You are not alone, WhatsApp is down for many

By Carolina If you are wondering why your WhatsApp is down, dont This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: You are not alone, WhatsApp is down for many...

JDK: unspecified vulnerability fixed in 8u151 and 9.0.1 (Deployment)

Vulnerability in the Java SE component of Oracle Java SE subcomponent: Deployment. Supported versions that are affected are Java SE: 8u144 and 9. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise Java SE. Successful attacks...

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Multiple Huawei Products (CNVD-2017-35593)

The Huawei EVA series and VIE series are both smartphone products from the Chinese company Huawei. A denial-of-service vulnerability exists in multiple Huawei products, which can be successfully exploited by attackers to cause the camera application to be unavailable by tricking users into...

Facebook and Instagram Suffer Worldwide Outage

By Carolina Social media giants Facebook and Instagram suffered a brief service outage in This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Facebook and Instagram Suffer Worldwide Outage...

Equifax Reopens Salary Lookup Service

Equifax has re-opened a Web site that lets anyone look up the salary history of a large portion of the American workforce using little more than a person's Social Security number and their date of birth. The big-three credit bureau took the site down just hours after I wrote about it on Oct. 8, a...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of September 18, 2017

The Morton Salt slogan “When it rains it pours” refers to its free flowing salt with a pouring spot and is a variation of the proverb “It never rains but it pours.” Unfortunately, Mother Nature has taken the proverb literally. This has been a devastating hurricane season for the United States and...

CVE-2017-14515

Heap-based Buffer Overflow on Tenda W15E devices before 15.11.0.14 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service temporary HTTP outage and forced logout via unspecified vectors...

CVE-2017-14515

Heap-based Buffer Overflow on Tenda W15E devices before 15.11.0.14 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service temporary HTTP outage and forced logout via unspecified vectors...

The vulnerability of the ReadPSDImage function (coders/psd.c) in the ImageMagick console graphics editor allows a hacker to cause a service failure.

The vulnerability of the ReadPSDImage function coders/psd.c in the console-based image editing tool ImageMagick is related to the exhaustion of memory resources. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor to cause service interruptions remotely...

A Dangerous Vulnerability in Solar Panels can Cause Power Outage

By Waqas Willem Westerhof, a cybersecurity researcher at Dutch security firm ITsec, This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: A Dangerous Vulnerability in Solar Panels can Cause Power Outage...

The vulnerability of Xen hypervisors allows a perpetrator to obtain confidential information or cause service failures.

The vulnerability of Xen hypervisors is related to insufficient checking of the ports accessed by the attackers. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a remote attacker to cause service failures or obtain confidential information such as changing the zero pointer...

Man Accidentally Destroyed Production Database on First Day of His Job

By Waqas We all make mistakes, but some mistakes are fatal ending up with devastating consequences just like one of those Amazon engineers whos typo error caused a major service outage worldwide. But then theres this man /cscareerthrowaway567 who recently posted on Reddit explaining that he...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of May 29, 2017

“Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.” It’s not exactly clear how Murphy’s Law originated, but it seems to always make an appearance at the one time you can’t afford for anything to go wrong. Your laptop starts to malfunction right as you need to finish a project this happened to yours truly...

Code injection

Atlassian Eucalyptus before 4.4.1, when in EDGE mode, allows remote authenticated users with certain privileges to cause a denial of service E2 service outage via unspecified vectors...

CVE-2017-3504

Vulnerability in the Automatic Service Request ASR component of Oracle Support Tools subcomponent: ASR Manager. The supported version that is affected is Prior to 5.7. Easily "exploitable" vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with logon to the infrastructure where Automatic Service Reque...

F5 BIG-IP Product Denial of Service Vulnerability (CNVD-2017-04672)

The F5 BIG-IP is a load balancer that uses a variety of distribution algorithms to distribute network requests to available servers in a server cluster, enabling network visitors to have the best possible networking experience by managing incoming Web data traffic and increasing effective network...

How A Simple Command Typo Took Down Amazon S3 and Big Chunk of the Internet

The major internet outage across the United States earlier this week was not due to any virus or malware or state-sponsored cyber attack, rather it was the result of a simple TYPO. Amazon on Thursday admitted that an incorrectly typed command during a routine debugging of the company's billing...

Hacker Who Knocked Million Routers Offline Using MIRAI Arrested at London Airport

British police have arrested a suspect in connection with the massive attack on Deutsche Telekom that hit nearly 1 Million routers last November. Late last year, someone knocked down more than 900,000 broadband routers belonging to Deutsche Telekom users in Germany, which affected the telephony,...

Hackers Suspected of Causing Second Power Outage in Ukraine

The same group of hackers that caused the power outage across several regions in Ukraine last Christmas holidays might have once again shut down power supply in northern Ukraine during the weekend. According to Ukrainian energy provider Ukrenergo, a cyber attack on Kyiv's power grid may have caus...

NVIDIA GPU Display Driver Denial of Service Vulnerability

NVIDIA Windows GPU Display Driver is a set of graphics processor GPU graphics card drivers for Windows from NVIDIA. A security vulnerability exists in the kernel mode layer nvlddmkm.sys for Windows-based platforms or nvidia.ko for Linux-based platforms in all versions of the NVIDIA GPU Display...