Code injection

DISPUTED GNOME Keyring through 3.28.2 allows local users to retrieve login credentials via a Secret Service API call and the D-Bus interface if the keyring is unlocked, a similar issue to CVE-2008-7320. One perspective is that this occurs because available D-Bus protection mechanisms involving th...

CVE-2018-19358

GNOME Keyring through 3.28.2 allows local users to retrieve login credentials via a Secret Service API call and the D-Bus interface if the keyring is unlocked, a similar issue to CVE-2008-7320. One perspective is that this occurs because available D-Bus protection mechanisms involving the busconf...

Kicking the Rims – A Guide for Securely Writing and Auditing Chrome Extensions

A Thin Layer of Chrome Extension Security Prior-Art Chrome extension security and methodologies for auditing Chrome extensions for vulnerabilities appears to be a topic with shockingly little prior art. Especially when compared to other platforms such as Electron, which have had extension researc...

Microsoft Windows: Network access: Sharing and security model for local accounts

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: winnasharingsecuritymodellocal.nasl 11344 2018-09-12 06:57:52Z emoss $ Check value for Network access: Sharing and security model for local accounts Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

foilChat Sign Up Email PIN Confirmation Bypass

foilChat sign up email PIN confirmation bypass ============================================== https://sintonen.fi/advisories/foilchat-signup-email-pin-confirmation-bypass.txt Overview -------- foilChat https://www.foilchat.com/ allows anyone to register with any email address due to a...

Akamai and Duo have announced a technology partnership for Zero Trust

Akamai continues to build a zero trust ecosystem by integrating it's Enterprise Application Access EAA with Duo's Multi-Factor Authentication MFA solution. Duo now natively integrates into EAA and augments access with push-based MFA, phone call delivery of MFA tokens, and additional device level...

Zero Trust and the Slowly Boiled Frog

Disclaimer: No actual frogs were harmed in the writing of the blog post. We wouldn't do that. We like frogs. What is Zero Trust Networking? The Zero Trust security model was proposed by John Kindervag of Forrester Research back in 2010. The concept is that the traditional trust model of "trust, b...

Taking the Fight Where It Belongs

This Guest blog was written by Robert Mahowald, a Group Vice President at IDC who leads IDC's Worldwide Applications research practice, in addition to co-leading IDC's Cloud Services: Global Overview program. A surprising set of facts emerged from the most recent quarterly installment of IDC's...

Managing Security in a DevOps Environment

DevOps is a software development practice in which development and operations engineers collaborate during the entire product lifecycle. With the adoption of DevOps at mainstream levels, we now see security starting to take a bigger role in DevOps’ day-to-day responsibilities. From a security...

Is Your Security Team Setup To Fail?

The ingredients for strong cybersecurity aren’t a secret. In fact, they haven’t changed significantly over the past 20 years—the ingredients are available to almost every organization out there. On the surface, doing security isn’t that hard: | Patch quickly and frequently. Use reasonable securit...

Insecure Cross-Domain Policy (allow-http-request-headers-from)

The browser security model normally prevents web content from one domain from accessing data from another domain. This is commonly known as the "same origin policy". URL policy files grant cross-domain permissions for reading data. They permit operations that are not permitted by default. The URL...

No Firewalls, No Problem for Google

SAN FRANCISCO—Google may have sent the tired castle analogy of network security’s soft center protected by a tough exterior out to pasture for good. On Tuesday at RSA Conference, Google shared the seven-year journey of its internal BeyondCorp rollout where it affirms trust based on what it knows...

I'm giving up on PGP

After years of wrestling GnuPG with varying levels of enthusiasm, I came to the conclusion that it's just not worth it, and I'm giving up. At least on the concept of long term PGP keys. This is not about the gpg tool itself, or about tools at all. Many already wrote about that. It's about the lon...

Microsoft Windows Authenticated User Code Execution

This module uses a valid administrator username and password or password hash to execute an arbitrary payload. This module is similar to the "psexec" utility provided by SysInternals. This module is now able to clean up after itself. The service created by this tool uses a randomly chosen name an...

Redis Remote Command Execution

From time to time I get security reports about Redis. It’s good to get reports, but it’s odd that what I get is usually about things like Lua sandbox escaping, insecure temporary file creation, and similar issues, in a software which is designed as we explain in our security page here...

redis -- EVAL Lua Sandbox Escape

Ben Murphy reports: It is possible to break out of the Lua sandbox in Redis and execute arbitrary code. This shouldn’t pose a threat to users under the trusted Redis security model where only trusted users can connect to the database. However, in real deployments there could be databases that can...

Understanding the Shared Security Model in Amazon Web Services

Security in the Amazon EC2 environment is a responsibility shared by both the end user and Amazon. This is because within this environment there are specific parts that Amazon has control of and specific parts that are controlled by the end user. For the end user, they are responsible for securin...

IIS the new UNICODE vulnerability WideChar and MultiByte character conversion issues-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

0 2 year summary has not been published a little windows features! These characteristics of is my summary of the security model of“vulnerability”, as long as we go in search of such an environment or wait for such an environment. The following characteristics for early IIS has not found the...

Incredible PBX remote command execution exploit

!/usr/bin/perl Title: Incredible PBX remote command execution exploit Author: Simo Ben youssef Contact: SimoatMorxploitcom Discovered: 1 September 2014 Coded: 21 October 2014 Published: 21 October 2014 MorXploit Research http://www.MorXploit.com Vendor: PBX in a Flash Vendor url:...

Google Ups Chrome Rewards, Offers More Money For Exploits

Google is again increasing the amount of money it offers to researchers who report vulnerabilities in Chrome as part of the company’s bug bounty program. Now, researchers will be able to earn $15,000 at the high end of the scale, and Google also is offering more cash for researchers who can submi...