CVE-2018-4277: a“pie”triggered spoofing-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Researchers looking for the browser front-end security issues found in Chrome, Safari, Firefox and other browsers there is a security vulnerability. This article describes Apple products Alphabet d-shaped problems caused by domain spoofing problem. U+A771 The researchers found that Apple products...

Zero-Trust Frameworks: Securing the Digital Transformation

Given the ongoing, rapid rise in digital transformation, the “zero-trust” concept is fast gaining traction as the go-to strategy for securing modern business networks. Zero trust refers to the notion of shifting access controls from the perimeter to the individual users and their devices. Thus,...

clinicalresearch.pharmaceuticalconferences.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-701051 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| clinicalresearch.pharmaceuticalconferences.com Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| hidden until disclosure Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting ...

What DNA testing kit companies are really doing with your data

Sarah hovered over the mailbox, envelope in hand. She knew as soon as she mailed off her DNA sample, there’d be no turning back. She ran through the information she looked up on 23andMe’s website one more time: the privacy policy, the research parameters, the option to learn about potential healt...

FLARE VM Update

FLARE VM is the first of its kind reverse engineering and malware analysis distribution on Windows platform. Since its introduction in July 2017, FLARE VM has been continuously trusted and used by many reverse engineers, malware analysts, and security researchers as their go-to environment for...

Oracle and "Responsible Disclosure"

I've been writing about "responsible disclosure" for over a decade; here's an essay from 2007. Basically, it's a tacit agreement between researchers and software vendors. Researchers agree to withhold their work until software companies fix the vulnerabilities, and software vendors agree not to...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for...

Research Drives Protection

The threat landscape has changed often in the 22 years I’ve been working at Trend Micro and it will continue to change for many more years. We in cybersecurity are constantly at battle with hackers and threat actors who look to infect our customers using the many tactics available to them. Our jo...

New Boom in Facial Recognition Tech Prompts Privacy Alarms

Somewhat quietly over the past couple of years there has been a flurry of breakthroughs in biometric technology, led by some leapfrog advances in facial recognition systems. Now facial recognition appears to be on the verge of blossoming commercially, with security use-cases paving the way. Last...

Privacy and Security of Data at Universities

Interesting paper: "Open Data, Grey Data, and Stewardship: Universities at the Privacy Frontier," by Christine Borgman: Abstract: As universities recognize the inherent value in the data they collect and hold, they encounter unforeseen challenges in stewarding those data in ways that balance...

Researchers wishing to publish Microsoft Edge browser 0-day sandbox escape vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

In recent days, according to Twitter nickname is@Yux1xi（Yushi Liang security researchers revealed that he plans to publish on a Microsoft browser Microsoft Edge 0-day vulnerability that can be achieved for Edge browser remote code execution RCE, and@Yux1xi also claimed that he and his Russian...

Security of Solid-State-Drive Encryption

Interesting research: "Self-encrypting deception: weaknesses in the encryption of solid state drives SSDs": Abstract: We have analyzed the hardware full-disk encryption of several SSDs by reverse engineering their firmware. In theory, the security guarantees offered by hardware encryption are...

Friday Squid Blogging: Eating More Squid

This research paper concludes that we'll be eating more squid in the future. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here...

Cb Customer Spotlight Series: Q&A Landmark Credit Union’s Matt Goodacre

Featuring Matt Goodacre, Security Analyst at Landmark Credit Union With all their endpoints in high enforcement mode, Matt Goodacre, Security Analyst at Landmark Credit Union in Wisconsin, is confident the organization’s workstations are up to locked down when it comes to security. Here’s how...

TimpDoor Android malware turning devices into hidden proxies

By Waqas Android users in North America are the current target of TimpDoor malware. The McAfee Mobile Research team has identified an active phishing campaign that traps users by sending an SMS to influence them on downloading and installing an Android malware app TimpDoor. It is a fake...

aclr.com.es XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-690413 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| aclr.com.es Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

FireEye: Russian Research Lab Aided the Development of TRITON Industrial Malware

Cybersecurity firm FireEye claims to have discovered evidence that proves the involvement of a Russian-owned research institute in the development of the TRITON malware that caused some industrial systems to unexpectedly shut down last year, including a petrochemical plant in Saudi Arabia. TRITON...

FireEye: Russian Research Lab Aided the Development of TRITON Industrial Malware

Cybersecurity firm FireEye claims to have discovered evidence that proves the involvement of a Russian-owned research institute in the development of the TRITON malware that caused some industrial systems to unexpectedly shut down last year, including a petrochemical plant in Saudi Arabia. TRITON...

Phishing for knowledge

When we talk about phishing, top of mind are fake banking sites, payment systems, as well as mail and other globally popular services. However, cybercriminals have their fingers in far more pies than that. Unobviously, perhaps, students and university faculties are also in the line of fire. The...

How DNA Databases Violate Everyone's Privacy

If you're an American of European descent, there's a 60% chance you can be uniquely identified by public information in DNA databases. This is not information that you have made public; this is information your relatives have made public. Research paper: "Identity inference of genomic data using...