Bad to the Bot Bone

By Ian Trump This is the second in a series of blog posts “on all things Bot.” From bad to good and looking towards the future, Bots remain an information security issue which has the potential to impact all commercial and recreational online activity. This series will explore the security and...

Baby Got Bots

By Ian Trump This is the first in a series of blog posts “on all things Bot.” From bad to good and looking towards the future, Bots remain an information security issue which has the potential to impact all commercial and recreational online activity. This series will explore the security and...

[SECURITY] Fedora 27 Update: pdns-4.1.4-1.fc27.1

The PowerDNS Nameserver is a modern, advanced and high performance authoritative-only nameserver. It is written from scratch and conforms to all relevant DNS standards documents. Furthermore, PowerDNS interfaces with almost any database...

A Hybrid Solution to Taming SOC Alert Overload

The moving assembly line was one of the greatest innovations of the Industrial Revolution. Prior to 1913, when Henry Ford installed the first moving assembly line in his factory, cars were built by humans performing manual, mundane tasks. Imagine humans hand painting cars on the factory floor –...

GitLab: Stored XSS in merge request pages

Summary: I found a Stored XSS in merge request pages. Description: The exploit is via the parameter mergerequestsourcebranch of the request to create a New Merge Request. Steps To Reproduce: 1. Sign ikn to GitLab. 2. Click the "+" icon. 3. Click "New Project". 4. Fill out "Project name" form with...

Osiris Banking Trojan Displays Modern Malware Innovation

After staying dormant for few years, the Kronos banking trojan resurfaced in July in a form dubbed Osiris. A wider analysis of how the banking trojan is evolving shows innovative development on the part of its authors, with an eye to broader malware trends. Osiris first appeared in July in three...

CVE-2018-15473

OpenSSH through 7.7 is prone to a user enumeration vulnerability due to not delaying bailout for an invalid authenticating user until after the packet containing the request has been fully parsed, related to auth2-gss.c, auth2-hostbased.c, and auth2-pubkey.c...

themoderneducation.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-660528 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| themoderneducation.com Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

On Financial Fraud

There are some good lessons in this article on financial fraud: That's how we got it so wrong. We were looking for incidental breaches of technical regulations, not systematic crime. And the thing is, that's normal. The nature of fraud is that it works outside your field of vision, subverting the...

Building an Effective API Security Strategy: Easy If You Have the Right Tools

In their approach to application programming interface API security, organizations exposing web APIs must balance ease of access with control. Like the bank robber attacking banks because "that's where the money is," the use of APIs to provide access to applications and to business-critical data...

Activision Infinity Ward Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 - Buffer Overflow Exploit

Exploit for windows platform in category remote exploits Exploit Title: Stack-based buffer overflow in Activision Infinity Ward Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 Exploit Author: Maurice Heumann Contact: https://twitter.com/momo5502?lang=en Website: https://momo5502.com/ CVE: CVE-2018-10718 Category:...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: █████ - DOM-based XSS

Greetings, I've discovered a DOM-based XSS at ██████ Proof of concept: 1. Go to https://███/█████/home/troubleshoot.html?lang=en&returnUrl=https://█████/███████/home/signin.html?returnUrl=https%3A//████/██████████/home/user.html 2. In the username field, add the following code:...

Why Do SOCs Look Like This?

When you hear the word "SOC," or the phrase "security operations center," what image comes to mind? Do you think of analyst sitting at desks, all facing forward, towards giant screens? Why is this? The following image is from the outstanding movie Apollo 13, a docudrama about the challenged 1970...

Activision Blizzard Infinity Ward Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Activision Blizzard Infinity Ward Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 is an American first-person shooter game by Activision Blizzard. A stack buffer overflow vulnerability exists in Activision Blizzard Infinity Ward Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 versions prior to 2018-04-26. A remote attacker can...

Securing the modern workplace with Microsoft 365 threat protection – part 3

This post is authored by Debraj Ghosh, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Microsoft 365 Security. Detecting ransomware in the modern workplace Over the last two weeks, we have shared with you the roots of Microsoft 365 threat protection and how Microsoft 365 threat protect helps protect the modern...

SynAck targeted ransomware uses the Doppelgänging technique

The Process Doppelgänging technique was first presented in December 2017 at the BlackHat conference. Since the presentation several threat actors have started using this sophisticated technique in an attempt to bypass modern security solutions. In April 2018, we spotted the first ransomware...

CVE-2018-10718

Stack-based buffer overflow in Activision Infinity Ward Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 before 2018-04-26 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted packets...

CVE-2018-10718

The CVE-2018-10718 vulnerability affects Activision Blizzard Infinity Ward Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 (pre-2018-04-26). Description: a stack-based buffer overflow in the game allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by sending crafted network packets. Technical details across connect...

PT-2018-10064 · Activision · Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Activision Infinity Ward Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 versions prior to 2018-04-26 Description: The issue is a stack-based buffer overflow that allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted packets. Recommendations: For...

Securing the modern workplace with Microsoft 365 threat protection – part 1

This post is authored by Debraj Ghosh, Senior Product Marketing Manager, Microsoft 365 Security. The roots of Microsoft 365 threat protection Over the next few weeks, well introduce you to Microsoft 365s threat protection services and demonstrate how Microsoft 365s threat protection leverages...