Facebook's '10 Year Challenge' Is Just a Harmless Meme—Right?

Opinion: The 2009 vs. 2019 profile picture trend may or may not have been a data collection ruse to train its facial recognition algorithm. But we can't afford to blithely play along...

TCP Session Hijack

kernel-rt is vulnerable to TCP session hijack attacks. The vulnerability exists as net/ipv4/tcpinput.c in the Linux kernel before 4.7 does not properly determine the rate of challenge ACK segments, which makes it easier for remote attackers to hijack TCP sessions via a blind in-window attack...

Meet the teen who won Technovation 2017

This summer Akamai hosted Girls Who Code for its fourth year in a row. Girls Who Code is a nonprofit organization that aims to support and increase the number of women in computer science. This is a spotlight article on one of the Girls Who Code participants, Aruzhan Koshkarova. Aruzhan, along wi...

CVE-2018-18541

In Teeworlds before 0.6.5, connection packets could be forged. There was no challenge-response involved in the connection build up. A remote attacker could send connection packets from a spoofed IP address and occupy all server slots, or even use them for a reflection attack using map download...

2018 Flare-On Challenge Solutions

We are pleased to announce the conclusion of the fifth annual Flare-On Challenge. The numbers are in and we can safely say that this was by far the most difficult challenge we’ve ever hosted. We plan to reduce the difficulty next year, so it may be that the 114 people who solved this year’s...

Fileless malware: getting the lowdown on this insidious threat

Traditionally, malware attacks as we have always known them are files written to disk in one form or another that require execution in order to carry out their malicious scope. Fileless malware, on the other hand, is intended to be memory resident only, ideally leaving no trace after its executio...

Vuze Bittorrent Client 5.7.6.0 - SSDP Processing XML External Entity Injection Vulnerability

Exploit for jsp platform in category web applications Vuze Bittorrent Client 5.7.6.0 - SSDP Processing XML External Entity Injection Reserved CVE: CVE-2018-13417 Vulnerability Overview The XML parsing engine for Vuze Bittorrent Client's SSDP/UPNP functionality is vulnerable to an XML External...

CVE-2018-13416

In Universal Media Server UMS 7.1.0, the XML parsing engine for SSDP/UPnP functionality is vulnerable to an XML External Entity Processing XXE attack. Remote, unauthenticated attackers can use this vulnerability to: 1 Access arbitrary files from the filesystem with the same permission as the user...

CVE-2018-13416

In Universal Media Server UMS 7.1.0, the XML parsing engine for SSDP/UPnP functionality is vulnerable to an XML External Entity Processing XXE attack. Remote, unauthenticated attackers can use this vulnerability to: 1 Access arbitrary files from the filesystem with the same permission as the user...

Vuze Bittorrent Client 5.7.6.0 - SSDP Processing XML External Entity Injection

Vuze Bittorrent Client 5.7.6.0 - SSDP Processing XML External Entity Injection Issue: Out-of-Band XXE in Vuze Bittorrent Client's SSDP Processing Reserved CVE: CVE-2018-13417 Vulnerability Overview The XML parsing engine for Vuze Bittorrent Client's SSDP/UPNP functionality is vulnerable to an XML...

Universal Media Server 7.1.0 - SSDP Processing XML External Entity Injection

Universal Media Server 7.1.0 - SSDP Processing XML External Entity Injection Issue: Out-of-Band XXE in Universal Media Server's SSDP Processing Reserved CVE: CVE-2018-13416 Vulnerability Overview The XML parsing engine for Universal Media Server's SSDP/UPNP functionality is vulnerable to an XML...

Universal Media Server 7.1.0 - SSDP Processing XML External Entity Injection

Issue: Out-of-Band XXE in Universal Media Server's SSDP Processing Reserved CVE: CVE-2018-13416 Vulnerability Overview The XML parsing engine for Universal Media Server's SSDP/UPNP functionality is vulnerable to an XML External Entity Processing XXE attack. Unauthenticated attackers on the same L...

[ASA-201807-12] apache: denial of service

Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201807-12 ========================================== Severity: Medium Date : 2018-07-20 CVE-ID : CVE-2018-1333 CVE-2018-8011 Package : apache Type : denial of service Remote : Yes Link : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-736 Summary ======= The package apache...

CVE-2018-8011

By specially crafting HTTP requests, the modmd challenge handler would dereference a NULL pointer and cause the child process to segfault. This could be used to DoS the server. Fixed in Apache HTTP Server 2.4.34 Affected 2.4.33...

Apache httpd -- multiple vulnerabilities

The Apache project reports: DoS for HTTP/2 connections by crafted requests CVE-2018-1333. By specially crafting HTTP/2 requests, workers would be allocated 60 seconds longer than necessary, leading to worker exhaustion and a denial of service. low modmd, DoS via Coredumps on specially crafted...

Hacker Sold Stolen U.S. Military Drone Documents On Dark Web For Just $200

You never know what you will find on the hidden Internet 'Dark Web.' Just about an hour ago we reported about someone selling remote access linked to security systems at a major International airport for $10. It has been reported that a hacker was found selling sensitive US Air Force documents on...

Malicious PowerShell Detection via Machine Learning

Introduction Cyber security vendors and researchers have reported for years how PowerShell is being used by cyber threat actors to install backdoors, execute malicious code, and otherwise achieve their objectives within enterprises. Security is a cat-and-mouse game between adversaries, researcher...

GDPR: A Compliance Quagmire, for Now

The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation GDPR has gone into effect – but questions as to what compliance actually means are far from settled. While the GDPR is a European regulation, it affects any organization that handles data on E.U. citizens, whether they be customers or...

Malwarebytes CrackMe 2: contest summary

About three weeks ago, we published our second CrackMe. It triggered a lot of interest, and we got many high-quality write-ups. Choosing the winner was really difficult! In this post, I am going to summarize the contest and comment on the received submissions. CrackMe 2 challenge The topic of the...

Real-Time Two-Factor Phishing Tool: ReelPhish

2FA adds an extra layer of authentication on top of the typical username and password. Two common 2FA implementations are one-time passwords and push notifications. One-time passwords are generated by a secondary device, such as a hard token, and tied to a specific user. These passwords typically...