Zoom Bug Allowed Snoopers Crack Private Meeting Passwords in Minutes

Popular video conferencing app Zoom recently fixed a new security flaw that could have allowed potential attackers to crack the numeric passcode used to secure private meetings on the platform and snoop on participants. Zoom meetings are by default protected by a six-digit numeric password, but...

SaltStack Patches Critical Vulnerabilities in Salt

SaltStack has released a security update to address critical vulnerabilities affecting Salt versions prior to 2019.2.4 and 3000.2. Salt is an open-source remote task and configuration management framework widely used in data centers and cloud servers. A remote attacker could exploit these...

LVI Attacks: New Intel CPU Vulnerability Puts Data Centers At Risk

It appears there is no end in sight to the hardware level security vulnerabilities in Intel processors, as well as to the endless 'performance killing' patches that resolve them. Modern Intel CPUs have now been found vulnerable to a new attack that involves reversely exploiting Meltdown-type data...

Docker Registries Expose Hundreds of Orgs to Malware, Data Theft

A slew of misconfigured Docker container registries has inadvertently exposed source code for 15,887 unique versions of applications owned by research institutes, retailers, news media organizations and technology companies. According to Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 division, the registries lacked...

Microsoft Azure Flaws Could Have Let Hackers Take Over Cloud Servers

Cybersecurity researchers at Check Point today disclosed details of two recently patched potentially dangerous vulnerabilities in Microsoft Azure services that, if exploited, could have allowed hackers to target several businesses that run their web and mobile apps on Azure. Azure App Service is ...

How Cloud-Based Automation Can Keep Business Operations Secure

The massive data breach at Capital One – America's seventh-largest bank, according to revenue – has challenged many common assumptions about cloud computing for the first time. Ironically, the incident, which exposed some 106 million Capital One customers' accounts, has only reinforced the belief...

Facebook’s plain text misstep, and other password sins

Two days after an article by Brian Krebs disclosed that hundreds of millions of Facebook account passwords had been stored in plain text for years, Facebook released a statement indicating they hash and salt passwords, more or less in accordance with industry best practice. Plain text storage of...

FitMetrix Exposes Millions of Customer Details, Accessed by Criminals

FitMetrix, which makes performance-tracking software that gym owners can brand and offer to their customers, has exposed millions of customers’​ records, because they were maintaining completely open cloud servers. To boot, the records were accessed by cybercriminals prior to the public access...

Samsung SmartThings Hub video-core database shard code execution vulnerabilities(CVE-2018-3912 - CVE-2018-3917)

Summary Multiple exploitable stack-based buffer overflow vulnerabilities exist in the retrieval of database fields in the video-core HTTP server of the Samsung SmartThings Hub. The video-core process insecurely extracts the fields from the "shard" table of its SQLite database, leading to a buffer...

Hanwha Techwin Smartcam Denial of Service Vulnerability (CNVD-2018-05237)

Hanwha Techwin Smartcam is a series of security surveillance cameras based on cloud-based services. A denial of service vulnerability exists in Hanwha Techwin Smartcam. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service by preventing new camera registrations on a cloud server...

Sweden Accidentally Leaks Personal Details of Nearly All Citizens

Another day, Another data breach! This time sensitive and personal data of millions of transporters in Sweden, along with the nation's military secrets, have been exposed, putting every individual's as well as national security at risk. Who exposed the sensitive data? The Swedish government itsel...

LastPass Password Manager and then exposed a serious vulnerability, the browser-based Password Manager can also be used? - Vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

No use cryptographic software before, we easily forget the password; use password software, we“reluctantly”leak the All password. LastPass, the popular password management software, recently again broke security vulnerabilities. Security personnel found in LastPass Chrome and Firefox 4.1.42 versi...

Someone Hijacking Unsecured MongoDB Databases for Ransom

Nearly two years back, we warned users about publicly accessible MongoDB instances – almost 600 Terabytes TB – over the Internet which require no authentication, potentially leaving websites and servers at risk of hacking. These MongoDB instances weren't exposed due to any flaw in its software, b...

600TB MongoDB Database 'accidentally' exposed on the Internet

System administrators have reportedly exposed almost 600 Terabytes TB of MongoDB database due to running outdated and unpatched versions of the NoSQL MongoDB database. The open source MongoDB is the most popular NoSQL database used by companies of all sizes, from eBay and Sourceforge to The New...

The Pirate Bay Runs on 21 "Raid-Proof" Virtual Machines To Avoids Detection

The Pirate Bay is the world's largest torrent tracker site which handles requests from millions of users everyday and is in the top 100 most visited websites on the Internet. Generally, The Pirate Bay is famous for potentially hosting illegal contents on its website. Despite years of persecution,...

When, Not Whether, Is the Question for Mobile Authentication, Research Finds

The findings from a recent study carried out by Microsoft Research and the University of South Carolina suggest that we should be asking ourselves when to require authentication rather than whether to require authentication. The research puts forth the idea of tailoring authentication requirement...

Cloudworm - Candidate MS12-020 - POC

Cloudworm - Candidate MS12-020 - POC How secure are cloud servers? In technical circles, people are aware of the cloud variables and that cloud service providers offload the virtual machine security onto the customer as much as possible. Technical people know this. Not all cloud customers fall...