Automattic: [intensedebate.com] XSS Reflected POST-Based

Summary: Hello, i have found a XSS Reflected POST-Based in https://www.intensedebate.com/ajax.php. Vulnerables URL : POST /https://www.intensedebate.com/ajax.php Vulnerables Parameters: $POST'txt'; Payload azertyuiop Steps to reproduce 1. Open the xss.html and will you see a javascript pop-up You...

Automattic: Stored XSS in Intense Debate comment system

Hi Team, Summary: The Intense Debate comment system is vulnerable to stored xss by users , this would allow for atacking admins/users on the blog , Platforms Affected: Intense Debate comment system Steps To Reproduce: 1. Go to intensedebate.com/moderate/-ID- 2. Go to comments allow images in...

The Legal Risks of Security Research

Sunoo Park and Kendra Albert have published "A Researcher’s Guide to Some Legal Risks of Security Research." From a summary: Such risk extends beyond anti-hacking laws, implicating copyright law and anti-circumvention provisions DMCA §1201, electronic privacy law ECPA, and cryptography export...

Twitter removes Iranian accounts disrupting US presidential debate

By Deeba Ahmed The account holders were chattering about disrupting the first US Presidential Debate on Tuesday. Its only been a month when Microsoft warned about possible attempts of state-sponsored cybercriminals, particularly Iranian hackers, to disrupt the upcoming US presidential elections...

Trump Pushed 11 False Claims About Voting in 8 Minutes During the Debate

The president’s assault on electoral integrity threatens to undermine the democratic process. We unpack each falsehood, mischaracterization, and lie...

Covid-19 Privacy Poll: Phone Tracking, Public Health and Surveillance

As the coronavirus pandemic accelerates, authorities worldwide are plotting ways to flatten the curve of infection rates using potentially privacy-busting measures such as phone tracking, facial recognition and other tech. In this Threatpost poll, we want your take on whether sacrificing personal...

How to Watch Donald Trump’s Impeachment Trial

The Senate gets set to debate the rules for Trump’s trial today. Tomorrow, the opening arguments begin...

Threatpost Poll: Are Published PoC Exploits a Good or Bad Idea?

The practice of disclosing proof-of-concept PoC exploits has long caused a debate in the security community. As the name suggests, these outline steps used to exploit a vulnerability in a system to show how it can be done — and are used to test networks and pinpoint vulnerable aspects of a system...

This Apple-FBI Fight Is Different From the Last One

In 2016 the iPhone encryption debate ended in a draw. Don't count on 2020's scuffle over the Pensacola shooter's devices to play out the same way...

Artificial Personas and Public Discourse

Presidential campaign season is officially, officially, upon us now, which means it's time to confront the weird and insidious ways in which technology is warping politics. One of the biggest threats on the horizon: artificial personas are coming, and they're poised to take over political debate...

Reforming CDA 230

There's a serious debate on reforming Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. I am in the process of figuring out what I believe, and this is more a place to put resources and listen to people's comments. The EFF has written extensively on why it is so important and dismantling it will be...

CVE-2019-12215

A full path disclosure vulnerability was discovered in Matomo v3.9.1 where a user can trigger a particular error to discover the full path of Matomo on the disk, because lastError.file is used in plugins/CorePluginsAdmin/templates/safemode.twig. NOTE: the vendor disputes the significance of this...

Containers vs Virtual Machines – Your Cheat Sheet to Know the Differences

Containers vs virtual machines is an ongoing debate in many IT shops around the world. Learn what makes each unique, their common use cases, and how to keep both secure...

Cybersecurity for the Public Interest

The Crypto Wars have been waging off-and-on for a quarter-century. On one side is law enforcement, which wants to be able to break encryption, to access devices and communications of terrorists and criminals. On the other are almost every cryptographer and computer security expert, repeatedly...

City Pays $2K in Ransomware, Stirs ‘Never Pay’ Debate

The city of West Haven, Conn. made the hard choice to pay cyberattackers a $2,000 ransom after being hit with malware that ground their operations to a halt. West Haven said that its City Hall offices were the victim of a ransomware attack, which the U.S. Department of Homeland Security determine...

Facebook Bans More Than 800 Accounts in Disinformation Purge

Facebook on Thursday announced it has removed hundreds of pages and accounts as the company cracks down on spam. The move comes at a time when Facebook is under intense scrutiny about how it handles misinformation, particularly as the U.S. midterm elections draw near. The company said it has...

UK law enforcement: an uphill struggle to fight hackers

About 16 years ago in the UK, I walked into a local police station to report a computer crime, because walking into local police stations is how they did things back then. There may well also have been penny farthing bicycles, real pea souper fogs, Mary Poppins, and Jack the Ripper, though I coul...

Someone hacked California’s live congressional debate to run gay porn

By Carolina "Looks like we got hacked again, we'll try to fix This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Someone hacked California's live congressional debate to run gay porn...

Two New Papers on the Encryption Debate

Seems like everyone is writing about encryption and backdoors this season. "Policy Approaches to the Encryption Debate," R Street Policy Study 133, by Charles Duan, Arthur Rizer, Zach Graves and Mike Godwin. "Encryption Policy in Democratic Regimes," East West Institute. I recently blogged about...

New National Academies Report on Crypto Policy

The National Academies has just published "Decrypting the Encryption Debate: A Framework for Decision Makers." It looks really good, although I have not read it yet. Not much news or analysis yet. Please post any links you find in the comments, and I will summarize them here...