This Week in Security News

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. Below you’ll find a quick recap of topics followed by links to news articles and/or our blog posts providing additional insight. Be sure to check back...

Windows SMB Zero Day to Be Disclosed During DEF CON

LAS VEGAS—A 20-year-old Windows SMB vulnerability is expected to be disclosed Saturday during a talk at DEF CON. Microsoft has said it will not patch the vulnerability, which allows an attacker to remotely crash a Windows server with relative ease using only 20 lines of Python code and a Raspberr...

July 24, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Shark Week” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! July 24, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Soon, your most important...

On Baseband Vulnerabilities, SIEMs, Samsung Tizen and More

Mike Mimoso, Tom Spring, and Chris Brook recap two conferences from last week: Infiltrate Con in Miami and Kaspersky Lab’s Security Analyst Summit in St. Maarten. A baseband vulnerability, SIEMs, vulnerabilities in Samsung’s Tizen operating system, and an IoT honeypot are discussed. Download:...

How to Hack Smart Bluetooth Locks and IoT Devices — Check this Out

Bluetooth Low Energy, also known as Bluetooth Smart or Bluetooth 4, is the leading protocol designed for connecting IoT devices, medical equipment, smart homes and like most emerging technologies, security is often an afterthought. As devices become more and more embedded in our daily lives,...

Google Patches Quadrooter Vulnerabilities in Android

The Quadrooter vulnerabilities made a lot of people take notice because the scale of affected Android devices more than 900,000 put it on a level with Stagefright and other bugs that impact a large majority of the Android ecosystem. Some details on the four vulnerabilities were publicly disclosed...

Thoughts on BSides Las Vegas 2016

I recently attended "Infosec Week" in Vegas - Black Hat, BSides and DEFCON. BSides is a high point every year. This smaller Con has a plethora of perks which make it a "must attended" and also offers many of the same benefits or advantages or opportunities as Black Hat and DEFCON...

Metasploit for Machine Learning: Deep-Pwning

Deep-pwning is a lightweight framework for experimenting with machine learning models with the goal of evaluating their robustness against a motivated adversary. Note that deep-pwning in its current state is no where close to maturity or completion. It is meant to be experimented with, expanded...

Bug Hunting Cyber Bots Set to Square Off at DEF CON

LAS VEGAS — A government project in the works since 2013 is set to conclude Thursday at DEF CON when DARPA’s Cyber Grand Challenge culminates with a competition it’s calling the CGC Final Event. The challenge will mirror Capture the Flag competitions usually held at the hacking conference. CTF...

DARPA Challenges Hackers to Create Automated Hacking System — WIN $2 Million

Why we can’t detect all security loopholes and patch them before hackers exploit them? Because... we know that humans are too slow at finding and fixing security bugs, which is why vulnerabilities like Heartbleed, POODLE and GHOST remained undetected for decades and rendered almost half of the...

Facebook Open Sources its Capture the Flag (CTF) Platform

Hacking into computer, networks and websites could easily land you in jail. But what if you could freely test and practice your hacking skills in a legally safe environment? Facebook just open-sourced its Capture The Flag CTF platform to encourage students as well as developers to learn about cyb...

new-york-comic-con.firstslice.com XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: http://new-york-comic-con.firstslice.com/man-bennett-interview-the-shannara-chronicles-austin-butler-new-york-comic-con-nycc/"';-- Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| Yes, at 20.12.2015 Latest check for patch:| 20.12.2015 01:27 GMT Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability...

Schneider Electric Modicon M340 PLC Station P34 Module HMI Vulnerabilities

Update Vulnerabilities in Schneider Electric SCADA gear remain unpatched close to two weeks after they were disclosed during DEF CON. The Industrial Control System Cyber Emergency Response Team ICS-CERT released an alert late last week and patches are currently being validated according to ICS-CE...

NeuroServer 0.7.4 - EEG TCPIP Transceiver Remote Denial of Service

NeuroServer 0.7.4 - EEG TCPIP Transceiver Remote Denial of Service !/usr/bin/env python NeuroServer 0.7.4 Remote DoS Shown at DEF CON 23 BioHacking Village Brain Waves Surfing - InSecurity in EEG Electroencephalography Technologies Slides: http://goo.gl/44r1HH NeuroServer is an EEG...

NeuroServer 0.7.4 - EEG TCP/IP Transceiver Remote Denial of Service

!/usr/bin/env python NeuroServer 0.7.4 Remote DoS Shown at DEF CON 23 BioHacking Village Brain Waves Surfing - InSecurity in EEG Electroencephalography Technologies Slides: http://goo.gl/44r1HH NeuroServer is an EEG Electroencephalography TCP/IP Transceiver...

Thunderstrike 2: World's First Firmware Worm That Infects Mac Computers Without Detection

If you think Apple’s Mac computers are much more secure than Windows-powered systems, you need to think again. This isn’t true, and security researchers have finally proved it. Two security researchers have developed a proof-of-concept computer worm for the first time that can spread automaticall...

OwnStar Device Can Remotely Locate, Unlock, and Start GM Cars

Car hacking just jumped up a few levels. A security researcher has built a small device that can intercept the traffic from the OnStar RemoteLink mobile app and give him persistent access to a user’s vehicle to locate, unlock, and start it. The device is called OwnStar and it’s the creation of Sa...

Samy Kamkar's ProxyGambit Picks Up for Defunct ProxyHam

Without fail in the weeks leading up to Black Hat and DEF CON, there are inevitably talks that are either pulled by organizers, cancelled by presenters, or strong suggestions are made that the talks don’t happen. This year’s first casualty, Ben Caudill’s scheduled DEF CON demonstration of ProxyHa...

How to Anonymously Access Wi-Fi from 2.5 Miles Away Using This Incredible Device

Anonymity is something that seems next to impossible in this era of government surveillance. Even Tor and VPNs are no longer seem to be enough to protect user privacy. Once your IP address is discovered, your Game Over! However, a method have been devised that not only allow users to anonymously...

CVE-2015-0879: Improper Input Validation

CREAR AL-Mail32 before 1.13d allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash via a 1 CON, 2 AUX, or 3 NUL device name in the filename of an attachment...