PTP at DEF CON 27

Here's the lowdown on our 14 DEF CON 27 talks, workshops, and panel sessions: Main Stage Track 3 Paris: Saturday 13:00 Chris Wade presents Tag-side attacks against NFC Track 2 Paris: Saturday 15:00 G Richter presents Reverse-Engineering 4g Hotspots for Fun, Bugs and Net Financial Loss Villages...

Black Hat USA 2019 Preview

Las Vegas – Despite bizarre reports of a grasshopper infestation, Black Hat USA 2019 and DEF CON are set to kick off next week in Las Vegas, bringing on a wave of sessions, keynotes and security-themed villages. The Threatpost team, which will be on the frontlines of next week’s shows, discuss wh...

DARPA Is Developing an Open-Source Voting System

This sounds like a good development: ...a new $10 million contract the Defense Department's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA has launched to design and build a secure voting system that it hopes will be impervious to hacking. The first-of-its-kind system will be designed by an...

PA Toolkit - A Collection Of Traffic Analysis Plugins Focused On Security

PA Toolkit is a collection of traffic analysis plugins to extend the functionality of Wireshark from a micro-analysis tool and protocol dissector to the macro analyzer and threat hunter. PA Toolkit contains plugins both dissectors and taps covering various scenarios for multiple protocols,...

Critical Flaws in Syringe Pump, Device Gateways Threaten Patient Safety

Two previously undocumented, critical vulnerabilities in widely deployed medical devices have sparked patient-safety and data-privacy concerns. Flaws in the Qualcomm Life Capsule Datacaptor Terminal Server and the Becton Dickinson BD Alaris TIVA Syringe Pump have been acknowledged by the vendors...

ThreatList: Almost All Security Pros Believe Election Systems Are at Risk

As the U.S. midterm election season gets underway in earnest, concerns about the ability to hack the vote is more in the spotlight than ever. A fresh survey from Venafi has found that a full 93 percent of security pros are concerned about cyber-attacks targeting election infrastructure. The poll,...

Podcast: Black Hat USA and DEF CON 2018 Wrap

Las Vegas was filled with researchers, executives, and hackers last week for the Black Hat USA and DEF CON 2018 conferences. In our wrap-up podcast, Threatpost’s Lindsey O’Donnell and Tara Seals talk about their favorite parts of the show. Among the most interesting topics at the shows included I...

ex-NSA Hacker Discloses macOS High Sierra Zero-Day Vulnerability

Your Mac computer running the Apple's latest High Sierra operating system can be hacked by tweaking just two lines of code, a researcher demonstrated at the Def Con security conference on Sunday. Patrick Wardle, an ex-NSA hacker and now Chief Research Officer of Digita Security, uncovered a...

Playback: A TLS 1.3 Story

Introduction Secure communications are one of the most important topics in information security, and the Transport Layer Security TLS protocol is currently the most used protocol to provide secure communications on the internet. For example, when you are connecting to your online banking...

The Official Talos Guide to Security Summer Camp 2018

It is once again time for the week in the summer when many of us descend on Las Vegas for Black Hat, DEF CON, and B-Sides LasVegas. This is your official guide to what the Cisco Talos Threat Intelligence team is doing at these shows and what some of our colleagues around Cisco Security are doing,...

Why ArtsSEC decided to partner with Wallarm

by Maximiliano Soler, @maxisoler by Maximiliano Soller, CTO of ArtsSEC The greatest thing with partnerships is how well the organisations’ expertise complement each other. Our partnership with Wallarm has incredibly exceeded our expectations in their innovation and expertise in web application...

Deprecated, Insecure Apple Authorization API Can Be Abused to Run Code at Root

A deprecated Apple authorization API, invoked by third-party installers, is still developers’ preferred choice for updating apps and services on macOS. And that’s a problem because of a massive security issue that could be abused by a local attacker to elevate privileges to root with a little...

Microsoft Windows 8.1 (x64) - RGNOBJ Integer Overflow (MS16-098) (2) Exploit

Exploit for windows platform in category local exploits Sources: - https://github.com/sensepost/gdi-palettes-exp - https://sensepost.com/blog/2017/abusing-gdi-objects-for-ring0-primitives-revolution/ Windows 7 SP1 x86 exploit presented at DEF CON 25 involving the abuse of a newly discovered GDI...

Microsoft Windows 8.1 (x64) - RGNOBJ Integer Overflow (MS16-098) (2)

Sources: - https://github.com/sensepost/gdi-palettes-exp - https://sensepost.com/blog/2017/abusing-gdi-objects-for-ring0-primitives-revolution/ Windows 7 SP1 x86 exploit presented at DEF CON 25 involving the abuse of a newly discovered GDI object abuse technique. DC25 5A1F - Demystifying Windows...

FBI Arrests Researcher Who Found 'Kill-Switch' to Stop Wannacry Ransomware

The 22-year-old British security researcher who gained fame for discovering the "kill switch" that stopped the outbreak of the WannaCry ransomware—has been reportedly arrested in the United States after attending the Def Con hacking conference in Las Vegas. Marcus Hutchins, operates under the ali...

A 20-year history of the SMB vulnerability: a Raspberry PI will be able to DoS a large Server, Microsoft would not fix this vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

The vast majority of DoS attacks, in General, are the target system receives a large number of service requests, ultimately resulting in a denial of service state. In fact, with the development of Technology, If you want to make the current system“denial of service”, is in need of massive request...

Voting Machines Hacked with Ease at DEF CON

LAS VEGAS—Hackers at DEF CON last week made quick work of finding vulnerabilities in electronic pollbooks and voting machines, needing just 90 minutes to find exploitable flaws in every piece of voting equipment. More than 30 machines were available for hackers to crack at the conference’s Voting...

July 31, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Hall of Fame” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! July 31, 2017 - Headlines The Hacking Wars Are Going to Get Much Worse - New Yo...

This Week in Security News

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. Below you’ll find a quick recap of topics followed by links to news articles and/or our blog posts providing additional insight. Be sure to check back...

Windows SMB Zero Day to Be Disclosed During DEF CON

LAS VEGAS—A 20-year-old Windows SMB vulnerability is expected to be disclosed Saturday during a talk at DEF CON. Microsoft has said it will not patch the vulnerability, which allows an attacker to remotely crash a Windows server with relative ease using only 20 lines of Python code and a Raspberr...