Reporting from Vegas: Networking, AI, and good boys

Welcome to this week's edition of the Threat Source newsletter. Howdy friends, and hello from Cisco Live U.S., here in sunny and very hot Las Vegas! An interesting quirk of being sent to one of these events is you learn to understand your limits as a person. Cisco Live is a three-day event, and i...

CVE-2025-62193 NOAA PMEL Live Access Server (LAS) PyFerret command injection

Sites running NOAA PMEL Live Access Server LAS are vulnerable to remote code execution via specially crafted requests that include PyFerret expressions. By leveraging a SPAWN command, a remote, unauthenticated attacker can execute arbitrary OS commands. Fixed in a version of...

CVE-2025-62193

The CVE-2025-62193 entry describes a remote code execution vulnerability in NOAA PMEL Live Access Server (LAS). Affected component: LAS handling PyFerret expressions in requests, exploitable via a SPAWN command by an unauthenticated remote attacker to execute arbitrary OS commands. Impact per sou...

EUVD-2014-5455

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Selmer-Inspired Elliptic Curve Generation

Elliptic curve cryptography ECC is foundational to modern secure communication, yet existing standard curves have faced scrutiny for opaque parameter-generation practices. This work introduces a Selmer-inspired framework for constructing elliptic curves that is both transparent and auditable...

A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Cloud lead Spencer Gibb, live from SpringOne 2025

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we talk to the legendary lead of Spring Cloud and friend to the community, Spencer Gibb! This was recorded live from Las Vegas, NV, at the fantastic SpringOne 2025 event!...

Top Israeli Cybersecurity Official Arrested in US Child Exploitation Sting

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department announced the arrest of eight individuals, including a top Israeli official, in…...

Malicious code in @zalastax/nolb-_las (npm)

The package @zalastax/nolb-las was found to contain malicious code...

Ex-NSA Chief Paul Nakasone Has a Warning for the Tech World

At the Defcon security conference in Las Vegas on Friday, Nakasone tried to thread the needle in a politically fraught moment while hinting at major changes for the tech community around the corner...

This Week in Spring - June 17th, 2025

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We're in the middle of June already! And you know what that means? Warm weather, fun, and of course: the amazing SpringOne event in lovely Las Vegas, NV! The content catalog went live today! I'll be there doing, among other...

The Dark Nexus Between Harm Groups and ‘The Com’

A cyberattack that shut down two of the top casinos in Las Vegas last year quickly became one of the most riveting security stories of 2023. It was the first known case of native English-speaking hackers in the United States and Britain teaming up with ransomware gangs based in Russia. But that...

The top stories coming out of the Black Hat cybersecurity conference

Over the next two weeks, two of the largest cybersecurity conferences in the world will take place in Las Vegas: Black Hat and DEF CON. That means product announcements, buzzwords and stories about "X smart appliance could burn your house down!" or something like that. Over the next two weeks, Il...

Unlock the Future of Cybersecurity: Exclusive, Next Era AI Insights and Cutting-Edge Training at SANS Network Security 2024

The Immersive Experience Happening This September in Las Vegas! In an era of relentless cybersecurity threats and rapid technological advancement, staying ahead of the curve is not just a necessity, but critical. SANS Institute, the premier global authority in cybersecurity training, is thrilled ...

The vulnerability in the /libLAS/apps/ts2las.cpp component of the libLAS library, which is used for reading and writing geospatial data. This vulnerability allows a attacker to cause a service failure.

The vulnerability in the /libLAS/apps/ts2las.cpp component of the libLAS library for reading and writing geospatial data is related to memory release errors. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a service failure...

This Week in Spring - April 2nd, 2024

Welcome, welcome, welcome, to another installment of This Week in Spring! You know, we've come a long way since you and I last spoke. It's April already! A new month! How bizarre. And, with the dawning of a new month, we're also more than 25% through this year! I sure hope you're paying attention...

Fedora: Security Advisory for liblas (FEDORA-2024-ef8c8a8b37)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 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...

Fedora: Security Advisory (FEDORA-2024-0a0b1533f7)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 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...

[SECURITY] Fedora 40 Update: liblas-1.8.2-0.12.gitf1da555.fc40

libLAS is a C/C++ library for reading and writing the very common LAS LiDAR format. The ASPRS LAS format is a sequential binary format used to store data from LiDAR sensors and by LiDAR processing software for data interchange and archival...

ieslasamericas.es Improper Access Control vulnerability OBB-3822309

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

lasvegascolunga.com Improper Access Control vulnerability OBB-3803156

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...