15 years prison for man who hired attackers to DDoS his ex-employer

By Waqas John Kelsey Gammell, a 46-year-old from New Mexico has been sentenced This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 15 years prison for man who hired attackers to DDoS his ex-employer...

RHEL 7 : Virtualization (RHSA-2018:1275)

An update for redhat-release-virtualization-host and redhat-virtualization-host is now available for Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: redhat-virtualization-host security update

An update for redhat-release-virtualization-host and redhat-virtualization-host is now available for Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base...

Bezop Cryptocurrency Server Spills 25K in Private Investor, Promoter Data

A leaky Mongo database exposed personal information, including scanned passports and driver’s licenses, of 25,000 investors and potential investors tied to the Bezop cryptocurrency, according to researchers. Kromtech Security said that it found the unprotected data on March 30, adding that it...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: glusterfs security update

An update for glusterfs is now available for Native Client for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 for Red Hat Storage and Red Hat Gluster Storage 3.3 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring...

Zero Trust and the Slowly Boiled Frog

Disclaimer: No actual frogs were harmed in the writing of the blog post. We wouldn't do that. We like frogs. What is Zero Trust Networking? The Zero Trust security model was proposed by John Kindervag of Forrester Research back in 2010. The concept is that the traditional trust model of "trust, b...

IBM Spectrum LSF Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

A vulnerability was identified within IBM Spectrum LSF which made it was possible to impersonate other users when submitting jobs for execution. Additionally, it was found to be possible to impersonate and execute jobs as root, even where root job submission is disabled. Versions affected include...

st-john-ce67.lancsngfl.ac.uk XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-582442 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| st-john-ce67.lancsngfl.ac.uk Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

Threat Analysis: Recent Attack Technique Attempts to Bypass Whitelisting by Leveraging MS Office Document Macros, MSBuild, Certutil

Carbon Black continues to monitor and track evolving techniques that attackers leverage. Over the last several years, there has been an increase in attackers leveraging open source frameworks and proof of concept POC techniques that are released publically by researchers. A document was recently...

john-adams.nl XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-570728 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| john-adams.nl Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

U.S. Arrests 13, Charges 36 in ‘Infraud’ Cybercrime Forum Bust

The U.S. Justice Department announced charges on Wednesday against three dozen individuals thought to be key members of 'Infraud," a long-running cybercrime forum that federal prosecutors say cost consumers more than a half billion dollars. In conjunction with the forum takedown, 13 alleged Infra...

BSides NYC, a volunteer organized event put on by and for the community

Another edition of BSides NYC has passed, and as first time attendee and presenter, I was genuinely impressed with the impeccable organization, the content shared, and the interesting conversations that took place among enthusiasts and professionals from all over the world. I've been a long time...

SNMP-Brute - Fast SNMP brute force, enumeration, CISCO config downloader and password cracking script

SNMP brute force, enumeration, CISCO config downloader and password cracking script. Listens for any responses to the brute force community strings, effectively minimising wait time. Requirements metasploit snmpwalk snmpstat john the ripper Usage python snmp-brute.py -t IP Options --help, -h show...

A Deep Learning Approach for Password Guessing: PassGAN

State-of-the-art password guessing tools, such as HashCat and John the Ripper JTR, enable users to check billions of passwords per second against password hashes. In addition to straightforward dictionary attacks, these tools can expand dictionaries using password generation rules. Although these...

John McAfee’ Twitter account hack: “Most likely my phone was compromised”

By Waqas The official Twitter account of security guru John McAfee was apparently This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: John McAfee Twitter account hack: Most likely my phone was compromised...

john-alexander.co.uk XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-440125 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| john-alexander.co.uk Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Remediation Guide:| OWASP XSS Prevention...

Motherboard Digital Security Guide

This digital security guide by Motherboard is very good. I put alongside EFF's "Surveillance Self-Defense" and John Scott-Railton's "Digital Security Low Hanging Fruit." There's also "Digital Security and Privacy for Human Rights Defenders." There are too many of these...

Hack of Attack-for-Hire Service vDOS Snares New Mexico Man

A New Mexico man is facing federal hacking charges for allegedly using the now defunct attack-for-hire service vDOS to launch damaging digital assaults aimed at knocking his former employer's Web site offline. Prosecutors were able to bring the case in part because vDOS got massively hacked last...

AlienVault : Puplic .htaccess/.htpasswd/.canvas files leads to password disclosure.

iam a big fan of fuzzing/bruteforcing after my last submission 288533 on http://data.alienvault.com, i decided to go further, after some bruteforcing i came across this directory which looked kinda interesting for me http://data.alienvault.com/snort/ when u try to access the directory you will ge...

john-west.co.uk XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-401423 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| john-west.co.uk Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Remediation Guide:| OWASP XSS Prevention Cheat...