Vital infrastructure: securing our food and agriculture

I don’t expect to hear any arguments on whether the production of our food is important or not. So why do we hardly ever hear anything about the cybersecurity in the food and agriculture sector? Depending on the country, agriculture makes up about 5 percent of the gross domestic product. That...

A week in security (March 26 – April 01)

Last week, we looked at the thought process behind creating a ransomware decryptor, the inner workings of QuantLoader, the ways one can protect their Android devices, the exploit kits we have encountered this winter, the now-known epidemic of data breaches, the coming of TLS 1.3, and the ways one...

LocalTapiola: Authorization issue on 'valtakirjat' (/e2/verkkopalvelu/)

Issue The reporter found some inconsistencies related to authorizations and access between family members. Fix The application was fixed in a monthly release. Reasoning The issue was valid and the reporter provided a lot of valuable information for us to go on including traces, screenshots and...

Arbitrary Password Reset and Background Arbitrary File Upload Vulnerability in Wanda Information Food Safety Information Traceability System

Wanda Information Food Safety Information Traceability System is a platform for analyzing and processing the quality and safety data of food enterprises and realizing the functions of information disclosure, public inquiry, diagnosis and early warning, and quality complaint. Wanda Information Foo...

New Wickr App Enables Secure, Self-Destructing Text Messages

Text messages are great, but they have the annoying property of being out of the sender’s control as soon as they’re sent. That’s resulted in all kinds of fun for the Internet, and it’s also presented a big opportunity for a security company to pick up the slack and impose some sanity and privacy...

Workflow permission to limit ability to link issues

We need to be able to limit the ability to link issues by the issue status. If we have two issues, and they are both closed, I do not want to be able to link them. If one or both are opened or in progress, I'd like to be able to create the link from the open issue. We are trying to use Jira for...

Workflow permission to limit ability to link issues

We need to be able to limit the ability to link issues by the issue status. If we have two issues, and they are both closed, I do not want to be able to link them. If one or both are opened or in progress, I'd like to be able to create the link from the open issue. We are trying to use Jira for...