Reddit: CSRF (protection bypassed) to force a below 18 user into viewing an nsfw subreddit !

Summary of the Issue A state-changing POST request to https://old.reddit.com/over18? lacked proper modhash validator leaving the sensitive action vulnerable to CSRF attacks. An attacker can trick users into executing the action, enabling/disabling "I am over eighteen years old" and willing to vie...

Online Safety Bill will legally require porn sites to verify users’ age

When Ioannis Dekas, a father of four boys, found that one of his sons had access to pornography, he and his wife became concerned. "In two weeks leading up to this moment, wed noticed a drastic change in his behavior," Dekas said in a BBC interview, "Withdrawal, a sense of anger towards his...

WordPress Age Gate <= 2.17.0 - Unauthenticated Import Settings vulnerability

Unauthenticated Import Settings vulnerability discovered in WordPress Age Gate versions = 2.17.0. Solution Update the WordPress Age Gate plugin to the latest available version at least 2.17.1...

Age Gate < 2.17.1 - Unauthenticated Import Settings

The plugin patched an Unauthenticated Import Settings vulnerability. It was found to be exploited in the wild a few days after being patched...

WordPress Age Gate plugin <= 2.17.0 - Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting XSS vulnerability was discovered by Nguyen Van Khanh Patchstack Alliance in the WordPress Age Gate plugin versions = 2.17.0. Solution Update the WordPress Age Gate plugin to the latest available version at least 2.17.1...

VulnCheck KEV: CVE-2021-36901

Unauthenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting XSS vulnerability in Phil Baker's Age Gate plugin = 2.17.0 at WordPress...

Navy Warship’s Facebook Page Hacked to Stream ‘Age of Empires’ Gaming

The official Facebook page of a destroyer-class Navy warship, the USS Kidd, has gone rogue: Someone has taken over the page in order to…stream Age of Empires play. Age of Empires is a real-time online multiplayer strategy game in which the objective is to advance one’s civilization. Players “buil...

US Navy ship Facebook page hijacked to stream video games

The official Facebook page of the US Navy’s destroyer-class warship, USS Kidd, has been hijacked. According to Task & Purpose, who first reported on the incident, the account has done nothing but stream Age of Empires, an award-winning, history-based real-time strategy RTS video game wherein...

WordPress Age Gate plugin <= 2.16.3 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting XSS vulnerability discovered by Martin Vierula Trustwave in WordPress Age Gate plugin versions = 2.16.3. Solution Update the WordPress Age Gate plugin to the latest available version at least 2.16.4...

Age Gate < 2.16.4 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting

The plugin does not sanitise and escape the 'Additional content' setting of its 'Messaging' page, which could allow users having access to such setting by default admin, but the plugin has a feature to change this and allow access to lower privileged users to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks...

New Rapid7 MDR Essentials Capability Sees What Attackers See: “It’s Eye-Opening”

The pandemic and remote work shattered your perimeter. Your attack surface has changed — and will keep changing. It’s our mission to help customers strengthen security defenses and stay ahead of evil. As the modern perimeter expands, new and old vulnerabilities emerge as open doors for attackers;...

Improper Input Validation in cookie

Affected versions of this crate use the time crate and the method Duration::seconds to parse the Max-Age duration cookie setting. This method will panic if the value is greater than 2^64/1000 and less than or equal to 2^64, which can result in denial of service for a client or server. This flaw w...

Germany Is About to Block One of the Biggest Porn Sites

Regulators are trying to force adult sites to introduce age checks for users. Now one of the largest in the world faces a total block for refusing to do so...

11-13 year old girls most likely to be targeted by online predators

The Internet Watch Foundation IWF, a not-for-profit organization in England whose mission is "to eliminate child sexual abuse imagery online", has recently released its analysis of online predator victimology and the nature of sexual abuse media that is currently prevalent online. The scope of th...

Artificial Intelligence ban slammed for failing to address “vast abuse potential”

A written proposal to ban several uses of artificial intelligence AI and to place new oversight on other “high-risk” AI applications—published by the European Commission this week—met fierce opposition from several digital rights advocates in Europe. Portrayed as a missed opportunity by privacy...

SQL Injection Vulnerability in Intelligent Waste Sorting Management System

Tongling Golden Age Technology Limited Liability Company is a combination of the Internet of Things, information technology, waste classification and treatment of enterprises. An SQL injection vulnerability exists in the Intelligent Garbage Classification Management System, which can be exploited...

Employee Lockdown Stress May Spark Cybersecurity Risk

Stressed-out employees in a remote-working world could be a major contributor to poor cybersecurity postures for companies, according to a survey. Forcepoint polled 2,000 office workers in Germany and the U.K., to better understand cybersecurity practices among remote workers. Among other finding...

Omegle investigation raises new concerns for kids’ safety

Social media site Omegle is under fire after an investigation found boys using the platform to expose themselves on camera, and adults exposing themselves to minors. Omegle users are paired with a random stranger who they can socialize with via text or video chat. An investigation by the British...

What Google learned from 1 billion evil email scams

Google and researchers at Stanford University have released an in-depth study analysing 5 months of phishing / malware mails sent globally. "Who is targeted by email-based phishing and malware? Measuring factors that differentiate risk" looked at more than a billion mails. The results were then f...

PYSEC-2021-91

The Python "Flask-Security-Too" package is used for adding security features to your Flask application. It is an is a independently maintained version of Flask-Security based on the 3.0.0 version of Flask-Security. In Flask-Security-Too from version 3.3.0 and before version 3.4.5, the /login and...