Schiphol hijack false alarm. An insiders view of what happened

I had the misfortune of being at Schiphol last night as this unfolded: All ended well, delayed by about an hour. Had the incident been real, it could have been much worse. Here’s what the pilot had to say about it thanks to @asantosb: Our flight was at D16, the incident flight was directly the...

Two Former Twitter Employees Caught Spying On Users For Saudi Arabia

Two former employees of Twitter have been charged with spying on thousands of Twitter user accounts on behalf of the Saudi Arabian government, likely with the purpose of unmasking the identity of dissidents. According to an indictment filed on November 5 and unsealed just yesterday, one of the...

Two Former Twitter Employees Caught Spying On Users For Saudi Arabia

Two former employees of Twitter have been charged with spying on thousands of Twitter user accounts on behalf of the Saudi Arabian government, likely with the purpose of unmasking the identity of dissidents. According to an indictment filed on November 5 and unsealed just yesterday, one of the...

Twitter Insiders Allegedly Spied for Saudi Arabia

Hackers are one thing. But too few companies take the threat of an inside job seriously enough...

ACCESS Act might improve data privacy through interoperability

Data privacy is back in Congressional lawmakers’ sights, as a new, legislative proposal focuses not on data collection, storage, and selling, but on the idea that Americans should be able to more easily pack up their user data and take it to a competing service—perhaps one that better respects...

Trump, Putin and Politics Name-Dropped to Peddle Malware

With the U.S. presidential elections looming, bad actors are tapping into the political craze with several malware distribution campaigns, using high-profile political names to tap into victims’ emotions and convince them to click on malicious links. Researchers have uncovered hundreds of...

ThreatIngestor - Extract And Aggregate Threat Intelligence

An extendable tool to extract and aggregate IOCs from threat feeds. Integrates out-of-the-box with ThreatKB and MISP, and can fit seamlessly into any existing worflow with SQS, Beanstalk, and custom plugins. Overview ThreatIngestor can be configured to watch Twitter, RSS feeds, or other sources,...

XORpass - Encoder To Bypass WAF Filters Using XOR Operations

XORpass is an encoder to bypass WAF filters using XOR operations. Installation & Usage git clone https://github.com/devploit/XORpass cd XORpass $ php encode.php STRING $ php decode.php "XORed STRING" Example of bypass: Using clear PHP function: Using XOR bypass of that function: $ php encode.php...

Cash App Twitter Giveaway a Haven for Stealing Money

Scammers looking to piggyback on the CashAppFriday trending topic on Twitter are stealing between $10 to $1,000 from each victim that falls for their efforts. According to researchers at Tenable, the scams include phishing with some links garnering up to 500 clicks each, a hoax called...

WordPress Sliced Invoices 3.8.2 SQL Injection Vulnerability

Exploit for php platform in category web applications Exploit Title: Wordpress Sliced Invoices /wp-admin/admin.php?action=duplicatequoteinvoice&post=8%20and%20selectfromselectsleep20a--%20 - The response will be returned after 20 seconds proving the successful exploitation of the vulnerability. -...

Open Redirect Bug in Bridge Theme Plugin Opens Admins to Spearphishing

Two open-redirect vulnerabilities in Bridge, a commercial WordPress theme purchased more than 120,000 times, would allow an attacker to mount spearphishing attacks against site administrators. An open redirect vulnerability can be used to hide malicious links behind URLs for legitimate domains. F...

How to Control the Privacy of Your Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat Posts

Whether it's Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or Snapchat, lock down who can see what you're up to...

X (Formerly Twitter): http request smuggling in twitter.com

Summary: the same vulnerability reported in other domain , see this report here Description: the Description of HTTP request smuggling attacks : here Detect HTTP request smuggling attack subdomains vulnerable: -to detect HTTP request smuggling attack with add header Transfer-Encoding: chunked and...

A week in security (October 7 – 13)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we peered into the possible future of cybersecurity insurance, described the process for securing today’s managed service provider, and provided an in-depth explainer on the business espionage tactic known as “war shipping.” Further, in considering the intersection...

X (Formerly Twitter): Creating malformed URLs via new line character in-between two URLs leads to misrepresented hyperlinks in Tweets/DMs

Summary When composing a tweet or a direct message it is possible to use a new line character %0d to seperate two URLs within the actual hyperlinking process, but not the URL displaying process. The new line character acts as an invisible character that disrupts the actual hyperlinking process,...

X (Formerly Twitter): [Bypass fixed #664038 and #519059] Application settings change settings that have been set by the user

I have reported this bug in report 681361 so that you make a FULL fix, but you refused considered duplicate and I have to wait for report 664038 to be resolved, now I come again to report the bug. The settings for "protected tweets" that have been set from another application accidentally change...

Twitter Puts Profit Ahead of User Privacy—Just Like Facebook Did Before

Twitter funneled two-factor authentication phone numbers into their ad targeting platform—but they weren't the only ones...

Twitter Uses Phone Numbers, Emails to Sell Ads

Twitter has acknowledged that user phone numbers and email addresses gathered for security purposes, as part of its two-factor authentication policy, may have been used to sell ads. It calls the move an accident. The revelation is being widely criticized for its obvious breach of user privacy,...

You Gave Your Phone Number to Twitter for Security and Twitter Used it for Ads

After exposing private tweets, plaintext passwords, and personal information for hundreds of thousands of its users, here is a new security blunder social networking company Twitter admitted today. Twitter announced that the phone numbers and email addresses of some users provided for two-factor...

You Gave Your Phone Number to Twitter for Security and Twitter Used it for Ads

After exposing private tweets, plaintext passwords, and personal information for hundreds of thousands of its users, here is a new security blunder social networking company Twitter admitted today. Twitter announced that the phone numbers and email addresses of some users provided for two-factor...