Programmers are also people who also make mistakes

It's the first part of our talk with Daniil Svetlov at his radio show "Safe Environment" or "Safe Wednesday" - kind of wordplay in Russian recorded 29.03.2017. We were discussing why Software Vulnerabilities are everyone's problem. Full video in Russian without subtitles is available here. I adde...

FIVE MINUTES WITH: Judy Piper, Senior Engineering Manager, Akamai's Enterprise & Carrier Division

No matter what else she does in her day, Judy Piper is, first and foremost, a people manager. Her role as a senior engineering manager in the Enterprise business unit is all about empowering others, and her curiosity and fearlessness help her succeed. Judy recently answered a few questions about...

Web Application Vulnerability Testing: ZAProxy

Web Application Vulnerability Testing 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...

Stable Channel Updates for Chrome OS

The Stable channel has been updated to 57.0.2987.137 Platform version: 9202.60.0 for all Chrome OS devices except AOpen Chromebase Mini, AOpen Chromebox Mini, Google Chromebook Pixel 2015, ASUS Chromebook Flip C100PA, Samsung Chromebook Plus. This build contains a number of bug fixes, security...

CTF Framework and Exploit Development Library: pwntools

pwntools is a CTF framework and exploit development library. Written in Python, it is designed for rapid prototyping and development, and intended to make exploit writing as simple as possible. Whether you’re using it to write exploits, or as part of another software project will dictate how you...

Debian DLA-875-1 : php5 security update

Several issues have been discovered in PHP recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. CVE-2016-7478: Zend/zendexceptions.c in PHP allows remote attacke...

[SECURITY] [DLA 875-1] php5 security update

Package : php5 Version : 5.4.45-0+deb7u8 CVE ID : CVE-2016-7478 CVE-2016-7479 CVE-2017-7272 Several issues have been discovered in PHP recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development and...

CVE-2017-7271

Reflected Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in Yii Framework before 2.0.11, when development mode is used, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via crafted request data that is mishandled on the debug-mode exception screen...

Cybersecurity Domains Mind Map

Last month I retweeted an image labelled "The Map of Cybersecurity Domains v1.0". I liked the way this graphic divided "security" into various specialties. At the time I did not do any research to identify the originator of the graphic. Last night before my Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu class I heard some ...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: R-3.3.3-1.fc25

This is a metapackage that provides both core R userspace and all R development components. R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. R is similar to the award-winning S system, which was developed at Bell Laboratories by John Chambers et al. It provides a wide varie...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-6381

A 3rd party development library including with Drupal 8 development dependencies is vulnerable to remote code execution. This is mitigated by the default .htaccess protection against PHP execution, and the fact that Composer development dependencies aren't normal installed. You might be vulnerabl...

Cody Pierce on the Future of Exploit Development

Mike Mimoso talks to Cody Pierce, director of vulnerability research and prevention with Endgame, at RSA Conference 2017 about how attackers are changing their techniques in the face of mitigations and continuing to base exploits around legitimate APIs and functions to thwart detection. Download:...

132 Google Play Apps Booted For Having Malicious IFrames

Google removed 132 apps infected with malicious iFrames from its Google Play store after security researchers discovered a development platform used to create the apps was infected with malware and in turn compromised the apps. Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 researchers said the apps were infected...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: cxf-3.1.6-5.fc25

Apache CXF is an open-source services framework that aids in the development of services using front-end programming APIs, like JAX-WS and JAX-RS...

Windows Exploit development tutorial series--stack injection a-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! Foreword Welcome to the heap spray tutorial the first part. This Part I will introduce the IE under typical heap spray technique, the second part will introduce the precise injection and IE8 under UAF vulnerabilities. It is worth mentioning that, the stack injection is just a payload Delivery...

Critical: Red Hat Security Advisory: java-1.7.0-ibm security update

An update for java-1.7.0-ibm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Supplementary. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each...

70+ Cyber Security Micro-Courses and Certifications To Boost Your IT Career

With the evolving hacking events around us, cyber-security skills are in high demand across all organizations and industries, because a shortage of skilled cyber security practitioners could leave an organization vulnerable to cyber attacks. But knowledge alone is not sufficient, 'certification a...

IBM Development Package for Apache Spark Denial of Service Vulnerability

IBM Development Package for Apache Spark is a software development kit. A denial of service vulnerability exists in IBM Development Package for Apache Spark, which can be exploited to launch a denial of service attack. In addition, the Apache Development Package for Apache Spark is vulnerable to ...

Hashview - A Web Front-End For Password Cracking And Analytics

Hashview is a tool for security professionals to help organize and automate the repetitious tasks related to password cracking. Hashview is a web application that manages hashcat https://hashcat.net commands. Hashview strives to bring constiency in your hashcat tasks while delivering analytics wi...

Autodesk FBX-SDK Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Autodesk FBX-SDK is a free software development platform and API toolkit for C++ from Autodesk. A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in Autodesk FBX-SDK 2017.0 and earlier versions. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service infinite loop...