Experiment: Improving Page Load Times with Script Streaming

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A week in security (July 2 – July 8)

Last week, we tracked back a large mining operation from their Coinhive shortlink, we took a look at online project management tools, we described a new macro-less technique to distribute malware, and talked about a Mac malware that targets crypto-mining users. Other news: Huawei enterprise comms...

Detecting Laptop Tampering

Micah Lee ran a two-year experiment designed to detect whether or not his laptop was ever tampered with. The results are inconclusive, but demonstrate how difficult it can be to detect laptop tampering...

eLabFTW experiment infos component cross-site scripting vulnerability

Elabftw is an open source platform for hosting experimental data. The platform runs on Linux and supports storing a variety of objects. experiment infos component is one of the experiment infos storage components. A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in the experiment infos component in...

CVE-2017-1000478

ELabftw version 1.7.8 is vulnerable to stored cross-site scripting in the experiment infos component resulting in arbitrary execution of JavaScript and denial of service...

Cross site scripting

ELabftw version 1.7.8 is vulnerable to stored cross-site scripting in the experiment infos component resulting in arbitrary execution of JavaScript and denial of service...

Facebook Awards $100K to Researchers for Credential Spearphishing Detection Method

A group of researchers recently identified a real-time way to detect credential spearphishing attacks in enterprise settings. The discovery net the researchers $100,000 last week from Facebook, which awards money as part of its annual Internet Defense Prize partnership with USENIX Association. Th...

Curiosity Kills Security When it Comes to Phishing

Regardless of the amount of training and technology applied to phishing prevention, people are going to click on links, trust messages from supposedly known sources and get into trouble online. A recent academic paper collates the results of an experiment conducted with more than 1,200 German...

Gravity Balls Experiment - WebView JavaScript enabled, WebView files access vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Gravity Balls Experiment published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Island Experiment - Customized SSL, Dangerous filesystem permissions, Hardcoded secrets vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Island Experiment published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Experiment Z - Zombie Survival - Customized SSL, Dangerous filesystem permissions, WebView SSL handling enabled vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Experiment Z - Zombie Survival published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Microsoft's Artificial Intelligence Tay Became a 'Racist Nazi' in less than 24 Hours

Tay, Microsoft’s new Artificial Intelligence AI chatbot on Twitter had to be pulled down a day after it launched, following incredibly racist comments and tweets praising Hitler and bashing feminists. Microsoft had launched the Millennial-inspired artificial intelligence chatbot on Wednesday,...

How-to — Stealing Decryption Key from Air-Gapped Computer in Another Room

Air-gapped computers that are believed to be the most secure computers on the planet have become a regular target for researchers in recent years. Air-gap computers are one that are isolated from the Internet or any other computers that are connected to the Internet or external network, so hacker...

It Works! Google's Quantum Computer is '100 Million Times Faster' than a PC

Announcing the results of its experiment, Google says Quantum Computer is More than 100 Million times faster than a regular PC. Two years ago, Google and NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration bought a D-Wave 2X quantum computer, which they have been experimenting at the U.S. space...

[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: libsedml-0.3.1-4.fc22

C++ library that fully supports SED-ML Simulation Experiment Description Markup Language for SBML as well as CellML models for creation of the description just as for the execution of Simulation Experiments. This project makes use of libSBML XML layer as well as code generation as starting point ...

Apple Safari URI spoofing (CVE-2015-5764)

tl;dr Apple Safari for OS X was prone to URI spoofing vulnerability and more general a user interface spoofing. Apple released security updates for Safari 9 on OS X and assigned CVE-2015-5764. Accidentally this vulnerability was also present in iOS. Instant demo In Safari up to 8.0.8 : go to clic...

Three Politicians Hacked Using Unsecured Wi-Fi Network

If you are one of our readers who follow The Hacker News every update, you probably know that Public WiFi network is a security risk. But many people aren’t aware, including our great politicians. Internet security provider F-Secure carried out an experimental hack against three prominent UK...

ShrimpTest 1.0b2 - admin/experiment-new.php Multiple Unspecified XSS

The shrimptest WordPress plugin was affected by an admin/experiment-new.php Multiple Unspecified XSS security vulnerability...

Malicious Russian Tor Exit Relays Intercepting encrypted Traffic of Facebook Users

Tor is one of the best and freely available privacy software that lets people communicate anonymously online through a series of nodes that is designed to provide anonymity for users and bypass Internet censorship. When you use the Tor software, your IP address remains hidden and it appears that...

Password Strength Testers Work for Important Accounts

Many popular online services have started to deploy password strength meters, visual gauges that are often color-coded and indicate whether the password you’ve chosen is weak or strong based on the website’s policy. The effectiveness of these meters in influencing users to choose stronger passwor...