5G Security Challenges: A Vendor's POV

How are vendors preparing themselves for the onslaught of 5G networks from a security standpoint? When it comes to 5G there are a slew of use cases being utilized at the bleeding edge – from smart factories to IoT – but these are also opening up security risks. At the GSMA Mobile 360 Security for...

Best Cyber Security Certifications 2019

By Owais Sultan Today, Cyber security is one of the fastest growing industry. The increasing numbers of the data breaches and cyber attacks have likewise increased the need for cyber security professionals to take defensive measures against these threats. Organizations are spending more and more ...

Hurricane-Related Scams

As the 2019 hurricane season approaches, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA warns users to remain vigilant for malicious cyber activity targeting disaster victims and potential donors. Fraudulent emails commonly appear after major natural disasters and often contain links o...

Should Failing Phish Tests Be a Fireable Offense?

Would your average Internet user be any more vigilant against phishing scams if he or she faced the real possibility of losing their job after falling for one too many of these emails? Recently, I met someone at a conference who said his employer had in fact terminated employees for such repeated...

HCL Exposes Customer, Personnel Info in Wide-Ranging Data Leak

IT services provider HCL Technologies has inadvertently exposed passwords, sensitive project reports and other private data of thousands of customers and internal employees on various public HCL subdomains. HCL, an $8 billion conglomerate with more than 100,000 employees, specializes in...

4 Common Misconceptions About Threat Hunting

Editor’s Note: Sam Bocetta, a guest author on the Carbon Black blog, is a freelance journalist specializing in U.S. diplomacy and national security, with emphases on technology trends in cyber warfare, cyber defense, and cryptography. Looking for cyber threats isn't new, but threat hunting as a...

4 lessons to be learned from the DOE’s DDoS attack

Analysts, researchers, industry professionals, and pundits alike have all posited the dangers of the next-generation “smart grid,” particularly when it comes to cybersecurity. They warn that without the right measures in place, unscrupulous parties could essentially wreak havoc on the bulk of...

Privilege Escalation

Keycloak is vulnerable to privilege escalation vulnerability. This is due to an improper implementation of the Brute Force detection algorithm as it does not enforce its protection measures. An attacker can exploit this issue to bypass certain security restrictions and aid in brute-force attacks...

Telenor.com.pk SMS 2-Factor Bypass

Title: Telenor.com.pk Connect Account SMS PIN Redirection Author: Muhammad Shahbaz LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mr-muhammad-shahbaz/ Found: 2019-04-01 Attack Pattern: Telenor.com.pk Connect Account has a fundamental design flaw where the client can send a random telenor phone number...

Siemens LOGO! 8 BM (Update A)

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 9.4 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low skill level to exploit Vendor: Siemens Equipment: LOGO! 8 BM Vulnerabilities: Missing Authentication for Critical Function, Improper Handling of Extra Values, Plaintext Storage of a Password 2. UPDATE INFORMATION This updated...

Twitter Leaks Apple iOS Users' Location Data to Ad Partner

Twitter has disclosed a security bug in its platform that it said inadvertently leaked iOS users’ location data. The Twitter for iOS bug leaked location data at the ZIP code or city level, according to the social media company’s announcement on Monday. Twitter stressed that it has fixed the bug,...

Travel Booking < 2.7.8.4 - Reflected & Stored XSS

Weak security measures like no input & textarea fields data filtering has been discovered in the 'Traveler - Travel Booking WordPress Theme'. Special Notes: 1 - 'Change Avatar' upload field works really strange. F.e., u can upload any .PHP file with extension .php.png and break profile page Serve...

Symantec AV Engine Arbitrary File Deletion

SUMMARY Symantec has released an update to address an issue that was discovered in the Symantec AV Engine. AFFECTED PRODUCTS Symantec AV Engine For Mac Endpoints Only --- CVE | Affected Versions | Remediation CVE-2019-9698 | Prior to 13.0.9r17 | Upgrade to 13.0.9r17 via LiveUpdateTM ISSUES...

The vulnerability of the Azure DevOps Server software development tools’ setup exists due to the lack of measures taken to neutralize specific elements. This vulnerability allows attackers to compromise the confidentiality and integrity of the protected information.

The vulnerability of the Azure DevOps Server software development tools exists due to the lack of measures taken to neutralize specific elements. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to compromise the confidentiality and integrity of protected information through a specially...

iSCSI unauthorized access vulnerability, tens of thousands of iSCSI are likely to be affected-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! Overview iSCSI Internet Small Computer System Interface Internet small computer system interface, also known as IP-SAN, is an Internet-based and SCSI-3 protocols storage technology, by the IETF, proposed, and 2003 2 May 11, became the official standard. 2019 4 December 17, white cap sinks a...

Why Asset Management is so important for Vulnerability Management and Infrastructure Security?

When people ask me how should they start building Vulnerability Management process in their organization well, sometimes it happens, I advice them to create an effective Asset Management process first. Because it's the foundation of the whole Infrastructure Security. The term "Asset Management" h...

Carbon Black Report Finds Tax Fraud & “Identity Theft On Demand” Continuing to Take Shape on the Dark Web

While online sales of identity and banking information have both been easily accessible to malicious actors for a decade or more, there has been a recent maturation in the dark web economy focused on tax identity theft. Carbon Black’s recent research into various marketplaces on the dark web foun...

Microsoft Windows Contact File Format Arbitary Code Execution

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework require 'fileutils' require 'rex/zip' class MetasploitModule 'Microsoft Windows Contact File Format Arbitary Code Execution', 'Description' = %q This vulnerability allow...

CVE-2018-12551

When Eclipse Mosquitto version 1.0 to 1.5.5 inclusive is configured to use a password file for authentication, any malformed data in the password file will be treated as valid. This typically means that the malformed data becomes a username and no password. If this occurs, clients can circumvent...

FEMA Exposes PII for Millions of Hurricane, Wildfire Survivors

The Federal Emergency Management Agency exposed the personal identifiable information of 2.3 million survivors of hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria and the California wildfires in 2017, by oversharing survivor data with a contractor when it wasn’t necessary. Worse, the contractor’s networks has...