Dark Web Site Taken Down without Breaking Encryption

The US Department of Justice unraveled a dark web child-porn website, leading to the arrest of 337 people in at least 18 countries. This was all accomplished not through any backdoors in communications systems, but by analyzing the bitcoin transactions and following the money: Welcome to Video ma...

How a Bitcoin Trail Led to a Massive Dark Web Child-Porn Site Takedown

Federal investigators focused not on offensive hacking efforts or surveilling communications, but on the transactions using cryptocurrency...

CVE-2019-14859

A flaw was found in all python-ecdsa versions before 0.13.3, where it did not correctly verify whether signatures used DER encoding. Without this verification, a malformed signature could be accepted, making the signature malleable. Without proper verification, an attacker could use a malleable...

CVE-2019-14859

A flaw was found in python-ecdsa, where it did not correctly verify whether signatures used DER encoding. Without this verification, a malformed signature could be accepted, making the signature malleable. Without proper verification, an attacker could use a malleable signature to create false...

HackerOne: Disclosure of `payment_transactions` for programs via GraphQL query

Summary: payment transactions count of programs exposed Description: payment transactions details can be only accessed by program team members, but there is an flaw, with that, an unauthorized user can get payment transactions count of any program i have confirmed only with public program Steps T...

What Are Zero-Knowledge Proofs?

How do you make blockchain and other transactions truly private? With mathematical models known as zero-knowledge proofs...

Venmo's Public Transactions Policy Stirs Privacy Concerns

Your simple $5 Venmo payment to a friend after splitting a pizza could easily expedite various malicious attacks, from stalking to spear-phishing, according to researcher concerns. Many have weighed in on Venmo’s privacy practices, but the latest are Mozilla Foundation and the Electronic Frontier...

Security Bulletin: Public disclosed vulnerability from SQLite CVE-2019-8457

Summary IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager ITCAM for Transactions - Transaction Tracking has addressed the following SQLite vulnerability: SQLite could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an integer overflow when the FTS3 extension is enabled. By using...

Orbit v2.0 - Blockchain Transactions Investigation Tool

Introduction Orbit is designed to explore network of a blockchain wallet by recursively crawling through transaction history. The data is rendered as a graph to reveal major sources, sinks and suspicious connections. Note: Orbit only runs on Python 3.2 and above. Usage Let's start by crawling...

Insecure String Comparison

zencashjs uses an insecure string comparison. This is due to a clash of address prefixes for testnet P2PKH and mainnet P2SH addresses. The package interprets transactions sent to a zt P2SH address on mainnet as P2PKH transactions erroneously. Any funds sent to a mainnet P2SH multisignature addres...

Security Bulletin: IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition Quarterly CPU - Apr 2019 - Includes Oracle Apr 2019 CPU affects IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Transactions-Robotic Response Time

Summary There are multiple vulnerabilities in IBM® SDK Java™ Technology Edition, Version 7 ,version 8, that is used by IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Transactions - Robotic Response Time. These issues were disclosed as part of the IBM Java SDK updates in April 2019. Vulnerability...

New Relic: Restricted user can add and delete tags of APM key transactions

Description Within APM after you setup a connection, there is the ability for you to mark a "key transaction" which will then populate data on the Key Transactions page in APM. On this page, there is the ability for an admin to hover over the tag icon and add a tag to the name of the key...

First American Financial Corp. Leaked Hundreds of Millions of Title Insurance Records

The Web site for Fortune 500 real estate title insurance giant First American Financial Corp. NYSE:FAF leaked hundreds of millions of documents related to mortgage deals going back to 2003, until notified this week by KrebsOnSecurity. The digitized records -- including bank account numbers and...

The Concept of "Return on Data"

This law review article by Noam Kolt, titled "Return on Data," proposes an interesting new way of thinking of privacy law. Abstract: Consumers routinely supply personal data to technology companies in exchange for services. Yet, the relationship between the utility U consumers gain and the data D...

Security Bulletin: Public disclosed vulnerability from SQLite CVE-2018-8740

Summary ITCAM for Transactions - Transaction Tracking has addressed the following SQLite vulnerability caused by a Null Pointer dereference. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2018-8740 DESCRIPTION: SQLite is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a NULL pointer dereference in the src/build.c...

New Relic: Stored XSS at APM key transactions list

Hey team, I have discovered an XSS firing at APM key transactions list. Steps to reproduce 1 Sign into the APM with some account with some account which can change the APM application name 2 Navigate to some app, which has tracked key transactions, or switch on tracking of some its transaction by...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-20510

The printbindertransactionilocked function in drivers/android/binder.c in the Linux kernel 4.14.90 allows local users to obtain sensitive address information by reading "from code flags" lines in a debugfs file...

Wall Street Market reported to have exit scammed

Around April 20, many users reported that Wall Street Market, a broadly known dark net market, had executed an exit scam, and that any pending orders were unlikely to be completed. Scamming with enterprises involving Bitcoin is not unheard of, and dark net markets with centralized escrow are...

Security Bulletin: IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition Quarterly CPU - Jan 2019 - Includes Oracle Jan 2019 CPU affects IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Transactions-Robotic Response Time

Summary There are multiple vulnerabilities in IBM® SDK Java™ Technology Edition, Version 7 ,version 8, that is used by IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Transactions - Robotic Response Time. These issues were disclosed as part of the IBM Java SDK updates in Jan 2019. Vulnerability...

Security Bulletin: A vulneraqbility in SQLite affects IBM Cloud Application Performance Managment R esponse Time Monitoring Agent (CVE-2018-20346)

Summary SQLite could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system, caused by an integer overflow when the FTS3 extension is enabled. By using specially-crafted SQL statements, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to execute Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2018-20346...