Velociraptor to Announce Winners of Its 2021 Contributor Competition

Velociraptor and Rapid7 are excited to announce the winners of our 2021 Velociraptor Contributor Competition on Friday, October 8. This competition encourages development of useful content and extensions to the Velociraptor platform. Submissions include new functionality in the form of VQL...

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Game

Netflix has a new series called Squid Game, about people competing in a deadly game for money. It has nothing to do with actual squid. 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...

[The Lost Bots] Bonus Episode: Velociraptor Contributor Competition

!\The Lost Bots\ Bonus Episode: Velociraptor Contributor Competitionhttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2021/08/-The-Lost-Bots--Episode-1--External-Threat-Intelligence.jpeg Welcome back for a special bonus edition of The Lost Bots, a vlog series where Rapid7 Detection and Response Practice...

Huawei EMUI/Magic UI Competition Condition Vulnerability (CNVD-2021-64508)

Huawei Emui is a mobile operating system developed on Android. Huawei Magic UI is the operating system for Honor phones. Huawei EMUI/Magic UI has a competing condition vulnerability that can be exploited by attackers to cause bypass of authentication...

Huawei EMUI/Magic UI Competition Condition Vulnerability (CNVD-2021-64491)

Huawei Emui is a mobile operating system developed on Android. Huawei Magic UI is the operating system for Honor phones. Huawei EMUI/Magic UI has a competing condition vulnerability that can be exploited by attackers to cause bypass of authentication...

Huawei EMUI/Magic UI Competition Condition Vulnerability (CNVD-2021-64492)

Huawei Emui is a mobile operating system developed on Android. Huawei Magic UI is the operating system for Honor phones. Huawei EMUI/Magic UI has a competing condition vulnerability that can be exploited by attackers to cause bypass of authentication...

Huawei EMUI/Magic UI competition condition vulnerability

Huawei Emui is a mobile operating system developed on Android. Huawei Magic UI is the operating system for Honor phones. Huawei EMUI/Magic UI has a competing condition vulnerability that can be exploited by attackers to cause bypass of authentication...

France Cracked Down on Google’s Ad Tech. What’s Next?

The French Competition Agency has hit the company with $855 million in fines this year. The money is meaningless—but the changes could be profound...

Attack AI systems in Machine Learning Evasion Competition

Today, we are launching MLSEC.IO, an educational Machine Learning Security Evasion Competition MLSEC for the AI and security communities to exercise their muscle to attack critical AI systems in a realistic setting. Hosted and sponsored by Microsoft, alongside NVIDIA, CUJO AI, VM-Ray, and MRG...

Attack AI systems in Machine Learning Evasion Competition

Today, we are launching MLSEC.IO, an educational Machine Learning Security Evasion Competition MLSEC for the AI and security communities to exercise their muscle to attack critical AI systems in a realistic setting. Hosted and sponsored by Microsoft, alongside NVIDIA, CUJO AI, VM-Ray, and MRG...

Banning Surveillance-Based Advertising

The Norwegian Consumer Council just published a fantastic new report: "Time to Ban Surveillance-Based Advertising." From the Introduction: The challenges caused and entrenched by surveillance-based advertising include, but are not limited to: privacy and data protection infringements opaque...

Bad Apple: App Store Rife with Fraud, Fleeceware

A new analysis from the Washington Post reveals just how widespread fraud is across the Apple App Store, while also offering glimpse into the revenue flowing into Cupertino generated by those malicious activities. The Apple App Store has been under heightened scrutiny for maintaining its iron gri...

CISO Challenge: Check Your Cybersecurity Skills On This New Competition Site

InfoSec leaders tend to be a specific type. Their jobs require them to think of possible threats, take actions that may not pay immediate results, plan for unknown security risks, and react quickly when emergencies arise, often before the morning's first coffee. The high-stakes position also mean...

Artificial Intelligence ban slammed for failing to address “vast abuse potential”

A written proposal to ban several uses of artificial intelligence AI and to place new oversight on other “high-risk” AI applications—published by the European Commission this week—met fierce opposition from several digital rights advocates in Europe. Portrayed as a missed opportunity by privacy...

SUSE: Security Advisory (SUSE-SU-2017:0888-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

This Week in Security News - April 9, 2021

Microsoft Teams and Zoom Hacked In $1 Million Competition and Preventing Ransomware While Working from Home...

Former DOD Head: The US Needs a New Plan to Beat China on AI

In an interview with WIRED, former secretary of defense Ash Carter discussed how to build morality into AI—and make sure other countries do too...

Rust Competitive Conditioning Problem Vulnerability

Rust is a general-purpose, compiled programming language from the Mozilla Foundation. A Competition Condition Issue vulnerability exists in Rust concread crate versions prior to 0.2.6, which can be exploited by an attacker to cause data contention in ARCache by sending a type that does not...

Ticketmaster Coughs Up $10 Million Fine After Hacking Rival Business

Ticketmaster must pay a hefty $10 million fine after several employees utilized unlawfully obtained passwords to hack a rival company’s computer systems – in attempts to “choke off” its business. The American ticket sales and distribution giant, which is owned by Live Nation, in 2013 hired an...

48 U.S. States and FTC are suing Facebook for illegal monopolization

The US Federal Trade Commission and a coalition of 48 state attorneys general on Wednesday filed a pair of sweeping antitrust suits against Facebook, alleging that the company abused its power in the marketplace to neutralize competitors through its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp and...