Cooperating apps and automatic permissions are setting you up for failure

“Hey you. Someone from HR has invited you to a meeting on Thursday. Would you like me to add the appointment to the calendar?” Receiving an email notification when someone has invited you to a meeting is a feature that many professionals would not like to miss. Being able to log in at certain sit...

Reference: TaoSecurity Research

I started publishing my thoughts and findings on digital security in 1999. I used to provide this information on my Web site, but since I don't keep that page up-to-date anymore, I decided to publish it here. 2015 and later: Please visit Academia.edu for Mr. Bejtlich's most recent research. 2014...

When the 'Any logged in user' permission is added to 'Browse Project' permission in a Service Desk project, customer will automatically receive notifications when mentioned in an internal comment.

h3. Issue Summary When the 'Any logged in user' permission is added to 'Browse Project' permission in a Service Desk project, customer will automatically receive notifications when mentioned in an internal comment. h3. Steps to Reproduce Test Case1: Create a Service Desk project. Head to project...

DHS Email Phishing Scam

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA is aware of an email phishing scam that tricks users into clicking on malicious attachments that look like legitimate Department of Homeland Security DHS notifications. The email campaign uses a spoofed email address to appear like a...

Veeam Availability Console v3 Patch 2 (build 2725)

Challenge Veeam Availability Console v3 Patch 2 build 2725. This update supersedes Veeam Availability Console v3 Patch 1 build 2703. Cause Please confirm you are running version 3.0.0.2647 or later prior to installing this Patch 2. You can check this under Windows Programs and features. After...

A week in security (June 10 – 16)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we revealed to readers the mindset of security pros as to why they lack confidence in their ability to prevent their organizations getting breached. We also reported on Maine Governor Janet Mills implementing the state’s own privacy protections, how Apple can bette...

Adware and PUPs families add push notifications as an attack vector

Some existing families of potentially unwanted programs and adware have added browser push notifications to their weapons arsenal. Offering themselves up as browser extensions on Chrome and Firefox, these threats pose as useful plugins then haggle users with notifications. A family of search...

UBUNTU-CVE-2019-11695

A custom cursor defined by scripting on a site can position itself over the addressbar to spoof the actual cursor when it should not be allowed outside of the primary web content area. This could be used by a malicious site to trick users into clicking on permission prompts, doorhanger...

Microsoft Guidance to mitigate Microarchitectural Data Sampling vulnerabilities

Executive Summary On May 14, 2019, Intel published information about a new subclass of speculative execution side channel vulnerabilities known as Microarchitectural Data Sampling. An attacker who successfully exploited these vulnerabilities may be able to read privileged data across trust...

Security Management Center XSS

The vulnerability of the “Security Management Center” component of the Dr.Web Enterprise Security Suite exists due to the lack of measures taken to protect the website structure. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to inject arbitrary HTML code into the user’s browser by placin...

Osmedeus - Fully Automated Offensive Security Tool For Reconnaissance And Vulnerability Scanning

Osmedeus allows you automated run the collection of awesome tools to reconnaissance and vulnerability scanning against the target. How to use If you have no idea what are you doing just type the command below or check out the Advanced Usage ./osmedeus.py -t example.com Installation git clone...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-18512

A use-after-free vulnerability can occur while playing a sound notification in Thunderbird. The memory storing the sound data is immediately freed, although the sound is still being played asynchronously, leading to a potentially exploitable crash. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird 60.5...

CVE-2018-14997

The Leagoo P1 Android device with a build fingerprint of sp7731c1h1032v4bird:6.0/MRA58K/android.20170629.214736:user/release-keys contains the android framework i.e., systemserver with a package name of android that has been modified by Leagoo or another entity in the supply chain. The systemserv...

CVE-2018-14983

The Sony Xperia L1 Android device with a build fingerprint of Sony/G3313/G3313:7.0/43.0.A.6.49/2867558199:user/release-keys contains the android framework i.e., systemserver with a package name of android versionCode=24, versionName=7.0 that has been modified by Sony or another entity in the supp...

CVE-2018-14980

The ASUS ZenFone 3 Max Android device with a build fingerprint of asus/USPhone/ASUSX0081:7.0/NRD90M/USPhone-14.14.1711.92-20171208:user/release-keys contains the android framework i.e., systemserver with a package name of android versionCode=24, versionName=7.0 that has been modified by ASUS or...

Moderate: Red Hat Bug Fix Advisory: Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.3.5-3 - Container

Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.3.5-3 - Container - Fixed an issue to no longer expose Tower service credentials to playbook runs via environment variables when running in OpenShift CVE-2019-3869 - Fixed the Notifications tab to properly appear when viewing a Job Template...

PT-2019-9086

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Leagoo P1 Android device with a build fingerprint of sp7731c 1h10 32v4 bird:6.0/MRA58K/android.20170629.214736:user/release-keys Description The android framework in the Leagoo P1 Android device has been modified, allowing any app on the devic...

Stable Channel Update for Desktop

The Chrome team is delighted to announce the promotion of Chrome 74 to the stable channel for Windows, Mac and Linux. This will roll out over the coming days/weeks. Chrome 74.0.3729.108 contains a number of fixes and improvements -- a list of changes is available in the log. Watch out for upcomin...

Monitoring AWS Golden AMI Pipelines with Slack

If your company uses Slack and is looking for ways to easily monitor activities in its AWS Golden AMI Pipeline, you can use AWS native services to send messages into a Slack channel. This can give your teams better visibility into the approval process for the candidate AMIs that they submit, as...

Researcher Hijacks a Microsoft Service Using Loophole in Azure Cloud Platform

A cybersecurity professional today demonstrated a long-known unpatched weakness in Microsoft's Azure cloud service by exploiting it to take control over Windows Live Tiles , one of the key features Microsoft built into Windows 8 operating system. Introduced in Windows 8, the Live tiles feature wa...