Microsoft Patches Actively Exploited Bug as Part of Patch Tuesday

UPDATE Microsoft has patched an elevation-of-privilege vulnerability it said is actively being exploited by hackers. The fix was part of Microsoft’s scheduled September Patch Tuesday release, which also included fixes for two other bugs found being used in the wild, including the zero-day found i...

‘China’s MIT’ Linked to Espionage Campaign Against Alaska, Economic Partners

An extensive cyberespionage campaign was disclosed today, targeting high-value international and U.S. government agencies and companies and emanating from an IP address associated with Tsinghua University, colloquially known as “China’s MIT.” The actors have gone after a range of targets, includi...

CVE-2018-11770

From version 1.3.0 onward, Apache Spark's standalone master exposes a REST API for job submission, in addition to the submission mechanism used by spark-submit. In standalone, the config property 'spark.authenticate.secret' establishes a shared secret for authenticating requests to submit jobs vi...

Authentication flaw

From version 1.3.0 onward, Apache Spark's standalone master exposes a REST API for job submission, in addition to the submission mechanism used by spark-submit. In standalone, the config property 'spark.authenticate.secret' establishes a shared secret for authenticating requests to submit jobs vi...

CVE-2018-11770

From version 1.3.0 onward, Apache Spark's standalone master exposes a REST API for job submission, in addition to the submission mechanism used by spark-submit. In standalone, the config property 'spark.authenticate.secret' establishes a shared secret for authenticating requests to submit jobs vi...

CVE-2017-1509

IBM Jazz Foundation products could allow an authenticated user to obtain sensitive information from a stack trace that could be used to aid future attacks. IBM X-Force ID: 129719...

Information disclosure

IBM Jazz Foundation products could allow an authenticated user to obtain sensitive information from a stack trace that could be used to aid future attacks. IBM X-Force ID: 129719...

CVE-2017-1509

IBM Jazz Foundation products could allow an authenticated user to obtain sensitive information from a stack trace that could be used to aid future attacks. IBM X-Force ID: 129719...

M4Ngl3M3 - Common Password Pattern Generator Using Strings List

Common password pattern generator using strings list. Quick Installation: $ git clone https://github.com/localh0t/m4ngl3m3 $ cd m4ngl3m3 $ ./main.py Basic Help: usage: main.py -h -fy FROMYEAR -ty TOYEAR -sy -nf NUMBERSFILE -sf SYMBOLSFILE -cf CUSTOMFILE -sbs -sap -mm MUTATIONMETHODS MUTATIONMODE...

Microsoft Windows: Network security: Encryption types allowed for Kerberos

This policy setting allows you to set the encryption types that Kerberos is allowed to use. If not selected, the encryption type will not be allowed. This setting may affect compatibility with client computers or services and applications. Multiple selections are permitted. C Microsoft Corporatio...

swissbanking-future.ch XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-616526 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| swissbanking-future.ch Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

Mirai Variant Targets Financial Sector With IoT DDoS Attacks

A variant of the Mirai botnet was used to launch a series of distributed denial of service campaigns against financial sector businesses. The attacks utilized at least 13,000 hijacked IoT devices generating traffic volumes up to 30 Gbps, considerably less intense than the original Mirai assaults...

futureacademy.org.uk XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-596522 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| futureacademy.org.uk Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

Design/Logic Flaw

IBM Jazz Foundation IBM Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management 5.0 and 6.0 could allow an authenticated user to obtain sensitive information from a specially crafted HTTP request that could be used to aid future attacks. IBM X-Force ID: 129970...

Highlights from the HITRUST Third-Party Assurance Summit

The HITRUST TPA Summit brought together experts representing customers, vendors, and assessor firms in various aspects of risk management to share best practices, lessons learned and effective third-party risk management strategies leveraging the HITRUST CSF Assurance Program and HITRUST Assessme...

Carbon Black’s Victor Baez Recognized as a 2018 CRN Channel Chief

CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named Victor Baez, Vice President, WW Channels of Carbon Black, to its prestigious list of 2018 Channel Chiefs. The executives on this annual list represent top leaders in the IT channel who excel at driving growth and revenue in their organization throug...

Internet Security Threats at the Olympics

There are a lot: The cybersecurity company McAfee recently uncovered a cyber operation, dubbed Operation GoldDragon, attacking South Korean organizations related to the Winter Olympics. McAfee believes the attack came from a nation state that speaks Korean, although it has no definitive proof tha...

future-recurrence.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-513457 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| future-recurrence.com Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

Happy 15th Birthday TaoSecurity Blog

Today, 8 January 2018, is the 15th birthday of TaoSecurity Blog! This is also my 3,020th blog post. I wrote my first post on 8 January 2003 while working as an incident response consultant for Foundstone. I don't believe I've released statistics for the blog before, so here are a few. Blogger...

Mentalist - Graphical Tool For Custom Wordlist Generation

Mentalist is a graphical tool for custom wordlist generation. It utilizes common human paradigms for constructing passwords and can output the full wordlist as well as rules compatible with Hashcat and John the Ripper. Install from Source Prerequisites Linux APT package manager Check if Python 3 ...