SIM Hijacking

SIM hijacking -- or SIM swapping -- is an attack where a fraudster contacts your cell phone provider and convinces them to switch your account to a phone that they control. Since your smartphone often serves as a security measure or backup verification system, this allows the fraudster to take ov...

Google to Nix Chrome Support for Third-Party Cookies by 2022

Google has set an aggressive two-year deadline for dropping support for third-party tracking cookies in its Chrome web browser. Tracking cookies, which allow advertisers to virtually follow people around the web, are used for ad targeting. The move follows a number of privacy hardening steps by...

OSIsoft PI Vision

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 7.1 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low skill level to exploit Vendor: OSIsoft LLC Equipment: PI Vision Vulnerabilities: Improper Access Control, Cross-site Request Forgery CSRF, Cross-site Scripting, Inclusion of Sensitive Information in Log Files 2. RISK EVALUATION...

Lawmakers Prod FCC to Act on SIM Swapping

Crooks have stolen tens of millions of dollars and other valuable commodities from thousands of consumers via "SIM swapping," a particularly invasive form of fraud that involves tricking a target's mobile carrier into transferring someone's wireless service to a device they control. But the U.S...

How to Secure Your Wi-Fi Router and Protect Your Home Network

Router security has improved a bunch in recent years, but there are still steps you can take to lock yours down even better...

How Organizations Can Defend Against Advanced Persistent Threats

Advanced persistent threats APTs have emerged to be legitimate concerns for all organizations. APTs are threat actors that breach networks and infrastructures and stealthily lurk within them over extended spans of time. They typically perform complex hacks that allow them to steal or destroy data...

CVE-2019-13750

Insufficient data validation in SQLite in Google Chrome prior to 79.0.3945.79 allowed a remote attacker to bypass defense-in-depth measures via a crafted HTML page...

Siemens EN100 Ethernet Module (Update A)

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 7.5 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low skill level to exploit Vendor: Siemens Equipment: EN100 Ethernet Module Vulnerabilities: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer, Cross-site Scripting, Relative Path Traversal 2. UPDATE...

HackerOne Breach Leads to $20,000 Bounty Reward

HackerOne has paid out $20,000 after a high-severity vulnerability was discovered in the bug-bounty platform. The flaw allowed an outside bounty hunter to access customers’ reports and other sensitive information. Disclosed this week in a HackerOne report, the security incident stemmed from a...

Symantec Messaging Gateway Multiple Issues

SUMMARY Symantec has released an update to address issues that were discovered in the Symantec Messaging Gateway SMG product. AFFECTED PRODUCTS Symantec Messaging Gateway SMG --- CVE | Affected Versions | Remediation CVE-2019-18377 CVE-2019-18378 CVE-2019-18379 | Prior to 10.7.3 | Upgrade to 10.7...

Symantec ICSP Unauthorized Access

SUMMARY Symantec has released an update to address an issue that was discovered in the Industrial Control System Protection ICSP product. AFFECTED PRODUCTS Industrial Control System Protection ICSP --- CVE | Affected Versions | Remediation CVE-2019-18380 | ICSP 6.x.x | Upgrade to ICSP 6.1.1.123...

NYPD Fingerprint Database Taken Offline to Thwart Ransomware

The New York Police Department’s database of fingerprints was knocked offline over the weekend thanks to a ransomware scare, according to reports. The malware was introduced to the network via a contractor who was installing a digital display, according to an article in the New York Post. To do t...

PoS Malware Exposes Customer Data of Catch Restaurants

Popular NYC restaurants Catch NYC, Catch Roof and Catch Steak discovered and removed malware on their point-of-sale PoS systems — but not before it exposed credit-card information from unknowing diners. Catch Hospitality Group, which owns the three NYC hotspots, said in a data-breach notice this...

Senators Demand Amazon Disclose Ring Privacy Policies

Five U.S. Senators are demanding that Amazon disclose how it’s securing Ring home-security device footage – and who is allowed to access that footage. The demands, outlined in a Wednesday letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, come on the heels of several security vulnerabilities and privacy-related...

utcle.org Cross Site Scripting vulnerability

Security Researcher g0bl1nsec Helped patch 3608 vulnerabilities Received 4 Coordinated Disclosure badges Received 3 recommendations , a holder of 4 badges for responsible and coordinated disclosure, found a security vulnerability affecting utcle.org website and its users. Following coordinated an...

Consumer Data Privacy Rights: Emerging Tech Blurs Lines

LAS VEGAS – From drones to facial recognition, new technology applications are introducing unique consumer privacy issues for civil society — and U.S. lawmakers and legal teams are struggling to keep up. Privacy is a fundamental human right for consumers, but new ways in which data is collected a...

Presentation Template: Build Your 2020 Security Plan

As the end of the year approaches, security decision makers are creating their 2020 plans and running them by management for approval. In most cases, this means requesting and making the case for the necessary resources that need to be allocated, while still providing value to the organization. T...

Insurance Pays Out a Sliver of Norsk Hydro's Cyberattack Damages

On the heels of a severe cyberattack, aluminum giant Norsk Hydro has received only $3.6 million in cyber-insurance – just a fraction of the total costs in damage. Overall, the Oslo, Norway-based company incurred between $60 million to $71 million in damages from the incident, which forced it to...

Tails 4.0 - Live System to Preserve Your Privacy and Anonymity

Tails is a live system that aims to preserve your privacy and anonymity. It helps you to use the Internet anonymously and circumvent censorship almost anywhere you go and on any computer but leaving no trace unless you ask it to explicitly. It is a complete operating system designed to be used fr...

Imgur: De-anonymization Attack: Cross Site Information Leakage

Dear Imgur Security Team, We are researchers at the IMDEA Software Institute in Madrid, Spain. We have been working on analyzing Cross-Site Browser Leaks xsleaks and building a tool for finding instances of it on target web sites. Recently we tested imgur.com and discovered a flaw that can affect...