Unsanctioned Apps Invite Fox into Cybersecurity Hen House

Conventional wisdom has shown there’s a short line between a company’s highest point of risk – its employees and a compromise. Unsanctioned, or shadow applications, are apps that haven’t been cleared by a company’s information security team. These apps, on employee machines, have long been a...

ExxonMobil Bungles Rewards Card Debut

Energy giant ExxonMobil recently sent snail mail letters to its Plenti rewards card members stating that the points program was being replaced with a new one called Exxon Mobil Rewards+. Unfortunately, the letter includes a confusing toll free number and directs customers to a parked page that...

Python-Based Adware Evolves to Install Malicious Browser Extensions

Security researchers have been warning of a few newly detected variants of python-based adware that are being distributed in the wild not only to inject ads but also found installing malicious browser extensions and hidden cryptocurrency miner into victims' computers. Dubbed PBot, or PythonBot, t...

ZenMate VPN Browser Extension Deanonymization & Hijacking Vulnerability (3.5 Million Affected Users)

Summary ZenMate, a VPN provider with over 43 million users, offers multiple browser extensions to use their VPN with. As of the time of this writing the browser extensions have a combined total of 3.5 million users. The ZenMate VPN clients for both Chrome & Firefox trust the previously expired...

Cross site scripting

Jenkins Build-Publisher plugin version 1.21 and earlier stores credentials to other Jenkins instances in the file hudson.plugins.buildpublisher.BuildPublisher.xml in the Jenkins master home directory. These credentials were stored unencrypted, allowing anyone with local file system access to acce...

How can I tell if my PC is infected?

4 signs your PC might be infected with malware – by Brook Stein, Director of Product Management Years ago, computer hackers would brag about how many PCs they infected as a means of showing off their programming skills. They created newsworthy viruses with names like the "ILOVEYOU" or “Anna...

Hacker Hijacks CoinHive's DNS to Mine Cryptocurrency Using Thousands of Websites

When yesterday I was reporting about the sudden outbreak of another global ransomware attack 'Bad Rabbit,' I thought what could be worse than this? Then late last night I got my answer with a notification that Coinhive has been hacked — a popular browser-based service that offers website owners t...

CVE-2017-1000114

The Datadog Plugin stores an API key to access the Datadog service in the global Jenkins configuration. While the API key is stored encrypted on disk, it was transmitted in plain text as part of the configuration form. This could result in exposure of the API key for example through browser...

Cross site scripting

The Datadog Plugin stores an API key to access the Datadog service in the global Jenkins configuration. While the API key is stored encrypted on disk, it was transmitted in plain text as part of the configuration form. This could result in exposure of the API key for example through browser...

CVE-2017-1000114

CVE-2017-1000114 concerns the Jenkins/Datadog plugin where the API key used to access Datadog was stored in the global Jenkins configuration and transmitted in plain text via the configuration form, potentially exposing the key through browser extensions or XSS. Documents indicate the plugin was ...

Facebook worries: I didn’t post that

It is my assumption that most Facebook users don’t look at their own profile often. With your own profile, I mean the timeline that shows up when you click your own name or avatar in the Facebook menu. That’s because we think we know exactly what is posted there, so why bother to look at it? Afte...

Explained: user agent

If you are the kind of person that uses different browsers or different devices to access websites, you may have noticed that many sites can look quite different depending on which browser you are using. When your browser sends a request to a website, it identifies itself with the user agent stri...

CVE-2017-6753

A vulnerability in Cisco WebEx browser extensions for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the affected browser on an affected system. This vulnerability affects the browser extensions for Cisco WebEx...

CVE-2017-6753

Cisco WebEx browser extensions for Chrome/Firefox (pre-1.0.12) are vulnerable to remote code execution due to a design flaw in the atgpcext library, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to run arbitrary code with the privileges of the affected browser when a user visits a crafted page. Affected p...

CVE-2017-6753

A vulnerability in Cisco WebEx browser extensions for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the affected browser on an affected system. This vulnerability affects the browser extensions for Cisco WebEx...

CVE-2017-3090

Adobe Digital Editions versions 4.5.4 and earlier contain an insecure library loading vulnerability. The vulnerability is due to unsafe library loading of browser related library extensions in the installer plugin. A successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution...

Information disclosure

Microsoft Edge in Windows 10 1607 and 1703, and Windows Server 2016 allows an attacker to read data not intended to be disclosed when Edge allows JavaScript XML DOM objects to detect installed browser extensions, aka "Microsoft Edge Information Disclosure Vulnerability". This CVE ID is unique fro...

CVE-2017-8498

Microsoft Edge in Windows 10 1607 and 1703, and Windows Server 2016 allows an attacker to read data not intended to be disclosed when Edge allows JavaScript XML DOM objects to detect installed browser extensions, aka "Microsoft Edge Information Disclosure Vulnerability". This CVE ID is unique fro...

CVE-2017-3823

An issue was discovered in the Cisco WebEx Extension before 1.0.7 on Google Chrome, the ActiveTouch General Plugin Container before 106 on Mozilla Firefox, the GpcContainer Class ActiveX control plugin before 10031.6.2017.0126 on Internet Explorer, and the Download Manager ActiveX control plugin...

CVE-2017-3823

An issue was discovered in the Cisco WebEx Extension before 1.0.7 on Google Chrome, the ActiveTouch General Plugin Container before 106 on Mozilla Firefox, the GpcContainer Class ActiveX control plugin before 10031.6.2017.0126 on Internet Explorer, and the Download Manager ActiveX control plugin...