SecuriTeam Secure Disclosure

Hi all, In the past 10 years Beyond Security runs a vulnerability disclosure program called SecurTeam Secure Disclosure SSD. We are looking to acquire high end vulnerabilities in various stages of research, PoC and similar. We also runs Hack2Win online competition. Hack2Win online is a hacking...

Google Hit With $2.7 Billion Antitrust Fine

Search giant Google this week was hit with a hefty $2.7 billion fine seven years in the making. Antitrust officials with the European Commission handed out the fine, which translates to €2.4 billion. Regulators with the EC claim the company abused its dominance as a search engine to push its...

Fighting Leakers at Apple

Apple is fighting its own battle against leakers, using people and tactics from the NSA. According to the hour-long presentation, Apple's Global Security team employs an undisclosed number of investigators around the world to prevent information from reaching competitors, counterfeiters, and the...

Bridging the Skills Gap with Trend Micro’s Capture the Flag (CTF) Competition

We all know the IT security industry is suffering from chronic skills gaps and shortages around the world. In the US things are no different, with an estimated talent shortfall of around 40,000 jobs for information security analyst roles alone. While various initiatives have been proposed, few ha...

Samsung Tizen Security 'Feels like 2005'

SINT MAARTEN—Samsung’s Tizen operating system, a strategic stronghold for the company as it attempts to grow its line of homegrown mobile devices, isn’t such a vanguard when it comes to security. An independent researcher has discovered dozens of vulnerabilities in the OS that puts devices such a...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2017:0873-1)

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.55-5245 fixes one issue. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2017-7184: The XFRM processsing in the Linux kernel 16.10 allowed local users to obtain root privileges or cause a denial of service heap-based out-of-bounds access via an integer overflo...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2017:0889-1)

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.60-5257 fixes one issue. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2017-7184: The XFRM processsing in the Linux kernel 16.10 allowed local users to obtain root privileges or cause a denial of service heap-based out-of-bounds access via an integer overflo...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2017:0876-1)

This update for the Linux Kernel 3.12.60-5260 fixes one issue. The following security bugs were fixed : - CVE-2017-7184: The XFRM processsing in the Linux kernel 16.10 allowed local users to obtain root privileges or cause a denial of service heap-based out-of-bounds access via an integer overflo...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : kernel (SUSE-SU-2017:0866-1)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 kernel was updated to fix the following security bugs : - CVE-2017-7184: The Linux kernel allowed local users to obtain root privileges or cause a denial of service heap-based out-of-bounds access via unspecified vectors, as demonstrated during a Pwn2Own competition a...

SUSE-SU-2017:0866-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 12 kernel was updated to fix the following security bugs: - CVE-2017-7184: The Linux kernel allowed local users to obtain root privileges or cause a denial of service heap-based out-of-bounds access via unspecified vectors, as demonstrated during a Pwn2Own competition at...

Mozilla Patches Pwn2Own Zero Day in Firefox

Mozilla was quick to patch a zero day vulnerability identified in the Firefox browser at the Pwn2Own hacking competition last week. The company remedied the issue just shy of 24 hours of being made aware of the flaw, pushing out the updated version 52.0.1 of the browser late Friday. Asa Dotzler,...

Heap overflow

The xfrmreplayverifylen function in net/xfrm/xfrmuser.c in the Linux kernel through 4.10.6 does not validate certain size data after an XFRMMSGNEWAE update, which allows local users to obtain root privileges or cause a denial of service heap-based out-of-bounds access by leveraging the CAPNETADMI...

CVE-2017-7184

The xfrmreplayverifylen function in net/xfrm/xfrmuser.c in the Linux kernel through 4.10.6 does not validate certain size data after an XFRMMSGNEWAE update, which allows local users to obtain root privileges or cause a denial of service heap-based out-of-bounds access by leveraging the CAPNETADMI...

Hackers Take Down Reader, Safari, Edge, Ubuntu Linux at Pwn2Own 2017

Hackers took down Adobe Reader, Apple Safari, Microsoft Edge, and Ubuntu Linux over the course of 11 hours on Wednesday, the first day of Pwn2Own, the annual hacking competition held in tandem with the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver. Contestants with the Chinese security firm Qihoo 360 were t...

FTC sets $25,000 Prize for Automatic IoT Patch Management Solution

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has announced a "prize competition" for creating a software or hardware-based solution with the ability to auto-patch vulnerable Internet of Things IoT devices. Today we are surrounded by a number of Internet-connected devices. Our homes are filled with tiny...

Oracle acquires DNS provider Dyn for more than $600 Million

Yes, Oracle just bought the DNS provider company that brought down the Internet last month. Business software vendor Oracle announced on Monday that it is buying cloud-based Internet performance and Domain Name System DNS provider Dyn. Dyn is the same company that was hit by a massive distributed...

Google Pixel Phone and Microsoft Edge Hacked at PwnFest 2016

The brand new Android smartphone launched by Google just a few months back has been hacked by Chinese hackers just in less than a minute. Yes, the Google's latest Pixel smartphone has been hacked by a team white-hat hackers from Qihoo 360, besides at the 2016 PwnFest hacking competition in Seoul...

MySQL / MariaDB / PerconaDB - mention the rights/conditions of competition vulnerability(POC)-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Vulnerability found person: Dawid Golunski Vulnerability level: severe CVE number: CVE-2 0 1 6-6 6 6 3 / CVE-2 0 1 6-5 6 1 6 Vulnerability impact: MariaDB 5.5.52 10.1.18 10.0.28 MySQL = 5.5.51 = 5.6.32 = 5.7.14 Percona Server 5.5.51-38.2 5.6.32-7 8-1 5.7.14-8 Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.6.32-25.17...

EFF Again Calls for Investigation Around W3C's DRM Extension

Digital rights advocates are again pleading with the World Wide Web Consortium W3C to reconsider standardizing DRM in Encrypted Media Extensions, a draft specification that would ultimately feed into HTML 5. Advocacy groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation EFF and security researchers alik...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID22983: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on May 22, 2016

Medium Alert ID: 46341 First Published: 2016 May 23 14:30 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID22983 may contain the following files: Name | Size...