Technology to Out Sex Workers

Two related stories: PornHub is using machine learning algorithms to identify actors in different videos, so as to better index them. People are worried that it can really identify them, by linking their stage names to their real names. Facebook somehow managed to link a sex worker's clients unde...

learning-styles-online.com XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: https://www.learning-styles-online.com/include/message.php?message="'--!...

Security Industry Failing to Establish Trust

MADRID—In other industries, failure is embraced as a learning opportunity. In security, not so much. Instead, it’s too often an opportunity to victim-shame, a chance to mock a corporate giant such as Equifax which recently lost 145 million customer records and had a CISO—albeit with a lengthy IT...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: moodle-3.1.8-1.fc25

Moodle is a course management system CMS - a free, Open Source software package designed using sound pedagogical principles, to help educators crea te effective online learning communities...

Why ArtsSEC decided to partner with Wallarm

by Maximiliano Soler, @maxisoler by Maximiliano Soller, CTO of ArtsSEC The greatest thing with partnerships is how well the organisations’ expertise complement each other. Our partnership with Wallarm has incredibly exceeded our expectations in their innovation and expertise in web application...

X-Pack Alerting and Kibana 5.6.1 security update

X-Pack alerting privileged user multiple issues An error was found in the permission model used by X-Pack alerting whereby users mapped to certain built-in roles could create a watch that results in that user gaining elevated privileges. Affected Versions: 5.0.0 to 5.6.0 Solutions and Mitigations...

The New Email Security Technologies Powered by XGen™

Today we are excited to introduce new email security technologies powered by XGen™ and a new product, Smart Protection for Office 365. This new service combines the advantages of both an email gateway with an API service integrated solution to provide complete threat protection for Microsoft Offi...

Extreme Office 2017 suffers from a memory corruption vulnerability (CNVD-2017-31168)

Extreme Office is an independently controlled office learning software developed by Beijing Haiteng Times Technology Co. Extreme Writing 2017 can create, modify and edit doc, docx files. Extreme Writing in Extreme Office suffers from a memory corruption vulnerability when handling special docx...

Extreme Office 2017 suffers from a memory corruption vulnerability (CNVD-2017-31176)

Extreme Office is an independently controlled office learning software developed by Beijing Haiteng Times Technology Co. Extreme Writing 2017 can create, modify and edit doc, docx files. Extreme Writing in Extreme Office suffers from a memory corruption vulnerability when handling special doc...

Extreme Office 2017 suffers from a memory corruption vulnerability (CNVD-2017-31171)

Extreme Office is an independently controlled office learning software developed by Beijing Haiteng Times Technology Co. Extreme Forms 2017 can create, modify and edit xls, xlsx files. A memory corruption vulnerability exists in Extreme Forms in Extreme Office when handling special xls files. An...

Threatpost News Wrap, September 22, 2017

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook recap the news of the week and look back at the Equifax saga so far. They also discuss a Google HTTPS warnings paper, cryptocurrency mining at the Pirate Bay, and bringing machine learning to passwords. Download: ThreatpostNewsWrapSeptember222017.mp3 Show notes: Equifa...

Deep-Learning PassGAN Tool Improves Password Guessing

Artificial intelligence and deep learning are creeping into information security, and one of the early applications of those approaches has emerged and is focused on passwords. Researchers from the Stevens Institute of Technology and the New York Institute of Technology have recently published so...

Trend Micro Security’s Layered Protection, XGen™ Machine Learning, and Folder Shield Protect You Against Unknown Ransomware and Malware

On May 12 of 2017, the WannaCry ransomware struck across the globe, encrypting computers by exploiting a critical vulnerability in Windows, first discovered by the US National Security Agency. Among its first targets were the British National Health Service, Federal Express, and Telefonica, but...

Explained: False positives

What are false positives? False positive, which is sometimes written as f/p, is an expression commonly used in cybersecurity to denote that a file or setting has been flagged as malicious when it’s not. In statistics, false positives are called Type I errors, because they check for a particular...

An Established Solution for Mobile Threats

As much as smartphones and applications have evolved over the years, so has mobile malware. We’re seeing an increasing number of threats—from mobile ransomware and auto-clicking adware to dangerous backdoors that can compromise your privacy. And there are also legitimate personal applications tha...

Sensitive Data Access: Where Traditional UBA Solutions Fall Short – Whiteboard Wednesday [Video]

In today’s global information economy an ever-increasing amount of sensitive data is collected, used, exchanged, analyzed, and retained. And with that comes an ever-increasing number of accidental or intentional data breaches. Identifying inappropriate access to data is paramount in stopping a...

New Techniques in Fake Reviews

Research paper: "Automated Crowdturfing Attacks and Defenses in Online Review Systems." Abstract: Malicious crowdsourcing forums are gaining traction as sources of spreading misinformation online, but are limited by the costs of hiring and managing human workers. In this paper, we identify a new...

SQL injection vulnerability in Nlist.aspx and Mall_Teacher.aspx pages of Xinqi Online Learning System.

Xinqi Online Learning System is an online learning platform system that can make learning plans, realize supervision and monitoring, and assist learning. A SQL injection vulnerability exists in the Nlist.aspx and MallTeacher.aspx pages of Xinqi Online Learning System. An attacker can use this...

SQL Injection Vulnerability in Xinqi Online Learning System V6.2.1

Xinqi Online Learning System is an online learning platform system that can make learning plans, realize supervision and monitoring, and assist learning. SQL injection vulnerability exists in version V6.2.1 of Xinqi Online Learning System, which can be exploited by attackers to obtain sensitive...

Command Execution Vulnerability in Xinqi Online Learning System /ajax/GetForm.ashx Page

Online Learning System is an e-learning platform system developed in . A command execution vulnerability exists in the /ajax/GetForm.ashx page of Xinqi Online Learning System. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary SQL statements...