'Unhackable' Biometric USB Offers Up Passwords in Plain Text

A USB stick dubbed eyeDisk that uses iris recognition to unlock the drive claims to be “unhackable” – only, it isn’t. In fact, a simple Wireshark analysis revealed the device’s password – in plain text. David Lodge of Pen Test Partners noticed the product on Kickstarter, where it amassed enough...

eyeDisk. Hacking the unhackable. Again

Last year, about the time we were messing around with a virtually unheard-of hardware wallet we got a bit excited about the word “unhackable”. Long story short, I ended up supporting a selection of kickstarters that had the word “unhackable” or similar in their title. Of these, at least one got...

Why Isn't GDPR Being Enforced?

Politico has a long article making the case that the lead GDPR regulator, Ireland, has too cozy a relationship with Silicon Valley tech companies to effectively regulate their privacy practices. Despite its vows to beef up its threadbare regulatory apparatus, Ireland has a long history of caterin...

News Wrap: Amazon Echo Privacy, Facebook FTC Fines and Biometrics Regulation

Data privacy has been an outstanding theme this past week, and the Threatpost team discussed the biggest privacy related news. In the news wrap podcast for April 26, the team discussed the backstories behind several reports from the week, including: Facebook potentially facing Federal Trade...

Facial Recognition 'Consent’ Doesn’t Exist, Threatpost Poll Finds

Half of respondents in a recent Threatpost poll said that they don’t believe consent realistically exists when it comes to real-life facial recognition. The recent poll of 170 readers comes as facial recognition applications continue to pop up in the real world – from airports to police forces...

Poll: Are You Creeped Out By Facial Recognition?

Several news incidents this week regarding facial recognition and biometrics have sparked discussions in the security space over privacy concerns and issues around consent. First, a JetBlue passenger made headlines in a now-viral Twitter exchange with the airline, about the facial-recognition...

The vulnerability of the Network-Based Application Recognition technology in Cisco IOS and Cisco IOS XE operating systems allows a hacker to trigger a service failure.

The vulnerability of the Network-Based Application Recognition technology in Cisco IOS and Cisco IOS XE operating systems exists due to errors in syntactic analysis of DNS packets. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor, who has not undergone authentication checks, to trigger a...

The vulnerability of the Network-Based Application Recognition technology implementation in Cisco IOS and Cisco IOS XE operating systems allows attackers to trigger a service failure.

The vulnerability of the Network-Based Application Recognition technology in Cisco IOS and Cisco IOS XE operating systems exists due to errors in syntactic analysis of DNS packets. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor, who has not undergone authentication checks, to trigger a...

CVE-2019-10884

Uniqkey Password Manager 1.14 contains a vulnerability because it fails to recognize the difference between domains and sub-domains. The vulnerability means that passwords saved for example.com will be recommended for usersite.example.com. This could lead to successful phishing campaigns and crea...

CVE-2019-10884

Uniqkey Password Manager 1.14 contains a vulnerability because it fails to recognize the difference between domains and sub-domains. The vulnerability means that passwords saved for example.com will be recommended for usersite.example.com. This could lead to successful phishing campaigns and crea...

Cisco IOS XE Software Network-Based Application Recognition Denial of Service Vulnerabilities

According to its self-reported version, Cisco IOS XE Software is affected by following multiple vulnerabilities - Multiple vulnerabilities in the Network-Based Application Recognition NBAR feature of Cisco IOS Software and Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to...

Adversarial Machine Learning against Tesla's Autopilot

Researchers have been able to fool Tesla's autopilot in a variety of ways, including convincing it to drive into oncoming traffic. It requires the placement of stickers on the road. Abstract: Keen Security Lab has maintained the security research work on Tesla vehicle and shared our research...

Tesla autopilot feature hacked to risk oncoming traffic

By Waqas Tesla's High-End Vehicle’s Lane Recognition System not Free from Technical Glitches- Keen Labs Claims in New Research. Cybersecurity firm Keen Labs published a research paper PDF on Saturday in which it described the three hacks that the company detected that can be used to manipulate...

CVE-2019-1738

A vulnerability in the Network-Based Application Recognition NBAR feature of Cisco IOS Software and Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an affected device to reload. This vulnerability is due to a parsing issue on DNS packets. An attacker could exploit...

Race condition

A vulnerability in the Network-Based Application Recognition NBAR feature of Cisco IOS Software and Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an affected device to reload. This vulnerability is due to a parsing issue on DNS packets. An attacker could exploit...

CVE-2019-1740

A vulnerability in the Network-Based Application Recognition NBAR feature of Cisco IOS Software and Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an affected device to reload. This vulnerability are due to a parsing issue on DNS packets. An attacker could exploit...

CVE-2019-1739

A vulnerability in the Network-Based Application Recognition NBAR feature of Cisco IOS Software and Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an affected device to reload. This vulnerability is due to a parsing issue on DNS packets. An attacker could exploit...

Cisco IOS and IOS XE Input Validation Vulnerability

Cisco IOS and IOS XE are a set of operating systems developed by Cisco for its network devices. An input validation vulnerability exists in the Network-Based Application Recognition NBAR feature in Cisco IOS and IOS XE, which stems from a parsing problem in the program that could be exploited by ...

PT-2019-1714 · Cisco · Cisco Ios Xe +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Cisco IOS Software affected versions not specified Cisco IOS XE Software affected versions not specified Description: A parsing issue on DNS packets in the Network-Based Application Recognition NBAR feature could allow an unauthenticated,...

PT-2019-1706 · Cisco · Cisco Ios Xe +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Cisco IOS Software and Cisco IOS XE Software affected versions not specified Description: A vulnerability in the Network-Based Application Recognition NBAR feature could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an affected device to...