CVE-2017-13274

In the getHost function of UriTest.java, there is the possibility of incorrect web origin determination. This could lead to incorrect security decisions with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation. Product: Android. Versions: 6.0, 6.0.1, 7.0,...

The Third Question(s) Today’s CEOs Should Ask (& Know the Answers To)

In a previous blog, we discussed Commander’s Intent for CEOs and introduced 10 questions CEOs should be asking their teams. In this blog series, I am going to take a deeper dive into each question and break them down one at a time. We will discuss why CEOs should care about each question and the...

The Third Question(s) Today’s CEOs Should Ask (& Know the Answers To)

In a previous blog, we discussed Commander’s Intent for CEOs and introduced 10 questions CEOs should be asking their teams. In this blog series, I am going to take a deeper dive into each question and break them down one at a time. We will discuss why CEOs should care about each question and the...

Three Ways to Use Data Classification Scan Results

In July we launched Classifier, a free data classification tool that allows you to quickly and easily uncover sensitive data in your databases. Since its launch, the tool has been widely used around the globe, which comes as no surprise given the heightened focus on data protection. Furthermore,...

Equifax Breach Response Turns Dumpster Fire

I cannot recall a previous data breach in which the breached company's public outreach and response has been so haphazard and ill-conceived as the one coming right now from big-three credit bureau Equifax, which rather clumsily announced Thursday that an intrusion jeopardized Social security...

Research on What Motivates ISIS -- and Other -- Fighters

Interesting research from Nature Human Behaviour: "The devoted actor's will to fight and the spiritual dimension of human conflict": Abstract: Frontline investigations with fighters against the Islamic State ISIL or ISIS, combined with multiple online studies, address willingness to fight and die...

SteelCon: Mahkra ni Orroz

I recently gave a talk at Sheffield's SteelCon, a huge security event spread over a few days with no end of interesting activities taking place. My presentation, called Makhra ni Orroz, is a good 45 minutes of non stop talking and pictures and things. It's also a bit different in terms of what I...

Running an Effective Incident Response Tabletop Exercise

Are you ready for an incident? Are you confident that your team knows the procedures, and that the procedures are actually useful? An incident response tabletop exercise is an excellent way to answer these questions. Below, Ive outlined some steps to help ensure success for your scenario-based...

The smart, alert, strong, kind, and brave way to Internet awesome

Mom and Dad, do you know when to start talking to your kids about internet safety? Google’s new Be Internet Awesome program might just be the perfect topic to start off that conversation. Launched this National Internet Safety Month, Be Internet Awesome aims to teach kids to explore the internet...

Want to bolster your security program? Keep users from making decisions.

How many times have you witnessed security problems caused by a user making bad decisions? I'd venture to guess at least a few dozen if not hundreds. We've all seen where the perfect storm forms through weaknesses in technical controls, user training, and - most often - common sense and the outco...

chromium-browser: incorrect ui in blink

Lack of an appropriate action on page navigation in Blink in Google Chrome prior to 58.0.3029.81 for Windows and Mac allowed a remote attacker to potentially confuse a user into making an incorrect security decision via a crafted HTML page...

Four New Normals for 2017

Let’s not talk about cybersecurity predictions for 2017. Let’s talk instead about new normals, things that have ceased to be novel because, well, they happen all the time and everywhere. Let’s concede that things such as greedy ransomware, imposing IOT botnets, high-profile bug bounties and...

Downloads Resources over HTTP

Overview Affected versions of adamvr-geoip-lite insecurely download resources over HTTP. In scenarios where an attacker has a privileged network position, they can modify or read such resources at will. This could impact the integrity and availability of the data being used to make geolocation...

firefox -- Same-origin-policy violation using Service Workers with plugins

The Mozilla Foundation reports: MFSA 2016-13 Jason Pang of OneSignal reported that service workers intercept responses to plugin network requests made through the browser. Plugins which make security decisions based on the content of network requests can have these decisions subverted if a servic...

Apple Clarifies Privacy Policy

Apple’s clarified and repackaged privacy policy is merely the storefront to a company-wide decision to make the safety and integrity of user data a differentiator among large technology companies, experts said. The new privacy policy appeared today filled with practical advice for users, describi...

France May Offer Asylum to Edward Snowden and Julian Assange

In wake of the latest revelations about the National Security Agency NSA global spying on country’s leaders, France may decide to offer political asylum to whistleblowers Edward Snowden and Julian Assange, as a "symbolic gesture." Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who is facing criminal...

CVE-2015-4383

Cross-site request forgery CSRF vulnerability in the Decisions module for Drupal allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users for requests that remove individual voters via unspecified vectors...

Cross site request forgery (csrf)

Cross-site request forgery CSRF vulnerability in the Decisions module for Drupal allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users for requests that remove individual voters via unspecified vectors...

CVE-2015-4383

Cross-site request forgery CSRF vulnerability in the Decisions module for Drupal allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users for requests that remove individual voters via unspecified vectors...

CVE-2015-4383

The CVE-2015-4383 issue affects the Drupal Decisions module. The vulnerability is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) flaw in Decisions that allows an attacker to cause an authenticated user to remove individual voters via crafted requests (unspecified vectors). Root cause: insufficient CSRF prot...