[SECURITY] Fedora 26 Update: mosquitto-1.4.15-1.fc26

Mosquitto is an open source message broker that implements the MQ Telemetry Transport protocol version 3.1 and 3.1.1 MQTT provides a lightweight method of carrying out messaging using a publish/subscribe model. This makes it suitable for "machine to machine" messaging such as with low power senso...

Artificial Intelligence and the Attack/Defense Balance

Artificial intelligence technologies have the potential to upend the longstanding advantage that attack has over defense on the Internet. This has to do with the relative strengths and weaknesses of people and computers, how those all interplay in Internet security, and where AI technologies migh...

Microsoft Windows Kernel CVE-2018-0814 Local Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Description Microsoft Windows is prone to a local information-disclosure vulnerability. Local attackers can exploit this issue to obtain sensitive information that may lead to further attacks. Technologies Affected Microsoft Windows 10 Version 1607 for 32-bit Systems Microsoft Windows 10 Version...

MOSQUITO Attack Allows Air-Gapped Computers to Covertly Exchange Data

The team of security researchers—who last month demonstrated how attackers could steal data from air-gapped computers protected inside a Faraday cage—are back with its new research showing how two or more air-gapped PCs placed in the same room can covertly exchange data via ultrasonic waves...

2,000 Colorado DOT computers infected with SamSam Ransomware

By Uzair Amir Another day, another ransomware scam - This time, it is This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 2,000 Colorado DOT computers infected with SamSam Ransomware...

Hackers Can Now Steal Data Even From Faraday Cage Air-Gapped Computers

A team of security researchers—which majorly focuses on finding clever ways to get into air-gapped computers by exploiting little-noticed emissions of a computer's components like light, sound and heat—have published another research showcasing that they can steal data not only from an air gap...

Khan Academy: CSRF token fixation and potential account takeover

Hi Team, Details: I have found that the csrftoken fkey parameter which prevent CSRF attacks is fixed in same browser and didn't changed even user login or logout , a lot of users can use the same CSRFtoken , this can be exploited such 2 ways : Shared computers: - attacker open...

Ketshash - A little tool for detecting suspicious privileged NTLM connections, in particular Pass-The-Hash attack, based on event viewer logs

A little tool for detecting suspicious privileged NTLM connections, in particular Pass-The-Hash attack, based on event viewer logs. The tool was published as part of the "Pass-The-Hash detection" research - more details on "Pass-The-Hash detection" are in the blog post:...

Kaseya VSA 9.2 Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

Exploit for asp platform in category web applications ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Authentication bypass in Kaseya VSA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kin Hung Cheng, Robert Hartshorn, May 2017...

Kaseya VSA R9.2 Arbitrary File Read

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Arbitrary file read in Kaseya VSA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Kin Hung Cheng, Robert Hartshorn, May 2017 ------------------------------------------------------------------------...

macOS Malware Creator Charged With Spying on Thousands of PCs Over 13 Years

The U.S. Justice Department unsealed 16-count indictment charges on Wednesday against a computer programmer from Ohio who is accused of creating and installing spyware on thousands of computers for more than 13 years. According to the indictment, 28-year-old Phillip R. Durachinsky is the alleged...

Spectre and Meltdown Attacks Against Microprocessors

The security of pretty much every computer on the planet has just gotten a lot worse, and the only real solution -- which of course is not a solution -- is to throw them all away and buy new ones. On Wednesday, researchers just announced a series of major security vulnerabilities in the...

ADRecon - Tool Which Gathers Information About The Active Directory

ADRecon is a tool which extracts various artifacts as highlighted below out of an AD environment in a specially formatted Microsoft Excel report that includes summary views with metrics to facilitate analysis. The report can provide a holistic picture of the current state of the target AD...

Feds Shut Down 'Longest-Running' Andromeda Botnet

In a coordinated International cyber operation, Europol with the help of international law enforcement agencies has taken down what it called "one of the longest-running malware families in existence" known as Andromeda. Andromeda, also known as Win32/Gamarue, is an infamous HTTP-based modular...

Threat Landscape for Industrial Automation Systems in H1 2017

Kaspersky Lab Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team Kaspersky Lab ICS CERT publishes the results of its research on the threat landscape for industrial automation systems for the first six months of 2017. All statistical data used in this report was collected using the Kaspersk...

Hacker Can Steal Data from Air-Gapped Computers Using IR CCTV Cameras

Air-gapped computers that are isolated from the Internet and physically separated from local networks are believed to be the most secure computers which are difficult to infiltrate. However, these networks have been a regular target in recent years for researchers, who have been trying to...

BlueBorne Bluetooth Vulnerabilities

US-CERT is aware of a collection of Bluetooth vulnerabilities, known as BlueBorne, potentially affecting millions of unpatched mobile phones, computers, and Internet of Things IoT devices. A remote attacker could exploit several of these vulnerabilities to take control of affected devices. US-CER...

New Locky Variant 'IKARUSdilapidated' Strikes Again

A second wave of the Locky ransomware variant called IKARUSdilapidated has been identified by security experts. The source of the ransomware is a botnet of zombie computers coordinated to launch phishing attacks that send emails and attachments appearing to come from a targeted recipient’s truste...

How A Coffee Machine Infected Factory Computers with Ransomware

By Waqas Its no surprise that the Internet of Things IoT devices This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: How A Coffee Machine Infected Factory Computers with Ransomware...

Parallels Desktop Virtual Machine Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Parallels Desktop is one of the most powerful virtual machine software for Mac computers. Parallels Desktop suffers from a local elevation of privilege vulnerability that allows an attacker to exploit the vulnerability to escape to the host host to execute arbitrary code...