Inventors of Quantum Cryptography Win Turing Award

Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard have won the 2026 Turing Award for inventing quantum cryptography. I am incredibly pleased to see them get this recognition. I have always thought the technology to be fantastic, even though I think it's largely unnecessary. I wrote up my thoughts back in 2008,...

EUVD-2017-6814

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EUVD-2018-10953

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Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters Demand Google Fire Security Experts or Face Data Leak

Note: The names of both employees have been removed for privacy reasons, following a request from Google. We are now referring to them as Worker 1 and Worker 2...

UBUNTU-CVE-2025-30194

When DNSdist is configured to provide DoH via the nghttp2 provider, an attacker can cause a denial of service by crafting a DoH exchange that triggers an illegal memory access double-free and crash of DNSdist, causing a denial of service. The remedy is: upgrade to the patched 1.9.9 version. A...

CVE-2025-30194

When DNSdist is configured to provide DoH via the nghttp2 provider, an attacker can cause a denial of service by crafting a DoH exchange that triggers an illegal memory access double-free and crash of DNSdist, causing a denial of service. The remedy is: upgrade to the patched 1.9.9 version. A...

CVE-2025-30194 Denial of service via crafted DoH exchange

When DNSdist is configured to provide DoH via the nghttp2 provider, an attacker can cause a denial of service by crafting a DoH exchange that triggers an illegal memory access double-free and crash of DNSdist, causing a denial of service. The remedy is: upgrade to the patched 1.9.9 version. A...

Interning at Rapid7 Prague: Meet Mko

Mkrtich Hovsepyan – most people call him Mko – is an intern at Rapid7’s fast-growing office in Prague. He graduated from the luminous Charles University in Prague, and is currently a first-year master’s student in Artificial Intelligence there. He was in our first impressive crop of interns, and ...

charlesprogers.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3934544

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

charlesfloate.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3905946

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

WatchGuard XTM Firebox Unauthenticated Remote Command Execution Exploit

This Metasploit module exploits a buffer overflow at the administration interface 8080 or 4117 of WatchGuard Firebox and XTM appliances which is built from a cherrypy python backend sending XML-RPC requests to a C binary called wgagent using pre-authentication endpoint /agent/login. This...

charles-trenet.net Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3889111

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

charleshefnerarchitect.com Improper Access Control vulnerability OBB-3795512

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

charlesarline.com Improper Access Control vulnerability OBB-3795509

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

charles-trenet.net Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3775658

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

charlesdefoucauld.org Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3551300

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

charlesdefoucauld.org Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3436875

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

Critical FortiOS and FortiProxy Vulnerability Likely Exploited - Patch Now!

Fortinet on Monday disclosed that a newly patched critical flaw impacting FortiOS and FortiProxy may have been "exploited in a limited number of cases" in attacks targeting government, manufacturing, and critical infrastructure sectors. The vulnerability, dubbed XORtigate and tracked as...

CVE-2023-27997: Critical Fortinet Fortigate Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

On June 9, 2023, Fortinet silently patched a purported critical remote code execution RCE vulnerability in Fortigate SSL VPN firewalls. According to Lexfo Security’s Charles Fol, who discovered the vulnerability, the flaw is heap-based and reachable pre-authentication. According to reports,...

charlesdefoucauld.org Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3408668

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...