Microsoft Warns Foreign Disinformation Is Hitting the US Election From All Directions

Russia, Iran, and China are targeting the US election with an evolving array of influence operations in the last days of campaign season...

Dutch Police Hacked, 63,000 Officers’ Details Exposed

A foreign government is believed to have hacked into the Dutch police force's systems, exposing the contact details…...

PostgreSQL: Privilege Escalation

Background PostgreSQL is an open source object-relational database management system. Description A vulnerability has been discovered in PostgreSQL. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details. Impact An attacker able to create and drop non-temporary objects could inject SQL cod...

Talk of election security is good, but we still need more money to solve the problem

Last week, six Secretaries of State testified to U.S. Congress about the current state of election security ahead of November's Presidential election. Some of the same topics came up as usual -- disinformation campaigns, influence from foreign actors, and the physical protection of poll workers o...

Singapore Police Arrest Six Hackers Linked to Global Cybercrime Syndicate

The Singapore Police Force SPF has announced the arrest of five Chinese nationals and one Singaporean man for their alleged involvement in illicit cyber activities in the country. The development comes after a group of about 160 law enforcement officials conducted a series of raids on September 9...

OpenAI Blocks Iranian Influence Operation Using ChatGPT for U.S. Election Propaganda

OpenAI on Friday said it banned a set of accounts linked to what it said was an Iranian covert influence operation that leveraged ChatGPT to generate content that, among other things, focused on the upcoming U.S. presidential election. "This week we identified and took down a cluster of ChatGPT...

BIT-POSTGRESQL-2024-7348 PostgreSQL relation replacement during pg_dump executes arbitrary SQL

Time-of-check Time-of-use TOCTOU race condition in pgdump in PostgreSQL allows an object creator to execute arbitrary SQL functions as the user running pgdump, which is often a superuser. The attack involves replacing another relation type with a view or foreign table. The attack requires waiting...

CVE-2024-7348

Time-of-check Time-of-use TOCTOU race condition in pgdump in PostgreSQL allows an object creator to execute arbitrary SQL functions as the user running pgdump, which is often a superuser. The attack involves replacing another relation type with a view or foreign table. The attack requires waiting...

CVE-2024-7348

Time-of-check Time-of-use TOCTOU race condition in pgdump in PostgreSQL allows an object creator to execute arbitrary SQL functions as the user running pgdump, which is often a superuser. The attack involves replacing another relation type with a view or foreign table. The attack requires waiting...

ALPINE-CVE-2024-7348

Time-of-check Time-of-use TOCTOU race condition in pgdump in PostgreSQL allows an object creator to execute arbitrary SQL functions as the user running pgdump, which is often a superuser. The attack involves replacing another relation type with a view or foreign table. The attack requires waiting...

AZL-47636 CVE-2024-7348 affecting package postgresql for versions less than 16.4-1

Time-of-check Time-of-use TOCTOU race condition in pgdump in PostgreSQL allows an object creator to execute arbitrary SQL functions as the user running pgdump, which is often a superuser. The attack involves replacing another relation type with a view or foreign table. The attack requires waiting...

CVE-2024-7348

Time-of-check Time-of-use TOCTOU race condition in pgdump in PostgreSQL allows an object creator to execute arbitrary SQL functions as the user running pgdump, which is often a superuser. The attack involves replacing another relation type with a view or foreign table. The attack requires waiting...

CVE-2024-7348

Time-of-check Time-of-use TOCTOU race condition in pgdump in PostgreSQL allows an object creator to execute arbitrary SQL functions as the user running pgdump, which is often a superuser. The attack involves replacing another relation type with a view or foreign table. The attack requires waiting...

CVE-2024-7348 PostgreSQL relation replacement during pg_dump executes arbitrary SQL

Time-of-check Time-of-use TOCTOU race condition in pgdump in PostgreSQL allows an object creator to execute arbitrary SQL functions as the user running pgdump, which is often a superuser. The attack involves replacing another relation type with a view or foreign table. The attack requires waiting...

CVE-2024-7348

TOCTOU race in pg_dump (CVE-2024-7348) allows the object creator to run arbitrary SQL functions as the pg_dump user (often a superuser) by replacing a relation type with a view or foreign table. The attack requires waiting for pg_dump to start; success is facilitated if an open transaction is hel...

Australian Defence Force Private and Husband Charged with Espionage for Russia

Two Russian-born Australian citizens have been arrested and charged in the country for spying on behalf of Russia as part of a "complex" law enforcement operation codenamed BURGAZADA. This includes a 40-year-old woman, an Australian Defence Force ADF Army Private, and her husband, a 62-year-old...

Chinese Hackers Deploy SpiceRAT and SugarGh0st in Global Espionage Campaign

A previously undocumented Chinese-speaking threat actor codenamed SneakyChef has been linked to an espionage campaign primarily targeting government entities across Asia and EMEA Europe, Middle East, and Africa with SugarGh0st malware since at least August 2023. "SneakyChef uses lures that are...

The vulnerability of the SEMCMS_Download.php script of the website management system for foreign trade enterprises SemCms allows a hacker to execute arbitrary SQL queries and gain unauthorized access to protected information.

The vulnerability of the SEMCMSDownload.php script of the website management system for SemCms foreign trade enterprises is related to the lack of measures to protect the SQL query structure. Exploiting this vulnerability allows an attacker to execute arbitrary SQL queries and gain unauthorized...

Google Takes Down Influence Campaigns Tied to China, Indonesia, and Russia

Google has revealed that it took down 1,320 YouTube channels and 1,177 Blogger blogs as part of a coordinated influence operation connected to the People's Republic of China PRC. "The coordinated inauthentic network uploaded content in Chinese and English about China and U.S. foreign affairs,"...

OpenAI, Meta, and TikTok Crack Down on Covert Influence Campaigns, Some AI-Powered

OpenAI on Thursday disclosed that it took steps to cut off five covert influence operations IO originating from China, Iran, Israel, and Russia that sought to abuse its artificial intelligence AI tools to manipulate public discourse or political outcomes online while obscuring their true identity...