CVE-2018-2692

Vulnerability in the Oracle Financial Services Asset Liability Management component of Oracle Financial Services Applications subcomponent: User Interface. Supported versions that are affected are 6.1.x and 8.0.x. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network acces...

CVE-2018-2723

CVE-2018-2723 affects Oracle Financial Services Asset Liability Management within Oracle Financial Services Applications (User Interface). Affected are versions 6.1.x and 8.0.x. The flaw allows a low-privilege, network-access attacker (HTTP) to compromise the OLAP AMS UI and cause unauthorized cr...

November 13, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Eric O’ Neill” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! November 13, 2017 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Why we need to stop...

Crowdsourced fraud and kickstarted scams

Crowdsourced funding opportunities via Kickstarter, Patreon, and GoFundMe have removed many structural roadblocks for people to access capital quickly and conveniently. But they’ve also lowered the barrier to entry for many very old scams. So how do you tell the difference between a great cause o...

B&B Theatres Hit in 2-Year Credit Card Breach

B&B Theatres, a company that owns and operates the 7th-largest theater chain in America, says it is investigating a breach of its credit card systems. The acknowledgment comes just days after KrebsOnSecurity reached out to the company for comment on reports from financial industry sources who sai...

Dan Geer: Cybersecurity, Humanity's Future "Conjoined"

Given the intertwinement of technology with communication, politics, economies and overall human progress, it seems to go hand-in-hand that cybersecurity must be elevated in parallel. Dan Geer, considered atop the food chain of security thinkers, said during last week’s Source Boston conference...

Vendetta Brothers, Inc. – A Window Into the Business of the Cybercriminal Underground

FireEye iSIGHT Intelligence has been tracking a pair of cybercriminals that we refer to as the “Vendetta Brothers.” This enterprising duo uses various strategies to compromise point-of-sale systems, steal payment card information and sell it on their underground marketplace “Vendetta World.” The...

Connected Cars' Cybersecurity Falls Short

As automakers rush to market connected cars to feed drivers hungry for collision avoidance systems and self-parking features, security experts are urging the industry to pump its brakes and prioritize the their cars’ cyber defenses. In a report released Tuesday by IDC and the security firm...

'Software Liability Is Inevitable'

LAS VEGAS–The push for some form of liability for vendors who sell faulty or insecure software is nearly as old as software itself. Software makers have pushed back hard against it for decades, but the day may soon come when software liability is a reality. Bugs, defects, and security...

D.C.'s Complicated View of Cyberwar, Regulation, Liability

MINNEAPOLIS – Lawmakers and politicians trying to equate cyberwar with a kinetic battle are misguided in putting the two on equal footing, said former National Security Agency general counsel Stewart A. Baker today in his keynote at the Cyber Security Summit. “Cyberweapons are not like nuclear...

DrayTek VigorACS SI 1.3.0 - Multiple Vulnerabilities

DrayTek VigorACS SI 1.3.0 - Multiple Vulnerabilities DrayTek VigorACS SI /ACSServer/ We found that most of the VigorACS SI deployments are using the default http authentication settings acs/password. This is not so much a software vulnerability but more a configuration issue. 2.2 Unauthenticated...

Community Health Systems APT Data Breach Medical Espionage

At first blush, the Community Health Systems data breach by Chinese hackers seems to be an anomaly. State-sponsored attackers generally target intellectual property for the purposes of military or economic gain; stealing healthcare credentials and personal patient records seems incongruous. But...

Expert Warns of Chip-and-PIN Pitfalls

LAS VEGAS – The inevitable changeover from magnetic strip-based payment cards to EMV, or chip-and-PIN, is coming for consumers and merchants in the United States. And coming along with it are a raft of weaknesses and real-world attacks that shoot holes in the presumption that EMV will remedy cred...

Wendy Nather on the Black Hat Buzz

Dennis Fisher talks with Wendy Nather of 451 Research about the happenings on day one of Black Hat, the possibility of the US government disrupting the vulnerability market and software liability.​ Download: Wendy-Nather-on-the-Black-Hat-Buzz.mp3...

Dan Geer: Security at the Forefront of Policy Decisions

LAS VEGAS – Dan Geer carried his version of computer security’s Ten Commandments to a rapt Black Hat 2014 audience today, offering up 10 personal recommendations and observations related to the current state of security in the context of government surveillance and eroding privacy. Adorned in...

Chip and PIN EMV Protocol security vulnerabilities found

Chip-and-PIN payment cards are coming to the United States after a long head start as a standard card-present payment method in Europe and Asia. Already, retailer Target accelerated its plan to move its branded debit and credit cards to chip-and-PIN, also known as EMV Europay, MasterCard and Visa...

SonicWALL GMSVIEWPOINT 6.x Analyzer 7.x - Remote Command Execution

SonicWALL GMSVIEWPOINT 6.x Analyzer 7.x - Remote Command Execution !/usr/bin/perl Title: SonicWALL GMS/VIEWPOINT 6.x Analyzer 7.x Remote Root/SYSTEM exploit Name: sgmsRCE.pl Author: Nikolas Sotiriu lofi Use it only for education or ethical pentesting! The author accepts no liability for damage...

Appeals Court Calls Bank's Security "Commercially Unreasonable"

The United States Court of Appeals on Tuesday reversed a lower court’s decision, ruling that the IT security system used by a domestic bank was not “commercially reasonable” to protect its customers. The ruling PDF, in the case of People’s United Bank formerly Ocean Bank of Maine versus Patco...

Visa, MasterCard Warn Of Breach At Card Processor

UPDATE–MasterCard and Visa have confirmed that they are investigating a potentially huge data breach at one of the companies’ payment processors, which the Wall Street Journal has identified as Global Payments Inc. The credit card giants are alerting banks about a breach at a U.S. based card...

Twitter, As secondary publisher could be sued for an illegal tweet

Twitter, As secondary publisher could be sued for an illegal tweet If a Twitter user posts an illegal tweet, they could get sued, but Twitter could be sued itself as a secondary publisher according to Zack Whittaker. Legal analysis site Out-Law published a very interesting, theoretical piece, whi...