Booters with Chinese Characteristics: The Rise of Chinese Online DDoS Platforms

This post was authored by Dave LiebenbergIn the past few months, Talos has observed an uptick in the number of Chinese websites offering online DDoS services. Many of these websites have a nearly identical layout and design, offering a simple interface in which the user selects a target’s host,...

Hackers Leverage Chat for Command&Control: How You Can Protect Your Business

Chat platforms have become a cornerstone for businesses and their customers alike. These important tools make it possible for employees to communicate and collaborate from nearly any location, and enable consumers to reach out to companies in accordance with their preferences. This fondness for...

chromium-browser: type confusion in extensions

Type confusion in extensions JavaScript bindings in Google Chrome prior to 60.0.3112.78 for Mac, Windows, Linux, and Android allowed a remote attacker to potentially maliciously modify objects via a crafted HTML page...

Hydra 8.6 - Fast and Flexible Network Login Hacker

A very fast network logon cracker which supports many different services. See feature sets and services coverage page - incl. a speed comparison against ncrack and Medusa. Number one of the biggest security holes are passwords, as every password security study shows. This tool is a proof of...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-7052

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 10.3.3 is affected. Safari before 10.1.2 is affected. iCloud before 6.2.2 on Windows is affected. iTunes before 12.6.2 on Windows is affected. tvOS before 10.2.2 is affected. The issue involves the "WebKit" component. It allows remote...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-7055

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 10.3.3 is affected. Safari before 10.1.2 is affected. iCloud before 6.2.2 on Windows is affected. iTunes before 12.6.2 on Windows is affected. tvOS before 10.2.2 is affected. The issue involves the "WebKit" component. It allows remote...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-7039

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 10.3.3 is affected. Safari before 10.1.2 is affected. iCloud before 6.2.2 on Windows is affected. iTunes before 12.6.2 on Windows is affected. tvOS before 10.2.2 is affected. The issue involves the "WebKit" component. It allows remote...

GPS-SDR-SIM - Software-Defined GPS Signal Simulator

GPS-SDR-SIM generates GPS baseband signal data streams, which can be converted to RF using software-defined radio SDR platforms, such as bladeRF, HackRF, and USRP. Windows build instructions 1. Start Visual Studio. 2. Create an empty project for a console application. 3. On the Solution Explorer ...

Securing Public Clouds for Digital Transformation Success

As organizations seek digital transformation benefits and aggressively move workloads to public cloud platforms, InfoSec teams must support their business units’ efforts by adapting and properly protecting these environments. This may sound surprising to those who think that, when you use a publi...

CVE-2017-2346

An MS-MPC or MS-MIC Service PIC may crash when large fragmented packets are passed through an Application Layer Gateway ALG. Repeated crashes of the Service PC can result in an extended denial of service condition. The issue can be seen only if NAT or stateful-firewall rules are configured with...

Design/Logic Flaw

An MS-MPC or MS-MIC Service PIC may crash when large fragmented packets are passed through an Application Layer Gateway ALG. Repeated crashes of the Service PC can result in an extended denial of service condition. The issue can be seen only if NAT or stateful-firewall rules are configured with...

CVE-2017-2341 Junos OS: VM to host privilege escalation in platforms with Junos OS running in a virtualized environment.

An insufficient authentication vulnerability on platforms where Junos OS instances are run in a virtualized environment, may allow unprivileged users on the Junos OS instance to gain access to the host operating environment, and thus escalate privileges. Affected releases are Juniper Networks Jun...

CVE-2017-2346 MS-MPC or MS-MIC crash when passing large fragmented traffic through an ALG

An MS-MPC or MS-MIC Service PIC may crash when large fragmented packets are passed through an Application Layer Gateway ALG. Repeated crashes of the Service PC can result in an extended denial of service condition. The issue can be seen only if NAT or stateful-firewall rules are configured with...

[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: jetty-9.3.7-3.v20160115.fc24

Jetty is a 100% Java HTTP Server and Servlet Container. This means that you do not need to configure and run a separate web server like Apache in ord er to use Java, servlets and JSPs to generate dynamic content. Jetty is a fully featured web server for static and dynamic content. Unlike separate...

CVE-2017-8602

Microsoft browsers on Microsoft Windows 7 SP1, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows 8.1 and Windows RT 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, and 1703, and Windows Server 2016 allow a spoofing vulnerability in the way they parse HTTP content, aka "Microsoft Browser Spoofing...

ImageMagick heap buffer overflow vulnerability (CNVD-2017-14613)

ImageMagick is an open source image viewing and editing tool for Unix/Linux platforms. ImageMagick suffers from a heap buffer overflow vulnerability due to a failure to adequately define checking user-supplied data before copying it to a location with an insufficient buffer. An attacker could...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: jetty-9.4.6-1.v20170531.fc25

Jetty is a 100% Java HTTP Server and Servlet Container. This means that you do not need to configure and run a separate web server like Apache in ord er to use Java, servlets and JSPs to generate dynamic content. Jetty is a fully featured web server for static and dynamic content. Unlike separate...

CVE-2017-6707

A vulnerability in the CLI command-parsing code of the Cisco StarOS operating system for Cisco ASR 5000 Series 11.0 through 21.0, 5500 Series, and 5700 Series devices and Cisco Virtualized Packet Core VPC Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to break from the StarOS CLI of an...

CVE-2017-8558

The Microsoft Malware Protection Engine running on Microsoft Forefront and Microsoft Defender on 32-bit versions of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, Windows RT 8.1, Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, and 1703 does not properly sc...

CVE-2017-0289

Graphics in Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, Windows RT 8.1, Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, 1703, and Windows Server 2016 allows improper disclosure of memory contents, aka "Windows Graphics Information Disclosure Vulnerability". This...