Mobile Menace Monday: Implications of Google Play Protect

Along with the recent release of Google’s new OS, Android 8.0 Oreo, they also released a new security suite known as Google Play Protect. As blogged about in July in Play Protect: Android’s new security system is now available, this new suite has been available since mid-May. To reiterate As note...

Design flaws in the ajax/Common_Ajax.ashx page of the new startup e-learning system

Online Learning System is an e-learning platform system developed in . A design vulnerability exists in the ajax/CommonAjax.ashx page of Xinqi Online Learning System. The vulnerability exists in ajax/CommonAjax.ashx, which can be exploited by an attacker to construct a specific URL and disclose...

BlackBoard LMS 9.1.140152.0 XSS / File Upload

Document Title: =============== BlackBoard LMS 9.1 9.1.140152.0 Stored XSS/Arbitrary File Upload Product Description: =============== The Learning Management System has changed the way students and educators interact. Blackboard's LMS solutions offer much more than simple, classroom interaction,...

Coalfire’s Adaptive Penetration Testing at Black Hat Helped Prepare Tomorrow’s Security Talent

What makes a penetration tester highly successful? Most obviously, the technical skills to hack into a network, application, or location comes to mind first, and without those capabilities and the ability to continuously learn, an aspiring pen tester has a tough road ahead of them...

What’s new in Gartner WAF Magic Quadrant 2017?

To tell the truth, I was not much interested in Web Application Firewall market since the time when I was doing competitive analysis in Positive Technologies. And a few days ago Gartner published a fresh WAF research with interesting Magic Quadrants. I decided to figure out what's new there. Here...

Amazon Macie and Deep Security

Amazon S3 stores trillions of objects and regularly peaks at millions of requests per second. By any metric, it’s massive. With unparalleled durability and availability, it’s the backbone of AWS’ data services. This morning at the AWS Summit in New York City, AWS launched a new service: Amazon...

Confusing Self-Driving Cars by Altering Road Signs

Researchers found that they could confuse the road sign detection algorithms of self-driving cars by adding stickers to the signs on the road. They could, for example, cause a car to think that a stop sign is a 45 mph speed limit sign. The changes are subtle, though -- look at the photo from the...

Logic Design Vulnerability in ECS Online Learning System v3.1.0

E-learning Online Learning System is an online learning platform system developed with thinkphp+bootstrap as the framework. E-learning system v3.1.0 has a logical design vulnerability that can be exploited by attackers to reset any user's password and obtain sensitive user information...

Artificial Inteligent Packet Inspection Engine: AIEngine

AIEngine is a next generation interactive/programmable Python/Ruby/Java packet inspection engine with capabilities of learning without any human intervention, NIDS Network Intrusion Detection System functionality, DNS domain classification, network collector, network forensics and many others...

Security Analysis with SonarQube Plugin

SonarQube Figure 1: The SonarQube dashboard lists security vulnerabilities detected by RIPS code analysis. Global organizations use SonarQube to concentrate different quality analysis tools in one place for easy management, maintenance, and learning potential of findings. Seasoned developers are...

Windows Defender ATP machine learning: Detecting new and unusual breach activity

Microsoft has been investing heavily in next-generation security technologies. These technologies use our ability to consolidate large sets of data and build intelligent systems that learn from that data. These machine learning ML systems flag and surface threats that would otherwise remain...

Black Hat USA 2017 Recap

What do you get when you put hackers, gambling, and dogs together? Black Hat USA 2017 …and a random zoo conference happening next door. Last week, we wrapped up another successful trip to Las Vegas for Black Hat. For those of you who couldn’t make it or had too much Vegas fun and need a reminder ...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: moodle-3.1.7-1.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...

[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: moodle-3.1.7-1.fc24

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...

[SECURITY] Fedora 26 Update: moodle-3.2.4-1.fc26

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...

Clustering and Dimensionality Reduction: Understanding the “Magic” Behind Machine Learning

These days we hear about machine learning and artificial intelligence AI in all aspects of life. We see machines that learn and imitate the human brain in order to automate human processes. There are autonomous cars that learn the road conditions to drive, personal assistants we can converse with...

perfectionlearning.com XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: https://www.perfectionlearning.com/catalogsearch/result//?q= Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| No Latest check for patch:| 29.10.2017 Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:| Publicly disclosed Alexa Rank| 353241 VIP website status:| No Check...

“The 101” – Episode 3 – How Do Different Types of Antivirus Work?

We’re back with another episode of The 101! This weekly security series aims to define endpoint security one question at a time. Tune in each week as we tackle a new term, concept, or comparison in our ongoing effort to cut through the noise and provide clear definitions. For the past few decades...

Academia's Role in Security Skills Gap Examined

LAS VEGAS—For a long time, there’s been a chorus from employers about the lacked of skilled security professionals to fill available openings. And while it would not be an illogical leap to think universities are adequately preparing tomorrow’s security admins and CISOs, quite the opposite may be...

Play Protect: Android’s new security system is now available

Play Protect, a security suite for Android devices, was originally introduced in mid-May of this year during the Google I/O conference. And in just a couple of months, the tech giant has made it available for all their mobile users. Play Protect is the amalgamation of Google’s Android security...