PT-2018-13805

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Wisetail Learning Ecosystem LE versions through 4.11.6 Description The issue allows for insecure direct object reference IDOR attacks, enabling access to non-purchased course contents, such as quizzes or tests, by modifying the id parameter...

PT-2018-13804

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Wisetail Learning Ecosystem LE versions through 4.11.6 Description The issue allows for insecure direct object reference IDOR attacks, enabling the download of non-purchased course files. This is achieved by modifying the id parameter in a...

CVE-2018-16970: Insertion of Sensitive Information into Externally-Accessible File or Directory

Wisetail Learning Ecosystem LE through v4.11.6 allows insecure direct object reference IDOR attacks to download non-purchased course files via a modified id parameter...

Taking Stock: The Internet of Things, and Machine Learning Algorithms at War

It’s in the news every day; hackers targeting banks, hospitals, or, as we’ve come to fear the most, elections. Suffice to say then that cybersecurity has, in the last few years, gone from a relatively obscure industry – let's qualify that: not in the sense of importance, but rather how folks have...

Wallarm joins AI Leaders @ AI Summit

Wallarm joins a select group of AI startups and prominent technologists from Nvidia, Netflix, Microsoft and Amazon to participate in AI Summit on September 19–20 at San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts. AI Summit puts AI to work by delivering real value in the business. In just 3 years this...

Small businesses targeted by highly localized Ursnif campaign

Cyber thieves are continuously looking for new ways to get people to click on a bad link, open a malicious file, or install a poisoned update in order to steal valuable data. In the past, they cast as wide a net as possible to increase the pool of potential victims. But attacks that create a lot ...

Akamai India's StandTall Program

Diversity and Inclusion is a mission-critical goal at Akamai. In support of this goal, the India Learning and Development team in collaboration with the Women's Forum India employee resource group, launched an initiative that aims to foster a culture of...

Practical application of artificial intelligence that can transform cybersecurity

As I write this blog post, Im sitting by the beach on my computer in a sunny destination while my family plays in the water. Were on vacation, but we all have our own definition of fun. For me its writing blogs on the beachreally! The headspace is outstanding for uninterrupted thinking time and...

Partner Perspectives: Creating Your Own Threat Hunting Army

Idan Bellayev is the head of security research for empow. Cyber intelligence is one of the strongest tools that can be used to combat a potential attacker. Accessing the information needed to build cyber intelligence from a reliable source is typically difficult and very expensive - but it doesn’...

This Week in Security News: Facebook and Faxploits

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, Facebook removed 652 fake accounts originating from Russia and Iran. Also, Microsoft identified and removed fake internet domains that...

Security and Artificial Intelligence: Hype vs. Reality

While artificial intelligence and machine learning are far from new, many in security suddenly believe these technologies will transform their business and enable them to detect every cyber threat that comes their way. But instead, the hype may create more problems than it solves. Recently,...

AI and Machine Learning: Boosting Compliance and Preventing Spam

Some of the most advanced strategies in the current technology and analytics spaces include artificial intelligence and machine learning. These innovative approaches can hold nearly endless possibilities for technological applications: from the ability to eliminate manual work and enable software...

Subdomain Enumeration Tool: Amass

Amass is the subdomain enumeration tool with the greatest number of disparate data sources that performs analysis of the resolved names in order to deliver the largest number of quality results. Amass performs scraping of data sources, recursive brute forcing, crawling of web archives, permuting...

Defending Elections from Foreign Adversaries: Election Buster

Election Buster is an open source tool created in 2014 to identify malicious domains masquerading as candidate webpages and voter registration systems. During 2016, fake domains were used to compromise credentials of a Democratic National Committee DNC IT services company, and foreign adversaries...

James Mickens on the Current State of Computer Security

James Mickens gave an excellent keynote at the USENIX Security Conference last week, talking about the social aspects of security -- racism, sexism, etc. -- and the problems with machine learning and the Internet. Worth watching...

j-learning.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-665111 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| j-learning.com 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...

Identifying Programmers by their Coding Style

Fascinating research de-anonymizing code -- from either source code or compiled code: Rachel Greenstadt, an associate professor of computer science at Drexel University, and Aylin Caliskan, Greenstadt's former PhD student and now an assistant professor at George Washington University, have found...

learning-radiology.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-662335 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| learning-radiology.com 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...

Black Hat 2018: Voice Authentication is Broken, Researchers Say

LAS VEGAS – We live in a world increasingly dominated by voice-enabled smart digital assistants. More and more we rely on Amazon’s Alexa to tell us if we have any new messages. We ask Google Home smart speakers to remind us of calendar appointments. Some banks even allow users to use their voice ...

This Week in Security News: Hijacks and Healthcare

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, Singapore looks into the effectiveness of virtual browsers in an attempt to reduce cyberattacks on healthcare systems. Also, cybercriminals...