2013 Yahoo Breach Affected All 3 Billion Accounts

A massive breach of Yahoo’s systems in 2013 impacted every account in existence at the time, the company said last night in a new filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Yahoo disclosed the breach last December when it revealed that it believed 1 billion accounts were compromised. Las...

Information disclosure

The client-forwarder in Elastic Cloud Enterprise versions prior to 1.0.2 do not properly encrypt traffic to ZooKeeper. If an attacker is able to man in the middle MITM the traffic between the client-forwarder and ZooKeeper they could potentially obtain sensitive data...

Amazon's Whole Foods Market Suffers Credit Card Breach In Some Stores

Another day, another data breach. This time Amazon-owned grocery chain has fallen victim to a credit card security breach. Whole Foods Market—acquired by Amazon for $13.7 billion in late August—disclosed Thursday that hackers were able to gain unauthorized access to credit card information for it...

Mobile Stock Trading App Providers Unresponsive to Glaring Vulnerabilities

More than 20 of the most popular mobile trading applications used by consumers and day-traders for securities transactions contain glaring vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to sniff personal data or steal money from accounts. Researchers from IOActive today published a report describing...

CVE-2017-7974

A path traversal information disclosure vulnerability exists in Schneider Electric's U.motion Builder software versions 1.2.1 and prior in which an unauthenticated user can execute arbitrary code and exfiltrate files...

A simple example of a complex cyberattack

We're already used to the fact that complex cyberattacks use 0-day vulnerabilities, bypassing digital signature checks, virtual file systems, non-standard encryption algorithms and other tricks. Sometimes, however, all of this may be done in much simpler ways, as was the case in the malicious...

Malware Steals Data From Air-Gapped Network via Security Cameras

Proof-of-concept malware called aIR-Jumper can be used to defeat air-gapped network protections and send data in and out of a targeted network. The technique uses security cameras and infrared LED lights that can blink back and forth to each other transmitting data that has been converted into da...

Hacker Can Steal Data from Air-Gapped Computers Using IR CCTV Cameras

Air-gapped computers that are isolated from the Internet and physically separated from local networks are believed to be the most secure computers which are difficult to infiltrate. However, these networks have been a regular target in recent years for researchers, who have been trying to...

VMware vCenter Server HTML Injection Vulnerability

VMware vCenter Server enables rapid deployment of virtual machines and monitors the performance of physical servers and virtual machines. An HTML injection vulnerability exists in VMware vCenter Server, which allows remote attackers to exploit the vulnerability to inject malicious script or HTML...

VLC Media Player iOS App 2.7.8 File Disclosure Vulnerability

VLC Media Player iOS application version 2.7.8 suffers from a file disclosure vulnerability. title: Local File Disclosure product: VLC media player iOS app vulnerable version: 2.7.8 fixed version: 2.8.1 CVE number: - impact: Medium homepage:...

The IoT Attack Vector “BlueBorne” Exposes Almost Every Connected Device (BlueBorne)

General Overview Armis Labs revealed a new attack vector endangering major mobile, desktop, and IoT operating systems, including Android, iOS, Windows, and Linux, and the devices using them. The new vector is dubbed “BlueBorne”, as it spread through the air airborne and attacks devices via...

Adobe RoboHelp for Windows Cross-Site Scripting Code Vulnerability

Adobe RoboHelp for Windows is a set of professional authoring tools for the Windows-based platform. Adobe RoboHelp for Windows suffers from a cross-site scripting vulnerability that allows remote attackers to exploit the vulnerability to inject malicious script or HTML code, which can be used to...

Wireless 'BlueBorne' Attacks Target Billions of Bluetooth Devices

Researchers disclosed a bevy of Bluetooth vulnerabilities Tuesday that threaten billions of devices from Android and Apple smartphones to millions of printers, smart TVs and IoT devices that use the short-range wireless protocol. Worse, according to researchers at IoT security firm Armis that fou...

CVE-2017-9458

XML external entity XXE vulnerability in the GlobalProtect internal and external gateway interface in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS before 6.1.18, 7.0.x before 7.0.17, 7.1.x before 7.1.12, and 8.0.x before 8.0.3 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information, cause a denial of service, or...

SimpleSAMLphp CBC Mode Encryption Unauthentication Vulnerability

SimpleSAMLphp is a set of PHP authentication applications that implement the SAML 2.0 service provider and identity provider features . A security vulnerability exists in SimpleSAMLphp 1.14.12 and earlier versions. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to conduct a man-in-the-middle attack a...

Edith Wharton, Identity Theft, and the GDPR

During one of my talks for Gartner, I asked the audience, “How many of you have ever had anything stolen?” Many hands went up. Then I asked, “How did you know it was stolen?” The answers generally offered, “I looked for it, and it wasn’t there.” Data theft, and in particular identity theft, is...

Hot air classes on the site of the SQLi and XSS vulnerabilities bug-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Last month in order to practice hand, I choices one of the more popular sites goodwesite.com as I penetrate the leaking test tool. In flaws in the excavation process, I've invented the Web PresenceSQL injectionandXSSflaws. The official start of the article content, let's first briefly understand...

Business Email Compromise Campaign Harvesting Credentials in Numerous Industries

A business email compromise campaign emanating out of Western Africa is targeting companies in a wide swathe of industries, bucking a trend of these scams focusing on wire fraud and targeting CEOs. The criminals are using phishing emails with links redirecting victims to sites designed to harvest...

Quora: [Quora Android] Possible to steal arbitrary files from mobile device

Summary: Service xml enabled and exported. If it's exported, it means that any third party application can access it and send arbitrary data into it. The following code sends main database file to arbitrary server I used http://google.com/zaheck: java UploadTaskParameters params = new...

Cisco Jabber Guest Server Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Cisco Jabber Guest Server is a suite of software that allows users to interact in real time with employees of the organization. A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in the Cisco Jabber Guest Server WEB script, which allows remote attackers to exploit the vulnerability to inject malicious...