The School Shootings Were Fake. The Terror Was Real

The inside story of the teenager whose “swatting” calls sent armed police racing into hundreds of schools nationwide—and the private detective who tracked him down...

Three Russian-German Nationals Charged with Espionage for Russian Secret Service

German prosecutors have charged three Russian-German nationals for acting as secret service agents for Russia. The individuals, named Dieter S., Alexander J., and Alex D., have been accused of working for a foreign secret service. Dieter S. is also alleged to have participated in sabotage...

Pouring Acid Rain

Pouring Acid Rain By Trellix · April 30, 2024 This blog was written by Max Kersten In two recent major geopolitical conflicts, in Ukraine and in Israel, wipers - malware used to destroy access to files and commonly used to halt telecom operations - were used to destroy digital infrastructure. The...

Chinese Hackers Exploited FortiGate Flaw to Breach Dutch Military Network

Chinese state-backed hackers broke into a computer network that's used by the Dutch armed forces by targeting Fortinet FortiGate devices. "This computer network was used for unclassified research and development R&D," the Dutch Military Intelligence and Security Service MIVD said in a statement...

A Digital Red Cross

The International Committee of the Red Cross wants some digital equivalent to the iconic red cross, to alert would-be hackers that they are accessing a medical network. The emblem wouldn’t provide technical cybersecurity protection to hospitals, Red Cross infrastructure or other medical providers...

Nigerian Prison Break

There was a massive prison break in Abuja, Nigeria: Armed with bombs, Rocket Propelled Grenade RPGs and General Purpose Machine Guns GPMG, the attackers, who arrived at about 10:05 p.m. local time, gained access through the back of the prison, using dynamites to destroy the heavily fortified...

Hackers Try to Target European Officials to Get Info on Ukrainian Refugees, Supplies

Details of a new nation-state sponsored phishing campaign have been uncovered setting its sights on European governmental entities in what's seen as an attempt to obtain intelligence on refugee and supply movement in the region. Enterprise security company Proofpoint, which detected the malicious...

Amazon Has Trucks Filled with Hard Drives and an Armed Guard

From an interview with an Amazon Web Services security engineer: So when you use AWS, part of what youre paying for is security. Right; its part of what we sell. Lets say a prospective customer comes to AWS. They say, "I like pay-as-you-go pricing. Tell me more about that." We say, "Okay, heres h...

GravityRAT: The spy returns

In 2018, researchers at Cisco Talos published a post on the spyware GravityRAT, used to target the Indian armed forces. The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team CERT-IN first discovered the Trojan in 2017. Its creators are believed to be Pakistani hacker groups. According to our information, t...

CVE-2020-5727

Authentication bypass using an alternate path or channel in SimpliSafe SS3 firmware 1.4 allows a local, unauthenticated attacker to pair a rogue keypad to an armed system...

CVE-2020-5727

Authentication bypass using an alternate path or channel in SimpliSafe SS3 firmware 1.4 allows a local, unauthenticated attacker to pair a rogue keypad to an armed system...

Bundeswehr Karriere - Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Document Title: =============== Bundeswehr Karriere - Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability References Source: ==================== https://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=2214 Video: https://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=2197 Release Date: ============= 2020-04-18...

CVE-2019-3997

Authentication bypass using an alternate path or channel in SimpliSafe SS3 firmware 1.0-1.3 allows a local, unauthenticated attacker to pair a rogue keypad to an armed system...

Authentication flaw

Authentication bypass using an alternate path or channel in SimpliSafe SS3 firmware 1.0-1.3 allows a local, unauthenticated attacker to pair a rogue keypad to an armed system...

CVE-2019-3997

Authentication bypass using an alternate path or channel in SimpliSafe SS3 firmware 1.0-1.3 allows a local, unauthenticated attacker to pair a rogue keypad to an armed system...

Yikes! Three armed men tried to rob a Bitcoin Exchange in Canada

As many non-tech savvy people think that Bitcoin looks like a Gold coin as illustrated in many stock images, perhaps these robbers also planned to rob a cryptocurrency exchange thinking that way. All jokes apart, we saw one such attempt on Tuesday morning, when three men armed with handguns enter...

Veterans Are a Valuable Cybersecurity Workforce

Editor's Note: This article originally appeared on ITSPmagazine. As a former United States Marine I believe veterans can be instrumental in helping to close the growing cybersecurity skills and people gap. My own story reveals how a military background can provide the perfect foundation for a...

Shenzhen Armed Police Hospital Android APP has information leakage vulnerability

"Shenzhen Armed Police Hospital" is the Shenzhen Armed Police Hospital official cell phone application software, designed to simplify the process of medical treatment on the basis of the hospital's existing services, reduce the waiting time for medical treatment, convenient for patients to seek...

Shenzhen Armed Police Hospital's Android APP suffers from overstepping access vulnerability

"Shenzhen Armed Police Hospital" is the Shenzhen Armed Police Hospital official cell phone application software, designed to simplify the process of medical treatment on the basis of the hospital's existing services, reduce the waiting time for medical treatment, convenient for patients to seek...

On Russia's Involvement in the US Election, Burlington Electric, Firecrypt, and More

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including on this week’s U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services hearing, the Burlington Electric ‘Hack’ and attribution, FireCrypt, and Security Without Borders. Download: ThreatpostNewsWrapJanuary62017.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...