Cisco Begins Patching Equation Group ASA Zero Day

Cisco today began the process of patching a zero-day vulnerability in its Adaptive Security Appliance ASA software exposed in the ShadowBrokers data dump. Users on affected versions of ASA, 7.2, and 8.0 through 8.7, are urged to migrate soon to 9.1.79 or later. Newer versions that are also...

Cisco Acknowledges ASA Zero Day Exposed by ShadowBrokers

Cisco has quickly provided a workaround for one of two vulnerabilities that was disclosed in the ShadowBrokers’ data dump and issued an advisory on the other, which was patched in 2011, in order to raise awareness among its customers. The networking giant today released advisories saying that it...

Someone is Spying on Researchers Behind VeraCrypt Security Audit

After TrueCrypt mysteriously discontinued itself, VeraCrypt became the most popular open source disk encryption software used by activists, journalists, and privacy conscious people. Due to the huge popularity of VeraCrypt, security researchers from the OSTIF The Open Source Technology Improvemen...

Blackhat Firm Offers $500,000 for Zero-day iOS Exploit; Double Than Apple’s Highest Bounty

Last week, Apple finally announced a bug bounty program for researchers and white hat hackers to find and get paid for reporting details of zero-day vulnerabilities in its software and devices. The company offers the biggest payout of $200,000, which is 10 times the maximum reward that Google...

Putting Apple Bug Bounty Rewards in Perspective

Admittedly, the payouts for Apple’s bug bounty announced last week at Black Hat drew mixed reactions ranging from reasonable to raucously funny. Apple made a big splash at the annual hacker conference, first via a last-minute announcement that well-regarded Ivan Krstic would be giving a talk on...

iOS 9.3.4 Patches Critical Code Execution Flaw

Apple last week patched a critical iOS memory corruption vulnerability that could allow attackers to execute code on compromised devices. The flaw was found by Team Pangu, a Chinese hacker group that specializes in building iOS jailbreak tools. The vulnerability is fixed in iOS 9.3.4. “An...

Siemens SINEMA Server Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (Update A)

OVERVIEW This updated advisory is a follow-up to the original advisory titled ICSA-16-215-02 Siemens SINEMA Server Privilege Escalation Vulnerability that was published August 2, 2016, on the NCCIC/ICS-CERT web site. --------- Begin Update A Part 1 of 2 -------- Security researcher rgod working...

Buffer overflow in ClearKey Content Decryption Module (CDM) during video playback — Mozilla

An anonymous security researcher working with Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative reported a buffer overflow in the ClearKey Content Decryption Module CDM used by the Encrypted Media Extensions EME API. This vulnerability can be triggered using a malformed video file due to incorrect error handling...

LastPass Password Manager exposed a major vulnerability please upgrade your Firefox add-ons-bug warning-the black bar safety net

Focus on finding vulnerabilities a security researcher, has discovered well-known online Password Manager LastPass is a potential risk that an attacker can take the contact to the user's online account. Fortunately, LastPass has fixed this allow an attacker remote access to the millions of accoun...

LastPass Bug Lets Hackers Steal All Your Passwords

A critical zero-day flaw has been discovered in the popular cloud password manager LastPass that could allow any remote attacker to compromise your account completely. LastPass is one of the best password manager that also available as a browser extension that automatically fills credentials for...

Exploit Kits Quickly Adopt Exploit Thanks to Open Source Release

A security researcher recently published source code for a working exploit for CVE-2016-0189 and the Neutrino Exploit Kit EK quickly adopted it. CVE-2016-0189 was originally exploited as a zero-day vulnerability in targeted attacks in Asia. The vulnerability resides within scripting engines in...

BMW connected car storage 2 items could be used by hackers to steal the vehicle-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

According to the American automotive news website autoevolution reports, the BMW ConnectedDrive portal there are two“zero-day exploit”that could be used by hackers to control the multimedia device associated with the vehicle settings. ! BMW connected car storage 2 items could be used by hackers t...

Receiver for Mac Support on macOS Sierra (macOS 10.12) Beta Builds

This article is intended for Citrix administrators and technical teams only. Non-admin users must contact their company’s Help Desk/IT support team and can refer to CTX297149 for more information. The Citrix Receiver for Mac team is working on product updates to support the upcoming release ofmac...

Flaw Allows Attackers to Remotely Tamper with BMW's In-Car Infotainment System

The Internet of things or connected devices are the next big concerns, as more Internet connectivity means more access points which mean more opportunities for hackers. When it comes to the threat to Internet of Things, Car Hacking is a hot topic. Since many automobiles companies are offering car...

Scope of ThinkPwn UEFI Zero Day Expands

A serious hardware vulnerability, thought to be confined to UEFI drivers in Lenovo and HP laptops, has also been found in firmware running on motherboards sold by Gigabyte. The flaw was publicly disclosed last week by researcher Dmytro Oleksiuk. No patches are yet available. Oleksiuk said the fla...

Lenovo Notebook now UEFI zero-day vulnerabilities the hacker can be attack-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

According to foreign media reports, the Security Institute Dymtro Oleksiuk said that hackers can bypass Windows basic security Protocol of the United Nations want the computer to attack, the reason is Lenovo PC drivers from Intel directly copy and paste. And other OEM vendors such as HP also exis...

Zero-Day Warning! Ransomware targets Microsoft Office 365 Users

If just relying on the security tools of Microsoft Office 365 can protect you from cyber attacks, you are wrong. Variants of Cerber Ransomware are now targeting MS Office 365 email users with a massive zero-day attack that has the ability to bypass Office 365's built-in security tools. According ...

On xDedic, a Flash Zero Day, Facial Recognition, and More

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including a password issue at Github, the xDedic marketplace, another Flash zero day, and how the poorly the FBI is doing with facial recognition software. Download: ThreatpostNewsWrapJune172016.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

Adobe Patches Flash Zero Day Under Attack by APT Group

Adobe on Thursday patched a zero-day vulnerability in Flash Player that has been used in targeted attacks carried out by a new APT group operating primarily against high-profile victims in Russia and Asia. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab privately disclosed the flaw to Adobe after exploits against t...

DNC Hacked, Research on Trump Stolen

Two separate APT groups believed to have ties to the Russian government have been fingered in attacks against the Democratic National Committee resulting in the theft of research done by the DNC on presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump. Researchers at Crowdstrike, called in to investigate b...