Researcher Finds Credentials for 92 Million Users of DNA Testing Firm MyHeritage

MyHeritage, an Israeli-based genealogy and DNA testing company, disclosed today that a security researcher found on the Internet a file containing the email addresses and hashed passwords of more than 92 million of its users. MyHeritage says it has no reason to believe other user data was...

SS-2018-013: Passwords sent back to browsers under some circumstances

More info at https://www.silverstripe.org/download/security-releases/ss-2018-013/...

CVE-2017-9635

Schneider Electric Ampla MES 6.4 provides capability to configure users and their privileges. When Ampla MES users are configured to use Simple Security, a weakness in the password hashing algorithm could be exploited to reverse the user's password. Schneider Electric recommends that users of Amp...

When Your Employees Post Passwords Online

Storing passwords in plaintext online is never a good idea, but it's remarkable how many companies have employees who are doing just that using online collaboration tools like Trello.com. Last week, KrebsOnSecurity notified a host of companies that employees were using Trello to share passwords f...

CVE-2017-1601

CVE-2017-1601 affects IBM Security Guardium Database Activity Monitor: vulnerable in versions 10.0, 10.0.1, and 10.1–10.1.4 where strong-password requirements are not enforced by default, enabling potential account compromise. The IBM bulletin enumerates the affected releases and provides remedia...

CVE-2014-0841

IBM Rational Focal Point 6.4.0, 6.4.1, 6.5.1, 6.5.2, and 6.6.0 use a weak algorithm to hash passwords, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to obtain cleartext values via a brute-force attack. IBM X-Force ID: 90704...

Under Armour Reports Massive Breach of 150 Million MyFitnessPal Accounts

UPDATE Fitness apparel firm Under Armour said 150 million users of its MyFitnessPal app are victims in a breach exposing user names, email addresses and hashed passwords. The company said personal identifiable information such as credit card numbers and social security numbers were not part of th...

Creating and Managing Strong Passwords

NCCIC/US-CERT reminds users of the importance of creating and managing strong passwords. Passwords are often the only barrier between you and your personal information. There are several programs attackers can use to help guess or "crack" passwords. However, choosing strong passwords and keeping...

The digital entropy of death: what happens to your online accounts when you die

Unless you're planning on having your mind jammed inside some sort of computer chip, eventually mortality will catch up and you're going to have to work out what you'll do with all of your online accounts. When it's time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you might, theoretically, be slightly annoy...

CVE-2018-1372

IBM Security Guardium Big Data Intelligence SonarG 3.1 does not require that users should have strong passwords by default, which makes it easier for attackers to compromise user accounts. IBM X-Force ID: 137772...

pulp: Unsafe use of bash $RANDOM for NSS DB password and seed

Pulp makes unsafe use of Bash's $RANDOM to generate a NSS DB password and seed resulting in insufficient randomness. An attacker could potentially guess the seed used given enough time and compute resources...

Leaky Amazon S3 Bucket Exposes Personal Data of 12,000 Social Media Influencers

An erroneously configured Amazon S3 Simple Storage Service bucket managed by Paris marketing firm Octoly left contact information and personal details for more than 12,000 social media influencers. Octoly connects popular Instagram, Twitter and YouTube users with companies that provide them...

CVE-2017-15112

keycloak-httpd-client-install versions before 0.8 allow users to insecurely pass password through command line, leaking it via command history and process info to other local users...

Meltdown and Spectre Aren’t Business as Usual

The new year brought a new vulnerability type — the CPU-based Meltdown and Spectre bugs — that’s forcing vendors and IT departments to modify long-standing ways of identifying threats, prioritizing remediation, managing patches and evaluating risk. “Meltdown and Spectre are different...

CVE-2014-4999

CVE-2014-4999 affects the Kajam Ruby gem (1.0.3.rc2). The issue arises in vendor/plugins/dataset/lib/dataset/database/mysql.rb where the mysql user password is exposed on the command lines used by mysqldump (capture) and mysql (restore), enabling a local attacker to view the password by listing p...

With 1.4 Billion Stolen Log-Ins on the Dark Web, it’s Time to Take Password Management Seriously

Last week you may have seen some worrying news: researchers probing the darkest corners of the underground web found a secret trove containing 1.4 billion breached usernames and passwords. Yes, that’s right: 1.4 BILLION. Yours might very well be among them, and if you reuse the same password acro...

Over 400 Popular Sites Record Your Every Keystroke and Mouse Movement

How many times it has happened to you when you look for something online and the next moment you find its advertisement on almost every other web page or social media site you visit? Web-tracking is not new. Most of the websites log its users' online activities, but a recent study from Princeton...

Whois Maintainer Accidentally Makes Password Hashes Available For Download

The regional internet registrar that administers IP addresses for the Asia Pacific region accidentally leaked Whois database data, including hashed passwords, forcing it to reset all passwords for objects in its Whois database. According to Asia Pacific Network Information Center APNIC, the...

REMOTE CODE EXECUTION (CVE-2017-13772) WALKTHROUGH ON A TP-LINK ROUTER

INTRODUCTION In this post, I will be discussing my recent findings while conducting vulnerability research on a home router: TP-Link’s WR940N home WiFi router. This post will outline the steps taken to identify vulnerable code paths, and how we can exploit those paths to gain remote code executio...

Weak Password Hashing Algorithm

WordPress is vulnerable to collision attacks. It uses a weak MD-5 based password hashing algorithm, making it easier for attackers to obtain a valid password hash...