Trape - People tracker on the Internet (The evolution of phishing attacks) OSINT

Trape is a recognition tool that allows you to track people , the information you can get is very detailed. We want to teach the world through this, as large Internet companies could monitor you, obtaining information beyond your IP. Some benefits One of its most enticing functions is the remote...

Disclosure: WordPress WPDB SQL Injection - Technical

Today, a significant SQL-Injection vulnerability was fixed in WordPress 4.8.3. Before reading further, if you haven’t updated yet stop right now and update. The foundations of this vulnerability was reported via Hacker-One on September 20th, 2017. This post will detail the technical vulnerability...

OWASP ZAP 2.6.0 - Penetration Testing Tool for Testing Web Applications

The OWASP Zed Attack Proxy ZAP is one of the world’s most popular free security tools and is actively maintained by hundreds of international volunteers. It can help you automatically find security vulnerabilities in your web applications while you are developing and testing your applications. It...

CWEs in NVD CVE feed: analysis and complaints

As you probably know, one of the ways to describe the nature of some software vulnerability is to provide corresponding CWE Common Weakness Enumeration ids. Let's see the CWE links in NVD CVE base. I have already wrote earlier how to deal with NVD feed using python in "Downloading and analyzing N...

Google Play Store Launches Bug Bounty Program to Protect Popular Android Apps

Better late than never. Google has finally launched a bug bounty program for Android apps on Google Play Store, inviting security researchers to find and report vulnerabilities in some of the most popular Android apps. Dubbed "Google Play Security Reward," the bug bounty program offers security...

Yet more mobile adware found in Google Play

Finding an adware variant that made its way past the Google Play store is out of the ordinary. So when two adware variants slip by in one week, we take notice. Last week, we added two new Ad SDKs to our growing list of adware detections—Adware.Solid and Adware.Cootek. Both Ad SDKs were found in a...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: tor-0.2.9.12-1.fc25

The Tor network is a group of volunteer-operated servers that allows people to improve their privacy and security on the Internet. Tor's users employ this network by connecting through a series of virtual tunnels rather than makin g a direct connection, thus allowing both organizations and...

jenkins -- multiple issues

jenkins developers report: A total of 11 issues are reported, please see reference URL for details...

[SECURITY] Fedora 27 Update: tor-0.3.1.7-1.fc27

The Tor network is a group of volunteer-operated servers that allows people to improve their privacy and security on the Internet. Tor's users employ this network by connecting through a series of virtual tunnels rather than makin g a direct connection, thus allowing both organizations and...

cacti -- Cross Site Scripting issue

cacti developers report: The file include/globalsession.php in Cacti 1.1.25 has XSS related to 1 the URI or 2 the refresh page...

Apple's FaceID

This is a good interview with Apple's SVP of Software Engineering about FaceID. Honestly, I don't know what to think. I am confident that Apple is not collecting a photo database, but not optimistic that it can't be hacked with fake faces. I dislike the fact that the police can point the phone at...

jenkins-plugin-git: CSRF vulnerability allows capturing credentials (SECURITY-528)

The Git Plugin can leak credentials username and password used to access a git repo if an attacker-supplied URL is provided to the plugin. To supply the URL to the plugin, the attacker would need to guess a username/password ID and then trick a developer into following a specific URL...

aacplusenc -- denial of service

Gentoo developers report: DeleteBitBuffer in libbitbuf/bitbuffer.c in mp4tools aacplusenc 0.17.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service invalid memory write, SEGV on unknown address 0x000000000030, and application crash or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted .wav...

ncurses -- multiple issues

ncurses developers reports: There are multiple illegal address access issues and an infinite loop issue. Please refer to the CVE list for details...

How To Automate Security Analysis with the RIPS API

RIPS API RIPS exposes a powerful REST-API, an interface specifically designed for developers and their applications. It is used to provide the web interface with analysis results, to start scans through plugins, to manage users, and much more. In short, the API enables easy automation of all RIPS...

Security Analysis with SonarQube Plugin

SonarQube Figure 1: The SonarQube dashboard lists security vulnerabilities detected by RIPS code analysis. Global organizations use SonarQube to concentrate different quality analysis tools in one place for easy management, maintenance, and learning potential of findings. Seasoned developers are...

Google Changes How it Analyzes Misbehaving Mobile Apps

Mobile apps in the Google Play store are categorized by their purpose, i.e., productivity or games. But there is a science to how apps are arranged, in particular around security and privacy features, and especially in holding back those apps whose behaviors pose a risk to mobile users. Google on...

unrar 5.40 - VMSF_DELTA Filter Arbitrary Memory Write Exploit

Exploit for multiple platform in category dos / poc Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1286&desc=6 It appears that the VMSFDELTA memory corruption that was reported to Sophos AV in 2012 and fixed there was actually inherited from upstream unrar. For unknown reasons...

poppler -- multiple denial of service issues

Poppler developers report: Poppler is prone to a stack-based buffer-overflow vulnerability. Successful exploits may allow attackers to crash the affected application, resulting in denial-of-service condition. Due to the nature of this issue, arbitrary code execution may be possible but this has n...

Someone Failed to Contain WannaCry

Coding and implementation mistakes made by the WannaCry developers may have spared a good chunk of the world some grief on May 12, but they also lend credence to the theory that the ransomware wasn’t contained properly and spread before it was meant to be unleashed. Malware expert Jake Williams,...