Busted: Man streamed “worst child abuse content ever seen”

By Deeba Ahmed Shockingly, the world’s sickest child abuser, a British man, will not spend a lot of time in prison. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Busted: Man streamed "worst child abuse content ever seen"...

CVE-2019-12522

An issue was discovered in Squid through 4.7. When Squid is run as root, it spawns its child processes as a lesser user, by default the user nobody. This is done via the leavesuid call. leavesuid leaves the Saved UID as 0. This makes it trivial for an attacker who has compromised the child proces...

UBUNTU-CVE-2019-12522

An issue was discovered in Squid through 4.7. When Squid is run as root, it spawns its child processes as a lesser user, by default the user nobody. This is done via the leavesuid call. leavesuid leaves the Saved UID as 0. This makes it trivial for an attacker who has compromised the child proces...

CVE-2019-12522

An issue was discovered in Squid through 4.7. When Squid is run as root, it spawns its child processes as a lesser user, by default the user nobody. This is done via the leavesuid call. leavesuid leaves the Saved UID as 0. This makes it trivial for an attacker who has compromised the child proces...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

httpd is vulnerable to denial of service DoS. The vulnerability exists as a flaw was found in the way httpd handled child process status information. A malicious program running with httpd child process privileges such as a PHP or CGI script could use this flaw to cause the parent httpd process t...

Information Leakage

Ruby is vulnerable to information leakage. The attack is possible due to a flaw in the Ruby SecureRandom module. When using the SecureRandom.randombytes class, the PRNG state was not modified after forking a child process. This could eventually lead to SecureRandom.randombytes returning the same...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

kernel is vulnerable to denial of service. A deficiency in the clone system call when called with the CLONEPARENT flag permits the caller the parent process to indicate an arbitrary signal it wants to receive when its child process exits. This could lead to a denial of service of the parent proce...

Dark Web child abuse gang busted; 15TB of files seized

By Deeba Ahmed Since it involved no less than 15 TB of files and many contacts via the dark web... This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Dark Web child abuse gang busted; 15TB of files seized...

WordPress justnews-child Themes Open Redirect Vulnerability

WordPress is a set of WordPress Software Foundation's blogging platform developed using the PHP language, which supports personal blog sites on servers with PHP and MySQL. An open redirect vulnerability exists in WordPress justnews-child Themes. An attacker can exploit the vulnerability to...

A week in security (March 16 – 22)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we concluded our series on child identity theft. We also looked into threat actors and campaigns that ride the COVID-19 train, namely the criminal group APT36 and threat actors purporting to be the World Health Organization WHO but instead spreading malware. Lastly...

Dark web: Child abuse, real-life blackmailing site DarkScandals seized

By Waqas The infamous website DarkScandals was operating on the dark web as well as on the normal web. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Dark web: Child abuse, real-life blackmailing site DarkScandals seized...

Child identity theft, part 2: How to reclaim your child’s identity

In a world where children as young as a single day old can fall prey to fraud, it is more important than ever to educate parents and other caretakers about the dangers of child identity theft. While the hope is that perceptions can be changed and criminals brought to justice, likely the biggest...

The EARN-IT Act

Prepare for another attack on encryption in the U.S. The EARN-IT Act purports to be about protecting children from predation, but it's really about forcing the tech companies to break their encryption schemes: The EARN IT Act would create a "National Commission on Online Child Sexual Exploitation...

L1ght Looks to Protect Internet Users from Toxic and Predatory Behavior

Cybersecurity has been regarded as a necessity for all computer users, especially today when data breaches and malware attacks have become rampant. However, one of the more overlooked aspects of cybersecurity is the prevention of other forms of cybercrime, such as the spread of harmful content an...

CVE-2019-12442

An issue was discovered in GitLab Enterprise Edition 11.7 through 11.11. The epic details page contained a lack of input validation and output encoding issue which resulted in a persistent XSS vulnerability on child epics...

Cross site scripting

An issue was discovered in GitLab Enterprise Edition 11.7 through 11.11. The epic details page contained a lack of input validation and output encoding issue which resulted in a persistent XSS vulnerability on child epics...

CVE-2019-12442

An issue was discovered in GitLab Enterprise Edition 11.7 through 11.11. The epic details page contained a lack of input validation and output encoding issue which resulted in a persistent XSS vulnerability on child epics...

CVE-2019-12442

CVE-2019-12442 affects GitLab Enterprise Edition 11.7–11.11. The issue is a persistent cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability on child epics caused by lack of input validation and insufficient output encoding on the epic details page. This is detailed across multiple sources (GitLab advisories,...

CVE-2019-12442

Removed by vendor...

Ex-CIA Accused of Leaking Secret Hacking Tools to WikiLeaks Gets Mistrial

A federal judge in New York on Monday declared a mistrial in the case of a former CIA software engineer who was accused of stealing a massive trove of the agency's classified hacking and tools and leaking it to WikiLeaks whistleblower website. While the jury was unable to reach a verdict on eight...