How one data scientist is pioneering techniques to detect security threats

Data science is an increasingly popular field of study that’s relevant to every industry. When Maria Puertas Calvo was a student, she never imagined that one day she would pioneer data science techniques to detect security threats. She started her Microsoft career on the Safety Platform team,...

Introducing Bounty Awards for Teams Desktop Client Security Research

Partnering with the security research community is an important part of Microsoft’s holistic approach to defending against security threats. As much of the world has shifted to working from home in the last year, Microsoft Teams has enabled people to stay connected, organized, and collaborate...

Introducing Bounty Awards for Teams Desktop Client Security Research

Partnering with the security research community is an important part of Microsoft’s holistic approach to defending against security threats. As much of the world has shifted to working from home in the last year, Microsoft Teams has enabled people to stay connected, organized, and collaborate...

CVE-2021-23982

Using techniques that built on the slipstream research, a malicious webpage could have scanned both an internal network's hosts as well as services running on the user's local machine utilizing WebRTC connections. This vulnerability affects Firefox ESR 78.9, Firefox 87, and Thunderbird 78.9...

Security Vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox ESR 78.9 — Mozilla

A transient execution vulnerability, named Floating Point Value Injection FPVI allowed an attacker to leak arbitrary memory addresses and may have also enabled JIT type confusion attacks. A related vulnerability, Speculative Code Store Bypass SCSB, did not affect Firefox. A texture upload of a...

Netop Vision Pro - Distance Learning Software is 20/20 in Hindsight

ARCHIVED STORY Netop Vision Pro – Distance Learning Software is 20/20 in Hindsight By Sam Quinn · MAR 21, 2021 · 27 MIN READ The McAfee Labs Advanced Threat Research team is committed to uncovering security issues in both software and hardware to help developers provide safer products for...

Women in Security Part 3: Meet Marina Liang, Threat Researcher

This post is part of our Women’s History Month series - follow along with us on Twitter @VMwareCarbonBlack In celebration of Women’s History Month, we’re excited to share the next blog in our six-part Women in Security series where we highlight outstanding women on the VMware Security Business Un...

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Google Play Harbors Malware-Laced Apps Bent on Spying

A malware dropper that paves the way for attackers to remotely steal data from Android phones has been spreading via nine malicious apps on the official Google Play store, according to researchers. The malware is part of a campaign aimed at lifting victims’ financial information, but which also...

Siemens TCP/IP Stack Vulnerabilities-AMNESIA:33 in SENTRON PAC / 3VA Devices (Update C)

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 6.5 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity Vendor: Siemens Equipment: SENTRON 3VA COM100/800, SENTRON 3VA DSP800, SENTRON PAC2200, SENTRON PAC3200T, SENTRON PAC3200, SENTRON PAC3220, SENTRON PAC4200 Vulnerabilities: Out-of-bounds Read, Out-of-bounds...

Fake Google reCAPTCHA Phishing Attack Swipes Office 365 Passwords

Microsoft users are being targeted with thousands of phishing emails, in an ongoing attack aiming to steal their Office 365 credentials. The attackers add an air of legitimacy to the campaign by leveraging a fake Google reCAPTCHA system and top-level domain landing pages that include the logos of...

McAfee ATR Thinks in Graphs | McAfee Blogs

ARCHIVED STORY McAfee ATR Thinks in Graphs By Valentine Mairet · MAR 08, 2021 · 19 MIN READ 0. Introduction John Lambert, a distinguished researcher specializing in threat intelligence at Microsoft, once said these words that changed perspectives: “Defenders think in lists. Attackers think in...

thorn-linux

This is a Debian-based research and development platform for information security called Thorn Linux. It is designed to keep users up to date with the latest cybersecurity news while providing a hardened and anonymized penetration-testing environment. The platform includes a highly customized...

Exploit for Path Traversal in Microsoft

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Bug in Apple's Find My Feature Could've Exposed Users' Location Histories

Cybersecurity researchers on Thursday disclosed two distinct design and implementation flaws in Apple's crowdsourced Bluetooth location tracking system that can lead to a location correlation attack and unauthorized access to the location history of the past seven days, thereby deanonymizing user...

Exploit for Improper Input Validation in Vmware View_Planner

CVE-2021-21978 A simpler way to bring back the vulnerable expl...

Grammarly fixed XSS vulnerability that bypasses AWS WAF

Grammarly is the unicorn company that announced its open bug bounty program last September. Since that time, many security researchers posted their submissions and got paid well. Some of Grammarlys issues are also useful for others. Like the recent XSS, that also bypasses an AWS WAF. The recent X...

Malicious Code Bombs Target Amazon, Lyft, Slack, Zillow

Researchers have spotted malicious packages targeting internal applications for Amazon, Lyft, Slack and Zillow among others inside the npm public code repository — all of which exfiltrate sensitive information. The packages weaponize a proof-of-concept PoC code dependency-confusion exploit that w...

SQL Injection Vulnerability in Research Management System of Beijing Eplag Technology Co.

Ltd. is a high-tech enterprise focusing on providing research informatization construction, research consulting, evaluation service and research transformation service for China's scientific research. A SQL injection vulnerability exists in the research management system of Beijing Eplag Technolo...

Cross site scripting

Blackboard Collaborate Ultra 20.02 is affected by a cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability. The XSS payload will execute on the class room, which leads to stealing cookies from users who join the class. NOTE: Third-parties dispute the validity of this entry as a possible false positive during...