Internet Bug Bounty: TLS Virtual Host Confusion

I am a security researcher at INRIA Paris in team PROSECCO http://prosecco.inria.fr We have been investigating a new class of attacks against the deployment of TLS on the Web. The main idea behind these attacks is that when two servers host different domains but share the same certificate which...

Your TV now watching you too! LG Smart TV caught collecting owners' Habits and USB file names

Now your TV is also watching you, and is smart enough to spy on you. A UK blogger, developer and Linux enthusiast, known only as DoctorBeet has discovered that LG's smart TVs are sending personal information back to the company's servers about what channels you watch and viewing habits. Actually,...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for MozillaFirefox (openSUSE-SU-2013:1142-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013 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...

SuSE Update for xulrunner openSUSE-SU-2013:1143-1 (xulrunner)

Check for the Version of xulrunner OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbsuse201311431.nasl 8045 2017-12-08 08:39:37Z santu $ SuSE Update for xulrunner openSUSE-SU-2013:1143-1 xulrunner Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright C 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This...

E-mails might not be scanned by the Threat Emulation blade in some specific scenarios depending on the e-mail client behavior

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[Firefox] убираем кодирование кавычек в URL | Firefox URL quote encoding patch

See next post for English description! Патч призван устранить кодирование кавычек ',", в HTTP запросах. Начиная с версии 3.0 коммит, Firefox стал урл-кодировать одинарную кавычку ' в %27. Данное поведение нередко может помешать обнаружить SQL инъекцию в веб-приложениях, например, при участии...

getRedirect in JiraWebActionSupport redirects to unsafe URLs by default

In jira-components/jira-api/src/main/java/com/atlassian/jira/web/action/JiraWebActionSupport.java the following code is found: code:java / Redirects to the value of @code getReturnUrl, falling back to @code defaultUrl if the @code returnUrl is not set. This method clears the @code returnUrl. If...

Windows 8 Picture Gesture Authentication Research

Typing on a smartphone or tablet keyboard lends itself to a lot of fat-fingered mistakes. Recent updates to mobile operating systems and desktop OSes such as Windows 8, however, have tried to better leverage the touch screen for things such as authentication. Users, for example, have the option o...

Having fun with

Did you know that this works in every browser? Look, here's one: An image You might think it's leaking from SVG, but SVG images don't use src, they use xlink:href. Let's all take a moment to laugh at xlink. Done? Ok… In the first age of the web, some people accidentally typed instead of . Browser...

Fedora Update for nodejs-vows FEDORA-2013-11780

Check for the Version of nodejs-vows OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for nodejs-vows FEDORA-2013-11780 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it und...

[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: nodejs-vows-0.7.0-6.fc18

Vows is an asynchronous behavior-driven development BDD framework for Node.js. Vows was built from the ground up to test asynchronous code. It executes your tests in parallel when it makes sense, and sequentially when there are dependencies. Emphasis was put on speed of execution, clarity and use...

subversion -- remotely triggerable "Assertion failed" DoS vulnerability or read overflow.

Subversion Project reports: Subversion's moddavsvn Apache HTTPD server module will trigger an assertion on some requests made against a revision root. This can lead to a DoS. If assertions are disabled it will trigger a read overflow which may cause a SEGFAULT or equivalent or undefined behavior...

General Talks Security at Brookings Institution

General Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, made clear yesterday in a speech to the Brookings Institution that the military, government, and private sector each has a role to play in hardening the U.S. against cyberattacks. General Dempsey also called out the maintainers of...

Mozilla Firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities - June 13 (Windows)

The host is installed with Mozilla Firefox and is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: secpodmozillafirefoxmultvulnjun13win.nasl 6086 2017-05-09 09:03:30Z teissa $ Mozilla Firefox Multiple Vulnerabilities - June 13 Windows Authors: Arun Kallavi Copyright: Copyright c...

XrayWrappers can be bypassed to run user defined methods in a privileged context — Mozilla

Mozilla security researcher mozbugra4 reported that XrayWrappers can be bypassed to call content-defined toString and valueOf methods through DefaultValue. This can lead to unexpected behavior when privileged code acts on the incorrect values...

PreserveWrapper has inconsistent behavior — Mozilla

Mozilla developer Boris Zbarsky found that when PreserveWrapper was used in cases where a wrapper is not set, the preserved-wrapper flag on the wrapper cache is cleared. This could potentially lead to an exploitable crash...

Google Adds Feature to Keep Malware Out of Chrome Web Store

Google is adding more security controls to its browser-based Chrome Web Store by adding a new application-vetting feature called ‘Enhanced Item Validation.’ For all intents and purposes, the search giant claims that the new policy will only impact application developers in that they will have to...

phpcms_v9. 3. 2 a management module logic validation vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

In the file\modules\sms\sms. php: class sms extends admin function construct $this-logdb = pcbase::loadmodel'smsreportmodel'; $this-moduledb = pcbase::loadmodel'modulemodel'; $this-memberdb = pcbase::loadmodel'membermodel'; //Get the SMS platform configuration information $siteid = getsiteid;...

Password Strength Testers Work for Important Accounts

Many popular online services have started to deploy password strength meters, visual gauges that are often color-coded and indicate whether the password you’ve chosen is weak or strong based on the website’s policy. The effectiveness of these meters in influencing users to choose stronger passwor...

Two-Factor Authentication Won't Stop Twitter Compromises

The hijacking of high-profile Twitter accounts belonging to the Associated Press and Guardian UK newspaper brings to light numerous security shortcomings, namely the susceptibility users still have when it comes to phishing attacks, their propensity to use weak passwords, and the inability to...