Lithuania wants users to dump Chinese phones citing data collection

By Deeba Ahmed Lithuania Defense Ministry has released a warning, urging consumers to get rid of their Chinese phones and not to buy new ones amid data security. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Lithuania wants users to dump Chinese phones citing data collection...

BlackMatter Strikes Iowa Farmers Cooperative, Demands $5.9M Ransom

A ransomware group believed to be the latest incarnation of the infamous DarkSide cybergang is being blamed for taking out a farmers’ cooperative online network, with extortionists demanding $5.9 million in ransom. The group BlackMatter is credited for the attack on an Iowa collective of farmers...

46% of On-Prem Databases Globally Contain Vulnerabilities: Is Yours Safe?

By Elad Erez, Chief Innovation Officer, Imperva Is there a day that goes by where you don’t read a news headline about a mega-breach impacting millions of people? It’s an unlikely scenario, particularly at a time when the volume of data breaches are rising by an astonishing 30 percent annually...

CVE-2021-24585

The Timetable and Event Schedule WordPress plugin before 2.4.0 outputs the Hashed Password, Username and Email Address along other less sensitive data of the user related to the Even Head of the Timeslot in the response when requesting the event Timeslot data with a user with the editposts...

Unpatched Bugs Plague Databases; Data Is Not Secure

A five-year longitudinal study found that nearly one out of every two on-premises databases globally – 46 percent – is vulnerable to attack, given that it has at least one unpatched vulnerability. The study, which involved 27,000 scanned databases globally, discovered that more than half – 56...

CVE-2021-33685

SAP Business One 10.0 has a path traversal vulnerability (CVE-2021-33685) that lets a low-privileged, authorized attacker access files/directories outside the restricted path, potentially exposing high-sensitivity data. The issue affects the product as described in multiple references, including ...

Zero Trust Requires Cloud Data Security with Integrated Continuous Endpoint Risk Assessment

Every once in a while, an industry term will get overused by marketing to the point of becoming a cliche. "Zero Trust" may have reached this threshold. In some ways, we understand why this is happening. Security perimeters have become obsolete as people use mobile devices and cloud applications t...

kernel: powerpc: KVM guest OS users can cause host OS memory corruption

A flaw was found on the Linux kernel. On the PowerPC platform, the KVM guest allows the OS users to cause host OS memory corruption via rtasargs.nargs. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability...

Jenkins Hit as Atlassian Confluence Cyberattacks Widen

A just-patched, critical remote code-execution RCE vulnerability in the Atlassian Confluence server platform is suffering wide-scale exploitation, the Feds have warned – as evidenced by an attack on the popular Jenkins open-source automation engine. Atlassian Confluence is a collaboration platfor...

3 steps to prevent and recover from ransomware

On July 14, 2021, the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence1 NCCoE at the National Institute of Standards and Technology2 NIST hosted a virtual workshop3 to seek feedback from government and industry experts on practical approaches to preventing and recovering from ransomware and other...

Too Log; Didn't Read — Unknown Actor Using CLFS Log Files for Stealth

The Mandiant Advanced Practices team recently discovered a new malware family we have named PRIVATELOG and its installer, STASHLOG. In this post, we will share a novel and especially interesting technique the samples use to hide data, along with detailed analysis of both files that was performed...

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures Explained

What is a Vulnerability? A weakness can be characterized as a shortcoming that can be misused by a digital assailant to get through your security and gain unauthorized admittance to classified documents. Defects will ensure that aggressors run programs, acquire section admittance to your document...

SQL Injection in opensourcepos/opensourcepos

✍️ Description The Application is vulnerable to blind SQL Injection 🕵️‍♂️ Proof of Concept URL: https://dev.opensourcepos.org/attributes/search?sort=1 Vulnerable Parameter: sort SQLMap POC --- Parameter: sort GET Type: boolean-based blind Title: Boolean-based blind - Parameter replace original...

Data races in beef

An issue was discovered in the beef crate before 0.5.0 for Rust. Affected versions of this crate did not have a T: Sync bound in the Send impl for Cow. This allows users to create data races by making Cow contain types that are Send && !Sync like Cell or RefCell. Such data races can lead to memor...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: Reflected XSS [██████]

Reflected cross-site scripting XSS arises when an application receives data in an HTTP request and includes that data within the immediate response in an unsafe way. An attacker can execute JavaScript arbitrary code on the victim's session. Steps To Reproduce Go to this URL:...

SAP Business One has unspecified vulnerabilities

SAP Business One is a suite of enterprise management software from SAP, a German company. SAP Business One has a security vulnerability that stems from a lack of authorization checks in the service level components, which could be exploited by an attacker to read, modify, or delete restricted dat...

How profiling employee working hours helps to detect security incidents

At the TimeMachine company there are two special old friends Bob and Alice. Bob, as a team manager, usually has a very busy schedule filled with meetings all day long. You can even find him working late into the night trying to catch up on email he received during the day. Alice on the other hand...

Connected Farms Easy Pickings for Global Food Supply-Chain Hack

A group of hackers made an unnerving DEF CON 29 presentation showing how the sprawling growth of digital and automated farming has left the world’s food supply chain vulnerable to cyberattack. A video for DEF CON 29 hacker conference this week put out by the group Sick Codes explained that modern...

Information Leakage Vulnerability in SSL VPN of Beijing NetGalaxy Information Technology Co.

Beijing Nethub Information Technology Co., Ltd. was renamed from Lenovo Nethub Technology Beijing Co., Ltd. and its business covers network border security protection, application and data security protection, network-wide security risk management, professional security solutions and professional...

Securing Personally Identifiable Information (PII) in web applications

PII is the acronym for “personally identifiable information”. What this means in the explicit language is information exclusive to a specific individual. Due to its exclusivity, it serves the purpose of identifying, locating, and securing specific persons. For instance, think of that specific...