Threat Source newsletter (Sept. 26)

Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week. An attacker known as “Tortoiseshell” is using a phony, malicious website to deliver malware. The site specifically targets U.S. military...

CVE-2019-16097 Harbor privilege elevation vulnerability analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

The Harbor is one for the storage and distribution Docker image of the enterprise Registry server, by adding some of the business functions necessary characteristics, such as security, identification, and management, the expansion of the open-source Docker Distribution. As an enterprise-level...

[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: curl-7.65.3-4.fc30

curl is a command line tool for transferring data with URL syntax, supporti ng FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, LDAP, LDAPS, FILE, I MAP, SMTP, POP3 and RTSP. curl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies,...

A Secure “Smart” Kettle?

We haven’t looked at smart kettles for a long time, mostly as the UK market leader, Smarter, fixed their security with the iKettle 3.0. So I got quite excited when a colleague pointed out the Xiaomi ‘smart’ kettle a few weeks back. It’s the first kettle with a mobile app that we’ve seen for a...

Apple iOS 13 will better protect user privacy, but more could be done

Last week, Apple introduced several new privacy features to its latest mobile operating system, iOS 13. The Internet, predictably, expressed doubt, questioning Apple’s oversized influence, its exclusive pricing model that puts privacy out of reach for anyone who can’t drop hundreds of dollars on ...

[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: curl-7.61.1-11.fc29

curl is a command line tool for transferring data with URL syntax, supporti ng FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, LDAP, LDAPS, FILE, I MAP, SMTP, POP3 and RTSP. curl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies,...

Tor Browser for Android — First Official App Released On Play Store

Wohooo! Great news for privacy-focused users. Tor Browser, the most popular privacy-focused browser, for Android is finally out of beta, and the first stable version has now arrived on Google Play Store for anyone to download. The Tor Project announced Tuesday the first official stable release of...

Windows Admin Center 1809.5.1

Windows Admin Center 1809.5.1...

Authentication flaw

An issue was discovered in Ivanti Workspace Control before 10.3.90.0. Local authenticated users with low privileges in a Workspace Control managed session can bypass Workspace Control security features configured for this session by resetting the session context...

[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: curl-7.61.1-8.fc29

curl is a command line tool for transferring data with URL syntax, supporti ng FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, LDAP, LDAPS, FILE, I MAP, SMTP, POP3 and RTSP. curl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies,...

Kaspersky: Certificate warnings and similar UI elements in Web protection of Anti-Virus products family are susceptible to clickjacking

Summary Clickjacking can be used to trick users into overriding certificate warnings, disabling Safe Money functionality or phishing alerts. Description On certificate warning pages, a single click is sufficient to trigger overriding a wrong certificate. While an additional warning is displayed...

Apple Modernizes Its Hardware Security with T2

When Apple launched its latest MacBook Air last month, one of its more unusual features is that the built-in microphone automatically turns off when the lid is closed. Apple introduced the feature to eliminate any possibility of malware – or other unwanted applications – using the laptop’s...

PostgreSQL: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database management system. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in PostgreSQL. Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details. In addition it was discovered that Gentoo’s PostgreSQL installation suffered fro...

Voice of the Customer: Walmart embraces the cloud with Azure Active Directory

Todays post was written by Sue Bohn, partner director of Program Management and Ben Byford and Gerald Corson, senior directors of Identity and Access Management at Walmart. Greetings! Im Sue Bohn, partner director of Program Management at Microsoft. Im an insatiable, lifelong learner and I lead t...

Remote code execution

NUUO CMS all versions 3.1 and prior, The application implements a method of user account control that causes standard account security features to not be utilized as intended, which could allow user account compromise and may allow for remote code execution...

CVE-2018-17892

NUUO CMS all versions 3.1 and prior, The application implements a method of user account control that causes standard account security features to not be utilized as intended, which could allow user account compromise and may allow for remote code execution...

[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: curl-7.61.1-1.fc29

curl is a command line tool for transferring data with URL syntax, supporti ng FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, LDAP, LDAPS, FILE, I MAP, SMTP, POP3 and RTSP. curl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies,...

Safari & Firefox browser to block user data tracking with new security add-ons

By Waqas Apple has been trying hard to improve the security mechanisms of its hardware and software products. The addition of new privacy features in Safari browser is yet another attempt to toughen security measures for preventing breaches and tracking by websites like Facebook. It is a well-kno...

Passit: app.passit.io is vulnerable against username enumeration

Summary: The application app.passit.io is vulnerable against username enumeration through the use of error messages and dictionary attack. Description: We noted that the application uses GET request with a rate limit of 60 seconds which is too broad. The application returns an error message that...

Sql injection

A vulnerability was found in libpq, the default PostgreSQL client library where libpq failed to properly reset its internal state between connections. If an affected version of libpq was used with "host" or "hostaddr" connection parameters from untrusted input, attackers could bypass client-side...