IoT Security Testing Methodology

By Deral Heiland IoT - IoT Research Lead Rapid7 Nathan Sevier - Senior Consultant Rapid7 Chris Littlebury - Threat Assessment Manage Rapid7 End-to-end ecosystem methodology When examining IoT technology, the actionable testing focus and methodology is often applied solely to the embedded device...

Coming together to address Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) attacks

Today’s security updates include three updates that exemplify how the security ecosystem can come together to help protect consumers and enterprises. We would like to thank FireEye and ESET for working with us. Customers that have the latest security updates installed are protected against the...

Zimperium Publishes Exploits for Patched Android Bugs

Exploits for two patched Android privilege escalation vulnerabilities were published today by security company Zimperium. These are the first publicly released submissions from its N-Days Exploit Acquisition Program, which began in February and had among its stated goals to encourage researchers ...

Robots Rife With Cybersecurity Holes

Robots with inadequate security could be hacked and cause physical harm or be used to spy on unsuspecting owners in the near future. Researchers at IOActive Labs released a report Wednesday warning that consumer, industrial and service robots in use today have serious security vulnerabilities...

Google Touts Progress in Android Security in 2016

SAN FRANCISCO–Google has a daunting task of scanning 750 million Android devices daily for threats and checking 6 billion apps for malware each day as part of its management of 1.6 billion active Android devices. The numbers are staggering for Adrian Ludwig, director of Android Security; six year...

NCIIPC: It's Time to Step Forward And Protect Our Critical Infrastructures from Cyber Attacks

The IT threat landscape has changed dramatically over the last three-four years. With no shortage of threat actors, from hacktivists to nation-states, criminals to terrorists, all of them are now after something new. It's no more just about stealing your money, credit cards and defacing websites,...

Деанонимизация пользователей Darknet(TOR, i2p(d), etc) & SOX &VPN аудиозакладками

Вообщем то ссылка на 33с3 уже была запощена в основном топике, но я хотел бы акцентировать общее внимание на презентацию Talking Behind Your Back On the Privacy & Security of the Ultrasound Tracking Ecosystem от Vasilios Mavroudis и Federico Maggi. Вкратце, суть такова: В 2012 году была основана...

MacOS Kernel 10.12 - Double vm_deallocate in Userspace MIG Code Use-After-Free Exploit

Exploit for macOS platform in category dos / poc / Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=954 Proofs of Concept: https://github.com/offensive-security/exploit-database-bin-sploits/raw/master/sploits/40954.zip Userspace MIG services often use machmsgserver or...

Inside the xDedic Hacked Server Marketplace

An underground market peddling hacked servers was a unique find, even for a seasoned researcher such as Juan Andres Guerrero-Saade of Kaspersky Lab. But there it was, xDedic.biz selling access to tens of thousands of servers for pennies on the dollar. A Russian-speaking hacker group was...

PoS Attack Net Crooks 20 Million Bank Cards, Up to $400 Million

In a storyline that rivals an episode of The Sopranos, researchers at FireEye documented the heist of bank card data from 20 million individuals that involved a complex web of crooks that may have netted hackers more than $100 million since 2014. In conjunction with recently acquired Isight...

Hospital Security Fail: Report Outlines Dangerous Shortcomings

Hospitals are risking patient lives by failing to protect critical computer systems that can be manipulated by attackers. In a scathing report that looks at the current state of hospital security, researchers say everything from bedside patient monitoring systems, automated drug dispensing machin...

Google Report Outlines Dependencies in the For-Profit Cybercrime Food Chain

Security specialists need to change the game and shift gears, researchers argue – instead of focusing on protecting their users and systems, they should narrow their sights on trying to shake up cybercrime’s seedy underbelly. At least that’s how Kurt Thomas and Elie Bursztein, researchers at...

Square Launches Bug Bounty, Hires Top Security Researcher

The bug bounty phenomenon began mainly with major software vendors and security companies, which were the main targets for security researchers and attackers. But it is now moving to virtually every corner of the Web and software ecosystem, and the latest company to join the party is Square, the...

Harnessing the Power of an Android Cluster for Security Research

When the topic of mobile security comes up, users and researchers often discuss Android as if it’s one monolithic operating system like iOS is. But the fact is that there are nearly as many versions of Android as there are Android devices, which has led to plenty of confusion when it’s time to fi...

Researchers Dissect Spammers' Economic Ecosystem

A profitable spam campaign has three key elements—a reliable email list, filter-busting content, and a botnet for distribution—and each has been individually dissected and understood. But in order to adequately protect users from spam, which thrives in an established economic ecosystem, researche...

Government launched 'China Operating System' (COS) to break Andoird and iOS Monopoly

China has always tried to support its homegrown tech industry and even the security concerns over U.S. secret surveillance which gives Chinese Government another reasons to trust domestic vendors.Many other countries are also in favor to develop their own technology industries to reduce their...

/rest/menu/1.0/appswitcher displays data unauthenticated

"Calling" this function returns data without any authentication required: noformat curl https://support.atlassian.com/rest/menu/latest/appswitcher | python -mjson.tool % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 787 0 787 0 0 531 0...

Pinterest Announces Support for DNT Header

Pinterest is the latest major Internet service to support Do Not Track. The social site, which allows its users to organize items of interest, made the announcement on Friday in a note that explained how it was going to suggest personalized pins based on websites the user has visited and placed a...

Ice IX, the First Crimeware Based on the Leaked ZeuS Sources

After rumors about the supposed merger between SpyEye and ZeuS, and the public release of the source of the latter, it was logical that the range of possibilities opened up even more for new cybercriminals into the ecosystem of crimeware. Consistent with this, it was only a matter of time for the...

Outdated Assumptions

The term “targeted attack” gets thrown around an awful lot nowadays. In fact I’m guessing you’ll be hard pressed to find many public breach disclosures that make it to the news that aren’t labeled as having been “targeted”. It reminds me of an important quote from the character Inigo Montoya in T...