Talos Vulnerability Discovery Year in Review — 2019

By Martin Zeiser. Cisco Talos' Systems Security Research Team investigates software, operating system, IoT and ICS vulnerabilities to make sure we find vulnerabilities before the bad guys do. We provide this information to the affected vendors so that they can create patches and protect their...

CVE-2019-11157

Improper conditions check in voltage settings for some IntelR Processors may allow a privileged user to potentially enable escalation of privilege and/or information disclosure via local access...

designresearch.aalto.fi Cross Site Scripting vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-1033611 Following coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspa. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspb. notified the website...

Exploit for Path Traversal in Ivanti Connect_Secure

pulsexploit Automated script for Pulse Secure SSL VPN exploit...

New Linux Bug Lets Attackers Hijack Encrypted VPN Connections

A team of cybersecurity researchers has disclosed a new severe vulnerability affecting most Linux and Unix-like operating systems, including FreeBSD, OpenBSD, macOS, iOS, and Android, that could allow remote 'network adjacent attackers' to spy on and tamper with encrypted VPN connections. The...

Hacking Hardware Password Managers: The RecZone

TL:DR Hardware security can be difficult to fathom, so I set out to research three password vaults as a newbie, sharing my findings. I picked three popular hardware vaults, each with different components, requiring different skills and equipment. Here's how I learned about disassembly, chipset...

Hacking Hardware Password Managers: Royal Vault Password Keeper

TL;DR: Taking three hardware password managers I used them to: Learn the basics of hardware hacking Practice disassembling Perform chipset research Understand pinouts and protocols Read data off each device The royal password vault boards looked to be reused from a previous hardware device with...

CORStest - A Simple CORS Misconfiguration Scanner

A simple CORSmisconfiguration scanner Based on theresearch of James Kettle CORStest is a quick & dirty Python 2 tool to find Cross-Origin Resource Sharing CORS misconfigurations. It takes a text file as input which may contain a list of domain names or URLs. Currently, the following potential...

OpenBSD Multiple Authentication Vulnerabilities

Multiple authentication vulnerabilities in OpenBSD have been disclosed by Qualys Research Labs. The vulnerabilities are assigned following CVEs: CVE-2019-19522, CVE-2019-19521, CVE-2019-19520, CVE-2019-19519. OpenBSD developers have confirmed the vulnerabilities and also provided a quick response...

yourpathmatters.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability

Security Researcher g0bl1nsec Helped patch 3661 vulnerabilities Received 4 Coordinated Disclosure badges Received 3 recommendations , a holder of 4 badges for responsible and coordinated disclosure, found a security vulnerability affecting yourpathmatters.com website and its users. Following...

Cybersecurity of connected healthcare 2020: Overview and predictions

Kaspersky Security Bulletin 2019. Advanced threat predictions for 2020 5G technology predictions 2020 Corporate security prediction 2020 Cyberthreats to financial institutions 2020: Overview and predictions More than two years after the infamous Wannacry ransomware crippled medical facilities and...

Embedded device research. The tools you’ll need

Over the last couple of years, we’ve run many courses on embedded device security. The focus is often defensive, but all the courses have an aspect of offensive: hacking demonstration and real devices so that you can understand the mindset of an attacker. To hack devices, you need tools. And the...

Ultimate Facebook Scraper - A Bot Which Scrapes Almost Everything About A Facebook User'S Profile Including All Public Posts/Statuses Available On The User'S Timeline, Uploaded Photos, Tagged Photos, Videos, Friends List And Their Profile Photos

Tooling that automates your social media interactions to collect posts, photos, videos, friends, followers and much more on Facebook. Features A bot which scrapes almost everything about a facebook user's profile including uploaded photos tagged photos videos friends list and their profile photos...

The cybercrime ecosystem: attacking blogs

Executive summary The Cybercrime Ecosystem is a series of articles explaining how cybercriminals operate, what drives them, what techniques they use and how we, regular Internet users, are part of that ecosystem. The articles will also cover technical details and up-to-date research on the threat...

Customer Guidance for the Dopplepaymer Ransomware

Microsoft has been investigating recent attacks by malicious actors using the Dopplepaymer ransomware. There is misleading information circulating about Microsoft Teams, along with references to RDP BlueKeep, as ways in which this malware spreads. Our security research teams have investigated and...

Google Discloses Android Camera Hijack Hack

Researchers have disclosed a high-severity issue that could allow attackers to hijack the Google Camera App, the built-in smartphone camera for Android phones. The issue was fixed for Google-manufactured phones in July – but Google said patches are still rolling out to smartphones in the broader...

Alibaba's Singles' Day Set Sales Records: Reinforces Mobile Optimization Lessons for All Retailers

On its 20th anniversary, Singles' Day 11 November, a popular Chinese shopping day meant to celebrate the status of those who are single, set a new one-day record of $38 billion in sales, a 26% increase over 2018 $30.7 billion, according to multiple media reports. However, according to Akamai data...

APT33 Mounts Focused, Highly Targeted Botnet Attacks Against U.S. Victims

The Iran-linked, espionage-focused advanced threat group known as APT33 has been spotted using more than a dozen obfuscated botnets to carry out narrowly targeted attacks against government and academic targets in the Middle East, the U.S. and Asia. Each botnet, linked to its own...

Qualcomm Chip Flaws Let Hackers Steal Private Data From Android Devices

Hundreds of millions of devices, especially Android smartphones and tablets, using Qualcomm chipsets, are vulnerable to a new set of potentially serious vulnerabilities. According to a report cybersecurity firm CheckPoint shared with The Hacker News, the flaws could allow attackers to steal...

thwiki.info Cross Site Scripting vulnerability

Security Researcher KhanJanny Helped patch 2643 vulnerabilities Received 9 Coordinated Disclosure badges Received 38 recommendations , a holder of 9 badges for responsible and coordinated disclosure, found a security vulnerability affecting thwiki.info website and its users. Following coordinated...