Inside the MSRC – Anatomy of a SSIRP incident

This is the second in a series of blog posts that shares how the MSRC responds to elevated threats to customers through the Software and Services Incident Response Plan SSIRP. In ourlast blog post, we looked at the history of the Microsoft Security Response Center and SSIRP, and how Microsoft tak...

Import users from CSV with meta <= 1.14.1.2 - XSS

The Import and export users and customers WordPress plugin was affected by a XSS security vulnerability...

Gain the Trust of Your Business Customers With SOC 2 Compliance

In today's business environment, data is what matters most. It matters to organizations that monetize it into operational insights and optimisations, and it matters the threat actors that relentlessly seek to achieve similar monetisation by compromising it. In the very common scenario in which...

Data Breach Disclosed by Online Invitation Firm Evite

Online invitation and stationary company Evite has notified customers of a data breach that stemmed from an “inactive data storage file” associated with user accounts. The company over the weekend said that during April 2019, it became aware of a “security incident involving potential unauthorize...

Maine governor signs ISP privacy bill

Less than one week after Maine Governor Janet Mills received one of the nation’s most privacy-protective state bills on her desk, she signed it into law. The move makes Maine the latest US state to implement its own online privacy protections. The law, which will go into effect July 1, 2020, bloc...

New Flaw in WordPress Live Chat Plugin Lets Hackers Steal and Hijack Sessions

Security researchers have been warning about a critical vulnerability they discovered in one of a popular WordPress Live Chat plugin, which, if exploited, could allow unauthorized remote attackers to steal chat logs or manipulate chat sessions. The vulnerability, identified as CVE-2019-12498,...

Cryptocurrency Firm Itself Hacked Its Customers to Protect Their Funds From Hackers

Are you using Komodo's Agama Wallet to store your KMD and BTC cryptocurrencies? Were your funds also unauthorisedly transferred overnight to a new address? If yes, don't worry, it's probably safe, and if you are lucky, you will get your funds back. Here's what exactly happened… Komodo, a...

3 Tips to Action Consumer Trust with Data Security and Privacy

Start Playing Here High-profile data breaches and increasingly sophisticated security threats are driving smart brands to better manage the mass amounts of consumer data they've spent years collecting. To do so, brands must prioritize their customers' interests and build a modern data security an...

Microsoft Bounty Program Updates: Faster bounty review, faster payments, and higher rewards

In 2018 The Microsoft Bounty Program awarded over $2,000,000 to encourage and reward external security research in key technologies to protect our customers. Building on that success, we are excited to announce a number of improvements in our bounty programs to better serve the security research...

Toyota data breach: Hackers steal 3.1 million customers’ data

By Waqas Toyota suffers third consecutive data breach within a few weeks. World famous Japanese automobile maker Toyota has become the target of a third data breach only within two months’ time. In the latest data breach, it is reported that the company lost data of 3.1 million customers...

Introducing Ability Purge Cache Tag

The new purge by cache tag functionality in Akamai’s Fast Purge is now available to all Akamai content delivery product customers. To get to this point, we went through an exciting, year-long beta with more than 200 participants purging 200,000,000 tags. During this time, we noted some fascinatin...

Zipcar Disruption

This isn't a security story, but it easily could have been. Last Saturday, Zipcar had a system outage: "an outage experienced by a third party telecommunications vendor disrupted connections between the company's vehicles and its reservation software." That didn't just mean people couldn't get ca...

LPG Gas Company Leaked Details, Aadhaar Numbers of 6.7 Million Indian Customers

Why would someone bother to hack a so-called "ultra-secure encrypted database that is being protected behind 13 feet high and 5 feet thick walls," when one can simply fetch a copy of the same data from other sources. French security researcher Baptiste Robert, who goes by the pseudonym "Elliot...

Khan Academy: EMAIL SPOOFING

Hey KHANACADEMY, I have found Email Spoofing type of Vulnerability in your Website. Attacker can use your E-Mail to send emails to others. Email spoofing is the creation of email messages with a forged sender address. Because the core email protocols do not have any mechanism for authentication, ...

qdPM 9.1 - 'search_by_extrafields[]' SQL Injection

=========================================================================================== Exploit Title: qdPM 9.1 - 'searchbyextrafields' SQL Injection Date: 14-02-2019 Exploit Author: Mehmet EMIROGLU Vendor Homepage: http://qdpm.net Software Link:...

Houzz Urges Password Resets After Data Breach

Interior decorating website Houzz on Friday issued a notice that user data – including usernames, passwords and IP addresses – had been accessed by an “unauthorized third party.” Houzz connects consumers to varying home-goods departments or professionals for purchasing furniture. The Palo Alto,...

Announcing the Microsoft Azure DevOps Bounty program

The Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC is pleased to announce the launch of the Azure DevOps Bounty program, a program dedicated to providing rock-solid security for our DevOps customers. Starting January 17, 2019, we’re excited to offer rewards up to US$20,000 for eligible vulnerabilities i...

FTC Warns of Netflix Phishing Scam Making Rounds

The Federal Trade Commission FTC is warning of a new phishing scam reeling in Netflix customers and stealing their payment information. According to a post published by the FTC, Wednesday, the spotted scam purports to be an email from Netflix. The email claims that the victim’s account was put on...

Oracle Critical Patch Update - October 2018

A Critical Patch Update is a collection of patches for multiple security vulnerabilities. Critical Patch Update patches are usually cumulative, but each advisory describes only the security fixes added since the previous Critical Patch Update advisory. Thus, prior Critical Patch Update advisories...

CVE-2018-7956

Huawei VIP App is a mobile app for Malaysia customers that purchased P20 Series, Nova 3/3i and Mate 20. There is a vulnerability in versions before 4.0.5 that attackers can conduct bruteforce to the VIP App Web Services to get user information...