Mylobot Botnet Emerges with Rare Level of Complexity

An unusual botnet dubbed Mylobot has emerged, percolating up from the Dark Web – and displaying a never-before-seen level of complexity in terms of the sheer breadth of its various tools, especially evasion techniques. According to an analysis posted on Tuesday by Tom Nipravsky, a security...

A View of Upcoming Threat Coverage from Pwn2Own 2018

This blog will be updated throughout the competition so keep tracking for the latest updates on upcoming threat coverage! St. Patrick’s Day is coming up later this week, but the contestants at Pwn2Own 2018 will need more than luck on their side. They will need to dive into their expert hacking...

Post-Quantum Algorithms

NIST has organized a competition for public-key algorithms secure against a quantum computer. It recently published all of its Round 1 submissions. Details of the NIST efforts are here. A timeline for the new algorithms is here...

Trend Micro Capture the Flag: Train security professionals – Close the skills gap

Businesses today face a security challenge: Protecting their systems and data is vital, but there aren’t enough qualified employees who can successfully make that happen. Similarly, young cybersecurity professionals need to overcome the gap between what is learned in a classroom and the practical...

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of August 28, 2017

The only topic I can bring up this week is the devastation in Texas caused by Hurricane Harvey. Many cities have been completely destroyed and to add insult to injury, Harvey moved back to the Gulf of Mexico and made landfall again in Louisiana. Catastrophic flooding has left tens of thousands...

Hack with Metasploit: Announcing the UNITED 2017 CTF

Got mad skillz? Want mad skillz? This year at Rapid7s annual UNITED Summit, were hosting a first-of-its-kind Capture the Flag CTF competition. Whether youre a noob to hacking or a grizzled pro, youll emerge from our 25-hour CTF with more knowledge and serious bragging rights. Show off your 1337...

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-2017:0876-1)

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-2017:0889-1)

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-2017:0873-1)

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-2017:0866-1)

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...