Free Open Source Scalable Incident Response Platform: The Hive

Free Open Source Scalable Incident Response Platform TheHive is a scalable 3-in-1 open source and free solution designed to make life easier for SOCs, CSIRTs, CERTs and any information security practitioner dealing with security incidents that need to be investigated and acted upon swiftly. TheHi...

Tesco Bank Stops Online Transactions

Tesco Bank, a U.K. retail bank, today put a halt to online transactions from current accounts after some customers reported over the weekend money missing from their accounts. The bank, which has more than seven million customers, told the BBC that 40,000 accounts were accessed and half of which...

Slack: Information Disclosure on stun.screenhero.com

@kazan71p found an information disclosure vulnerability at stun.screenhero.com which revealed limited monitoring information. We fixed the vulnerability and conducted an investigation to confirm that this was not exploited. Thanks @kazan71p!...

Design/Logic Flaw

Rejected reason: DO NOT USE THIS CANDIDATE NUMBER. ConsultIDs: none. Reason: This candidate was withdrawn by its CNA. Further investigation showed that it was not a security issue. Notes: none...

Questions Mount Around Yahoo Breach

As Yahoo continues to investigate the biggest data breach in history, pressure is mounting on the company to admit when it knew about the attack, whether there was a delay in reporting it, and also about how it implements cryptography to secure data it’s responsible for. Security company Venafi...

500 Million Yahoo Accounts Stolen By State-Sponsored Hackers

Yahoo says it was the victim of state-sponsored hackers who stole information associated with 500 million accounts. Yahoo CISO Bob Lord said the attack happened on the company’s network in late 2014; he did not name the country responsible. “The account information may have included names, email...

Photos On Dark Web Reveal Geo-locations Of 229 Drug Dealers — Here's How

It's a Fact! No matter how smart the criminals are, they always leave some trace behind. Two Harvard students have unmasked around 229 drug and weapon dealers with the help of pictures taken by criminals and used in advertisements placed on dark web markets. Do you know each image contains a rang...

Windows Forensic Data Collection: IR-rescue

Windows Forensic Data Collection ir-rescue is a Windows Batch script that collects a myriad of forensic data from 32-bit and 64-bit Windows systems while respecting the order of volatility. It is intended for incident response use at different stages in the analysis and investigation process. It...

Slack: Email information leakage for certain addresses

@procode701 discovered a bug related to a specific configuration with our third-party email infrastructure provider, which had the potential to leak certain information from email on non-product Slack domains for specific addresses. Slack applied a fix to the configuration and performed a thoroug...

Judge Rules Use of FBI Malware Is A 'Search'

Civil liberty advocates say a Texas judge got it right when he ruled on a controversial child porn case regarding the FBI’s use of malware to search a computer. Senior U.S. District Judge David Alan Ezra of the San Antonio division of the Western District of Texas court ruled that sending malware...

FDA, DHS Investigating St. Jude Device Vulnerabilities

The U.S. government has entered into the St. Jude-MedSec-Muddy Waters fray with an investigation into claims St. Jude medical devices are vulnerable to cyberattacks. The Food and Drug Administration and Department of Homeland Security also apparently disapprove of the approach taken by MedSec and...

OneLogin SecureNotes Breach Exposed Data in Cleartext

Single sign-on company OneLogin began notifying customers this week that an attacker was able to take advantage of a bug in its system and view sensitive notes posted by users, thought to be secure. The company, whose authentication technology secures cloud-based applications, confirmed the...

Eddie Bauer Confirms Payment Card Breach of US, Canadian Stores

Clothing store Eddie Bauer has become the latest retail chain to acknowledge that malware has led to a breach of its point of sale systems. In a press release .PDF late last week Eddie Bauer confirmed that any customers who used a payment card at a store over the past seven months, from January 2...

Researchers Go Inside a Business Email Compromise Scam

LAS VEGAS – Poor operational security on the part of Nigerian scammers running a Business Email Compromise BEC scheme has given researchers a window into their operations. Dell SecureWorks today published a report at Black Hat USA 2016 on what the criminals involved call wire-wire, or “waya-waya....

Bitcoin Price Drops 20% After $72 Million in Bitcoin Stolen from Bitfinex Exchange

Yet another blow to Bitcoin: One of the world's most popular exchanges of the cryptocurrency has suffered a major hack, leading to a loss of around $72 Million worth of Bitcoins. Hong Kong-based Bitcoin exchange 'Bitfinex' has posted a note on their website announcing the shutdown of its operatio...

Yahoo Investigates 200 Million Alleged Accounts For Sale On Dark Web

Yahoo says it is investigating reports of 200 million user credentials advertised for sale on the Dark Web by a hacker that goes by the handle “peaceofmind”. The Yahoo credentials, according to the site listing the database for sale, includes usernames, passwords hashed using the MD5 algorithm,...

CVE-2016-5403

The virtqueuepop function in hw/virtio/virtio.c in QEMU allows local guest OS administrators to cause a denial of service memory consumption and QEMU process crash by submitting requests without waiting for completion...

Is Russia Behind the DNC Hack to Help Donald Trump? FBI Initiate an Investigation

On Friday, just three days prior to the start of the party's national convention, WikiLeaks released almost 20,000 e-mails with more than 8,000 stolen from the US Democratic National Committee DNC following a cyber attack in June. Two days later, on Sunday, DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz...

Upcoming Tor Design Battles Hidden Services Snooping

More than 100 malicious Tor Hidden Services Directories HSDirs were found to be snooping on the services they host, and in some cases, operators were actively using the data collected to attack the services. While at first blush, the discovery would seem to put another dent in the privacy and...

Former Cardinals Scout Christopher Correa Sentenced Four Years for Houston Astros Hack

The Federal Court came down hard on a former scouting director for the St. Louis Cardinals on Monday, sentencing Christopher Correa to almost four years in prison for hacking into a computer system that belongs to the Houston Astros. Correa, who until last summer served as Director of Baseball...