CVE-2014-6799

The Investigation Tool (gov.ca.post.lp.itool) 1.0.0 for Android is affected. The root cause is that the app does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which enables man‑in‑the‑middle attackers to spoof servers and access sensitive information via a crafted certificate. The connected doc...

The Fappening 3 — Jennifer Lawrence New Photos Leaked Online

It seems like there is no end of “celebrity photo leaks”. As part of the Fappening 3 hack, some new naked photos of Jennifer Lawrence have apparently been leaked online in the “third round” of celebrity photo leaks including, top model Cara Delevingne, actress Anna Kendrick. On Friday, new...

Researcher Discloses Wi-Fi Thermostat Vulnerabilities

Heatmiser, a U.K.-based manufacturer of digital thermostats, is contacting its customers today about a series of security issues that could expose a Wi-Fi-connected version of its product to takeover. Andrew Tierney, a “reverse-engineer by night,” whose specialty is digging up bugs in embedded...

More Celebrity Photos Leaked — Kim Kardashian and Others Targeted

So far people have not forgotten about the recent celebrity iCloud hacking scandal, a new wave of photographs of celebrities have been leaked in what appears to be the second edition of the massive leak related to the celebrities intimate-images on Internet earlier this month. Among the victims o...

Chinese Hackers Hacked Into U.S. Defense Contractors 20 Times In Just One Year

Chinese hackers associated with the Chinese government have successfully infiltrated the computer systems of U.S. defense contractors working with the government agency responsible for the transportation of military troops and goods across the globe, a Senate investigators have found. The Senate...

Verizon to Pay Largest Ever Consumer Privacy Settlement

Verizon will pay the Federal Communications Commission $7.4 million as part of a settlement over the company’s failure to adequately inform and obtain consent from customers before using their personal information to develop thousands of tailored marketing campaigns. Officials say this fine...

Home Depot Investigating Massive Data Breach

Home Depot may be the latest retailer to suffer a costly data breach, and if early indications are correct, the hackers may have been on the home giant’s network longer than hackers were on Target’s systems, and a greater number of consumers may be at risk. A Home Depot representative confirmed...

A New Cold War – with Many Sides

A New Cold War - with Many Sides Theres a lot we still dont know about the FBIs investigation of the data theft at JP Morgan Chase & Co. Criminal hackers based in Russia were targeting U.S. financial institutions long before Russia annexed Crimea or the West responded with sanctions. Is this trul...

Heartbleed Exploit Linked to Community Health Data Breach

Update: The Heartbleed OpenSSL vulnerability is now the centerpiece of the Community Health Systems data breach. Dave Kennedy, CEO of security consultancy TrustedSec, said yesterday that three sources close to the CHS investigation told him that a Heartbleed exploit was the hackers’ initial way i...

Community Health Systems APT Data Breach Medical Espionage

At first blush, the Community Health Systems data breach by Chinese hackers seems to be an anomaly. State-sponsored attackers generally target intellectual property for the purposes of military or economic gain; stealing healthcare credentials and personal patient records seems incongruous. But...

Grocery Stores 'Supervalu' and 'Albertsons' Hacked for Credit Card Data

Albertson’s and SuperValu - Two nation’s most popular supermarket store chains announced last weekend that a data breach may have revealed the credit and debit card information of their customers at a number of grocery store locations in more than 18 states. Minnesota-based Supervalu announced...

Anonymous Hackers Claim to Identify the Cop Who killed Mike Brown in Ferguson

Members of the international hacker collective Anonymous have claimed they have identified the Ferguson, Missouri law enforcement officer involved in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed teenager killed on Saturday, which sparked days of protest and raised racial tensions. The hacktivi...

How Russian Hackers Placed "Digital Bomb" Into the NASDAQ

Four years ago, NASDAQ servers were compromised by Russian hackers, who were somehow able to insert a "digital bomb" into the systems of NASDAQ stock exchange, which would have been able to cause several damage to the computer systems in the stock market and could bring down the entire structure ...

Microsoft Windows Media Player 11 - AVI File Colorspace Conversion Remote Memory Corruption Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/38790/info Microsoft Windows Media Player is prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability when handling specially crafted AVI files. An attacker can exploit this issue by enticing an unsuspecting user to open a...

DFLabs PTK <= 1.0 - Local Command Execution Vulnerability

No description provided by source. ==================================================== Security Research Advisory Vulnerability name: DFLabs PTK Local Command Execution Vulnerability Advisory number: LC-2008-07 Advisory URL: http://www.ikkisoft.com...

U.S. Marshals Auctioning Off Seized Silk Road Bitcoins

If any further evidence was required that up is down and black is white, the United States government is now in the business of selling Bitcoins. At least for one day. The U.S. Marshals Service is planning to hold a one-day auction on June 27 to sell nearly 30,000 Bitcoins the government seized i...

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...

RedoWalker - Tool to explore Oracle database transaction logs

RedoWalker is a tool to explore Oracle database transaction logs, otherwise known as redo logs. Any time changes are made to the database server, for example after an INSERT, DELETE or UPDATE, they are recorded in the redo log. These redo logs are stored in a proprietary and undocumented format...

Volafox - Mac OS X & BSD Memory Analysis Toolkit

Volafox is an open source toolkit that you can use for Mac OS X and BSD forensics. The tool is a python based and allows investigating security incidents and finding information for malwares and any malicious program on the system. Security analyst can have the following information using this...

OWASP OWTF – Offensive (Web) Testing Framework

The purpose of this tool is to automate the manual, uncreative part of pen testing: For example, spending time trying to remember how to call "tool X", parsing results of "tool X" manually to feed "tool Y", etc. By reducing this burden I hope pen testers will have more time to: See the big pictur...