Hackers try to poison Florida City’s drinking water

The FBI, the Secret Service, and the Pinellas County Sheriffs Office are currently investigating an attempted poisoning of a city by an individual or group of hackers that occurred Friday last week. If it hadnt been caught in time, at least 15,000 people could have been affected. In a Monday pres...

Apple macOS Security Breach

Apple macOS is a specialized operating system developed by Apple Inc. for Mac computers. A security vulnerability exists in Apple macOS that originates from a logical error in kext loading in IOKit. A native application can execute arbitrary code using elevated privileges. The vulnerability exist...

Arbitrary File Read Vulnerability in SeaCMS

SeaCMS is designed to solve the core needs of station owners and a set of program adaptive computer, cell phone, tablet, APP multiple terminal entrance content management system. SeaCMS has an arbitrary file reading vulnerability that can be exploited by attackers to obtain sensitive information...

Targeted Ransomware Attacks Hit Several Spanish Companies

Everis, one of the largest IT consulting companies in Spain, suffered a targeted ransomware attack on Monday, forcing the company to shut down all its computer systems until the issue gets resolved completely. Ransomware is a computer virus that encrypts files on an infected system until a ransom...

CVE-2019-12506

Due to unencrypted and unauthenticated data communication, the wireless presenter Logitech R700 Laser Presentation Remote R-R0010 is prone to keystroke injection attacks. Thus, an attacker is able to send arbitrary keystrokes to a victim's computer system, e.g., to install malware when the target...

Unpatched Fujitsu Wireless Keyboard Bug Allows Keystroke Injection

UPDATE Fujitsu is stopping sales for its popular wireless keyboard after a researcher discovered it is vulnerable to keystroke injection attacks that could allow an adversary to take control of a victim’s system. Researchers with Germany-based SySS reported on Friday that the high-severity...

USN-3753-1 linux, linux-aws, linux-kvm, linux-raspi2, linux-snapdragon vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the generic SCSI driver in the Linux kernel did not properly enforce permissions on kernel memory access. A local attacker could use this to expose sensitive information or possibly elevate privileges. CVE-2017-13168 Wen Xu discovered that a use-after-free vulnerability...

Microsoft Windows: Shut down system immediately if unable to log security audits

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: winauditshutdownunablelog.nasl 11532 2018-09-21 19:07:30Z cfischer $ Check value for Audit: Shut down system immediately if unable to log security audits Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018 Greenbone Networks...

Apple iOS and macOS High Sierra IOKit Component Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Apple iOS and macOS High Sierra are both products of Apple Inc. Apple iOS is an operating system developed for mobile devices; macOS High Sierra is a specialized operating system developed for Mac computers. iOKit is one of the components that reads the system information. A security vulnerabilit...

Google Android Kernel SCSI Driver Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Android on Google Pixel and Nexus is a Linux-based open source operating system for Google Pixel and Nexus smartphones developed by Google and the Open Handheld Alliance OHA.Kernel SCSI driver is a kernel SCSI small computer system interface driver used in the Kernel SCSI driver is a kernel SCSI...

Google Android Upstream kernel scsi driver suffers from elevation of privilege vulnerability

Android is a Linux-based open source operating system jointly developed by Google and the Open Handset Alliance OHA.Upstream kernel scsi driver is one of the kernel SCSI Small Computer System Interface drivers. An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the Upstream kernel scsi driver in...

Zortam Media Studio 20.60 - Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Product & Service Introduction: =============================== Zortam Mp3 Media Studio is a great all-in-one music tool for organizing your Mp3/Karaoke collection for editing Mp3 ID3 tags, ripping your CD, normalizing Mp3, converts Mp3/Wav and Wav/Mp3, to get song lyric and cover arts from the...

VUPlayer 2.49 - (.pls) Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Document Title: =============== VUPlayer 2.49 - .pls Buffer Overflow Vulnerability References Source: ==================== http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=1876 Release Date: ============= 2016-07-24 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID: ==================================== 1876...

Former Cardinals Scout Christopher Correa Sentenced Four Years for Houston Astros Hack

The Federal Court came down hard on a former scouting director for the St. Louis Cardinals on Monday, sentencing Christopher Correa to almost four years in prison for hacking into a computer system that belongs to the Houston Astros. Correa, who until last summer served as Director of Baseball...

RHEL 7 : kernel (RHSA-2016:1277)

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from th...

Apple iOS BOM Catalog Traversal Vulnerability

OS X formerly Mac OS X is the latest version of Apple's proprietary operating system for the Macintosh computer. iOS is an operating system developed by Apple for mobile devices. A directory traversal security vulnerability exists in the BOM in Apple iOS versions prior to 9.1, Apple OS X versions...

18-Year-Old Student Arrested for Hacking School Computers to Change Grades

An 18-year old Miami University student is facing charges for allegedly breaching the school's computer system to change grades for himself and four other students. Jose Bautista appeared before a judge Friday after he was arrested Thursday by the Miami School Board Police after the principal of...

Jailed cyber criminal hacked into prison computer system from Jail

Old habits seem to die hard for a hacker, a cyber criminal who masterminded a £15 million fraud was allowed to join a prison IT class and hacked into the jail's computer system. Nicholas Webber, serving five years in prison for running an internet crime forum Ghost Market, Which allowed those...

Student hacked into school's computer to obtain a girl's details

Matthew Higgins, now 20 and a university student, hacked into his school computer system to obtain a girl's details and then boasted on a hackers' forum. Matthew is son of a police inspector. Caernarfon Crown Court heard it was the case of a clever young man caught red-handed. The defendant says...

The 10 Most Infamous Student Hackers of All Time

Hacking has always been inherently a young person's game. The first usage of the word "hacker" was to describe pranksters meddling with the phones at MIT. Many hackers have cited boredom, a desire for change, or the thrill of going somewhere one is not supposed to go as their motivation for...