CVE-2018-20642

CVE-2018-20642 affects PHP Scripts Mall Entrepreneur Job Portal Script 3.0.1. The vulnerability is triggered by crafted JavaScript in the KeySkills field, causing a denial of service (outage of profile editing). Documents confirm the affected product and root cause (malformed input in KeySkills) ...

Zipcar Disruption

This isn't a security story, but it easily could have been. Last Saturday, Zipcar had a system outage: "an outage experienced by a third party telecommunications vendor disrupted connections between the company's vehicles and its reservation software." That didn't just mean people couldn't get ca...

A week in security (March 11 – 17)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we looked at the Lazarus group in our series about APT groups, we discussed the introduction of Payment Service Directive 2 PSD2 in the EU, we tackled Google’s Nest fiasco, and the launch of Mozilla's Firefox Send. In addition, we gave you an overview of the...

Telegram Gained 3 Million New Users During WhatsApp, Facebook Outage

WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram faced a widespread outage yesterday with users from around the world reporting issues with sending messages on WhatsApp and Messenger, posting feeds on Facebook and accessing other features on the three Facebook-owned platforms. While the outage was quite troubli...

Telegram Gained 3 Million New Users During WhatsApp, Facebook Outage

WhatsApp, Facebook, and Instagram faced a widespread outage yesterday with users from around the world reporting issues with sending messages on WhatsApp and Messenger, posting feeds on Facebook and accessing other features on the three Facebook-owned platforms. While the outage was quite troubli...

Facebook and Instagram are down around the world

By Carolina Facebook says it's aware of the situation and trying to fix the issue. Another day, another service outage at social media giant Facebook and its subsidiary company Instagram. Yes, Facebook and Instagram have been hit by a worldwide service outage forcing both platforms to go offline...

The vulnerability of the atol8 function in the libarchive library, which allows a hacker to cause a service failure

The vulnerability of the atol8 function archivereadsupportformatxar.c in the libarchive library is related to errors in processing empty strings, which can lead to buffer overflows. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to cause service failures...

The vulnerability of the Client programs component of the Oracle MySQL Server database management system allows a attacker to cause a service failure.

The vulnerability of the Client programs in the Oracle MySQL Server database management system is related to deficiencies in access control. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to cause service interruptions...

China Blocks Microsoft's Bing Search Engine, Despite Offering Censored Results

Update: Microsoft's search engine Bing has been restored in China after being inaccessible in the country for almost two days. According to sources familiar with the matter, Bing was blocked due to an accidental technical error and not due to an attempt at censorship. China has blocked...

CVE-2019-2456

Vulnerability in the Oracle Outside In Technology component of Oracle Fusion Middleware subcomponent: Outside In Filters. Supported versions that are affected are 8.5.3 and 8.5.4. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise Oracle...

ThreatList: $1.7M is the Average Cost of a Cyber-Attack

The average cost estimate for cleaning up a cyberattack comes in at around $1.1 million, according to a recent survey. But this is actually a rosy view: For those organizations that actually calculate versus estimate the real cost of an attack, that number increases significantly to $1.67 million...

UA-Parser Denial of Service Vulnerability

UA-Parser is a multi-language port of the User Agent String Parser for BrowserScope. A denial of service vulnerability exists in UA-Parser 2015-05-14 and later versions. An attacker can exploit the vulnerability by sending a large number of requests quickly to cause a website to become unavailabl...

Apache Tomcat 7.0.0 < 7.0.2

The version of Tomcat installed on the remote host is prior to 7.0.2. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the fixedinapachetomcat7.0.2security-7 advisory. - Apache Tomcat 5.5.0 through 5.5.29, 6.0.0 through 6.0.27, and 7.0.0 beta does not properly handle an invalid...

Secure Critical Infrastructure Top of Mind for U.S.

When it comes to cyber-threats and defense, the U.S. government says that critical infrastructure threats are a growing concern. Rob Joyce, senior advisor of cybersecurity strategy for the National Security Agency NSA, said that while attacks targeting the systems that power the manufacturing,...

Compromising vital infrastructure: the power grid

Where were you when the lights went out? That line became famous after the 1977 blackout in New York City. This power outage was caused by lightning and lasted for up to two days, depending on which part of New York you lived in. While in this case the power grid failure was a freak incident due ...

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-10851

PowerDNS Authoritative Server 3.3.0 up to 4.1.4 excluding 4.1.5 and 4.0.6, and PowerDNS Recursor 3.2 up to 4.1.4 excluding 4.1.5 and 4.0.9, are vulnerable to a memory leak while parsing malformed records that can lead to remote denial of service...

Is your Facebook and Instagram down? Well, you are not alone (Updated)

By Waqas Another day, another service outage at social media giant Facebook and its subsidiary company Instagram. Yes, Facebook and Instagram have been hit by a worldwide service outage forcing both platforms to go offline. According to the outage map displayed on DownDetecter, the scale of this...

Microsoft Skype for Business and Lync Denial of Service Vulnerability

Microsoft Office is a suite of office software products.Skype for Business is one of the integrated communication platforms for businesses. A denial of service vulnerability exists in Microsoft Skype for Business and Lync. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the target service t...

You are not alone; social media giant Facebook is down

By Carolina You are not alone; the social media giant Facebook is down in many countries around the world for almost a half an hour starting from 6 pm UK time. In some cases, Facebook's site and application both are suffering an outage. The reason for this outage is currently unknown and there ha...

CVE-2018-15317

In BIG-IP 14.0.0-14.0.0.2, 13.0.0-13.1.1.5, 12.1.0-12.1.4.1, and 11.2.1-11.6.3.2, an attacker sending specially crafted SSL records to a SSL Virtual Server will cause corruption in the SSL data structures leading to intermittent decrypt BADRECORDMAC errors. Clients will be unable to access the...