This Week in Security News: Toll Fraud & Small Business Struggles

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, learn why telecommunications fraud has turned into a multi-billion euro criminal industry. Also, understand what cybersecurity struggles sma...

(RHSA-2018:2114) Low: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 TUS Six-Month Notice

In accordance with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Errata Support Policy, Telecommunications Update Service for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6 will be retired as of December 31, 2018, and active support will no longer be provided. Accordingly, Red Hat will no longer provide updated packages, including...

ThaiCERT Seizes Hidden Cobra Server Linked to GhostSecret, Sony Attacks

Thailand’s Computer Emergency Response Team ThaiCERT has seized a server operated by the North Korea-linked Hidden Cobra APT, which is used to control the global GhostSecret espionage campaign. The campaign is still ongoing. ThaiCERT said in an alert on Wednesday that it is working with McAfee an...

CVE-2018-4878 case: for a Hong Kong Telecommunications Company website is intrusion investigations-vulnerability and early warning-the black bar safety net

! Earlier, a researchers found that a Hong Kong Telecommunications Company website hacking attack, 3 May 21, Morphisec laboratory on the site of attack to carry out the investigation, investigators eventually found that the telecommunications company of the Group's official website was hacked, th...

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-9261

In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.5 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.13, the NBAP dissector could crash with a large loop that ends with a heap-based buffer overflow. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-nbap.c by prohibiting the self-linking of DCH-IDs...

Wireshark UMTS MAC Parser Denial of Service Vulnerability

Wireshark formerly known as Ethereal is a suite of network packet analysis software developed by the Wireshark team. The function of the software is to intercept network packets and display detailed data for analysis.UMTS MAC dissector is one of the 3G network address parsers. A security...

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-7334

In Wireshark 2.4.0 to 2.4.4 and 2.2.0 to 2.2.12, the UMTS MAC dissector could crash. This was addressed in epan/dissectors/packet-umtsmac.c by rejecting a certain reserved value...

Stop telephoning me-eh-eh-eh-eh: robocalls explained

If you've ever answered a call from anyone outside your contact list only to hear a recorded message playing back at you, you have just been robocalled. Unfortunately for American consumers, this happens several times a day, seven days a week. Suffice to say, this is beyond annoying—and it's...

FiberHome ADSL AN1020-25 - Improper Access Restrictions

Title: ==== FiberHome Unauthenticated ADSL Router Factory Reset. Credit: ====== Name: Ibad Shah Twitter: @BeeFaauBee09 Website: beefaaubee09.github.io CVE: ===== CVE-2017-14147 Date: ==== 05-09-2017 dd/mm/yyyy About FiberHome: ====== FiberHome Technologies is a leading equipment vendor and global...

Telcos Singled Out for Prioritizing Government Requests for Data Over Privacy

Telecommunications giants don’t seem to have any interest in shaking their legacy of complicity with government requests for user data. The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s latest Who Has Your Back report singles out AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile and Comcast as its lowest performers, saying that the...

bcgperspectives.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-220109 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| bcgperspectives.com Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

UBUNTU-CVE-2016-8575

The Q.933 parser in tcpdump before 4.9.0 has a buffer overflow in print-fr.c:q933print, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-5482...

FireCrypt Ransomware Contains DDoS Functionality

In addition to encrypting files, a new strain of ransomware also attempts to carry out a DDoS attack, albeit a weak one. The ransomware, FireCrypt, was uncovered by forensic experts at MalwareHunterTeam and analyzed by Bleeping Computer’s Lawrence Abrams on Wednesday. The malware technically come...

New Call to Regulate IoT Security By Design

A Washington, D.C. think tank whose mission is critical infrastructure security has joined the call for lawmakers to consider regulating the security of connected devices. In a report published this week, the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology pinned the blame for a rash of Mirai...

Router high-risk vulnerabilities induced the German telecommunications ultra 90 million users suffered network disruption-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! Event overview Last weekend millions of German Internet users suffered a series of network outages, investigate its reason is a failure of the home routers hijacked. Deutsche Telekom's 2000 million users with 90 million users received the interrupt effect from the last Sunday continues to prese...

Robert Flores Named Vice President of IT

Coalfire welcomes Robert Flores as the newest addition to the cybersecurity risk management and compliance service leaders leadership team as its Vice President of Information Technology. Flores has a proven track record of driving strategy for high-growth IT companies while managing billion-doll...

Brazilian Judge Overturns 72-Hour WhatsApp Suspension

Following an appeal from WhatsApp’s lawyers, on Tuesday afternoon a Brazilian judge overturned a suspension previously handed down this week that would’ve blocked usage of the messaging app for 72 hours. According to Reuters, on Tuesday afternoon a “different judge from the state tribunal...

Dridex Botnet Resumes Spam Operations After the Holidays

FireEye Labs observed that Dridex operators were active during the holiday season. However, during the post-Christmas and New Year weeks, we observed a slowdown in their spam campaigns. Interestingly, their breaks were short. Over the past few weeks they have resumed operations and are building...

How to enable Syslog over TCP in ADC

This article describes how to enable syslog over TCP in ADC. Background Syslog is the standard used for logging information. Syslog enables isolation of the system that generates information and the system that stores the information. Syslog usage is quite common in Network implementations today...

DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8712

The dissecthsdschchannelinfo function in epan/dissectors/packet-umtsfp.c in the UMTS FP dissector in Wireshark 1.12.x before 1.12.9 does not validate the number of PDUs, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash via a crafted packet...