Adrian Lamo, ‘Homeless Hacker’ Who Turned in Chelsea Manning, Dead at 37

Adrian Lamo, the hacker probably best known for breaking into The New York Times's network and for reporting Chelsea Manning's theft of classified documents to the FBI, was found dead in a Kansas apartment on Wednesday. Lamo was widely reviled and criticized for turning in Manning, but that chapt...

Artificial Intelligence and the Attack/Defense Balance

Artificial intelligence technologies have the potential to upend the longstanding advantage that attack has over defense on the Internet. This has to do with the relative strengths and weaknesses of people and computers, how those all interplay in Internet security, and where AI technologies migh...

Smart DNS Resolution for a Better Safer Internet

By Arlen Frew Top-level Domain TLD operators are focused on making the Internet a better and safer place, enabling name registrations, and maintaining the DNS namespace in support of their stakeholders. The entire Internet ecosystem, including TLDs, is always looking for ways to improve security...

ABB netCADOPS Web Application

CVSS v3 5.8 ATTENTION: Remotely exploitable/low skill level to exploit. Vendor: ABB Equipment: netCADOPS Web Application Vulnerability: Information Exposure AFFECTED PRODUCTS The following versions of netCADOPS Web Application, a web interface, are affected: netCADOPS Web Application Version 3.4...

DNS: Exfiltration vs. Tunneling

The Internet was designed to share data, but sometimes the paths that enable it are blocked. When it comes to bad actors - that's a good thing. Most companies today have a Data Loss Prevention DLP policy to accompany their web proxies and firewalls. Some of them think this is the best way to stop...

Drive-by cryptomining campaign targets millions of Android users

Malvertising and online fraud through forced redirects and Trojanized apps—to cite the two most common examples—are increasingly plaguing Android users. In many cases, this is made worse by the fact that people often don't use web filtering or security applications on their mobile devices. A...

Safer Internet Day 2018: ad blockers and anti-trackers

The path to a safer Internet can be a bit of a quandary. What programs should you buy? How long should your passwords be? Is it okay to write them down? What makes a website secure? All of these questions can merit their own lengthy essays, so today, on Safer Internet Day, we’re going to look at...

Israeli Scientists Accidentally Reveal Classified Information

According to this story non-paywall English version here, Israeli scientists released some information to the public they shouldn't have. Defense establishment officials are now trying to erase any trace of the secret information from the web, but they have run into difficulties because the...

Design/Logic Flaw

In Center for Internet Security CIS-CAT Pro Dashboard before 1.0.4, an authenticated user is able to change an administrative user's e-mail address and send a forgot password email to themselves, thereby gaining administrative access...

Kingsoft Antivirus / Internet Security 9+ Privilege Escalation

''' Vulnerability Summary The following advisory describes a kernel stack buffer overflow that leads to privilege escalation found in Kingsoft Antivirus/Internet Security 9+. Kingsoft Antivirus aprovides effective and efficient protection solution at no cost to users. It applies cloud security...

Kingsoft AntivirusInternet Security 9+ - Local Privilege Escalation

Kingsoft AntivirusInternet Security 9+ - Local Privilege Escalation """ Kingsoft Antivirus/Internet Security 9+ Kernel Stack Buffer Overflow Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Anti-Virus: http://www.kingsoft.co/downloads/kav/KAV100720ENUDOWN33102010.rar Internet Security:...

Kingsoft Antivirus/Internet Security 9+ - Local Privilege Escalation

""" Kingsoft Antivirus/Internet Security 9+ Kernel Stack Buffer Overflow Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Anti-Virus: http://www.kingsoft.co/downloads/kav/KAV100720ENUDOWN33102010.rar Internet Security: http://www.kingsoft.co/downloads/kis/kis.rar Summary: ======== This vulnerability allows loc...

Kingsoft Antivirus/Internet Security 9+ Privilege Escalation

Vulnerability Summary The following advisory describes a kernel stack buffer overflow that leads to privilege escalation found in Kingsoft Antivirus/Internet Security 9+. Kingsoft Antivirus “provides effective and efficient protection solution at no cost to users. It applies cloud security...

CVE-2017-17408

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Bitdefender Internet Security 2018. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists with...

CVE-2017-17409

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Bitdefender Internet Security 2018. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists with...

CVE-2017-17410

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Bitdefender Internet Security 2018. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists with...

CVE-2017-17408

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Bitdefender Internet Security 2018. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists with...

CVE-2017-17410

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Bitdefender Internet Security 2018. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists with...

CVE-2017-17408

Bitdefender Internet Security (2018) contains an integer overflow in cevakrnl.xmd that fails to validate user-supplied data, enabling remote code execution with SYSTEM privileges after a user visits a malicious page or opens a malicious file. The issue has been disclosed in ZDI-CAN-5101 (ZDI-17-9...

CVE-2017-17408

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Bitdefender Internet Security 2018. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists with...