Friday Squid Blogging: Capturing the Giant Squid on Video

In this 2013 TED talk, oceanographer Edith Widder explains how her team captured the giant squid on video. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here...

My Little FormBook

This blog post is authored by Warren Mercer and Paul Rascagneres. Summary Cisco Talos has been tracking a new campaign involving the FormBook malware since May 2018 that utilizes four different malicious documents in a single phishing email. FormBook is an inexpensive stealer available as "malwar...

Automated Wireless Attack Tool: WiFite

Wifite is a Python script for auditing wireless networks which aims to be the “set it and forget it” wireless auditing tool. What’s new in Wifite 2? Less bugs Cleaner process management. Does not leave processes running in the background the old wifite was bad about this. No longer “one monolithi...

Security Bulletin: IBM Datacap Taskmaster Capture ActiveX Vulnerability (CVE-2014-0879)

Summary Taskmaster Web uses ActiveX controls to perform scanning and to display images in the browser on the client computer. One of the controls was found vulnerable to crafted hacking. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2014-0879 DESCRIPTION: Security vulnerability with Datacap ActiveX installed ...

Security Bulletin: Multiple Security Issues in IBM Tealeaf Customer Experience on Cloud Network Capture Add-On

Summary BlueZ is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by a buffer over-read issue. By using a specially-crafted dump file, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause the application to crash. IBM Tealeaf contains hard-coded credentials. A remote attacker could exploit this...

Security Bulletin: Multiple security issues in IBM Tealeaf Customer Experience on Cloud Network Capture Add-On

Summary Multiple vulnerabilities in zlib and openSSL libraries can cause denial of service in IBM Tealeaf Customer Experience on Cloud Network Capture Add-On. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2016-9840 DESCRIPTION: zlib is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an out-of-bounds pointer...

Security Bulletin: Vulnerabilities in Memcached affect IBM Tealeaf Customer Experience and IBM Tealeaf Customer Experience on Cloud Network Capture Add-On

Summary Heap-based buffer overflow vulnerabilities in Memcached affect IBM Tealeaf Customer Experience and IBM Tealeaf Customer Experience on Cloud Network Capture Add-On. IBM Tealeaf Customer Experience and IBM Tealeaf Customer Experience on Cloud Network Capture Add-On have addressed the...

Security Bulletin: Multiple security issues in IBM Tealeaf Customer Experience on Cloud Network Capture Add-On

Summary OpenSSL vulnerabilities were disclosed on September 22 and 26, 2016 by the OpenSSL Project. OpenSSL is used by IBM Tealeaf Customer Experience on Cloud Network Capture Add-On. IBM Tealeaf Customer Experience on Cloud Network Capture Add-On has addressed the applicable CVEs. Multiple...

Security Bulletin: Multiple security issues in IBM Tealeaf Customer Experience on Cloud Network Capture Add-On

Summary Multiple security vulnerabilities in memcached, PCRE, and PHP affect IBM Tealeaf Customer Experience on Cloud Network Capture Add-On. Installation programs for the Windows components of IBM Tealeaf Customer Experience on Cloud Network Capture Add-On are vulnerable to attack under certain...

Security Bulletin: IBM Tealeaf Customer Experience internal connections not encrypted (CVE-2015-4961)

Summary Internal connections between IBM Tealeaf Customer Experience servers use unencrypted HTTP. Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2015-4961 DESCRIPTION: In an IBM Tealeaf environment with multiple servers, connections to the Tealeaf Data Service, Search Service, Replay Service, and Tracking...

Security Bulletin: IBM Tealeaf CX Passive Capture Application is vulnerable to a remotely exploitable OS command injection and local file inclusion (CVE-2013-6719 and CVE-2013-6720)

Summary IBM Tealeaf CX Passive Capture Application is vulnerable to a remotely exploitable OS command injection and local file inclusion. These vulnerabilities may be exploited to compromise the host system. Vulnerability Details Two areas of vulnerability are found in the IBM Tealeaf CX Passive...

Security Bulletin: Vulnerability in InstallAnywhere affects IBM InfoSphere Change Data Capture installers (CVE-2016-4560)

Summary InstallAnywhere generates installation executables on Microsoft Windows which are vulnerable to a DLL-planting exploit affecting the Change Data Capture CDC components within the IBM InfoSphere Data Replication and IBM InfoSphere Change Data Delivery families of products. Vulnerability...

Airba.sh - A POSIX-compliant, Fully Automated WPA PSK Handshake Capture Script Aimed At Penetration Testing

Airbash is a POSIX-compliant, fully automated WPA PSK handshake capture script aimed at penetration testing. It is compatible with Bash and Android Shell tested on Kali Linux and Cyanogenmod 10.2 and uses aircrack-ng to scan for clients that are currently connected to access points AP. Those...

CVE-2018-5142

If Media Capture and Streams API permission is requested from documents with "data:" or "blob:" URLs, the permission notifications do not properly display the originating domain. The notification states "Unknown protocol" as the requestee, leading to user confusion about which site is asking for...

CVE-2018-5142

If Media Capture and Streams API permission is requested from documents with "data:" or "blob:" URLs, the permission notifications do not properly display the originating domain. The notification states "Unknown protocol" as the requestee, leading to user confusion about which site is asking for...

CVE-2018-5109

An audio capture session can started under an incorrect origin from the site making the capture request. Users are still prompted to allow the request but the prompt can display the wrong origin, leading to user confusion about which site is making the request to capture an audio stream. This...

CVE-2018-5109

An audio capture session can started under an incorrect origin from the site making the capture request. Users are still prompted to allow the request but the prompt can display the wrong origin, leading to user confusion about which site is making the request to capture an audio stream. This...

CVE-2017-5382

Feed preview for RSS feeds can be used to capture errors and exceptions generated by privileged content, allowing for the exposure of internal information not meant to be seen by web content. This vulnerability affects Firefox 51...

Design/Logic Flaw

If Media Capture and Streams API permission is requested from documents with "data:" or "blob:" URLs, the permission notifications do not properly display the originating domain. The notification states "Unknown protocol" as the requestee, leading to user confusion about which site is asking for...

Design/Logic Flaw

An audio capture session can started under an incorrect origin from the site making the capture request. Users are still prompted to allow the request but the prompt can display the wrong origin, leading to user confusion about which site is making the request to capture an audio stream. This...