Fedora: Security Advisory for lout (FEDORA-2020-869cd99560)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2020 Greenbone Networks GmbH 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-or-later This program is free software; you can...

305 CVEs and Counting: Bug-Hunting Stories From a Security Engineer

Larry Cashdollar, senior security response engineer at Akamai, has been finding CVEs since the 1990s, around when MITRE was first being established. Since then, he’s found 305 CVEs – as well as various security findings, such an IoT bricking malware called Silex, and cybercriminals targeting poor...

Grammarly Patches Chrome Extension Bug That Exposed Users’ Docs

UPDATE Grammarly has fixed a bug with its Chrome browser extension that exposed its authorization tokens to websites, allowing sites to assume the identity of a user and view their account’s documents. “I’m calling this a high severity bug, because it seems like a pretty severe violation of user...

How to try to predict the output of Micali-Schnorr Generator (MS-DRBG) knowing the factorization. Part II

See also Part I and Part III of this series tl;dr In the previous article of the same series we tried to predict the output of Micali-Schnorr Generator MS-DRBG knowing the factorization. In this blog post we continue the effort started in part I showing different strategies. If you want to skip a...

Women in Tech and Career Spotlight: Luda Lazar

For National Cyber Security Awareness Month my colleague Joy Ma kicked off the first in of a series of articles where we’ll be spotlighting some of the women who work at Imperva. Continuing in the series, I spoke with Luda Lazar, security research engineer for the Imperva Defense Center, to get h...

web.tricolib.brynmawr.edu XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-378373 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| web.tricolib.brynmawr.edu Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Remediation Guide:| OWASP XSS Preventi...

Towards a Safer Internet for All: Winners of New Brunswick Video Contest Announced

Today more than ever, society needs to come together to work towards a better and safer future for all our children. This doesn’t just mean members of the public: companies can and should play a key role in helping to support worthy causes. Global citizenship and cyber security are two issues tha...

Speakers and Mics hacked to turn Music Into Surveillance Tool

By Waqas University of Washington’s Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Speakers and Mics hacked to turn Music Into Surveillance Tool...

Why So Many Top Hackers Hail from Russia

Conventional wisdom says one reason so many hackers seem to hail from Russia and parts of the former Soviet Union is that these countries have traditionally placed a much greater emphasis than educational institutions in the West on teaching information technology in middle and high schools, and...

Academics Make Theoretical Breakthrough in Random Number Generation

Two University of Texas academics have made what some experts believe is a breakthrough in random number generation that could have longstanding implications for cryptography and computer security. David Zuckerman, a computer science professor, and Eshan Chattopadhyay, a graduate student, publish...

Facebook CTF: Capture the Flag Platform

The Facebook CTF is a platform to host Jeopardy and “King of the Hill” style Capture the Flag competitions. Due to the high cost and technical requirements of building and running CTF environments, few publicly available resources exist for schools, students, and non-profit organizations to use...

Here's Top 10 Popular Programming Languages used on GitHub

Open Source is the Future of the computer science world! On Wednesday, the popular coding website GitHub shared a graph that gives a closer look at the popularity of different programming languages used on its code sharing website that lets anyone edit, store, and collaborate on software code...

RSA Conference Chris Hoff Reuben Paul Keynote

SAN FRANCISCO – When it comes to the future development of secure software, there’s really only one “next generation” that matters. That’s why today when the covers were pulled back on a seven-foot-tall server rack wheeled out on stage during Chris Hoff’s RSA Conference keynote, those in the...

WinRM Script Exec Remote Code Execution

This module uses valid credentials to login to the WinRM service and execute a payload. It has two available methods for payload delivery: Powershell 2 and above and VBS CmdStager. The module will check if Powershell is available, and if so uses that method. Otherwise it falls back to the VBS...

After Five Years, SAFECode Sees Software Security Progress, But Challenges Remain

Software security, code quality and the iea of building security into applications from the design phase forward have become touchstones for any conversation about how to improve the security of the Web and the general IT infrastructure. But it wasn’t always thus. In fact, it wasn’t too many year...

Apple Internship In Hand, Comex Promises 'No More Jailbreaks'

As the now famous iOS hacker best known as “Comex,” Nicholas Allegra was more than willing to weigh in on the vulnerabilities of Apple’s iOS mobile operating system. But now that he has accepted a position as an intern at Apple, Comex said his jailbreaking days are over. In an “ask me anything”...

Google Announces HITB2011AMS Conference Grant for Women Hackers !

As part of Google's ongoing commitment to encouraging women to excel in computing and technology, Google is pleased to announce the HITB2011AMS Conference Grant. This grant is set up to enable more female computer scientists to attend and participate in HITB2011AMS. The grant includes a pass to t...

Cyber terrorism among greatest challenges of today for India !

Your credit card number and its code is the new currency in contemporary world where thieves skim the money right from your banking account. It is the new world where the cyberspace poses threats along with its immense impact on how we live and conduct our day-to-day business - it is the topic of...

World's Largest Touchscreen Hacked !

It's gigantic ! It can handle over 100 simultaneous touch points! It has a curvature of 135 degrees! And best of all, it is NOT the newest, insanely expensive gadget to hit the market. Instead, this touchscreen was hacked together with a bunch of PCs, video cameras, projectors and cheap infrared...

U.S. Faces Shortage of Computer Science Graduates Amid Rising Cybersecurity Needs

The United States could soon face a significant shortage of computer science professionals unless it starts graduating more students in this field. At a time when computer hacking and security are critical issues for both the government and the private sector, the U.S. is producing only 9,000...