Just a GIF Image Could Have Hacked Your Android Phone Using WhatsApp

A picture is worth a thousand words, but a GIF is worth a thousand pictures. Today, the short looping clips, GIFs are everywhere—on your social media, on your message boards, on your chats, helping users perfectly express their emotions, making people laugh, and reliving a highlight. But what if ...

[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: zeromq-4.1.7-1.fc29

The 0MQ lightweight messaging kernel is a library which extends the standard socket interfaces with features traditionally provided by specialized messaging middle-ware products. 0MQ sockets provide an abstraction of asynchronous message queues, multiple messaging patterns, message filtering...

[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: zeromq-4.3.2-1.fc30

The 0MQ lightweight messaging kernel is a library which extends the standard socket interfaces with features traditionally provided by specialized messaging middle-ware products. 0MQ sockets provide an abstraction of asynchronous message queues, multiple messaging patterns, message filtering...

But We Have an Email Gateway...

In my previous phishing blogs, I wrote about the evolution of phishing and the industrialization of phishing that's being driven by the availability and low cost of toolkits. In this blog post, I'm going to provide more information about emerging phishing attack vectors and how cybercriminals are...

IBM MQ and IBM MQ Appliance Memory Leak Vulnerability

IBM MQ IBM WebSphere MQ and IBM MQ Appliance are both products of IBM Corporation, U.S.A. IBM MQ is a messaging middleware product. The product focuses on providing a reliable and proven messaging backbone for Service Oriented Architecture SOA.IBM MQ Appliance is an all-in-one appliance for rapid...

[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: zeromq-4.3.2-1.fc31

The 0MQ lightweight messaging kernel is a library which extends the standard socket interfaces with features traditionally provided by specialized messaging middle-ware products. 0MQ sockets provide an abstraction of asynchronous message queues, multiple messaging patterns, message filtering...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: dbus security update

An update for dbus is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 Advanced Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for ea...

IBM MQ and IBM MQ Appliance Denial of Service Vulnerabilities

IBM MQ IBM WebSphere MQ and IBM MQ Appliance are both products of IBM Corporation, U.S.A. IBM MQ is a messaging middleware product. The product focuses on providing a reliable and proven messaging backbone for Service Oriented Architecture SOA.IBM MQ Appliance is an all-in-one appliance for rapid...

The vulnerability of Microsoft Lync Server’s messaging server, related to the lack of protection for service data, allows attackers to disclose protected information.

The vulnerability of Microsoft Lync Server’s messaging server is related to the lack of protection for operational data. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor to disclose protected information remotely...

Unauthorized Access Vulnerability in Baidu's Skyworks Intelligence Platform Retained Message

Baidu Tiangong Intelligence Platform is a cloud service platform for the IoT field, which communicates through mainstream IoT protocols e.g., MQTT, allowing IoT projects to be built between smart devices and the cloud. An unauthorized access vulnerability exists in Baidu Tiangong Intelligent...

CVE-2019-0356

Under certain conditions SAP NetWeaver Process Integration Runtime Workbench – MESSAGING and SAPXIAF before versions 7.31, 7.40, 7.50 allows an attacker to access information which would otherwise be restricted...

Authentication flaw

Under certain conditions SAP NetWeaver Process Integration Runtime Workbench – MESSAGING and SAPXIAF before versions 7.31, 7.40, 7.50 allows an attacker to access information which would otherwise be restricted...

CVE-2019-0356

CVE-2019-0356 affects SAP NetWeaver Process Integration XI Runtime Workbench (MESSAGING) and SAP_XIAF before versions 7.31, 7.40, 7.50. The issue enables an attacker to access information that should be restricted. Some sources attribute the vulnerability to configuration issues. Connected docume...

Vanilla: XSS through chat messages

vulnerability name: cross site scripting through chat messages vulnerability description: cross site scripting is a vulnerability that allows an attacker to send malicious codeusually in javascript form to another user Because a browser cannot know if the script should be trusted or not, it will...

The vulnerability of the FasterXML function in the Jackson-Databind Java library for JSON file grammar analysis allows attackers to compromise data integrity, gain access to confidential information, and cause service failures.

The vulnerability of the FasterXML function in the Jackson-Databind Java library for JSON file parsing involves a failure to prevent polymorphic deserialization of the axis2-transport-jms class. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to compromise data integrity, gain access to...

Security Bulletin: IBM MQ Appliance potential execution of arbitrary commands (CVE-2017-1318)

Summary There is potential for an authenticated messaging administrator to execute arbitrary commands on the IBM MQ Appliance. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2017-1318 DESCRIPTION: IBM MQ Appliance could allow an authenticated messaging administrator to execute arbitrary commands on the system,...

Black Hat 2019: WhatsApp Users Still Open to Message Manipulation

LAS VEGAS – Researchers at Black Hat USA 2019 demoed how known vulnerabilities in WhatsApp could still be exploited in several attacks that manipulate chats. Facebook-owned WhatsApp is a popular end-to-end encrypted messaging platform with at least 1.5 billion users. Researchers with Check Point...

Brazilian Cell Phone Hack

I know there's a lot of politics associated with this story, but concentrate on the cybersecurity aspect for a moment. The cell phones of a thousand Brazilians, including senior government officials, were hacked -- seemingly by actors much less sophisticated than rival governments. Brazil's...

Design/Logic Flaw

Jenkins Google Cloud Messaging Notification Plugin 1.0 and earlier stores credentials unencrypted in its global configuration file on the Jenkins master where they can be viewed by users with access to the master file system...

CVE-2019-10379

CVE-2019-10379 affects the Jenkins Google Cloud Messaging Notification Plugin (version 1.0 and earlier). The root cause is that credentials are stored unencrypted in the plugin’s global configuration file on the Jenkins master, enabling access by users with master filesystem access. Connected doc...