The many faces of omnichannel fraud

The rise of new technologies, social networks, and other means of online communication have brought about compelling changes in industries across the board. For example, in retail, organizations use digital tools such as websites, email, and apps to reach out to their current and potential client...

This Week in Security News: Tracking and Hacking

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, Google revealed a secret deal with Mastercard that allows it to track what users buy offline. Also, Senate and House representatives warn th...

CloudSploit Scans - AWS Security Scanning Checks

CloudSploit scans is an open-source project designed to allow detection of security risks in an AWS account. These scripts are designed to run against an AWS account and return a series of potential misconfigurations and security risks. Installation Ensure that NodeJS is installed. If not, instal...

Pentagon Bans Soldiers from Using GPS Apps and Devices

After fitness apps have been shown to reveal the locations of U.S. military personnel in hot zones around the world, the Pentagon is mandating that armed service members must switch off any device using GPS functionality if they are deployed in “operational areas.” “Effective immediately, Defense...

FBI Releases Article on Securing the Internet of Things

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has released an article on the risks associated with internet-connected devices, commonly referred to as the Internet of Things IoT. FBI warns that cyber threat actors can use unsecured IoT devices as proxies to anonymously pursue malicious cyber activities...

Design/Logic Flaw

The default cloud-init configuration, in cloud-init 0.6.2 and newer, included "sshdeletekeys: 0", disabling cloud-init's deletion of ssh host keys. In some environments, this could lead to instances created by cloning a golden master or template system, sharing ssh host keys, and being able to...

GHSA-W23F-F3C5-R9QH ikst Downloads Resources over HTTP

Affected versions of ikst insecurely download resources over HTTP. In scenarios where an attacker has a privileged network position, they can modify or read such resources at will. While the exact severity of impact for a vulnerability like this is highly variable and depends on the behavior of t...

Spectre Will Haunt Us For a Long Time

During a recent Congressional hearing, Senators voiced concerns about the ongoing Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities. While the technical details were predictably glossed over, most of the hearing focused on Intel informing Chinese partners about the flaws six months before they went public...

PT-2018-10017 · Medtronic · Medtronic N'Vision Removable Application Card 8870 +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Medtronic N'Vision Clinician Programmer 8840, all versions Medtronic N'Vision removable Application Card 8870, all versions Description: The issue concerns the execution of application programs from the 8870 Application Card by the 8840...

Keeping False Positives in Check

In 2017, seven out of ten organizations said their security risks increased significantly, according to a Ponemon Institute study. This is no surprise given that last year organizations suffered the largest ransomware outbreak in history WannaCry and vulnerabilities such as Meltdown and Spectre...

ExxonMobil Bungles Rewards Card Debut

Energy giant ExxonMobil recently sent snail mail letters to its Plenti rewards card members stating that the points program was being replaced with a new one called Exxon Mobil Rewards+. Unfortunately, the letter includes a confusing toll free number and directs customers to a parked page that...

Quick look your right eyes and ears while using public WiFi network

By Waqas Research has revealed that public WiFi networks are more dangerous This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Quick look your right eyes and ears while using public WiFi network...

QSC18 Virtual Edition: Global IT Asset Discovery, Inventory, and Management

Maintaining an IT asset inventory is essential for a strong security posture, but digital transformation has further complicated this already challenging task. “The volume and variety of assets, including cloud, virtualization, mobility and IoT, is disrupting IT, and security takes center stage,”...

Thousands of Android Devices Running Insecure Remote ADB Service

Despite warnings about the threat of leaving insecure remote services enabled on Android devices, manufacturers continue to ship devices with open ADB debug port setups that leave Android-based devices exposed to hackers. Android Debug Bridge ADB is a command-line feature that generally uses for...

Server side request forgery (ssrf)

The Java implementation of AMF3 deserializers used by Flamingo amf-serializer by Exadel, version 2.2.0, allows external entity references XXEs from XML documents embedded within AMF3 messages. If the XML parsing is handled incorrectly it could potentially expose sensitive data on the server, deni...

Podcast: How Cities Can Be Security Smart

The smart city industry is projected to be a 400 billion dollar market by 2020, as municipals look at real-world applications for transportation, waste management, and law enforcement. But with that growth comes privacy issues and security risks, Tenable CTO Renaud Deraison told Threatpost’s...

XSS Payload List - Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability Payload List

Cross-Site Scripting XSS attacks are a type of injection, in which malicious scripts are injected into otherwise benign and trusted web sites. XSS attacks occur when an attacker uses a web application to send malicious code, generally in the form of a browser side script, to a different end user...

Ensure Application Security with Zend Server and RIPS

Zend Server is the ultimate and most secure software platform for deploying, monitoring, debugging, maintaining, and optimizing enterprise PHP applications. It also helps to keep the technology stack up-to-date and to avoid security risks that stem from outdated components. However, most of the...

Researchers Show How Popular Text Editors Can Be Attacked Via Third-Party Plugins

Security risks in popular extensible text editors allow hackers to abuse plugins and escalate privileges on targeted systems, according to new research from SafeBreach. Inadequate separation of regular and elevated access modes used in editors and a lack of folder permissions integrity allow...

CVE-2017-0135 vulnerability analysis: the use of the Edge of the browser XSS filter bypass CSP-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

In this article, I to share the one I at last found the Edge of the browser vulnerabilities. This exploits the browserXSSfilter the defects, to bypass anotherXSSdefensive measures: CSP（Content Security Policy, Content Security Policy. Note that this vulnerability is not in bypassXSSfilter, but th...