U.S. Govt. Makes it Harder to Get .Gov Domains

The federal agency in charge of issuing .gov domain names is enacting new requirements for validating the identity of people requesting them. The additional measures come less than four months after KrebsOnSecurity published research suggesting it was relatively easy for just about anyone to get...

Nextdoor neighborhood app sends letters on its users’ behalf

Dutch police departments and consumer organizations issued warnings about the use of the Nextdoor neighborhood app because people received letters yes, as in snail-mail pretending to come from someone in their neighborhood, which the alleged senders did not send or deliver. So, everyone figured...

CVE-2019-10913: Reject invalid HTTP method overrides

Affected versions Symfony 2.7.0 to 2.7.50, 2.8.0 to 2.8.49, 3.4.0 to 3.4.25, 4.1.0 to 4.1.11 and 4.2.0 to 4.2.6 versions of the Symfony HttpFoundation component are affected by this security issue. The issue has been fixed in Symfony 2.7.51, 2.8.50, 3.4.26, 4.1.12 and 4.2.7. Note that no fixes ar...

CVE-2018-4277: a“pie”triggered spoofing-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Researchers looking for the browser front-end security issues found in Chrome, Safari, Firefox and other browsers there is a security vulnerability. This article describes Apple products Alphabet d-shaped problems caused by domain spoofing problem. U+A771 The researchers found that Apple products...

gertrudebell.ncl.ac.uk XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-681321 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| gertrudebell.ncl.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...

Microsoft Windows: LAPS: Password Settings: Password Complexity

This test checks the setting for policy OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: winlapspasswdcomplexity.nasl 11337 2018-09-11 14:23:53Z emoss $ Check value for Password Settings: Password Complexity Authors: Emanuel Moss Copyright: Copyright c 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This...

A week in security (April 02 – April 08)

Last week, we took a look at fake Whatsapp antics, dubious gaming extensions, and a huge Panera bread breach. There was also LockCrypt ransomware to contend with, we had a poke around Linkedin, and we published another Physician, protect thyself blog. Other news Compromised cash register systems...

Look-Alike Domains and Visual Confusion

How good are you at telling the difference between domain names you know and trust and impostor or look-alike domains? The answer may depend on how familiar you are with the nuances of internationalized domain names IDNs, as well as which browser or Web application you're using. For example, how...

Nested groups with uppercase letters cannot be removed from Confluence, after having been synced initially

h3. Summary Nested groups with uppercase letters cannot be removed from Confluence, after having been synced initially. If you synchronize nested groups with upper case letters into Confluence from Crowd / LDAP, and then update the external directory to remove the child groups, the groups will no...

Nested groups with uppercase letters cannot be removed from Confluence, after having been synced initially

h3. Summary Nested groups with uppercase letters cannot be removed from Confluence, after having been synced initially. If you synchronize nested groups with upper case letters into Confluence from Crowd / LDAP, and then update the external directory to remove the child groups, the groups will no...

CVE-2017-16956

b3log Symphony aka Sym 2.2.0 allows an XSS attack by sending a private letter with a certain /article URI, and a second private letter with a modified title...

Cross site scripting

b3log Symphony aka Sym 2.2.0 allows an XSS attack by sending a private letter with a certain /article URI, and a second private letter with a modified title...

How to hide drive letters with Windows registry

This article explains how to hide drive letters using registry key...

LNK Code Execution Vulnerability

This module exploits a vulnerability in the handling of Windows Shortcut files .LNK that contain a dynamic icon, loaded from a malicious DLL. This vulnerability is a variant of MS15-020 CVE-2015-0096. The created LNK file is similar except an additional SpecialFolderDataBlock is included. The...

Google Discloses Contents of Eight National Security Letters

Google on Tuesday disclosed the contents of eight National Security Letters it received between 2010 and 2015, becoming the latest company under reforms afforded by the USA Freedom Act to do so. The requests made by United States Federal Bureau of Investigation were made to Google to identify 21...

Yahoo Discloses Contents of Three National Security Letters

Yahoo today disclosed the contents of three National Security Letters it has received since 2013, the first time a company has made such a disclosure since the passage of the USA FREEDOM Act. Under the law, the FBI is now required to periodically review whether non-disclosure around National...

Open-Letters 1.0.5 RCE

Remote command execution vulnerability in Open-Letters 1.0.5 ajaxcreatefolder.php Vulnerability Type: Remote Command Execution For the exploit source code contact DSquare Security sales team...

Reddit Removes NSL Warrant Canary from Transparency Report

Reddit’s latest transparency report is missing a nugget of information that was present in a previous report. Last year’s report included a warrant canary which stated that as of Jan. 29, 2015, Reddit had never received a National Security Letter, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court order or...

Preschool ABC Numbers Letters - External URLs vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Preschool ABC Numbers Letters published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Kids Preschool Learn Letters - Customized SSL, MIT license, WebView code execution vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Kids Preschool Learn Letters published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...