Google Launches Backstory — A New Cyber Security Tool for Businesses

Google's one-year-old cybersecurity venture Chronicle today announced its first commercial product, called Backstory , a cloud-based enterprise-level threat analytics platform that has been designed to help companies quickly investigate incidents, pinpoint vulnerabilities and hunt for potential...

Qualys Policy Compliance Notification: Policy Library Update

Qualys’ library of built-in policies makes it easy to comply with the security standards and regulations that are most commonly used and adhered to. Qualys provides a wide range of policies, including many that have been certified by CIS as well as the ones based on security guidelines from OS an...

Insights from the MITRE ATT&CK-based evaluation of Windows Defender ATP

In MITREs evaluation of endpoint detection and response solutions, Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection demonstrated industry-leading optics and detection capabilities. The breadth of telemetry, the strength of threat intelligence, and the advanced, automatic detection through machine...

Detecting Fake Videos

This story nicely illustrates the arms race between technologies to create fake videos and technologies to detect fake videos: These fakes, while convincing if you watch a few seconds on a phone screen, aren't perfect yet. They contain tells, like creepily ever-open eyes, from flaws in their...

com.accelerate-experience:storm-metrics-statsd (>=1.0.0 <=1.0.1), com.accelerate-experience:storm-rabbitmq (=1.0.0) +70 more potentially affected by CVE-2017-9799 via org.apache.storm:storm-core (>=1.0.0 <=1.0.3)

org.apache.storm:storm-core MAVEN version =1.0.0, =1.0.0, =0.1.0, =1.0, =1.0, =1.0, =1.3, =1.0, =1.0, =1.0, =1.0.0, =1.0.4 - com.github.ptgoetz:storm-jms =1.0.2 - com.github.ptgoetz:storm-signals =1.0.3 and more Source cves: CVE-2017-9799 Source advisory: OSV:GHSA-X825-RJWW-2245...

Counting People Through a Wall with WiFi

Interesting research: In the team's experiments, one WiFi transmitter and one WiFi receiver are behind walls, outside a room in which a number of people are present. The room can get very crowded with as many as 20 people zigzagging each other. The transmitter sends a wireless signal whose receiv...

Hacking AIS

Maritime AIS, or ‘Automatic Identification System’ is used for broadcast and reception of vessel position and information alerts. It has proved invaluable since its introduction in the 1990s and has undoubtedly helped prevent many marine accidents, collisions and related incidents. Previous...

Side-Channel PoC Attack Lifts Private RSA Keys from Mobile Phones

Researchers have developed a proof-of-concept side-channel attack that allows them to pull encryption keys from a single decryption for a modern version of OpenSSL. The attack impacts mobile devices — without physical access to the handsets. A group of researchers at Georgia Tech were able to...

Road navigation systems can be spoofed using $223 equipment

By Waqas Researchers from a number of renowned institutions including Virginia Tech, the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China and Microsoft Research have concluded that it is possible to spoof GPS signals and send people in the wrong direction. The ironic part is that such an...

Sonic & Ultra signals can be used to crash Windows, Linux & hard drives

By Waqas It is quite common to have crashed hard drives, which This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Sonic & Ultra signals can be used to crash Windows, Linux & hard drives...

Attackers Can Use Sonic and Ultrasonic Signals to Crash Hard Drives

Researchers have demonstrated how sonic and ultrasonic signals inaudible to human can be used to cause physical damage to hard drives just by playing ultrasonic sounds through a target computer's own built-in speaker or by exploiting a speaker near the targeted device. Similar research was...

Attackers Can Use Sonic and Ultrasonic Signals to Crash Hard Drives

Researchers have demonstrated how sonic and ultrasonic signals inaudible to human can be used to cause physical damage to hard drives just by playing ultrasonic sounds through a target computer's own built-in speaker or by exploiting a speaker near the targeted device. Similar research was...

Cross site request forgery (csrf)

A vulnerability allows a phreaking attack on HCL legacy IVR systems that do not use VoIP. These IVR systems rely on various frequencies of audio signals; based on the frequency, certain commands and functions are processed. Since these frequencies are accepted within a phone call, an attacker can...

CVE-2018-11518

A vulnerability allows a phreaking attack on HCL legacy IVR systems that do not use VoIP. These IVR systems rely on various frequencies of audio signals; based on the frequency, certain commands and functions are processed. Since these frequencies are accepted within a phone call, an attacker can...

CVE-2018-11518

A vulnerability allows a phreaking attack on HCL legacy IVR systems that do not use VoIP. These IVR systems rely on various frequencies of audio signals; based on the frequency, certain commands and functions are processed. Since these frequencies are accepted within a phone call, an attacker can...

CVE-2018-11518

CVE-2018-11518 describes a phreaking attack on HCL legacy IVR systems that do not use VoIP. The vulnerability arises from handling of audio-frequency signals (DTMF) within a phone call, where an attacker can record the tones and trigger a service activation. The issue is a request-forgery : if th...

Trojan watch

We continue to research how proliferation of IoT devices affects the daily lives of users and their information security. In our previous study, we touched upon ways of intercepting authentication data using single-board microcomputers. This time, we turned out attention to wearable devices:...

Japan's Directorate for Signals Intelligence

The Intercept has a long article on Japan's equivalent of the NSA: the Directorate for Signals Intelligence. Interesting, but nothing really surprising. The directorate has a history that dates back to the 1950s; its role is to eavesdrop on communications. But its operations remain so highly...

Baseball Code

Info on the coded signals used by the Colorado Rockies...

Detecting Drone Surveillance with Traffic Analysis

This is clever: Researchers at Ben Gurion University in Beer Sheva, Israel have built a proof-of-concept system for counter-surveillance against spy drones that demonstrates a clever, if not exactly simple, way to determine whether a certain person or object is under aerial surveillance. They fir...