In-Flight Entertainment System Flaws Put Passenger Data at Risk

A simple tap on an in-flight entertainment system touchscreen kicked off an intellectual exercise that resulted in the discovery of a number of firmware vulnerabilities in embedded systems used by at least 13 airlines. The vulnerabilities in the Panasonic Avionics IFE firmware could allow a local...

FBI Most Wanted Fugitive JPMorgan Hacker Arrested in New York

One of the FBI's most wanted hackers who was behind the largest theft of financial data has finally been arrested at the JFK airport in New York. Joshua Samuel Aaron is accused of being part of a hacking group that attacked several major financial institutions, including JPMorgan Chase, and...

German Industrial Giant Victim of Cyber Espionage

German industrial conglomerate ThyssenKrupp disclosed last week that technical trade secrets were stolen in a cyberattack that dates back to February. Adversaries, ThyssenKrupp said, engaged in “organized, highly professional hacker activities” and launched their attack from the Southeast Asian...

Hacker who stole Celebrity Emails, Tapes, Movie Scripts Gets 5 Years in Prison

A hacker who was arrested last year for hacking into celebrities' email accounts to steal the unreleased movie and television scripts, their private messages, and tapes to sell them has finally been sentenced five years in prison. Alonzo Knowles, a 24-year-old Bahamian man, was convicted by U.S...

Microsoft Authorization Manager azman XML External Entity Vulnerability

Exploit for windows platform in category local exploits + Credits: John Page aka hyp3rlinx Vendor: ================== www.microsoft.com Product: ============================== Microsoft Authorization Manager v6.1.7601 The Authorization Manager allows you to set role-based permissions for...

Microsoft Authorization Manager 6.1.7601 - 'azman' XML External Entity Injection

Credits: John Page aka hyp3rlinx + Website: hyp3rlinx.altervista.org + Source: http://hyp3rlinx.altervista.org/advisories/MICROSOFT-AZMAN-XXE-FILE-EXFILTRATION.txt + ISR: ApparitionSec Vendor: ================== www.microsoft.com Product: ============================== Microsoft Authorization...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: Open redirect vulnerability in a DoD website

An open redirect vulnerability was found on a Department of Defense website which may trick a web user into being redirected to fake websites which may steal data or credentials usernames and passwords, or trick users into installing malware. @niwasaki was able to demonstrate this vulnerability b...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: Open Redirect in a DoD website

An open redirect vulnerability was found on a Department of Defense website which may trick a web user into being redirected to fake websites which may steal data or credentials usernames and passwords, or trick users into installing malware. adrianomarcmont was able to demonstrate this...

CVE-2016-2952

IBM BigFix Remote Control before 9.1.3 does not enable the HSTS protection mechanism, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by leveraging use of HTTP...

USN-3137-1 moin vulnerabilities

It was discovered that MoinMoin did not properly sanitize certain inputs, resulting in cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities. With cross-site scripting vulnerabilities, if a user were tricked into viewing server output during a crafted server request, a remote attacker could exploit this to...

Google Removing SHA-1 Support in Chrome 56

The home stretch for SHA-1 deprecation is in full effect with Google on Wednesday announcing its final deprecation deadlines for the Chrome browser, and a cryptographic services provider warning that there’s still a long way to go to get sites off SHA-1 certificates. Google said it will remove it...

Mozilla Firefox Man-in-the-Middle Attack Vulnerability (CNVD-2016-11481)

Mozilla Firefox is an open source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation in the United States. A man-in-the-middle attack vulnerability exists in Mozilla Firefox. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to conduct a man-in-the-middle attack with the help of specially crafted...

Carbanak Attacks Shift To Hospitality Sector

The Carbanak cybercrime gang, best known for allegedly stealing $1 billion from financial institutions worldwide, have shifted strategy and are targeting the hospitality and restaurant industries with new techniques and malware. According to security researchers at Trustwave, over the last severa...

Multiple Critical Remotely Exploitable Flaws Discovered in Memcached Caching System

Hey Webmasters, are you using Memcached to boost the performance of your website? Beware! It might be vulnerable to remote hackers. Three critical Remote Code Execution vulnerabilities have been reported in Memcached by security researcher Aleksandar Nikolich at Cisco Talos Group that expose majo...

Cross site request forgery (csrf)

CSRF of synchronization form in Yandex Browser for desktop before version 16.6 could be used by remote attacker to steal saved data in browser profile...

CVE-2016-8504

CVE-2016-8504 describes a Cross-Site Request Forgery in the Yandex Browser desktop synchronization form prior to version 16.6, which could allow a remote attacker to steal data saved in the browser profile. Root cause: CSRF on the synchronization form. Affected product: Yandex Browser for desktop...

Ex-NSA Contractor Stole 50 TB of Classified Data; Includes Top-Secret Hacking Tools

Almost two months ago, the FBI quietly arrested NSA contractor Harold Thomas Martin III for stealing an enormous number of top secret documents from the intelligence agency. Now, according to a court document filed Thursday, the FBI seized at least 50 terabytes of data from 51-year-old Martin tha...

XSS Vulnerability in NetEase Mail Client IOS Version

NetEase Mail Client is a general-purpose email client launched by NetEase 163. An XSS vulnerability exists in the IOS version Ver3.9 of NetEase Mail Client. It allows attackers to insert malicious js code in the page to obtain user cookies and other information, resulting in user hijacking...

Attackers Hiding Stolen Credit Card Numbers in Images

Researchers are encouraging developers who use Magento to remain vigilant about securely configuring their sites, as attackers have been embedding credit card swipers in sites running the open source e-commerce platform. The swipers, or scrapers, are bits of malicious code that collect credit car...

Arbitrary File Download Vulnerability in ZTE Network Sentinel

Shenzhen Zhongke Xinye Information Technology Development Co., Ltd. was registered on September 28, 2002 in Nanshan Bureau of Shenzhen Municipal Market Supervision Administration. The company's business scope includes the development of information and computer technology, technical services;...