Man caught downloading child porn during raid; gets 10 years in prison

By Carolina In 2015, a 60-year-old man Robert D. Jackson from Georgetown Kentucky had This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Man caught downloading child porn during raid; gets 10 years in prison...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7803

When a page's content security policy CSP header contains a "sandbox" directive, other directives are ignored. This results in the incorrect enforcement of CSP. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird 52.3, Firefox ESR 52.3, and Firefox 55...

VirtualBox 5.1.22 - Windows Process DLL Signature Bypass Privilege Escalation

VirtualBox 5.1.22 - Windows Process DLL Signature Bypass Privilege Escalation Source: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1257 VirtualBox: Windows Process DLL Signature Bypass EoP Platform: VirtualBox v5.1.22 r115126 x64 Tested on Windows 10 Class: Elevation of Privilege...

August 2, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Declaration of Independence” 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! August 2, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Carbon Black Hires Former...

DDoS attacks in Q2 2017

News Overview The second quarter of 2017 saw DDoS attacks being more and more frequently used as a tool for political struggle. The Qatar crisis was accompanied by an attack on the website of Al Jazeera, the largest news network in the area, Le Monde and Le Figaro websites were targeted in the he...

chromium-browser: user information leak via android intents

Insufficient policy enforcement during navigation between different schemes in Google Chrome prior to 60.0.3112.78 for Android allowed a remote attacker to perform cross origin content download via a crafted HTML page, related to intents...

chromium-browser: url spoofing in omnibox

Insufficient Policy Enforcement in Omnibox in Google Chrome prior to 60.0.3112.78 for Mac, Windows, Linux, and Android allowed a remote attacker to perform domain spoofing via IDN homographs in a crafted domain name...

CVE-2017-5105

Insufficient Policy Enforcement in Omnibox in Google Chrome prior to 60.0.3112.78 for Mac, Windows, Linux, and Android allowed a remote attacker to perform domain spoofing via IDN homographs in a crafted domain name...

CVE-2017-5106

Insufficient Policy Enforcement in Omnibox in Google Chrome prior to 60.0.3112.78 for Mac, Windows, Linux, and Android allowed a remote attacker to perform domain spoofing via IDN homographs in a crafted domain name...

CVE-2017-5096

Insufficient policy enforcement during navigation between different schemes in Google Chrome prior to 60.0.3112.78 for Android allowed a remote attacker to perform cross origin content download via a crafted HTML page, related to intents...

Alternatives to Government-Mandated Encryption Backdoors

Policy essay: "Encryption Substitutes," by Andrew Keane Woods: In this short essay, I make a few simple assumptions that bear mentioning at the outset. First, I assume that governments have good and legitimate reasons for getting access to personal data. These include things like controlling crim...

British Hacker Admits Using Mirai Botnet to DDoS Deutsche Telekom

An unnamed 29-year-old man, named by authorities as "Daniel K.," pleaded guilty in a German court on Friday to charges related to the hijacking of more than one Million Deutsche Telekom routers. According to reports in the German press, the British man, who was using online monikers "Peter Parker...

macOS Fruitfly Backdoor Analysis Renders New Spying Capabilities

LAS VEGAS—The FruitFly backdoor became a known entity in January, but it’s a good bet that for years it had been in the wild, undetected by analysts and security software. The macOS and OS X malware has a number of insidious spying capabilities that would make anyone uneasy, and a variant recentl...

Decompiled SLocker Android Ransomware Source Code Published Online

Bad news for Android users — Decompiled source code of for one of the oldest mobile and popular Android ransomware families has been published online, making it available for cyber criminals who can use it to develop more customised and advanced variants of Android ransomware. Decompiled source...

US, European Law Enforcement Shutter Massive AlphaBay Market

U.S. authorities along with law enforcement agencies in Europe and Asia announced today the takedown of the dark web’s largest illicit market. AlphaBay sold malware and hacking tools along with drugs, fraudulent documents, guns, counterfeit goods and even toxic chemicals, the Justice Department...

OrientDB Arbitrary Command Execution Vulnerability

OrientDB is a British company Orient a set of open source NoSQL database management system . The system supports ACID transactions , fast indexes and SQL queries and other features . OrientDB 2.22 and previous versions of a security vulnerability , the vulnerability stems from the program fails t...

CoinDash Hacked During its ICO

Hackers hijacked CoinDash’s initial coin offering Monday, stealing $7.7 million in cryptocurrency from the nascent trading platform. The attack occurred during a 15-minute period for “whitelist contributors” prior to the public ICO. During that time, the hackers were able to compromise the CoinDa...

Australia Considering New Law Weakening Encryption

News from Australia: Under the law, internet companies would have the same obligations telephone companies do to help law enforcement agencies, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said. Law enforcement agencies would need warrants to access the communications. "We've got a real problem in that the la...

Legal Robot: Password complexity not evenly enforced

A security researcher discovered that our password complexity requirements were not properly enforced during account registration, as they were during password reset. Minor issue but i appreciate the response time, It's really nice working with @danrubins , his very good and humble attitude is mu...

CVE-2017-4055

Exploitation of Authentication vulnerability in the web interface in McAfee Advanced Threat Defense ATD 3.10, 3.8, 3.6, 3.4 allows remote unauthenticated users / remote attackers to bypass ATD detection via loose enforcement of authentication and authorization...