Hotspot Shield Information Disclosure

Vulnerability Summary The following advisory describes a information disclosure found in Hotspot Shield. Hotspot Shield “provides secure and private access to a free and open internet. Enabling access to social networks, sports, audio and video streaming, news, dating, gaming wherever you are.”...

Hotspot Shield - Information Disclosure

Hotspot Shield - Information Disclosure Vulnerability Summary The following advisory describes a information disclosure found in Hotspot Shield. Hotspot Shield “provides secure and private access to a free and open internet. Enabling access to social networks, sports, audio and video streaming,...

System Shield 5.0.0.136 - Privilege Escalation

System Shield 5.0.0.136 - Privilege Escalation / Exploit Title - System Shield AntiVirus & AntiSpyware Arbitrary Write Privilege Escalation Date - 29th January 2018 Discovered by - Parvez Anwar @parvezghh Vendor Homepage - http://www.iolo.com/ Tested Version - 5.0.0.136 Driver Version - 5.4.11.1 ...

Hotspot Shield - Information Disclosure

Vulnerability Summary The following advisory describes a information disclosure found in Hotspot Shield. Hotspot Shield “provides secure and private access to a free and open internet. Enabling access to social networks, sports, audio and video streaming, news, dating, gaming wherever you are.”...

System Shield 5.0.0.136 - Privilege Escalation

/ Exploit Title - System Shield AntiVirus & AntiSpyware Arbitrary Write Privilege Escalation Date - 29th January 2018 Discovered by - Parvez Anwar @parvezghh Vendor Homepage - http://www.iolo.com/ Tested Version - 5.0.0.136 Driver Version - 5.4.11.1 - amp.sys Tested on OS - 64bit Windows 7 and...

Rising XP Shield suffers from DLL hijacking vulnerability

Rising XP Shield is a defense software specially designed to provide virus protection, vulnerability repair, vulnerability immunity and other functions for XP systems. Rising XP Shield has a DLL hijacking vulnerability that can be exploited by attackers to load any malicious DLL, which can cause ...

Security Bulletin: NVIDIA SHIELD TV Security Updates for CPU Speculative Side Channel Vulnerabilities

NVIDIA SHIELD TV Response to CPU Speculative Side Channel Vulnerabilities - CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5754 Bulletin Summary NVIDIA is providing an initial security update to mitigate aspects of Google Project Zero's January 3, 2018, publication of novel information disclosure attacks...

Security Bulletin: NVIDIA SHIELD Tablet Security Updates for CPU Speculative Side Channel Vulnerabilities

NVIDIA SHIELD Tablet Response to CPU Speculative Side Channel Vulnerabilities - CVE-2017-5753, CVE-2017-5715, CVE-2017-5754 Go to NVIDIA Product Security. Bulletin Summary NVIDIA is providing an initial security update to mitigate aspects of Google Project Zero's January 3, 2018, publication of...

net-Shield - An Easy and Simple Anti-DDoS solution for VPS, Dedicated Servers and IoT devices

An Easy and Simple Anti-DDoS solution for VPS,Dedicated Servers and IoT devices based on iptables. Requirements Linux System with python, iptables Nginx Will be installed automatically by install.sh Quickstart Running as a standalone software No install.sh required via DryRun option -dry to only...

Pursuing The Right to be Left Alone

The three pillars of privacy, defined in “The Right to Privacy” 4 Harvard L.R. 193 Dec 15, 1890, are 1 the right to know what information is gathered about you, 2 the right to know how it will be used, and 3 the right to be left alone. The European Union has incorporated these principles into the...

Bad Rabbit Ransomware – What is it and how to stay safe

Trend Micro is tracking multiple reports of ransomware infections, known as Bad Rabbit, in many countries around the world. A suspected variant of Petya, Bad Rabbit is ransomware—malicious software that infects a computer and restricts user access to the infected machine until a ransom is paid to...

Security Bulletin: NVIDIA Shield TV contains multiple vulnerabilities; update on "BlueBorne"

Vulnerability Details The following sections summarize the vulnerabilities. Descriptions use CWE™ and risk assessments follow CVSS. CVE-2017-6248 and CVE-2017-6249 NVIDIA Tegra kernel audio driver contains a vulnerability in Audio DSP where an invalid user parameter may be copied without a check ...

Security Bulletin: NVIDIA Shield TV and Tablet contain multiple vulnerabilities

Vulnerability Details The following sections summarize the vulnerabilities. Descriptions use CWE™ and risk assessments follow CVSS. CVE-2016-6790 NVIDIA OpenMax Component contains a vulnerability in LIBNVRM where an input buffer is copied to an output buffer without checking the size of the input...

Trend Micro Security’s Layered Protection, XGen™ Machine Learning, and Folder Shield Protect You Against Unknown Ransomware and Malware

On May 12 of 2017, the WannaCry ransomware struck across the globe, encrypting computers by exploiting a critical vulnerability in Windows, first discovered by the US National Security Agency. Among its first targets were the British National Health Service, Federal Express, and Telefonica, but...

SQL injection vulnerability in id parameter of website building system of Suzhou Golden Shield Network Technology Co.

Ltd. is mainly engaged in website construction, website promotion, website optimization, enterprise post office, color page samples and other services for Suzhou enterprises. Suzhou Golden Shield Network Technology Co., Ltd. building system id parameters exist SQL injection vulnerability, attacke...

Facebook Covertly Launches A Photo-Sharing App In China

The Chinese market is no doubt a pot of gold for big technology giants with over 700 million internet users, but the Chinese government heavily controls the Internet within its borders through its Golden Shield project – the Great Firewall of China. The Great Firewall has blocked some 171 out of...

Hotspot Shield VPN accused of redirecting user traffic to advertisers

By Waqas A renowned privacy group Center for Democracy Technology CDT has This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hotspot Shield VPN accused of redirecting user traffic to advertisers...

Complaint Alleges Hotspot Shield VPN Engages in Deceptive Trade Practices

A complaint has been filed with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission alleging that a free VPN service marketed as a provider of secure and anonymous internet access shares user data and redirects traffic to partners, including online advertising companies. The Center for Democracy and Technology CDT...

Brave Software: URL Spoof / Brave Shield Bypass

Summary: Improper URL parsing in Brave allows an attacker to spoof the hostname shield settings are applied to. POC: https://youtu.be/yz99TTrfuc Products affected: Brave browser-laptop 0.18.14 rev ad92d02 Steps To Reproduce: 1. Browse to http://brave.com 2. Click on the Shield icon and toggle the...

Legislation to Strengthen IoT Marketplace Transparency

Senator Ed Markey D-MA is poised to introduce legislation to develop a voluntary cybersecurity standards program for the Internet of Things IoT. The legislation, called the Cyber Shield Act, would enable IoT products that comply with the standards to display a label indicating a strong level of...