In Safe Hands with Trend Micro Home Network Security – Part 3: Testing Its Functions

We continue our four-part series on protecting your home and family. See the links to the previous parts at the end of this blog. As you use more internet-connected devices and smart appliances in your home, it’s of utmost importance to make sure your gadgets are properly protected from malware a...

Why Minimizing Human Error is the Only Viable Defense Against Spear Phishing

Phishing attacks have become one of the business world's top cybersecurity concerns. These social engineering attacks have been rising over the years, with the most recent report from the Anti-Phishing Working Group coalition identifying over 266,000 active spoofed websites, which is nearly doubl...

Fortinet FortiOS Redirection Vulnerability

Fortinet FortiOS is a set of security operating system dedicated to FortiGate network security platform from American Fita Fortinet. The system provides users with firewall, antivirus, IPSec/SSLVPN, Web content filtering and anti-spam and other security features. A security vulnerability exists i...

Stormshield Network Security Redirection Vulnerability

Stormshield Network Security is a next-generation UTM Unified Threat Management firewall from Stormshield France. A security vulnerability exists in Stormshield Network Security. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to redirect users to malicious websites...

Small Tax-Preparation Firms at Higher Risk this Tax Season, Report

This tax season crooks are targeting users with a new crop of scams that include leveraging remote desktop software and compromising small tax-prep company websites. “If you have the word ‘tax’ in your domain name; you’re a target this year,” warns Sherrod DeGrippo, senior director of threat...

Critical Bug in WordPress Theme Plugin Opens 200,000 Sites to Hackers

A popular WordPress theme plugin with over 200,000 active installations contains a severe but easy-to-exploit software vulnerability that, if left unpatched, could let unauthenticated remote attackers compromise a wide range of websites and blogs. The vulnerable plugin in question is 'ThemeGrill...

500 Malicious Chrome Extensions Impact Millions of Users

Researchers say that 500 Google Chrome browser extensions were discovered secretly uploading private browsing data to attacker-controlled servers, and redirecting victims to malware-laced websites. The browser extensions, all of which have now been removed, were downloaded millions of times from...

Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that the scripting engine handles objects in memory in Internet Explorer. The vulnerability could corrupt memory in such a way that an attacker could execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user. An attacker who successfully...

Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability

A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way that the scripting engine handles objects in memory in Internet Explorer. The vulnerability could corrupt memory in such a way that an attacker could execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user. An attacker who successfully...

How AI Is Tracking the Coronavirus Outbreak

Machine-learning programs are analyzing websites, news reports, and social media posts for signs of symptoms, such as fever or breathing problems...

Google Chrome To Bar HTTP File Downloads

Google Chrome will soon restrict certain files, like PDFs or executables, from being downloaded via an HTTP connection, if they are loaded on HTTPS webpages. HTTPS indicates that a website has an encrypted connection. When connecting to an HTTP website, browsers merely look up the IP address and...

Open redirect

Open Redirection Vulnerability in the redir.php script in Telaen before 1.3.1 allows remote attackers to redirect victims to arbitrary websites via a crafted URL...

Gener8: Clickjacking to change email address

Summary Clickjacking User Interface redress attack, UI redress attack, UI redressing is a malicious technique of tricking a Web user into clicking on something different from what the user perceives they are clicking on, thus potentially revealing confidential information or taking control of the...

The vulnerability of the McAfee Client Proxy software lies in its ability to bypass authentication by using a user-controlled password. This allows attackers to circumvent web traffic scanning and gain access to blocked websites.

The vulnerability of the McAfee Client Proxy software relates to the bypassing of authentication procedures by using a key controlled by the user. Exploiting this vulnerability allows an attacker to bypass web traffic scanning and gain access to blocked websites for a short period of time. This i...

Internet Explorer Memory Corruption Vulnerability

A remote code execution vulnerability exists when Internet Explorer improperly accesses objects in memory. The vulnerability could corrupt memory in such a way that an attacker could execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerabilit...

Clario: Open redirect on https://account.mackeeper.com

Summary An attacker can redirect a user to any external website using the vulnerable parameter in https://account.mackeeper.com/auth/fb use parameter continue. Steps To Reproduce 1. Visit the following url: https://account.mackeeper.com/auth/fb?continue=https://google.com 2. Login 3. This will...

Fedora Update for drupal7 FEDORA-2019-4917943339

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Dubious downloads: How to check if a website and its files are malicious

A significant amount of malware infections and potentially unwanted program PUP irritants are the result of downloads from unreliable sources. There are a multitude of websites that specialize in distributing malicious payloads by offering them up as something legitimate or by bundling the desire...

[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: drupal7-7.69-1.fc30

Equipped with a powerful blend of features, Drupal is a Content Management System written in PHP that can support a variety of websites ranging from personal weblogs to large community-driven websites. Drupal is highly configurable, skinnable, and secure...

The vulnerability of the microprogramming software used in MicroLogix 1400 A, MicroLogix 1400 B, MicroLogix 1100, CompactLogix 5370 L1, CompactLogix 5370 L2, and CompactLogix 5370 L3 allows a hacker to redirect the target user to a malicious website using a specially created link.

The vulnerability of microprogrammed logic controllers from MicroLogix, such as MicroLogix 1400 A, MicroLogix 1400 B, MicroLogix 1100, CompactLogix 5370 L1, CompactLogix 5370 L2, and CompactLogix 5370 L3, is related to the redirection of URLs to unreliable websites. Exploiting this vulnerability...