Facebook Password Reset Bug Gave Hacker Access To Any Account

Anand Prakash could have hacked your Facebook account or anyone else’s. The India-based security researcher found a glaring password-reset vulnerability last month that has since been patched. The bug allowed him to crack open any of Facebook’s 1.1 billion accounts using a rudimentary brute force...

Proofpoint Warns Of New MSIL/Crimson Tied To Cyber Espionage

Diplomats and military personnel in India have been victimized in targeted espionage attacks that use a number of means of infection including phishing and watering hole sites. Researchers at Proofpoint this week published a report on Operation Transparent Tribe, which was ongoing as of Feb. 11...

Scarlet Mimic Behind Espionage Campaign Against Tibetan, Uyghur Activists

Researchers believe a single group is responsible for a series of attacks over the years to spy on Tibetan and Uyghur activists. For four years the group has used a cornucopia of spearphishing emails, a watering hole attack, and a backdoor Trojan to carry out espionage. Dubbed Scarlet Mimic, the...

How to Hack WiFi Password from Smart Doorbells

The buzz around The Internet of Things IoT is growing, and it is growing at a great pace. Every day the technology industry tries to connect another household object to the Internet. One such internet-connected household device is a Smart Doorbell. Gone are the days when we have regular doorbells...

Duuzer Trojan: A New Backdoor Targeting South Korean Organizations

Security researchers at Symantec have uncovered a new Backdoor Trojan that grants hackers remote access and some control over infected machines. "Duuzer," as dubbed by the researchers, has been targeting organizations in South Korea and elsewhere in an attempt to steal valuable information. The...

Adobe Flash Player for Mac <= 19.0.0.207 Vulnerability (APSB15-27)

The version of Adobe Flash Player installed on the remote Mac OS X host is equal or prior to version 19.0.0.207. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities : - Multiple type confusion errors exist that allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. CVE-2015-7645, CVE-2015-7647,...

Emissary Panda APT Group Gets Selective About Data it Steals

LAS VEGAS – The Emissary Panda APT group has a long history of invading Western organizations—be they enterprises, government or political outfits—hungry for reams of intellectual property. Lately the group, however, has become a little more selective about what it steals. Researchers at Dell...

Microsoft releases Emergency Patch Update for all versions of Windows

In the wake of a critical Remote Code Execution vulnerability in all supported versions of its operating system platform, Microsoft has just issued an emergency fix. Yes, it’s time to patch your Windows operating system against an alarming security hole that could allow remote attackers to run...

Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent in the column: a“watering hole attack”using JSONP hijacking tracking user-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Can you imagine if an authoritarian state to get a way to obtain user privacy information of the tool, and this tool can obtain the user in a specific site on the real name, email address, gender, birthday and phone number, etc., that would be what kind of scene? You can also imagine that an...

SuSE 11.3 Security Update : kvm and libvirt (SAT Patch Number 10222)

This collective update for KVM and libvirt provides fixes for security and non-security issues. kvm : - Fix NULL pointer dereference because of uninitialized UDP socket. bsc897654, CVE-2014-3640 - Fix performance degradation after migration. bsc878350 - Fix potential image corruption due to missi...

Updated kernel-rt packages fix security vulnerabilities

This kernel-rt update provides as upgrade to upstream 3.14 longterm branch, currently based on 3.14.32 and fixes the following security issues: The microcode on AMD 16h 00h through 0Fh processors does not properly handle the interaction between locked instructions and write-combined memory types,...

Chinese Hackers Compromised Forbes.com Using IE, Flash Zero Days

A Chinese APT group was able to chain together two zero day vulnerabilities, one against Adobe’s Flash Player and one against Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9, to compromise a popular news site late last year. The group’s aim was to gain access to computers at several U.S. defense and financial...

Google Chrome < 40.0.2214.93 Flash Player Multiple Remote Code Execution

The version of Google Chrome installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 40.0.2214.93. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerabilities : - A use-after-free error exists that allows an attacker to crash the application or execute arbitrary code. CVE-2015-0311 - A double-free error...

RedStar 3.0 Desktop - 'Software Manager swmng.app' Local Privilege Escalation

The root user is disabled on Red Star, and it doesn't look like there is a way to enable it. UnFortunately, they left a big security hole: the Software Manager swmng.app, which runs as root through sudo and will install any RPM package, even if unsigned. To get root, get this RPM package I made...

Four ScanBox APT Watering Hole Attacks Uncovered

The appearance of the ScanBox keylogging tool in August ushered in a new era of reconnaissance tools used in targeted attacks. No longer was a malware infection required to steal information from a victim of interest. Instead, attackers using watering hole attacks, were loading malicious JavaScri...

POODLE SSL 3.0 Attack Exploits Widely-used Web Encryption Standard

Another Heartbleed-like vulnerability has been discovered in the decade old but still widely used Secure Sockets Layer SSL 3.0 cryptographic protocol that could allow an attacker to decrypt contents of encrypted connections to websites. Google's Security Team revealed on Tuesday that the most...

FreeBSD : jenkins -- remote execution, privilege escalation, XSS, password exposure, ACL hole, DoS (549a2771-49cc-11e4-ae2c-c80aa9043978)

Jenkins Security Advisory : Please reference CVE/URL list for details %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from the FreeBSD VuXML database : Copyright 2003-2019 Jacques Vidrine and contributors Redistribution an...

jenkins -- remote execution, privilege escalation, XSS, password exposure, ACL hole, DoS

Jenkins Security Advisory: Please reference CVE/URL list for details...

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS : linux-lts-trusty vulnerabilities (USN-2336-1)

A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel virtual machine's kvm validation of interrupt requests irq. A guest OS user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service host OS crash. CVE-2014-0155 Andy Lutomirski discovered a flaw in the authorization of netlink socket operations when a socket...

USN-2337-1 linux vulnerabilities

A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel virtual machine's kvm validation of interrupt requests irq. A guest OS user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service host OS crash. CVE-2014-0155 Andy Lutomirski discovered a flaw in the authorization of netlink socket operations when a socket...