Top 5 Factors That Increase Cyber Security Salary The Most

Our partner Springboard, which provides online courses to help you advance your cybersecurity career with personalized mentorship from industry experts, recently researched current cybersecurity salaries and future earning potential in order to trace a path to how much money you can make. Here's...

2018 Flare-On Challenge Solutions

We are pleased to announce the conclusion of the fifth annual Flare-On Challenge. The numbers are in and we can safely say that this was by far the most difficult challenge we’ve ever hosted. We plan to reduce the difficulty next year, so it may be that the 114 people who solved this year’s...

Defeating the iPhone Restricted Mode

Recently, Apple introduced restricted mode to protect iPhones from attacks by companies like Cellebrite and Greyshift, which allow attackers to recover information from a phone without the password or fingerprint. Elcomsoft just announced that it can easily bypass it. There is an important lesson...

Optimizing A Monitoring System: Three Methods for Effective Incident Management

Picture this: You’ve just returned from a well-deserved vacation and, upon opening up your security monitoring system you’re faced with the prospect of analyzing thousands of events. This isn’t an imaginary scenario, the security monitoring world actually monitoring in general is full of anomalie...

REST API Penetration Testing: Astra

REST API penetration testing is complex due to continuous changes in existing APIs and newly added APIs. Astra can be used by security engineers or developers as an integral part of their process, so they can detect and patch vulnerabilities early during development cycle. Astra can automatically...

Carbon Black Opens New Research and Development Office in Greater Portland, Oregon

Carbon Black is proud to announce our new office opening in Hillsboro, Oregon – just outside of Portland. The office will serve as a center for research and development, with a focus on bringing new products to market. Hillsboro lies just outside of Portland, a city that experienced a 40-percent...

Critical Flaw in Major Android Tools Targets Developers and Reverse Engineers

Finally, here we have a vulnerability that targets Android developers and reverse engineers, instead of app users. Security researchers have discovered an easily-exploitable vulnerability in Android application developer tools, both downloadable and cloud-based, that could allow attackers to stea...

IEEE P1735 Cryptographic Problem Vulnerability (CNVD-2017-33399)

IEEE P1735 is a standard dedicated to encrypting the intellectual property of electronic designs. The implementation of IEEE P1735 is vulnerable to a cryptographic issue. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain the intellectual property of an electronic design...

Configure Citrix Profile Management through WEM

Instruct engineers in how to configure citrix profile management through WEM...

Using LabVIEW? Unpatched Flaw Allows Hackers to Hijack Your Computer

If you're an engineer and use LabVIEW software to design machines or industrial equipments, you should be very suspicious while opening any VI virtual instrument file. LabVIEW, developed by American company National Instruments, is a visual programming language and powerful system-design tool tha...

Is Continuing to Patch Windows XP a Mistake?

Last week, Microsoft issued a security patch for Windows XP, a 16-year-old operating system that Microsoft officially no longer supports. Last month, Microsoft issued a Windows XP patch for the vulnerability used in WannaCry. Is this a good idea? This 2014 essay argues that it's not: The zero-day...

High Severity BIND Vulnerability Can Lead to A Crash

The Internet Systems Consortium patched the BIND domain name system this week, addressing a remotely exploitable vulnerability it considers high severity and said could lead to a crash. The issue affects servers that use both the DNS64 and RPZ function simultaneously. DNS64 is a mechanism for...

Cisco Patches Authentication Bypass in Cisco Prime Home

Cisco has patched a critical vulnerability in its Cisco Prime Home remote management software used by service providers to oversee and provision subscribers’ home devices. The flaw, found by Cisco engineers, is in the product’s web-based GUI and allows remote attackers to bypass authentication an...

Announcing the Third Annual Flare-On Challenge

Let fall be the season for reverse engineering! On Sept. 23, 2016, the FireEye Labs Advanced Reverse Engineering FLARE team will be hosting its third annual Flare-On reverse engineering contest with a designated start time of 8pm ET. This is a CTF-style challenge for all active and aspiring rever...

engineersaustralia.org.au XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: https://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/portal/news?search=%20%22%3E%3Cimg%20src%3Dx%20onerror%3Dprompt%28/OPENBUGBOUNTY/%29%3E%22 Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| No Latest check for patch:| 27.07.2017 Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:| Publicly disclosed...

Reverse engineering DUBNIUM –Stage 2 payload analysis

Recently, we blogged about the basic functionality and features of the DUBNIUM advanced persistent threat APT activity group Stage 1 binary and Adobe Flash exploit used during the December 2015 incident Part 1, Part 2. In this blog, we will go through the overall infection chain structure and the...

BlueHat v16 Announced

Microsoft is pleased to announce our sixteenth BlueHat Security Conference set for November 3-4, 2016 at the Microsoft Conference Center here in Redmond. BlueHat is a unique opportunity for Microsoft engineers and the security community to come together learn about the current threat landscape an...

Johns Hopkins Researchers: Crypto Flaws Endanger iMessage Integrity

When Apple released its iOS Security Guide for public consumption, it was an unprecedented look inside the security architecture behind its products. For cryptographer and professor Matthew Green and a team of four Johns Hopkins University graduate students, it was a road map to understanding not...

Binary Analysis IDE: BinDiff

BinDiff is a comparison tool for binary files that helps to quickly find differences and similarities in disassembled code. It is used by security researchers and engineers across the globe to identify and isolate fixes for vulnerabilities in vendor-supplied patches and to analyze multiple versio...

Apple Engineers say they may Quit if ordered to Unlock iPhone by FBI

Apple Vs. FBI battle over mobile encryption case is taking more twists and turns with every day pass by. On one hand, the US Department of Justice DOJ is boldly warning Apple that it might compel the company to hand over the source code of its full iOS operating system along with the private...