Akamai Technical Academy and Coursera: A Year of STEM Education Success

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A week in security (July 5 – July 11)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Racing against a real-life ransomware attack. Podcast with Ski Kacoroski. Kaseya CEO: “The impact of this incredibly sophisticated attack is very minimal” Patch now! Emergency fix for PrintNightmare released by Microsoft. Game over: Apex Legends players locked out ...

Coursera Flunks API Test in Researchers’ Security Exam

Researchers have discovered multiple application programming interface API issues in Coursera, the online learning platform used by 82 million learners and hundreds of Fortune 500 companies. On Thursday, the Checkmarx Security Research Team published a report on its findings, which included user...

Coursera: No Password Verification on Changing Email Address Cause Account takeover

In coursera.org website, there is no password verification on changing email id. Generally when user try to change the password , they were asked to verify the request by entering old password. For the same reason a verification should be there on changing email. But the worst part is, when user...

Coursera: Stored XSS via transloadit.com and imageproxy

Hello, due to poor input file validation on transloadit.com, it is possible to upload and process any filetype on their server, which would later be uploaded to coursera-profile-photos.s3.amazonaws.com. From there, since imageproxy trusts coursera-profile-photos.s3.amazonaws.com, one can fetch...

Coursera: XSS Stored

Hi Coursera, This is AhsanKhan, An Ethical Hacker. I Have Found Stored XSS In Your Site : https://translate-coursera.org/ Now I Am Going To Show You. 1.Create An Account In Your Site. https://www.coursera.org 2.And Put This Script in First Name. " 3.Save it : 4.Account Created now Go to this Web...

Coursera: Broken authentication and session management flaw

In this Loop Hole The Application does not destroy session after logout.. means the cookies are working to login to user account & change account Information, The Cookies are usable after many hours of logout about after 1 day i'm able to access the account & edit info. Steps To Reproduce This...

Coursera - Base64 encoded String, Customized SSL, Dangerous filesystem permissions vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Coursera published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...