From the Dorm Room to the White House: How Researcher Jack Cable Works to Ensure Election Security

In a recent episode of Security Nation, Rapid7 welcomed Jack Cable, a junior at Stanford University and employee of the U.S. Cybersecutiy and Infrastructure Security Agency, to discuss the importance of ensuring election security beyond just voting machines. Read on as he shares how to fight...

OX Guard 2.10.3 Cross Site Scripting / Server-Side Request Forgery

Product: OX Guard Vendor: OX Software GmbH Internal reference: GUARD-179 Vulnerability type: Cross-Site Scripting CWE-80 Vulnerable version: 2.10.3 Vulnerable component: guard Report confidence: Confirmed Solution status: Fixed by Vendor Fixed version: 2.10.2-rev9, 2.10.3-rev4 Vendor notification...

The Results Are In: Defender Confidence Is On The Rise

Recently, I spent two weeks traveling across Europe talking with defenders, reporters, and leaders of security programs. While each country faces its own unique challenges and has its own needs, there were a few themes that were consistently present. Threat Outlook Report 2020. Naturally, we...

Identifying Let’s Encrypt Revoked Certificates

Let's Encrypt is a free, automated, open certificate authority CA run for the public's benefit as a service from the Internet Security Research Group ISRG. It provides free digital certificates to enable HTTPS SSL/TLS for websites via user-friendly means. Earlier this week, Let's Encrypt announce...

ThreatList: Data Breaches Batter Stock Prices at Public Companies, For Months

Much has been made of the fallout that companies face after a data breach. But for public companies, shaken investor confidence adds a whole new dimension to recovery concerns. A recent study from Comparitech shows that share prices for large breached companies will hit a low point approximately ...

The Unsexy Threat to Election Security

Much has been written about the need to further secure our elections, from ensuring the integrity of voting machines to combating fake news. But according to a report quietly issued by a California grand jury this week, more attention needs to be paid to securing social media and email accounts...

Bandit - Tool Designed To Find Common Security Issues In Python Code

Bandit is a tool designed to find common security issues in Python code. To do this Bandit processes each file, builds an AST from it, and runs appropriate plugins against the AST nodes. Once Bandit has finished scanning all the files it generates a report. Bandit was originally developed within...

The Problem with Perfection: Tech Confidence in Young Girls

At Akamai, we believe the future of tech is full of amazing opportunities. However, to ensure these opportunities are fulfilled, some things in the industry need to change. To enable these changes, we are committed to providing opportunities to anyone...

How CB LiveOps Helps with Incident Response

Security and IT Operations teams often have no reliable way to assess the current state of endpoints across their enterprise, leading to increased risk of breach, inability to make informed remediation decisions, and unnecessary spending on infrastructure maintenance. A real-time endpoint query a...

Forrester Finds Carbon Black’s Predictive Security Cloud to have 261% ROI

Your endpoints are one of the most targeted assets in your organization—in 2017 alone, more than 50% of organizations experienced a data breach of some kind.1 At Carbon Black, we understand this risk, and are committed to providing the best possible endpoint protection. In order to demonstrate...

contact.sh - An OSINT tool to find contacts in order to report security vulnerabilities

An OSINT tool to find contacts in order to report security vulnerabilities. Installation Linux Make sure you have installed the whois and jq packages. $ git clone https://github.com/EdOverflow/contact.sh.git $ cd contact.sh/ $ chmod u+x contact.sh $ ./contact.sh -d google.com -c google OSX $ brew...

Election Leaks Failed to Move Needle on Polls

The barrage of information leaks, state-sponsored espionage and hacktivism related to the U.S. presidential election has had a mixed bag of effects on the race and voter confidence. For the most part, attacks against organizations supporting both major political parties, extensive email leaks and...

IOT Security Pits Regulators Against Market

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Listening to today’s privacy panel at the Security of Things Forum, you might have thought you were beamed back to the early 2000s: government people hinting that legislation might be the ultimate solution for security and privacy concerns when it comes to embedded computers an...

myBloggie 2.1.6 - Multiple Remote SQL Injection Vulnerabilities

No description provided by source. netVigilance Security Advisory 40 myBloggie version 2.1.6 Multiple SQL Injection Vulnerability Description: myBloggie http://mywebland.com/mybloggie/ is considered one of the most simple, user-friendliest yet packed with features Weblog system available to date...

Former Church Committee Members See Need for New Group to Investigate NSA

In a letter sent to President Obama and members of Congress, former members and staff of the Church Committee on intelligence said that the revelations of the NSA activities have caused “a crisis of public confidence” and encouraged the formation of a new committee to undertake “significant and...

Apple Safari CSS format Argument Handling Memory Corruption - High Confidence (CVE-2010-0046)

Safari is a web browsing application developed by Apple. The browser is capable of processing HTML, images, scripting languages, and various other popular Internet specifications. Safari is the default browser included with the Mac OS X operating system. A memory corruption vulnerability exists i...

Microsoft HTML Sanitization Cross Site Scripting (MS13-035) - High Confidence (CVE-2013-1289)

A cross-site scripting vulnerability has been reported in multiple Microsoft products. The flaw is due to the way that the applications sanitize HTML. Remote attackers can exploit this vulnerability by submitting crafted HTML to the vulnerable server that uses the HTML Sanitization library, and...

Microsoft SMB Response Parsing Memory Corruption (MS10-020; CVE-2010-0476) - High Confidence

A remote code execution vulnerability has been reported in the Microsoft Windows Server Message Block SMB client implementation...

Microsoft Internet Explorer SLayoutRun Use After Free (MS13-009) - High Confidence (CVE-2013-0025)

A remote code execution vulnerability has been reported in Microsoft Internet Explorer. The vulnerability is due to an error in the way Internet Explorer accesses an object in memory that has been deleted. A remote attacker can exploit this issue by enticing a target victim to open a specially...

New .Secure Global TLD Proposed

A group of security experts is working to put together a new global TLD that will require companies and individuals applying for domains to adhere to strict security policies and requirements. The proposed .secure TLD is intended to be a known safe group of domains and would include mandatory use...