Network access to Pakistan’s top fed agency FBR sold on Russian forum

By Waqas FBR has acknowledged the data breach and called it out as cyber-terrorism on Pakistan's independence day. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Network access to Pakistans top fed agency FBR sold on Russian forum...

CVE-2021-37705

OneFuzz is an open source self-hosted Fuzzing-As-A-Service platform. Starting with OneFuzz 2.12.0 or greater, an incomplete authorization check allows an authenticated user from any Azure Active Directory tenant to make authorized API calls to a vulnerable OneFuzz instance. To be vulnerable, a...

Black Hat: Novel DNS Hack Spills Confidential Corp Data

LAS VEGAS – Amazon and Google patched a domain name service DNS bug that allowed attackers to snoop on the confidential networking settings of companies – revealing computer and employee names along with office locations and exposed web resources. The vulnerability, outlined in a Black Hat USA 20...

How Companies Can Protect Themselves from Password Spraying Attacks

Attackers are using many types of attacks to compromise business-critical data. These can include zero-day attacks, supply chain attacks, and others. However, one of the most common ways that hackers get into your environment is by compromising passwords. The password spraying attack is a special...

Fortinet FortiSandbox Path Traversal Vulnerability

Fortinet FortiSandbox is an APT Advanced Persistent Threat protection appliance from Fortinet, Inc. The appliance provides dual sandboxing technology, dynamic threat intelligence, a real-time control panel and reporting, etc. A path traversal vulnerability exists in Fortinet FortiSandbox that cou...

What to do when your business has been hacked

You might be here because the unthinkable has happened so let’s get straight into this, step by step: Immediate containment. Inform stakeholders. Inform law enforcement. Implement your disaster recovery plan. Analyze and future proof. Early warning signs may be unusual user-account behavior, slow...

Household data of 35 million US residents exposed in database mess up

By Waqas The database was left exposed without any security authentication meaning it could be accessed by anyone with access to a valid URL. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Household data of 35 million US residents exposed in database mess up...

The Life Cycle of a Breached Database

Every time there is another data breach, we are asked to change our password at the breached entity. But the reality is that in most cases by the time the victim organization discloses an incident publicly the information has already been harvested many times over by profit-seeking cybercriminals...

CVE-2021-32001

K3s in SUSE Rancher allows any user with direct access to the datastore, or a copy of a datastore backup, to extract the cluster's confidential keying material cluster certificate authority private keys, secrets encryption configuration passphrase, etc. and decrypt it, without having to know the...

Design/Logic Flaw

Dell EMC Isilon OneFS supported versions 8.1 and later and Dell EMC PowerScale OneFS supported version 9.0.0 contain an access issue with the remotesupport user account. A remote malicious user with low privileges may gain access to data stored on the /ifs directory through most protocols...

Oracle Siebel CRM Unauthorized Access Vulnerability

Oracle Siebel CRM is a customer relationship management solution from Oracle Corporation that includes modules for sales management, marketing management, customer service systems, call centers, etc. Siebel UI Framework is one of the framework components based on the JavaScript language. A securi...

CVE-2021-2374

CVE-2021-2374 affects Oracle MySQL Server (InnoDB) with affected versions 8.0.25 and prior. The vulnerability allows a high-privilege attacker with local access to compromise the server, potentially gaining unauthorized access to data. The CVSSv3.1 base score is 4.1 (Confidentiality impact: High;...

CVE-2021-2373

CVE-2021-2373 is a vulnerability in Oracle JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools, specifically the Web Runtime component. Affected products/versions include JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Tools 9.2.5.3 and earlier. The issue enables a low-privileged, network-accessible attacker (HTTP) to compromise data in th...

CVE-2021-2359

CVE-2021-2359 affects Oracle E-Business Suite’s Marketing Administration. The vulnerability exists in affected Oracle Marketing components for versions 12.1.1–12.1.3 and 12.2.3–12.2.10 . An unauthenticated attacker with network access over HTTP can compromise Oracle Marketing, with attacks potent...

Law Firm to the Fortune 500 Breached with Ransomware

Campbell Conroy & O’Neil, P.C. – U.S. law firm to a dazzling array of huge companies – told its star-studded clientele that an intruder may have groped their data. It was hit with ransomware in February and is now suffering the data-breach fallout. That client list spans a slew of industries and...

Why Your Business Needs a Long-Term Remote Security Strategy

When COVID-19 first emerged, companies across all sectors of the economy were forced to rapidly transition to remote work. The goal was simple: Ensuring business continuity in the face of an unprecedented challenge — a challenge that most assumed would come and go in short order. As vaccines...

Zero-Day Attacks on Critical WooCommerce Bug Threaten Databases

A critical SQL-injection security vulnerability in the WooCommerce e-commerce platform and a related plugin has been under attack as a zero-day bug, researchers have disclosed. The exploitation prompted WooCommerce to release an emergency patch for the issue late on Wednesday. The bug could allow...

CVE-2021-33671

SAP NetWeaver Guided Procedures Administration Workset, versions - 7.10, 7.20, 7.30, 7.31, 7.40, 7.50, does not perform necessary authorization checks for an authenticated user, resulting in escalation of privileges. The impact of missing authorization could result to abuse of functionality...

Guess Fashion Deals With Data Loss, Post-Ransomware

A February ransomware attack on fashion label Guess linked to Colonial Pipeline attackers DarkSide is still causing damage. Guess has started sending letters to 1,300 employees and contractors who had their personal and banking data exposed during the breach. The letter, published by...

Crafting a Custom Dictionary for Your Password Policy

Modern password policies are comprised of many different elements that contribute to its effectiveness. One of the components of an effective current password policy makes use of what is known as a custom dictionary that filters out certain words that are not allowed as passwords in the...