GDPR Talk Dominates Barcelona’s  PCI DSS Community Conference

Recently, I returned from the European PCI DSS community conference in Barcelona. As always, the conference featured analysis of current hot topics within the PCI community and was helpful for any security professional looking to learn about the latest advancements in data security and protection...

New Research in Invisible Inks

It's a lot more chemistry than I understand: Invisible inks based on "smart" fluorescent materials have been shining brightly if only you could see them in the data-encryption/decryption arena lately.... But some of the materials are costly or difficult to prepare, and many of these inks remain...

NQ Contacts Backup&Restore Access Gain Vulnerability

NQ Contacts Backup&Restore application for Android is a set of data backup and recovery software based on Android platform. A security vulnerability exists in version 1.1 of the NQ Contacts Backup&Restore application for Android, which originates from the program's use of an RC4 static key. The...

Malicious Chrome Extension Steals Data Posted to Any Website

Malicious browser extensions continue to bear fruit for hackers who have been using them to spread banking malware and adware, and hijacking popular add-ons to spread other nasty code. The latest abuse involves a Google Chrome extension being spread in phishing emails that steals any data posted...

dll hijacking vulnerability in Yisetron Data Security Guard

Yisetong Data Security Guard is a security product that specializes in preventing your private data assets from being illegally stolen or used by others in the process of sharing and storing. A dll hijacking vulnerability exists in Yisetone Data Safeguard. The vulnerability is due to an unsafe...

Monitor More, Worry Less. Outpace Threats With Machine Learning.

In the past two years, enterprises have created more data than has been created in the entire history of humankind. At scale, securing this amount of data requires a re-think of how we grant and revoke access to sensitive files and, more importantly, how we identify and track the inevitable acces...

Oracle Java SE Security Updates (oct2017-3236626) 02 - Linux

Oracle Java SE is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 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...

An Analysis of PCI DSS Requirement 11.3.4.1 and the Compliance Expectations

For some organizations, understanding, navigating, and complying with the Payment Card Industry PCI Data Security Standard DSS, especially after the release of the latest version v3.2 released in April 2016, has become confusing and/or challenging because of the inclusion of phased-in applicabili...

International Islamic University Chittagong: SQL Injection On iiuc

NOTE! Thanks for submitting a report! Please replace all the square sections below with the pertinent details. Remember, the more detail you provide, the easier it is for us to verify and then potentially issue a bounty, so be sure to take your time filling out the report! Summary: add summary of...

CVE-2017-15209

In Kanboard before 1.0.47, by altering form data, an authenticated user can remove attachments from a private project of another user...

Equifax Breach Fallout: Your Salary History

In May, KrebsOnSecurity broke a story about lax security at a payroll division of big-three credit bureau Equifax that let identity thieves access personal and financial data on an unknown number of Americans. Incredibly, this same division makes it simple to access detailed salary and employment...

CVE-2017-9792

CVE-2017-9792 affects Apache Impala (incubating) before 2.10.0. A user with ALTER privileges on an Impala table can bypass authorization by turning a non-external Kudu table into external mode and altering the underlying mapping to point at other Kudu tables, potentially accessing data across tab...

September 18, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Emmys” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! September 18, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Worry about the spies,...

Equifax aftermath: How to protect against identity theft

Who here is scrambling around in the aftermath of the recent breach at Equifax to figure out if you've been compromised? Who here is wondering what to do about it if you are? If you're one of the 143 million Americans whose data was accessed by cybercriminals, then you probably raised your hand...

Multiple flaws found in smart syringe pump

A syringe pump is a small infusion pump that delivers liquids, either medication or nutrients, in small quantities into the patient's system. Hospitals, nursing homes, and homes with residents under acute or palliative care use them. Accurate and safe delivery of dosage from a variety of syringes...

Connected Medicine and Its Diagnosis

Medical data is slowly but surely migrating from paper mediums to the digital infrastructure of medical institutions. Today, the data is "scattered" across databases, portals, medical equipment, etc. In some cases, the security of the network infrastructure of such organizations is neglected, and...

Security Flaw in Estonian National ID Card

We have no idea how bad this really is: On 30 August, an international team of researchers informed the Estonian Information System Authority RIA of a vulnerability potentially affecting the digital use of Estonian ID cards. The possible vulnerability affects a total of almost 750,000 ID-cards...

Smart Devices Can Be Hijacked to Track Your Body Movements And Activities Remotely

If your smartphones, tablets, smart refrigerators, smart TVs and other smart devices are smart enough to make your life easier, their smart behavior could also be leveraged by hackers to steal data, invade your privacy or spy on you, if not secured properly. One such experiment has recently been...

Hacking a Gene Sequencer by Encoding Malware in a DNA Strand

One of the common ways to hack a computer is to mess with its input data. That is, if you can feed the computer data that it interprets -- or misinterprets -- in a particular way, you can trick the computer into doing things that it wasn't intended to do. This is basically what a buffer overflow...

Amazon Macie and Deep Security

Amazon S3 stores trillions of objects and regularly peaks at millions of requests per second. By any metric, it’s massive. With unparalleled durability and availability, it’s the backbone of AWS’ data services. This morning at the AWS Summit in New York City, AWS launched a new service: Amazon...