A week in security (Sept 13 – Sept 19)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs Why backups aren’t a “silver bullet” against ransomware, with Matt Crape: Lock and Code S02E17 The many tentacles of Magecart Group 8 Apple releases emergency update: Patch, but don’t panic Update now! Google Chrome fixes two in-the-wild zero-days Parts of the Dark...

Twitter Algorithmic Bias: Economic Harm through Twitter's Cropping Algorithm

Bounty Hunter Name: CyberQueenMeg About You: Megan, also known as CyberQueenMeg, is a passionate rising cybersecurity professional who is interested in programming, cybersecurity, and web development. Megan is a high school senior in a rigorous computer science program at her high school where sh...

Grammarly: Bypassing the Grammarly plagiarism checker by simply replacing characters in the source text

Summary: Replacing the characters i, a, e, o, p, c, x in the text with similar ones in the Ukrainian keyboard layout leads to the fact that plagiarism detectors Grammarly plagiarism checker and others skip such text, mark it as unique without any plagiarism and do not even signal that the...

Artificial Intelligence ban slammed for failing to address “vast abuse potential”

A written proposal to ban several uses of artificial intelligence AI and to place new oversight on other “high-risk” AI applications—published by the European Commission this week—met fierce opposition from several digital rights advocates in Europe. Portrayed as a missed opportunity by privacy...

Myanmar’s Internet Shutdown Is an Act of ‘Vast Self-Harm’

On Friday the military junta shut off connectivity across the country. There’s no sign of when it will return...

Cybersecurity Risk: What It Is and How Can It Be Reduced?

By Waqas By definition, cybersecurity risk is your potential exposure to harm when your online information or communication system is left vulnerable. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Cybersecurity Risk: What It Is and How Can It Be Reduced?...

‘Nonlethal’ Anti-Protest Weapons Can Cause Serious Harm

Rubber bullets and tear gas are billed as relatively safe. They're anything but...

OpenTrace has an unspecified vulnerability

OpenTrace is an implementation of the BlueTrace Epidemiology Contact Tracking Privacy Protection Protocol. A security vulnerability exists in OpenTrace used in COVIDSafe 1.0.17 and earlier versions, TraceTogether and ABTraceTogether and other apps iOS and Android, which can be exploited by a remo...

PT-2019-14680

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Swell Kit Mod devices affected versions not specified Description An issue was discovered that allows an attacker to trigger an unintended temperature in the victim's mouth and throat via Bluetooth Low Energy BLE packets. These packets can...

X (Formerly Twitter): Periscope-all Firebase database takeover

Hello, I found one public Firebase database of periscope.tv and I can able to insert data to this database and i only used it once for the testing purposes, so other database queries also possible. Please follow the below link to check the inserted test data. Periscope-all Firebase URL :-...

What You Should Know About the Equifax Data Breach Settlement

Big-three credit bureau Equifax has reportedly agreed to pay at least $650 million to settle lawsuits stemming from a 2017 breach that let intruders steal personal and financial data on roughly 148 million Americans. Here's a brief primer that attempts to break down what this settlement means for...

Design/Logic Flaw

BCN Quark Quarking Password Manager 3.1.84 suffers from a clickjacking vulnerability caused by allowing within webaccessibleresources. An attacker can take advantage of this vulnerability and cause significant harm...

Unspecified Vulnerability in SHEKAR Technology Endoscope

SHEKAR Technology Endoscope is a portable endoscopic device from SHEKAR Technology, China. A security vulnerability exists in the SHEKAR Technology Endoscope. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability to obtain video content and images or cause other harm...

What are Data Manipulation Attacks, and How to Mitigate Against Them

Conventional wisdom says that once an attacker is in the system, moving laterally from network to network, the damage is already done. The adversary has found a way in and more than likely identified the data they’re after. They simply need to exfiltrate it, the last step of the kill chain, to la...

Unspecified Vulnerability in Oracle E-Business Suite (CNVD-2019-28446)

Oracle E-Business Suite E-Business Suite is the United States Oracle Oracle company's set of fully integrated global business management software. CRM Technical Foundation is one of the provision of Java-based infrastructure components for the development of e-business solutions. A security...

CVE-2017-3966 SB10192 - Network Security Management (NSM) - Exploitation of session variables, resource IDs and other trusted credentials vulnerability

Exploitation of session variables, resource IDs and other trusted credentials vulnerability in the web interface in McAfee Network Security Management NSM before 8.2.7.42.2 allows remote attackers to exploit or harm a user's browser via reusing the exposed session token in the application URL...

PT-2018-7316

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: McAfee Network Security Management NSM versions prior to 8.2.7.42.2 Description: The issue concerns the exploitation of session variables, resource IDs, and other trusted credentials in the web interface. This allows remote attackers to harm ...

CVE-2018-6228

A SQL injection vulnerability in a Trend Micro Email Encryption Gateway 5.5 policy script could allow an attacker to execute SQL commands to upload and execute arbitrary code that may harm the target system...

Freelance Website Script 2.0.6 - 'pr_id' / 'catid' SQL Injection

Exploit Title: Freelance Website Script 2.0.6 - SQL Injection Dork: N/A Date: 08.12.2017 Vendor Homepage: https://www.phpscriptsmall.com/ Software Link: https://www.phpscriptsmall.com/product/freelance-website-script/ Version: 2.0.6 Category: Webapps Tested on: WiN7x64/KaLiLinuXx64 CVE: N/A Explo...

Unauthorized Access Vulnerability in Xiao Feng Air Ching App Android Version

Ltd. developed with the work of the Xiao Feng Air Dorothy system APP, mainly used to monitor the indoor air quality and Xiao Feng Air Dorothy internal and external machine running status, monitoring items including PM2.5, formaldehyde, oxygen, temperature and humidity, and can be through the APP...