Monetising hacking by shorting commodity shipments

I’m continually asked by the maritime industry about the motivations of hackers. “Why would anyone hack us, we operate ships?” It strikes me that many of the public and a lot of maritime businesses still think of the ‘hacker’ as a solo operator in a dark hoodie in a basement of their parents’...

Katie Moussouris: The Bug Bounty Conflict of Interest

Since the launch of the Hack the Pentagon program in 2016, bug bounty programs continue to increase in popularity – however, as more programs are created, some companies are forgetting the real reason behind bug bounties. Instead of aiming to make their systems more secure, companies are viewing...

Apport 2.x (Ubuntu Desktop 12.10 < 16.04) - Local Code Execution Exploit

Exploit for linux platform in category local exploits Both of these issues were reported to the Apport maintainers and a fix was released on 2016-12-14. The CrashDB code injection issue can be tracked with CVE-2016-9949 and the path traversal bug with CVE-2016-9950. An additional problem where...