CVE-2021-31850 Denial of Service in Database Security on Windows

A denial-of-service vulnerability in Database Security DBS prior to 4.8.4 allows a remote authenticated administrator to trigger a denial-of-service attack against the DBS server. The configuration of Archiving through the User interface incorrectly allowed the creation of directories and files i...

New Disk Wiping Malware Targets Israel

Apostle seems to be a new strain of malware that destroys data. In a post published Tuesday, SentinelOne researchers said they assessed with high confidence that based on the code and the servers Apostle reported to, the malware was being used by a newly discovered group with ties to the Iranian...

What role does data destruction play in cybersecurity?

When organization leaders think about cybersecurity, it's usually about which tools and practices they need to add to their stack—email protection, firewalls, network and endpoint security, employee awareness training, AI and machine-learning technology—you get the idea. What's not often consider...

Why DevOps is Becoming More Like DevSecOps

Editor's Note: Sam Bocetta, a guest author on the Carbon Black blog, is a freelance journalist specializing in U.S. diplomacy and national security, with emphases on technology trends in cyber warfare, cyber defense, and cryptography. In the year 2000, a Time magazine essay authored by Steward...

Hackers Destroyed VFEmail Service – Deleted Its Entire Data and Backups

What could be more frightening than a service informing you that all your data is gone—every file and every backup servers are entirely wiped out? The worst nightmare of its kind. Right? But that's precisely what just happened this week with VFEmail.net, a US-based secure email provider that lost...

New Shamoon Variant

A new variant of the Shamoon malware has destroyed significant amounts of data at a UAE "heavy engineering company" and the Italian oil and gas contractor Saipem. Shamoon is the Iranian malware that was targeted against the Saudi Arabian oil company, Saudi Aramco, in 2012 and 2016. We have no ide...

XBash Malware Packs Double Punch: Destroys Data and Mines for Crypto Coins

Researchers have discovered a new sophisticated malware family in the wild, which wrecks havoc on Windows and Linux systems with a combination of data destructive ransomware and malicious cryptomining. The malware, dubbed by Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 researchers who discovered it as Xbash, has...

【Warning Notice】IOS remote jailbreak APT attack security a threat-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! IOS remote jailbreak APT attacks Apple yesterday for IOS released a security update that relates to three 0 day vulnerability, this vulnerability discovery process from the primary APT attack begins. We need to note that, the hacker through the loopholes for remote control and get for IOS users...

New Rules Require FBI to Get Warrant for Spying With ‘Stingrays’ Cell Phone Trackers

Remember StingRays? The controversial cell phone spying tool, known as "Stingrays" or "IMSI catchers," has been used by authorities to track criminal suspects most of the times without obtaining court orders. But now, the Federal law agencies will have to be more transparent about their use of...

TaskFreak 0.6.2 - SQL Injection Vulnerability

No description provided by source. CVE-2010-1583 Vendor notified and product update released. Details of this report are also available at http://www.madirish.net/?article=456 Description of Vulnerability: - ------------------------------ The Tirzen Framework http://www.tirzen.net/tzn/ is a...

Belchior Foundry VCard 2.8 Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9910/info It has been reported that vCard is prone to a remote authentication bypass vulnerability. This issue is due to a design error that would allow a malicious user access to certain admin functionality without havin...

AIX 4.3.3/5.1 Invscoutd Symbolic Link Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9982/info Reportedly AIX invscoutd insecurely handles temporary files; this may allow a local attacker to destroy data on vulnerable system. This issue is due to a design error that allows a user to specify a log file tha...

Byword 2.x File Overwrite Vulnerability

The Metaclassy Byword app 2.x before 2.1 for iOS does not require confirmation of Replace file actions, which allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via the name and text parameters in a byword://replace URL. Affected Vendor: http://metaclassy.com/ - Affected Software: Byword for iO...

[CVE-2013-5725] - Byword for iOS Data Destruction Vulnerability

Affected Vendor: http://metaclassy.com/ - Affected Software: Byword for iOS - Affected Version: 2.x prior to 2.1 - Issue Type: Lack of validation/user confirmation leading to destruction of data - Release Date: 29 Sept 2013 - Discovered by: Guillaume Ross - CVE Identifier: CVE-2013-5725 - Issue...

Byword 2.x File Overwrite

Affected Vendor: http://metaclassy.com/ - Affected Software: Byword for iOS - Affected Version: 2.x prior to 2.1 - Issue Type: Lack of validation/user confirmation leading to destruction of data - Release Date: 29 Sept 2013 - Discovered by: Guillaume Ross - CVE Identifier: CVE-2013-5725 - Issue...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1943-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1945-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Ubuntu Update for linux USN-1938-1

Check for the Version of linux OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN19381.nasl 8542 2018-01-26 06:57:28Z teissa $ Ubuntu Update for linux USN-1938-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; y...

Iranian Hackers targeting US oil, gas, and electric companies

For all the talk about China and the Syrian Electronic Army, it seems there's another threat to U.S. cyber interests i.e Iran. Series of potentially destructive computer attacks that have been targeting American oil, gas and electricity companies tracked back to Iran. Iranian hackers were able to...

Wiper, the Destructive Malware possibly connected to Stuxnet and Duqu

Kaspersky Lab publishes research resulting from the digital forensic analysis of the hard disk images obtained from the machines attacked by the Wiper - a destructive malware program attacking computer systems related to oil facilities in Western Asia. Security researchers from Kaspersky Lab have...