Windows systems. Even though there is currently, to the best of...

Anonymous Hacktivist 'Barrett Brown' Released From Prison

Barrett Brown, a journalist, formerly served as an unofficial spokesman for the hacktivist collective Anonymous, finally walked free from prison on Tuesday morning after serving more than four years behind bars. The Dallas-born investigative journalist was arrested in 2012 from his home while he...

Cross-site Scripting Vulnerability in ZhengTong Content Management System

The GovContent Management System is a website management system designed and built on the JAVA EE platform, which is mainly used for the website construction and management of government agencies, enterprises and institutions. A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in the CMS. The...

InPage Zero Day Used in Attacks Against Banks

A zero-day vulnerability in InPage publishing software used primarily in Urdu, Pashto and Arabic-speaking nations has been publicly exploited in attacks against financial institutions and government agencies in the region. While there are more than 10 million InPage users in Pakistan and India...

peru.gob.pe XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: http://www.peru.gob.pe/transparencia/peptransparenciaosceexoneracionesframe.asp?identidad=" Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| No Latest check for patch:| 02.10.2017 Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:| Publicly disclosed Alexa Rank| 119444 VIP website status...

iPhone Secretly Sends Your Call History to Apple Even If iCloud Backups are Turned Off

In the fight against encryption, Apple has positioned itself as a staunch defender of its user privacy by refusing the federal officials to provide encryption backdoors into its products, as well as implementing better encryption for its products. However, a new report from a security firm sugges...

Regulation May Be Best Answer to IoT Insecurity

One thing technologists overtly shun is the prospect of government regulation. But recent DDoS attacks carried out by botnets of connected things have spooked some people of influence in security to the point where intervention by lawmakers may be inevitable. Testifying before subcommittees of th...

nyc.gov XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: http://www.nyc.gov/portal/site/nycgov/menuitem.e4c2296f0eee871216a5b0c001c789a0/index.jsp?2962qt=%22%3E%3Csvg/onload=prompt/OPENBUGBOUNTY/%3E Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| Yes, at Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:| Publicly disclosed Alexa Rank| 3692 V...

1.local.gov.uk XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-190830 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| 1.local.gov.uk 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...