ownCloud: Exploiting unauthenticated encryption mode

The owncloud file storage encryption uses the AES encryption algorithm in CFB mode without any authentication. The encryption module is advertised as a way to use a potentially untrusted external storage 1. Let's assume someone uses owncloud with the encryption module and an untrusted storage and...

Microsoft Keeps Backup of Your Encryption Key on its Server — Here's How to Delete it

Have you recently purchased a Windows computer? Congratulations! As your new Windows computer has inbuilt disk encryption feature that is turned on by default in order to protect your data in case your device is lost or stolen. Moreover, In case you lost your encryption keys then don't worry,...

The vulnerability of the Oracle Database database management system allows a hacker to compromise information security.

The vulnerability of the Core RDBMS component of the Oracle Database management system is related to errors in the code. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor to compromise information security remotely...

Patent Troll — 66 Big Companies Sued For Using HTTPS Encryption

Are you Using HTTPS on your Website to securely encrypt traffic? Well, we'll see you in the court. At least, that's what CryptoPeak is saying to all big brands that utilize HTTPS on their web servers. BIG Brands Sued for Using HTTPS: 'Patent Troll' Texas-based company CryptoPeak Solutions LLC has...

Checkpoint Cross Site Scripting

Exploit Title: Checkpoint.com sub-domains Reflected XSS RXSS Date: 12/11/2015 Author: Yann CAM @ Synetis - ASafety Vendor or Software Link: www.checkpoint.com Version: / Category: Reflected Cross Site Scripting Google dork: Tested on: checkpoint.com sub-domains Checkpoint description :...

CVE-2015-5021

Affected product: IBM InfoSphere Information Server (DataStage) 11.3 and 11.5. Description: A privilege/escalation vulnerability allows an authenticated DataStage user to bypass job-execution restrictions or view sensitive information via unspecified vectors. Root cause: not explicitly detailed i...

Researcher releases Free Hacking Tool that Can Steal all Your Secrets from Password Manager

Unless we are a human supercomputer, remembering a different password for every different site is not an easy task. But to solve this problem, there is a growing market of best password manager and lockers, which remembers your password for every single account and simultaneously provides an extr...

Meet The World's First Person Who Hacked His Body to Implant a Bitcoin Payment CHIP

Hackers are now going crazy and trying new ways in Biohacking. Until now, we have seen a hacker who implanted a small NFC chip in his hand in order to hack Android smartphones and bypass almost all security measures. However, now the level of craziness has gone to a whole new level. A Swedish...

Western Digital Self-Encrypting Drives Vulnerable

Some consumer-grade, self-encrypting external hard drives are littered with security vulnerabilities that render their encryption an afterthought. An academic paper published in late September took apart a number of drives manufactured by Western Digital that suffer from flaws that are trivial to...

Google Makes Full-Disk Encryption Mandatory for New Android 6.0 Devices

Yes, Google wants you to keep your bits and bytes as safe as possible through encryption. With the launch of Android 5.0 Lollipop last year, Google wanted to make full disk Encryption mandatory, but unfortunately, the idea did not go too well. However, Google thinks the idea will go right this...

[20151002] - Core - ACL Violations

Inadequate ACL checks in comcontenthistory provide potential read access to data which should be access restricted...

Experian Breach: 15 Million T-Mobile Customers' Data Hacked

If you applied for financing from T-Mobile anytime between 1 September 2013 and 16 September 2015, you have been HACKED! – even if you never had T-Mobile service. T-Mobile’s credit application processor Experian was hacked, potentially exposing the highly personal information of more than 15...

Chip Cards Finally Come to America – But What Does it Mean for Merchants and Consumers?

Like it or not, today the U.S. finally adopts EMV technology. While the implementation by most major retailers and large U.S. banks is expected to be delayed, the "chip and PIN" card types are coming to America to stay. The real debate is, will EMV adoption do anything for card data security?...

Hotel Chain Hilton Worldwide Investigating Potential POS Breach

Hilton Hotels and Resorts is reportedly looking into claims that some of its point-of-sale devices were compromised, some potentially as far back as November 2014. Security blogger Brian Krebs notes that Visa sent alerts to financial institutions warning of a breach from April 21 to July 27, but...

Online Automated Tasks: Huginn

Huginn is a system for building agents that perform automated tasks for you online. They can read the web, watch for events, and take actions on your behalf. Huginn’s Agents create and consume events, propagating them along a directed graph. Think of it as a hackable Yahoo! Pipes plus IFTTT on yo...

eWON Vulnerabilities

OVERVIEW Independent researcher Karn Ganeshen has identified several vulnerabilities in the eWON sa industrial router. eWON sa has produced an updated firmware to mitigate these vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities could be exploited remotely. AFFECTED PRODUCTS The following eWON router firmwar...

​SYNful Knock: Backdoor Malware Found in Cisco Routers

Mandiant, a FireEye sister concern has been involved in researches related to cyber defense. In their recent findings, a backdoor malware named SYNful Knock identified as the one compromising the principles of Cisco routers with features such as... ...Having an everlasting effect, i.e. Serious...

Twitter Adds Email Privacy Data to Transparency Report

The number of information requests Twitter is receiving from the United States government is increasing steadily, having risen roughly 50 percent in the first six months of this year compared to the last six months of 2014. In its latest transparency report, Twitter said that it received 2,436...

CVE-2013-7442

GE Healthcare Centricity PACS Workstation 4.0 and 4.0.1 has a password of 1 CANal1 for the Administrator user and 2 iis for the IIS user, which has unspecified impact and attack vectors related to TimbuktuPro. NOTE: it is not clear whether this password is default, hardcoded, or dependent on...

JON: Cross Site scripting possible on the JBoss ON 404 error page

It was discovered that a cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability on a JBoss Operations Network 404 error page allowed for session fixation attacks. An attacker could use this flaw to impersonate a legitimate user, resulting in compromised integrity of secure data...