New Study Warns of Security Threats Linked to Recycled Phone Numbers

A new academic study has highlighted a number of privacy and security pitfalls associated with recycling mobile phone numbers that could be abused to stage a variety of exploits, including account takeovers, conduct phishing and spam attacks, and even prevent victims from signing up for online...

How to Fight Business Email Compromise (BEC) with Email Authentication?

An ever-evolving and rampant form of cybercrime that targets emails as the potential medium to conduct fraud is known as Business Email Compromise. Targeting commercial, government as well as non-profit organizations, BEC can lead to huge amounts of data loss, security breach, and compromised...

How DMARC Can Stop Criminals Sending Fake Emails on Behalf of Your Domain

21st-century technology has allowed Cybercriminals to use sophisticated and undetectable methods for malicious activities. In 2020 alone, a survey revealed that 65% of US-based companies were vulnerable to email phishing and impersonation attacks. This calls for upgrading your organization's...

Airline DMARC Policies Lag, Opening Flyers to Email Fraud

More than half of global airlines do not have DMARC policies in place, opening their customers up to email fraud attacks, a new report found. DMARC Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance is considered the industry standard for email authentication to prevent attackers from...

Security Bulletin: Openssh vulnerabilities affect IBM SmartClound Entry (CVE-2015-5352 CVE-2015-6563 CVE-2015-6564)

Summary IBM SmartCloud Entry is vulnerable to multiple OpenSSH vulnerabilities. An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to bypass XSECURITY restrictions, conduct impersonation attacks, or gain elevated privileges on the system. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2015-5352 DESCRIPTION: OpenS...

Bluetooth Impersonation Attacks Affect Legions of Devices

Academic researchers have uncovered security vulnerabilities in Bluetooth Classic that allows attackers to spoof paired devices: They found that the bugs allow an attacker to insert a rogue device into an established Bluetooth pairing, masquerading as a trusted endpoint. This allows attackers to...

CVE-2020-10135 Bluetooth devices supporting BR/EDR v5.2 and earlier are vulnerable to impersonation attacks

Legacy pairing and secure-connections pairing authentication in Bluetooth BR/EDR Core Specification v5.2 and earlier may allow an unauthenticated user to complete authentication without pairing credentials via adjacent access. An unauthenticated, adjacent attacker could impersonate a Bluetooth...

About the security content of tvOS 11.4 - Apple Support

About Apple security updates For our customers' protection, Apple doesn't disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until an investigation has occurred and patches or releases are available. Recent releases are listed on the Apple security updates page. For more information about security, se...

Cybercriminals Adding Sophistication to BEC Threats

Cybercriminals are boosting their game and employing new tactics to move up the chain of command with more sophisticated business email compromise BEC threats that pose a greater threat to organizations, according to a new report. Advanced BEC attacks–including impersonation attacks and CEO...

IRS Impersonation Attacks Spread Malware Nationwide

The Internal Revenue Service IRS is warning taxpayers about a snowballing email attack that uses messages pretending to be legitimate IRS communications. The end game for the effort is malware being installed on unsuspecting users’ machines; imposters may gain control of the taxpayer’s computer o...

The Rogue Toolkit - An Extensible Toolkit Aimed At Providing Penetration Testers An Easy-To-Use Platform To Deploy Access Points

The Rogue Toolkit is an extensible toolkit aimed at providing penetration testers an easy-to-use platform to deploy software-defined Access Points AP for the purpose of conducting penetration testing and red team engagements. By using Rogue, penetration testers can easily perform targeted evil tw...

Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in OpenSSH affect IBM Flex System Manager (FSM)

Summary Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in openSSH that is embedded in the IBM FSM. This fix addresses these vulnerabilities Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2015-5352 DESCRIPTION: OpenSSH could allow a remote authenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by an erro...

Security Bulletin: IBM Security Access Manager appliances are affected by vulnerabilities in OpenSSH (CVE-2015-5352, CVE-2015-6563, CVE-2015-6564)

Summary Vulnerabilities have been identified in OpenSSH. IBM Security Access Manager appliances use OpenSSH and are affected by these vulnerabilities. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2015-5352 DESCRIPTION: OpenSSH could allow a remote authenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions, cause...

Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in OpenSSH affect IBM Security Network Protection (CVE-2015-5352, CVE-2015-6563, and CVE-2015-6564)

Summary Security vulnerabilities have been discovered in OpenSSH, which is used by IBM Security Network Protection. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2015-5352 DESCRIPTION: OpenSSH could allow a remote authenticated attacker to bypass security restrictions, caused by an error when making connectio...

CVE-2018-4235

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 11.4 is affected. macOS before 10.13.5 is affected. tvOS before 11.4 is affected. watchOS before 4.3.1 is affected. The issue involves the "Messages" component. It allows local users to perform impersonation attacks via an unspecified...

CVE-2018-4235

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 11.4 is affected. macOS before 10.13.5 is affected. tvOS before 11.4 is affected. watchOS before 4.3.1 is affected. The issue involves the "Messages" component. It allows local users to perform impersonation attacks via an unspecified...

Apple Mac OS X Security Updates (HT208849)-01

Apple Mac OS X is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

openSUSE Security Update : xmltooling (openSUSE-2018-276)

This update for xmltooling fixes the following issues : - CVE-2018-0489: Fixed a security bug when xmltooling mishandled digital signatures of user data, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information or conduct impersonation attacks via crafted XML data. NOTE: this issue exists...

SUSE-SU-2018:0720-1 Security update for xmltooling

This update for xmltooling fixes the following issues: - CVE-2018-0489: Fixed a security bug when xmltooling mishandled digital signatures of user data, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information or conduct impersonation attacks via crafted XML data. NOTE: this issue exists...

CVE-2018-0489

Shibboleth XMLTooling-C before 1.6.4, as used in Shibboleth Service Provider before 2.6.1.4 on Windows and other products, mishandles digital signatures of user data, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information or conduct impersonation attacks via crafted XML data. NOTE: this...