Ring Security Cam Snooping, Location Tracking, and More Security News This Week

A German hack confession, unencrypted government sites, and more security news this week...

Your Old Tweets Give Away More Location Data Than You Think

Researchers built a tool that can predict where you live and work, as well as other sensitive information, just by using geotagged tweets...

Hardcoded credentials

A vulnerability in the Cisco Jabber Client Framework JCF software, installed as part of the Cisco Jabber for Mac client, could allow an authenticated, local attacker to corrupt arbitrary files on an affected device that has elevated privileges. The vulnerability exists due to insecure directory...

The world’s southernmost security conference

When asked about his best race, Ayrton Senna replied that it was when he raced karting cars. For him it was the best because it was only for the sake of sports and free from commercial sponsoring and commercial interests. I have this same feeling about computer security conferences, because they...

Carriers Swore They'd Stop Selling Location Data. Will They Ever?

Months after Sprint, AT, T-Mobile, and Verizon promised to stop selling user location data, the practice continues...

Weather Channel App in a Deluge of Legal Trouble for Data Misuse

A lawsuit filed Thursday alleges that the popular Weather Channel App misled its users about how it would use the personal – and extremely precise – location data that it collects. IBM subsidiary The Weather Channel TWC markets its free app as the world’s most downloaded weather app, touting 45...

Ayukov NFTP FTP Client 2.0 - Buffer Overflow Exploit

Exploit for windows platform in category local exploits Exploit Title: Ayukov NFTP FTP Client 2.0 - Buffer Overflow Exploit Author: Uday Mittal Vendor Homepage: http://www.ayukov.com/nftp/ Software Link: ftp://ftp.ayukov.com/pub/src/nftp-1.72.zip Version : below 2.0 Tested on: Microsoft Windows X...

Ayukov NFTP FTP Client 2.0 Buffer Overflow

Exploit Title: Ayukov NFTP FTP Client 2.0 - Buffer Overflow Date: 2018-12-29 Exploit Author: Uday Mittal Vendor Homepage: http://www.ayukov.com/nftp/ Software Link: ftp://ftp.ayukov.com/pub/src/nftp-1.72.zip Version : below 2.0 Tested on: Microsoft Windows XP SP3 CVE: CVE-2017-15222 EIP Location:...

Code injection

The Vivo V7 device with a build fingerprint of vivo/1718/1718:7.1.2/N2G47H/compil11021857:user/release-keys allows any app co-located on the device to set system properties as the com.android.phone user. The com.qualcomm.qti.modemtestmode app versionCode=25, versionName=7.1.2 that contains an...

CVE-2018-20578

An issue was discovered in NuttX before 7.27. The function netlibparsehttpurl in apps/netutils/netlib/netlibparsehttpurl.c mishandles URLs longer than hostlen bytes in the webclient, this is set by default to 40, leading to an Infinite Loop. The attack vector is the Location header of an HTTP 3xx...

CVE-2018-18959

An issue was discovered on Epson WorkForce WF-2861 10.48 LQ22I3, 10.51.LQ20I6 and 10.52.LQ17IA devices. On the 'Air Print Setting' web page, if the data for 'Bonjour Service Location' at /PRESENTATION/BONJOUR is more than 251 bytes when sending data for Air Print Setting, then the device no longe...

CVE-2018-18959

An issue was discovered on Epson WorkForce WF-2861 10.48 LQ22I3, 10.51.LQ20I6 and 10.52.LQ17IA devices. On the 'Air Print Setting' web page, if the data for 'Bonjour Service Location' at /PRESENTATION/BONJOUR is more than 251 bytes when sending data for Air Print Setting, then the device no longe...

CVE-2018-18959

An issue was discovered on Epson WorkForce WF-2861 10.48 LQ22I3, 10.51.LQ20I6 and 10.52.LQ17IA devices. On the 'Air Print Setting' web page, if the data for 'Bonjour Service Location' at /PRESENTATION/BONJOUR is more than 251 bytes when sending data for Air Print Setting, then the device no longe...

CVE-2018-18959

The CVE-2018-18959 issue affects Epson WorkForce WF-2861 devices (10.48 LQ22I3, 10.51.LQ20I6, 10.52.LQ17IA). On the Air Print Setting page, if the data for Bonjour Service Location at /PRESENTATION/BONJOUR exceeds 251 bytes during data submission, the device becomes unusable until a reboot. This ...

CVE-2018-20421

Go Ethereum aka geth 1.8.19 allows attackers to cause a denial of service memory consumption by rewriting the length of a dynamic array in memory, and then writing data to a single memory location with a large index number, as demonstrated by use of "assembly mstore " followed by a "c0xC800000 =...

New Delegated Administration feature in Enterprise Threat Protector

Managing security configurations for large organizations with locations scattered around the world can be challenging. Likewise, some businesses have multiple operating divisions that are separate entities but all use the same IT infrastructure. As an IT leader, you likely want to have consistenc...

Phishing Campaign Toolkit: King Phisher

King Phisher is a tool for testing and promoting user awareness by simulating real world phishing attacks. It features an easy to use, yet very flexible architecture allowing full control over both emails and server content. King Phisher can be used to run campaigns ranging from simple awareness...

PT-2018-3942 · D Link · D-Link Dcs Series Wi-Fi Cameras

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: D-Link DCS series Wi-Fi cameras versions 1.00 and above Description: The issue is related to insufficient protection of registration data in the common/info.cgi component of D-Link DCS series Wi-Fi cameras' firmware. This can allow a remote...

Mozilla: Same-origin policy violation using location attribute and performance.getEntries to steal cross-origin URLs

A same-origin policy violation allowing the theft of cross-origin URL entries when using the Javascript location property to cause a redirection to another site using performance.getEntries. This is a same-origin policy violation and could allow for data theft. This vulnerability affects...

Mozilla: Same-origin policy violation using location attribute and performance.getEntries to steal cross-origin URLs

A same-origin policy violation allowing the theft of cross-origin URL entries when using the Javascript location property to cause a redirection to another site using performance.getEntries. This is a same-origin policy violation and could allow for data theft. This vulnerability affects...