Stress Test Anti Malware System: al-khaser

Stress Test Anti Malware System al-khaser is a PoC malware with good intentions that aims to stress your anti-malware system. It performs a bunch of nowadays malwares tricks and the goal is to see if you catch them all. Some of the common use are: You are making an anti-debug plugin and you want ...

Cybercrime Hit Businesses Hardest in 2015, says IC3 Report

Businesses were hit hardest by inbox-based scams in 2015 that robbed U.S. companies of $263 million. The numbers come from the FBI’s recently released 2015 Internet Crime Report that tallies the types of cybercrimes hitting U.S. business and individuals the hardest. According to the FBI, its...

Apple iOS/watchOS/tvOS and OS X El Capitan IOHIDFamily Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability

Apple iOS is an operating system for Apple's cell phones.OS X El Capitan is a dedicated operating system for Mac computers.watchOS is a smartwatch operating system. A security vulnerability in IOHIDFamily in Apple iOS, watchOS, and OS X El Capitan allows an attacker to submit a special request to...

Laser Gun to Detect Bombs and Chemical Weapons from 100 Feet Away

In Brief US-based Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity IARPA agency is sponsoring a program to build portable laser sensors that could detect explosives, narcotics and other dangerous chemical weapons from 100 feet away. Dubbed SILMARILS Standoff Illuminator for Measuring Absorbance a...

SQL Injection Vulnerability in Human Resource Management Platform of Guangzhou Hexie Software Technology Co.

Guangzhou Hexie Software Technology Co., Ltd. is a high-tech enterprise specializing in the research and development of human resource management software. HR software is an informatization tool that can assist in managing the company's human resources. There is a SQL injection vulnerability in t...

Unspecified Vulnerability in Oracle PeopleSoft Products PeopleSoft Enterprise HCM ePerformance Component

Oracle PeopleSoft Products is a suite of enterprise human capital management solutions from Oracle Corporation.PeopleSoft Enterprise HCM ePerformance is one of the Human Capital Management HCM components. An unspecified vulnerability in the Security subcomponent of the PeopleSoft Enterprise HCM...

CVE-2016-3460

Unspecified vulnerability in the PeopleSoft Enterprise HCM component in Oracle PeopleSoft Products 9.2 allows remote authenticated users to affect confidentiality and integrity via vectors related to ePerformance...

APT Threat Targets Tibetans, Journalists and Human Rights Workers

Tibetans, journalists and human rights workers in Hong Kong and Taiwan have been targeted in an APT campaign that makes use of Microsoft Rich Text File RTF documents to compromise computers. Researchers say it’s a new strategy by attackers in an ongoing advanced persistent threat that dates back ...

Ecava IntegraXor Privilege Bypass Vulnerability

Ecava IntegraXor is a set of Web-based tools for creating and running HMI interfaces for SCADA systems. Ecava IntegraXor fails to properly check for user authorization when processing user access to sensitive web pages, allowing remote attackers to exploit the vulnerability to bypass security...

Ecava IntegraXor Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability (CNVD-2016-02333)

Ecava IntegraXor is a set of Web-based tools for creating and running HMI interfaces for SCADA systems. A cross-site scripting vulnerability in Ecava IntegraXor for HMI operations using SCADA applications allows remote attackers to exploit the vulnerability to inject malicious script or HTML code...

'Hacking Team' Loses License to Sell Surveillance Malware Outside Europe

Hacking Team – the infamous Italy-based spyware company that had more than 400 GB of its confidential data stolen last year – is facing another trouble. This time not from other hackers, but from its own government. Hacking Team is infamous for selling surveillance spyware to governments and...

Vulnerabilities of iOS and Mac OS X operating systems, which allow attackers to gain access to the protected information in the memory structure

The vulnerability of the IOHIDFamily component in iOS and Mac OS X operating systems is related to the lack of protection for service data. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to gain access to the protected memory structure through a specially created application...

Human Anatomy - Dynamic Code Loading, Exported components, External URLs vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Human Anatomy published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Drawing The Human Body - Customized SSL, Dangerous filesystem permissions, WebView code execution vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Drawing The Human Body published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

New Relic: Old CAPTCHA offers no protection

To rate-limit users, you use an old CAPTCHA method that has been broken for quite a while due to developments in OCR. There are many services that are available to quickly solve these and so it offers no protection. For example, here is one site that offers easy CAPTCHA breaking:...

Can Scientists 'Upload Knowledge' Directly into your Brain to Teach New Skills?

Imagine the world where you do not have to make any efforts to learn new skills or knowledge. Just like new programs are uploaded to a Robot to teach them new skills, What if new skills are uploaded to your brain to make you learn, say, playing Guitar, a whole language like French or German or...

British Intelligence is Legally Allowed to Hack Anyone, Court Says

Hacking of computers, smartphones and networks in the United Kingdom or abroad by the Government Communications Headquarters GCHQ is LEGAL, the UK's Investigatory Powers Tribunal IPT ruled. So, the UK is giving clean chit to its intelligence agency to spy on its people as well as people living...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 3471-1 (qemu - security update)

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in qemu, a full virtualization solution on x86 hardware. CVE-2015-7295 Jason Wang of Red Hat Inc. discovered that the Virtual Network Device support is vulnerable to denial-of-service, that could occur when receiving large packets. CVE-2015-7504 Qinghao Tan...

United Nations Rules in Favor of WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange

VICTORY! As a result of the legal action against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange by both British and Swedish Governments, he has been arbitrarily detained by the United Kingdom and Sweden since his arrest in London over five years ago. However, Assange filed a complaint against both the...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2891-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...