Washington Privacy Act welcomed by corporate and nonprofit actors

The steady parade of US data privacy legislation continued last month in Washington with the introduction of an improved bill that would grant state residents the rights to access, control, delete, and port their data, as well as opting out of data sales. The bill, called the Washington Privacy...

Smartphone Election in Washington State

This year: King County voters will be able to use their name and birthdate to log in to a Web portal through the Internet browser on their phones, says Bryan Finney, the CEO of Democracy Live, the Seattle-based voting company providing the technology. Once voters have completed their ballots, the...

Saudi Prince Allegedly Hacked World's Richest Man Jeff Bezos Using WhatsApp

The iPhone of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the world's richest man, was reportedly hacked in May 2018 after receiving a WhatsApp message from the personal account of Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Guardian newspaper revealed today. Citing unnamed sources familiar with digital forensic...

Identifying and Arresting Ransomware Criminals

The Wall Street Journal has a story about how two people were identified as the perpetrators of a ransomware scheme. They were found because -- as generally happens -- they made mistakes covering their tracks. They were investigated because they had the bad luck of locking up Washington, DC's vid...

USN-4160-1 uw-imap vulnerability

It was discovered that UW IMAP incorrectly handled inputs. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary OS commands...

Credit Card Privacy

Good article in the Washington Post on all the surveillance associated with credit card use...

Pakistani Man Bribed AT&T Insiders to Plant Malware and Unlock 2 Million Phones

United States federal government has charged a Pakistani national for bribing employees at AT&T telecommunication company over a period of five years to help unlock more than 2 million phones and plant malware on the company's network. Muhammad Fahd, a 34-year-old man from Pakistan, was arrested ...

US to Russia on Nuke Experiments: Do as We Say, Not as We Do

The US is quietly ramping up its plutonium experiments even as Washington raises concerns about Russian testing...

Magecart skimmers found on Amazon CloudFront CDN

Update 06-08-2019: The compromises of Amazon S3 buckets continue and some large sites are being affected. Our crawler spotted a malicious injection that loads a skimmer for the Washington Wizards page on the official NBA.com website. The skimmer was inserted in this JavaScript library:...

International Spy Museum Reopens

The International Spy Museum has reopened in Washington, DC...

Call for Papers | Microsoft BlueHat Shanghai 2019

The Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC recently announced our first BlueHat security conference in Shanghai which will take place on May 29-30, 2019. After 15 years of BlueHat events in Redmond, Washington and Israel, we are thrilled to expand to a new location. We work with many talented...

Amazon Linux AMI : php56 / php70,php71,php72 (ALAS-2019-1147)

ext/imap/phpimap.c in PHP 5.x and 7.x before 7.3.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and application crash via an empty string in the message argument to the imapmail function.CVE-2018-19935 University of Washington IMAP Toolkit 2007f on UNIX, as used i...

Lawsuit Claims Pegasus Spyware Helped Saudis Spy on Khashoggi

A well-known Saudi dissident previously targeted by the notorious Pegasus spyware has filed a lawsuit against that spyware’s authors, Israel-based NSO Group. The suit claims that Pegasus was instrumental in the Saudi government’s surveillance of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi leading ...

CVE-2018-19518

University of Washington IMAP Toolkit 2007f on UNIX, as used in imapopen in PHP and other products, launches an rsh command by means of the imaprimap function in c-client/imap4r1.c and the tcpaopen function in osdep/unix/tcpunix.c without preventing argument injection, which might allow remote...

AZL-37158 CVE-2018-19518 affecting package uw-imap 2007f-26

University of Washington IMAP Toolkit 2007f on UNIX, as used in imapopen in PHP and other products, launches an rsh command by means of the imaprimap function in c-client/imap4r1.c and the tcpaopen function in osdep/unix/tcpunix.c without preventing argument injection, which might allow remote...

CVE-2018-19518

University of Washington IMAP Toolkit 2007f on UNIX, as used in imapopen in PHP and other products, launches an rsh command by means of the imaprimap function in c-client/imap4r1.c and the tcpaopen function in osdep/unix/tcpunix.c without preventing argument injection, which might allow remote...

Input validation

University of Washington IMAP Toolkit 2007f on UNIX, as used in imapopen in PHP and other products, launches an rsh command by means of the imaprimap function in c-client/imap4r1.c and the tcpaopen function in osdep/unix/tcpunix.c without preventing argument injection, which might allow remote...

CVE-2018-19518

University of Washington IMAP Toolkit 2007f on UNIX, as used in imapopen in PHP and other products, launches an rsh command by means of the imaprimap function in c-client/imap4r1.c and the tcpaopen function in osdep/unix/tcpunix.c without preventing argument injection, which might allow remote...

UBUNTU-CVE-2018-19518

University of Washington IMAP Toolkit 2007f on UNIX, as used in imapopen in PHP and other products, launches an rsh command by means of the imaprimap function in c-client/imap4r1.c and the tcpaopen function in osdep/unix/tcpunix.c without preventing argument injection, which might allow remote...

CVE-2018-19518

University of Washington IMAP Toolkit 2007f on UNIX, as used in imapopen in PHP and other products, launches an rsh command by means of the imaprimap function in c-client/imap4r1.c and the tcpaopen function in osdep/unix/tcpunix.c without preventing argument injection, which might allow remote...