Ex-employee hacked Cisco’s AWS Infrastructure; erased virtual machines

By Zara Khan Sudhish Kasaba Ramesh, an Indian citizen on an H1-B visa has pleaded guilty to "Damaging Cisco’s Network." This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Ex-employee hacked Ciscos AWS Infrastructure; erased virtual machines...

Ex-Cisco Employee Pleads Guilty to Deleting 16K Webex Teams Accounts

A former Cisco Systems employee pleaded guilty this week to hacking into the networking company’s cloud infrastructure and deleting 16,000 Webex Teams accounts in 2018. Webex Teams is Cisco’s collaboration application for enterprises. In a plea agreement in a San Jose federal court, Sudhish Kasab...

Firefox Launched a New Android App to Lure Users From Chrome

Mozilla has rewritten the app to rely on its own infrastructure rather than Google’s. But will its privacy and UI tweaks convince people to make the switch?...

Revamped Qbot Trojan Packs New Punch: Hijacks Email Threads

Attacks attributed to the Qbot trojan, known as the “Swiss Army knife” of malware, are on the uptick with a reported 100,000 recent infections, according to researchers. Qbot, an ever-evolving information-stealing trojan that’s been around since 2008, has shifted tactics again and adopted a bevy ...

Threat Source newsletter for Aug. 27, 2020

Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Good afternoon, Talos readers. As part of our continued look at election security ahead of the November election, we have another research paper out this week. This time, we’re taking a closer look at disinformation campaigns, popularly known as “fake news.” Th...

QakBot Banking Trojan Returned With New Sneaky Tricks to Steal Your Money

A notorious banking trojan aimed at stealing bank account credentials and other financial information has now come back with new tricks up its sleeve to target government, military, and manufacturing sectors in the US and Europe, according to new research. In an analysis released by Check Point...

The vulnerability of the Puppet infrastructure automation tool and its startup application, Puppet Agent, relates to errors in the certificate validation process. This vulnerability allows a perpetrator to gain unauthorized access to protected information.

The vulnerability of the Puppet infrastructure automation tool and its startup application, Puppet Agent, is related to errors in the certificate validation process. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a malicious actor, operating remotely, to gain unauthorized access to protected informati...

Mozilla Releases Security Updates for Firefox, Firefox ESR, and Thunderbird

Mozilla has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in Firefox, Firefox ESR, and Thunderbird. An attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA encourages users and administrators t...

Google Releases Security Updates for Chrome

Google has released Chrome version 85.0.4183.83 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This version addresses vulnerabilities that an attacker could exploit to take control of an affected system. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA encourages users and administrators to review the...

Mail.ru: CVE-2016-6415 on api-staging.plazius.ru [46.148.201.218]

Unpatched CVE-2016-6415 vulnerability could potentially lead to information disclosure on the host in plazius.ru infrastructure...

Automate Virtual Machine Creation in Azure DevOps

See how you can enable more automation in your Microsoft® Azure® virtual machine infrastructure builds, deployments, and security implementation...

2020 CWE Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses

The Homeland Security Systems Engineering and Development Institute, sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security and operated by MITRE, has released the 2020 Common Weakness Enumeration CWE Top 25 Most Dangerous Software Weaknesses list. The Top 25 uses data from the National Vulnerability...

How Criminals Attack the Games Industry

If you work in the video games industry, it's already obvious that security is a challenge, and criminals are a threat. But how much do you know about how the criminal economy works? What actually motivates them? What specific methods do they use? And how do they interact with one another? If you...

Researchers Warn of Flaw Affecting Millions of IoT Devices

Researchers are urging connected-device manufacturers to ensure they have applied patches addressing a flaw in a module used by millions of Internet-of-Things IoT devices. If exploited, researchers speculated that the flaw could allow attackers to knock out a city’s electricity or even overdose a...

Using Disinformation to Cause a Blackout

Interesting paper: "How weaponizing disinformation can bring down a city's power grid": Abstract: Social media has made it possible to manipulate the masses via disinformation and fake news at an unprecedented scale. This is particularly alarming from a security perspective, as humans have proven...

The vulnerability of the Infrastructure component of the Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications Infrastructure software allows a perpetrator to carry out a cross-site scenario attack.

The vulnerability of Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications Infrastructure’s component is related to the lack of protective measures for the website structure. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow a malicious actor to perform a cross-site scenario attack remotely...

The vulnerability of the Infrastructure component of Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications Infrastructure allows a perpetrator to gain access to modify, add, or delete data, or to unauthorizedly access protected information.

The vulnerability of Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications Infrastructure’s component is related to the lack of measures taken to protect the website structure. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker operating remotely to modify, add, or delete data, or to gain...

Vulnerability of the Infrastructure component of the Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications Infrastructure software; unauthorized access to protected information; or ability to modify, add, or delete data.

The vulnerability of Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications Infrastructure’s component is related to insufficient validation of input data. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker operating remotely to gain unauthorized access to protected information or to modify, add, or...

The vulnerability of the Infrastructure component of the Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications Infrastructure software allows a perpetrator to gain unauthorized access to protected information.

The vulnerability of the Infrastructure component of the Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications Infrastructure software relates to insufficient validation of input data. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker operating remotely to gain unauthorized access to protected...

The vulnerability of the Infrastructure component of the Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications Infrastructure software allows a perpetrator to gain unauthorized access to protected information.

The vulnerability of Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications Infrastructure’s component is related to insufficient validation of input data. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker operating remotely to gain unauthorized access to protected information...