Zerodium Offers to Buy Zero-Day Exploits at Higher Prices Than Ever

Well, there's some good news for hackers and vulnerability hunters, though terrible news for tech manufacturers! Exploit vendor Zerodium is now willing to offer significantly higher payouts for full, working zero-day exploits that allow stealing of data from WhatsApp, iMessage and other online ch...

Denial of Service Vulnerability in the OSI Layer of the SISCO_MMS_Lite Suite MMS Protocol

MMSLite is a communication component development library based on the IEC61850 standard for substation network communication developed by SISCO, mainly used for Intelligent Electronic Devices IEDs such as Remote Terminal Units RTUs, Automatic Relays, Programmable Logic Controllers PLCs and so on....

CVE-2018-16879

CVE-2018-16879 affects Ansible Tower 3.x prior to 3.3.3. The issue is a RabbitMQ misconfiguration where a secure channel is not used for messaging celery workers, enabling potential data leakage of sensitive information (e.g., passwords) and denial-of-service actions such as deletion of projects ...

americanmessaging.net XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-716601 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| americanmessaging.net Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| hidden until disclosure Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:|...

Design/Logic Flaw

The Leagoo Z5C Android device with a build fingerprint of sp7731c1h1032v4bird:6.0/MRA58K/android.20170629.214736:user/release-keys contains a pre-installed app with a package name of com.android.messaging versionCode=1000110, versionName=1.0.001, android.20170630.092853-0 containing an exported...

CVE-2018-14986

The Leagoo Z5C Android device with a build fingerprint of sp7731c1h1032v4bird:6.0/MRA58K/android.20170629.214736:user/release-keys contains a pre-installed app with a package name of com.android.messaging versionCode=1000110, versionName=1.0.001, android.20170630.092853-0 containing an exported...

[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: mosquitto-1.5.5-1.fc29

Mosquitto is an open source message broker that implements the MQ Telemetry Transport protocol version 3.1 and 3.1.1 MQTT provides a lightweight method of carrying out messaging using a publish/subscribe model. This makes it suitable for "machine to machine" messaging such as with low power senso...

CVE-2018-16879

Tower does not set a secure channel as it is using the default insecure configuration channel settings for messaging celery workers from RabbitMQ. This could lead in data leak of sensitive information such as passwords as well as denial of service attacks by deleting projects or inventory files...

Facebook Admits Giving Partners Access to Messages

UPDATE Facebook has admitted that it dealt several messaging partnerships with tech giants, giving them read, write and delete access for Facebook messages. The confirmation comes on the heels of a bombshell New York Times article, Tuesday, which leveraged internal documents to show that Facebook...

Beers with Talos EP 43: Espionage, Encryption, and CISO Square One

Beers with Talos BWT Podcast Ep. 43 is now available. Download this episode and subscribe to Beers with Talos: If iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing, click here. Ep. 43 show notes: Recorded Dec. 7, 2018. Several of us are under the weather, but the show must go on. We did our best, as alway...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat JBoss Fuse/A-MQ 6.3 R10 security and bug fix update

An update is now available for Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6.3 and Red Hat JBoss A-MQ 6.3. 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 each...

Volkswagen Giveaway Scam Peddles Ad Networks

A fake Volkswagen campaign is making its way across social media platforms, luring in victims with promises of a free Volkswagen car giveaway – but instead redirecting them to third-party ad servers. Victims are first sent messages via WhatsApp or Facebook, purporting to be from Volkswagen and...

Australia Anti-Encryption Law Triggers Sweeping Backlash

A controversial Australian bill, which could give the government access to data protected by end-to-end encryption, was passed Thursday. The bill, called the Assistance and Access Act, empowers Australian police to essentially force companies that are operating in the country to help the governme...

spring-framework: ReDoS Attack with spring-messaging

Spring Framework, versions 5.0.x prior to 5.0.6, versions 4.3.x prior to 4.3.17, and older unsupported versions allows applications to expose STOMP over WebSocket endpoints with a simple, in-memory STOMP broker through the spring-messaging module. A malicious user or attacker can craft a message ...

Micro Focus Secure Messaging Gateway SQL Injection (CVE-2018-12464)

A SQL injection vulnerability exists in Micro Focus Secure Messaging Gateway. The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation of user input. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability would allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary SQL commands on the affected system...

The Rotexy mobile Trojan – banker and ransomware

On the back of a surge in Trojan activity, we decided to carry out an in-depth analysis and track the evolution of some other popular malware families besides Asacub. One of the most interesting and active specimens to date was a mobile Trojan from the Rotexy family. In a three-month period from...

TIBCO MessagiTIBCO Messaging - Apache Kafka Distribution - Schema Repository Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability

TIBCO Messaging - Apache Kafka Distribution - Schema Repository is a suite of application development and deployment solutions from TIBCO Software. A cross-site request forgery vulnerability exists in the Schema repository server component in TIBCO Messaging - Apache Kafka Distribution - Schema...

CVE-2018-12413

The Schema repository server tibschemad component of TIBCO Software Inc.'s TIBCO Messaging - Apache Kafka Distribution - Schema Repository - Community Edition, and TIBCO Messaging - Apache Kafka Distribution - Schema Repository - Enterprise Edition contains a vulnerability which may allow an...

[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: mosquitto-1.5.3-1.fc29

Mosquitto is an open source message broker that implements the MQ Telemetry Transport protocol version 3.1 and 3.1.1 MQTT provides a lightweight method of carrying out messaging using a publish/subscribe model. This makes it suitable for "machine to machine" messaging such as with low power senso...

Signal App’s New Privacy Feature Conceals Sender ID from Metadata

By Waqas Messaging apps are now becoming more and more secure to make it difficult or rather impossible for anyone to access your conversations. Switching to end-to-end encryption although offered a stronger layer of protection but still the unencrypted metadata like sender/receiver information,...