A week in security (September 4 – September 10)

Last week, we looked into expired domain names being used for malvertising, delved into dubious Facebook apps, and checked out Chinese seminar scams. We also explained the whys and wherefores of false positives, explained what Google is doing with HTTPs, warned you away from a fake DHS email, and...

Announcing the Fourth Annual Flare-On Challenge

The fourth annual Flare-On Challenge – the FireEye Labs Advanced Reverse Engineering FLARE team’s yearly reverse engineering contest – is scheduled to kick off on Sept. 1, 2017, at 8pm ET. This is a CTF-style challenge for all active and aspiring reverse engineers, malware analysts, and security...

Akamai Is Named A Leader In Gartner's Magic Quadrant For Web Application Firewalls

"Don't work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition" - H. Jackson Brown. A friend sent this quote to me after I explained to her my ambivalence about being recognized by Gartner as a "Leader" in their Web Application Firewall Magic Quadrant. I had mixed feelings because I wanted to...

Self-Driving Cars Can Be Hacked By Just Putting Stickers On Street Signs

Car Hacking is a hot topic, though it's not new for researchers to hack cars. Previously they had demonstrated how to hijack a car remotely, how to disable car's crucial functions like airbags, and even how to steal cars. But the latest car hacking trick doesn't require any extra ordinary skills ...

bash security and bug fix update

4.2.46-28 - CVE-2016-9401 - Fix crash when '-' is passed as second sign to popd Resolves: 1429838 4.2.46-27 - CVE-2016-7543: Fix for arbitrary code execution via SHELLOPTS+PS4 variables Resolves: 1426026 4.2.46-26 - CVE-2016-0634: Fix for arbitrary code execution via malicious hostname Resolves:...

FBI Releases Article on Privacy Risks Associated with Internet-Connected Children's Toys

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has released an article on the privacy risks associated with Internet-connected children's toys. FBI warns that Internet-connected toys may contain "sensors, microphones, cameras, data storage components, and other multimedia capabilities - including speech...

SUSE-SU-2017:1783-1 Security update for postgresql94

This update for postgresql93 fixes the following issues: - bsc1029547: Fix tests with timezone 2017a - CVE-2017-7486: Restrict visibility of pgusermappings.umoptions, to protect passwords stored as user mapping options. bsc1037624 - CVE-2017-7485: Recognize PGREQUIRESSL variable again. bsc1038293...

Stealing Voice Prints

This article feels like hyperbole: The scam has arrived in Australia after being used in the United States and Britain. The scammer may ask several times "can you hear me?", to which people would usually reply "yes." The scammer is then believed to record the "yes" response and end the call. That...

The vulnerabilities in programs for viewing and editing PDF files such as Adobe Reader, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Acrobat Document Cloud, and Adobe Reader Document Cloud allow attackers to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information.

The vulnerability of the DLL library of OCR plugins for programs that read and edit PDF files, such as Adobe Reader, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Acrobat Document Cloud, and Adobe Reader Document Cloud, is related to security configuration errors. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor...

CVE-2017-3012

Adobe Acrobat Reader versions 11.0.19 and earlier, 15.006.30280 and earlier, 15.023.20070 and earlier have an insecure library loading DLL hijacking vulnerability in the OCR plugin...

Samsung Galaxy S8's Facial Unlocking Feature Can Be Fooled With A Photo

Samsung launched its new flagship smartphones, the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus, at its Unpacked 2017 event on Wednesday in New York, with both IRIS and Facial Recognition features, making it easier for users to unlock their smartphone and signing into websites. All users need to do is simply hol...

Google reCaptcha Bypass Technique Uses Google's Own Tools

A proof of concept bypass of Google’s reCaptcha V2 verification system, posted online Tuesday, uses Google’s own web-based tools to pull off the skirting of the system. The tool dubbed ReBreakCaptcha “lets you easily bypass Google’s reCaptcha v2 anywhere on the web,” according to the author of th...

Vulnerability analysis cisco analysis tools-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

cisco Auditing: A small security audit tools, scanning Cisco router General vulnerabilities, such as default passwords, SNMP community strings and some of the old IOS bugs. CAT-h xx. xx. xx. xx. cisco-global-exploiter:cisco vulnerability penetration testing, there are 14 different vulnerabilities...

ssh-audit - SSH Server Auditing

ssh-audit is a tool for ssh server auditing. Features SSH1 and SSH2 protocol server support; grab banner, recognize device or software and operating system, detect compression; gather key-exchange, host-key, encryption and message authentication code algorithms; output algorithm information...

Police Scan 117 Million Driving Licence Photos for Face Recognition Database

Your driver's license photo could be scarier than it actually looks — Well, here's why: With the help of state driver's license data, U.S. law enforcement agencies have created a huge a face-recognition database of more than 117 Million American adults that are regularly scanned in the course of...

Hey, Poker Face — This Wi-Fi Router Can Read Your Emotions

Are you good at hiding your feelings? No issues, your Wi-Fi router may soon be able to tell how you feel, even if you have a good poker face. A team of researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory CSAIL have developed a device that can measure human inner emotional...

SSH Server Auditing: ssh-audit

ssh-audit is a tool for ssh server auditing Features SSH1 and SSH2 protocol server support; grab banner, recognize device or software and operating system, detect compression; gather key-exchange, host-key, encryption and message authentication code algorithms; output algorithm information...

Keystroke Recognition Uses Wi-Fi Signals To Snoop

A group of academic researchers have figured out how to use off-the-shelf computer equipment and a standard Wi-Fi connection to sniff out keystrokes coming from someone typing on a keyboard nearby. The keystroke recognition technology, called WiKey, isn’t perfect, but is impressive with a reporte...

Apple Launches Bug Bounty with Maximum $200,000 Reward

LAS VEGAS—Apple closed out Black Hat today with a long-awaited announcement that next month it will launch a bug bounty. The Apple Security Bounty will be an invitation-only program, open to two dozen researchers at the outset, said Ivan Krstic, head of security engineering and architecture. The...

The vulnerability of Google Chrome browser allows a malicious actor to trigger a service failure.

The Google Chrome browser contains a vulnerability related to memory reuse after deallocation use-after-free error in the browser/ui/views/speechrecognitionbubbleviews.cc file. Exploiting this vulnerability allows malicious actors to remotely cause system failures or other adverse effects through...