Jacob Appelbaum 2013 30c3 keynote on NSA Surveillance

Cryptographer, developer and activist Jacob Appelbaum took to the pages of Germany’s Der Spiegel and the keynote dais of the 30th Chaos Communication Congress this weekend to deliver a damning expose of the catalog of backdoors, monitoring programs and products that potentially have and could be...

JavaScript Malicious Obfuscation Techniques

Known exploits could potentially bypass security products by using JavaScript obfuscation techniques. Since the exploits are obfuscated they may not be detected by IDS and IPS systems, thus allowing attackers to successfully attack target machines...

SnapChat Vulnerable to Two Exploits

After claiming the makers of SnapChat repeatedly ignored their disclosures over a period of four months, Gibson Security recently published the full details of a pair of bugs in the photo and video sharing application. One could give an attacker the ability to connect phone numbers with usernames...

Malware Infections on the Rise in Turkey

In its latest Security Intelligence Report, the Microsoft Malware Protection Center MMPC determined that the malware encounter rate in Turkey is far greater than that of any other country in the entire world, let alone the other countries among the top 10 in malware infections. Encounter rate, pe...

[Blue|Smash] Bluetooth Penetration Testing Suite

Blue|Smash is a free open source bluetooth pentest suite, powered by python for linux. I built Blue|Smash to aid me in my bluetooth adventures and thought others might benefit from my work :D. Here is a list of some of the tools included. Sorbo's Frontline bluetooth sniffer. A bruteforce scanner...

CVE-2013-7189

creationtimestamp| type| source ---|---|--- 2013-12-15 00:00:00+00:00| exploited| https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/38885 2013-12-15 00:00:00+00:00| exploited| https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/38888 2013-12-15 00:00:00+00:00| exploited| https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/38887 2013-12-15...

Osclass - Multiple Input Validation Vulnerabilities

Osclass - Multiple Input Validation Vulnerabilities source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/64386/info Osclass is prone to the following input-validation vulnerabilities: 1. A cross-site request-forgery vulnerability 2. Multiple directory-traversal vulnerabilities 3. An SQL-injection...

Facebook Phishing Campaign Employing Malicious Tumblr Pages

The general population may have had its fill of Facebook at this point, but attackers sure haven’t. There is a new round of Facebook-related spam that is using fake messages about recent crimes involving recipients’ friends as a lure to direct them to Tumblr pages serving exploits. The campaign...

[NOSQLMap] NoSQLMap-Automated NoSQL Database pwnage

What is NoSQLMap? NoSQLMap is an open source Python tool designed to audit for as well as automate injection attacks and exploit default configuration weaknesses in NoSQL databases, as well as web applications using NoSQL in order to disclose data from the database. It is named as a tribute to...

Growing market of zero-day vulnerability exploits pose real threat to Cyber Security

NSS Labs issued the report titled "The Known Unknowns" to explain the dynamics behind the market of zero-day exploits. Last week I discussed about the necessity to define a model for "cyber conflict" to qualify the principal issues related to the use of cyber tools and cyber weapons in an...

[zAnti] Android Network Toolkit

Anti consists of 2 parts: The Anti version itself and extendable plugins. Upcoming updates will add functionality, plugins or vulnerabilities/exploits to Anti Using Anti is very intuitive - on each run, Anti will map your network, scan for active devices and vulnerabilities, and will display the...

vBulletin Zero Day Used to Hack MacRumors, vBulletin

A hacker group calling itself Inj3ct0r is taking responsibility for the compromise of more than 860,000 passwords at MacRumors.com as well as a separate attack on vBulletin.com, makers of the vBulletin software powering a number of high-profile forums including MacRumors and Ubuntu Forums. The...

CVE-2013-6937

creationtimestamp| type| source ---|---|--- 2013-11-14 00:00:00+00:00| confirmed| https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/29594...

MS13-090: Cumulative Security Update of ActiveX Kill Bits (2900986)

The remote Windows host is missing a security update that sets kill bits to prevent Microsoft's InformationCardSigninHelper Class ActiveX control from instantiating in Internet Explorer. This control has a vulnerability that can be abused to execute arbitrary code remotely, if a user can be trick...

November 2013 Adobe Flash, ColdFusion security patches

Adobe patched two vulnerabilities in its ColdFusion web application server today, and also released a Flash Player update that patched a remote code execution bug in the software. A company spokesperson said none of the vulnerabilities are being exploited, nor are they related to the recent theft...

Microsoft Internet Explorer CVE-2013-3909 Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Description Microsoft Internet Explorer is prone to an information-disclosure vulnerability. Successful exploits will allow attackers to obtain sensitive information that may aid in further attacks. Technologies Affected Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 Microsoft...

Microsoft Internet Explorer CVE-2013-3908 Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Description Microsoft Internet Explorer is prone to an information-disclosure vulnerability. Successful exploits will allow attackers to obtain sensitive information that may aid in further attacks. Technologies Affected Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 Microsoft...

How I Got Here: Katie Moussouris

Dennis Fisher talks with Katie Moussouris of Microsoft about her childhood exploits with Commodore 64 programming, ignoring her Barbies, growing up as a hacker, her days as a pen tester and the challenges of working on security at Microsoft. Download: 12moussouris.mp3 Microsoft image via Robert...

Google, FireEye Demand Change from Vulna Ad Network

An Android ad library containing a maliciously potent cocktail of features and vulnerabilities is less of a danger to Android users today after Google and the ad network made a series of changes spurred by security firm FireEye’s insistence. Despite fixes from the ad network, updates implemented ...

ASLR bypass techniques are popular with APT attacks

Address space layout randomization ASLR is a security technique involved in protection from buffer overflow attacks. Many recent APT Advanced Persistent Threat attacks have utilized many different ASLR bypass techniques during the past year, according to Researchers at FireEye. Many exploits and...