The Mueller Report Is Done. Now Comes the Hard Part

Special counsel Robert Mueller finished his investigation into the 2016 presidential election Friday...

Facebook stored 600m user passwords in plain text exposed to 20k employees

By Uzair Amir The company says it discovered the issue in January and there is no need to change passwords. The social media giant Facebook has revealed that its internal data storage systems saved user passwords in plain text that could be accessed by employees. The social media said an ongoing...

XSS vulnerability with double-encoded entities

An XSS vulnerability CVE-2019-10010 has been identified in all previous versions of this library 0.18.2 and below. The issue has been fixed in version 0.18.3. All users should upgrade to version 0.18.3 immediately. Additionally, if your application caches the resulting HTML, please purge and/or...

Ransomware Attack Forces Aluminum Manufacturer to Shutdown Systems Worldwide

--- Photo by Terje Pedersen / NTB scanpix One of the world's largest producers of aluminum has been forced to shut down several of its plants across Europe and the U.S. after an "extensive cyber attack" hit its operations, leaving companies' IT systems unusable. According to a press release share...

Vulnerability hunting with Semmle QL, part 2

The first part of this series introduced Semmle QL, and how the Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC are using it to investigate variants of vulnerabilities reported to us. This post discusses an example of how we’ve been using it proactively, covering a security audit of an Azure firmware...

Citrix Data Breach – Iranian Hackers Stole 6TB of Sensitive Data

Popular enterprise software company Citrix that provides services to the U.S. military, the FBI, many U.S. corporations, and various U.S. government agencies disclosed last weekend a massive data breach of its internal network by "international cyber criminals." Citrix said it was warned by the F...

New Film Shows How Bellingcat Cracks the Web's Toughest Cases

Truth in a Post Truth World takes a closer look at a team of remarkably resourceful investigative journalists...

Citrix Falls Prey to Password-Spraying Attack

Citrix is warning that its internal network has been hit by international cybercriminals. The digital workspace and enterprise networks vendor said in a website notice that the FBI contacted it on Wednesday, saying that there was evidence of a successful cyberattack on its network. While details...

Partner Perspectives: Endpoint Security Analytics with Sumo Logic and Carbon Black

As the threat landscape continues to expand, having end-to-end visibility across your modern application stack and cloud infrastructures is crucial. Customers cannot afford to have blind spots in their environment; and that includes data being ingested from third-party tools. With the industry...

Carbon Black and Chronicle: Stronger Cybersecurity through Big Data and Analytics

This is another exciting day for cybersecurity professionals, for Carbon Black and for me personally. It’s also a very exciting way to kick of RSA 2019! Earlier today, we announced an exciting new integration with Chronicle Security to harness the power of big data and analytics. Our goal is to...

House Probes Cambridge Analytica on Russia and WikiLeaks

The Democrats’ sweeping new investigation into President Trump includes the now defunct consulting firm better known for misusing the Facebook data of tens of millions of Americans...

Imago Forensics - Imago Is A Python Tool That Extract Digital Evidences From Images

Imago is a python tool that extract digital evidences from images recursively. This tool is useful throughout a digital forensic investigation. If you need to extract digital evidences and you have a lot of images, through this tool you will be able to compare them easily. Imago allows to extract...

Partner Perspectives: Faster Response with Carbon Black and Tines.io

Tines was founded by former DocuSign and eBay security engineers who were frustrated by existing security automation platforms. “I was leading an enterprise security team that had to work harder and harder every day just to keep up with the volume of alerts that required investigation,” said Eoin...

7 Scenarios for How the Mueller Probe Might End

Reports say that the special counsel will be "wrapping up" his investigation soon. Here's what that might actually mean...

Grammarly: Employee's GitHub Token Found In Travis CI Build Logs

Our Security Team was notified by researchers who identified a valid leaked Github token in Travis CI logs that allow accessing a limited number of Grammarly repositories. We immediately revoked the token and conducted investigation together with the Github support team. Based on the available...

Houzz Urges Password Resets After Data Breach

Interior decorating website Houzz on Friday issued a notice that user data – including usernames, passwords and IP addresses – had been accessed by an “unauthorized third party.” Houzz connects consumers to varying home-goods departments or professionals for purchasing furniture. The Palo Alto,...

Airbus Suffers Data Breach, Some Employees' Data Exposed

European airplane maker Airbus admitted yesterday a data breach of its "Commercial Aircraft business" information systems that allowed intruders to gain access to some of its employees' personal information. Though the company did not elaborate on the nature of the hack, it claimed that the...

Feds Dismantle Dark Web Credentials Market

Law-enforcement agencies across the world have taken aim at Dark Web denizens this week, with the takedown of a credentials marketplace as well as continued action against former users of the Webstresser.org DDoS-for-hire site. An international law-enforcement operation has dismantled the xDedic...

Someone Hacked PHP PEAR Site and Replaced the Official Package Manager

Beware! If you have downloaded PHP PEAR package manager from its official website in past 6 months, we are sorry to say that your server might have been compromised. Last week, the maintainers at PEAR took down the official website of the PEAR pear-php.net after they found that someone has replac...

Unprotected Government Server Exposes Years of FBI Investigations

A massive government data belonging to the Oklahoma Department of Securities ODS was left unsecured on a storage server for at least a week, exposing a whopping 3 terabytes of data containing millions of sensitive files. The unsecured storage server, discovered by Greg Pollock, a researcher with...