Arithmetic Error - manualRebalance function has multiple arithmetic bugs

Handle tabish Vulnerability details In short there are 2 errors in manualRebalance function : a ratio currentLockRatio has been compared to balance newLockRatio and at another point in the same function subtracted . 1 Expanding on the first one - checking newLockRatio Solution: Instead the if...

Security implications of misconfigurations

By Jaeson Schultz. When defenders regularly monitor their organization's Domain Name System DNS queries, they can often snuff out potential attacks before they happen. At the very least, it's important to identify and fix configuration mistakes that could lead to nasty security breaches. ... This...

How Does One Get Hired by a Top Cybercrime Gang?

The U.S. Department of Justice DOJ last week announced the arrest of a 55-year-old Latvian woman whos alleged to have worked as a programmer for Trickbot, a malware-as-a-service platform responsible for infecting millions of computers and seeding many of those systems with ransomware. Just how di...

Apple’s M1 Chip Has a Fascinating Flaw

The covert channel bug is harmless, but it demonstrates that even new CPUs have mistakes in them...

15 Cybersecurity Pitfalls and Fixes for SMBs

Small- to medium-sized businesses SMBs, those with 100 employees or less, are more vulnerable than ever to catastrophic cybersecurity breaches and attacks. The good news is that there are many things they can do, with extraordinarily little added investment, that will help IT managers lock down...

WeLeakInfo Leaked Customer Payment Info

A little over a year ago, the FBI and law enforcement partners overseas seized WeLeakInfo.com, a wildly popular service that sold access to more than 12 billion usernames and passwords stolen from thousands of hacked websites. In an ironic turn of events, a lapsed domain registration tied to...

Mistakes were Made, Lessons were Learned

Mark Nunnikhoven, AWS Community Hero and Trend Micro Vice President of Cloud Research, explores how to leverage the AWS Well Architected Framework, and six core design principles to build in the AWS cloud with confidence...

Facebook Small Business Grants Spark Identity-Theft Scam

Cybercriminals are exploiting a $100 million Facebook grant program designed for small businesses impacted by the pandemic, to phish personal information and take over Facebook accounts. The perpetrators are trying to dupe people into thinking that the social network is handing out free money to...

InfiniteWP Client < 1.9.4.5 - Authentication Bypass

As per agreement between the researcher and developer, details will be released on January 14th. PoC It is possible to login as any administrator on the site due to logical mistakes in the code. The issue resides in the function iwpmmbsetrequest which is located in the init.php file. This checks ...

Backup and Staging by WP Time Capsule < 1.21.16 - Authentication Bypass

It is possible to login as an administrator on the site due to logical mistakes in the code. PoC The issue resides in wptc-cron-functions.php line 12 where it parses the request. This parserequest function calls the function decodeserverrequestwptc which check if the raw POST payload contains a...

Identifying and Arresting Ransomware Criminals

The Wall Street Journal has a story about how two people were identified as the perpetrators of a ransomware scheme. They were found because -- as generally happens -- they made mistakes covering their tracks. They were investigated because they had the bad luck of locking up Washington, DC's vid...

10 Typical Mistakes in Scientific Research Paper Writing

By Owais Sultan To help you to improve the quality of your scientific research paper writing, we’ve compiled a list of ten typical mistakes found in scientific research paper writing. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 10 Typical Mistakes in Scientific Research Paper Writing...

Top 5 Configuration Mistakes That Create Field Days for Hackers

Sometimes it’s the little things that lead to big consequences. When it comes to cybersecurity, hacks more often than not stem from minor missteps – or even completely preventable, obvious mistakes. Common security mistakes and overlooked misconfigurations can open the door for attackers to drop...

5 Privacy Mistakes that Leave You Vulnerable Online

By John Mason When news broke about Cambridge Analytica, the Internet went into a frenzy: “How could Facebook do this!” “Facebook should be made accountable!” Besides the fact that I think the whole Cambridge Analytica issue was blown out of proportion, I believe bigger issue is the fact that ver...

FreeBSD -- ipsec crash or denial of service

Problem Description: The length field of the option header does not count the size of the option header itself. This causes a problem when the length is zero, the count is then incremented by zero, which causes an infinite loop. In addition there are pointer/offset mistakes in the handling of IPv...

StaCoAn - Crossplatform tool which aids developers, bugbounty hunters and ethical hackers performing static code analysis on mobile applications

StaCoAn is a crossplatform tool which aids developers, bugbounty hunters and ethical hackers performing static code analysis on mobile applications. This tool will look for interesting lines in the code which can contain: Hardcoded credentials API keys URL's of API's Decryption keys Major coding...

Open Source Static Code Analyser: StaCoAn

StaCoAn is a crossplatform tool which aids developers, bugbounty hunters and ethical hackers performing static code analysis on mobile applications. This tool will look for interesting lines in the code which can contain: Hardcoded credentials API keys URL’s of API’s Decryption keys Major coding...

Someone Failed to Contain WannaCry

Coding and implementation mistakes made by the WannaCry developers may have spared a good chunk of the world some grief on May 12, but they also lend credence to the theory that the ransomware wasn’t contained properly and spread before it was meant to be unleashed. Malware expert Jake Williams,...

The WannaCry Ransomware Hackers Made Some Real Amateur Mistakes

Researchers say the worst ransomware epidemic ever is also poorly run, shoddily coded, and barely profitable. The post The WannaCry Ransomware Hackers Made Some Real Amateur Mistakes appeared first on WIRED...

Misissued certificates

Security Misissued certificates Share October 29th, 2015 Recently, Google found a google.com pre-certificate in a CT log, without having ordered one. This lead to a series of incidents, also involving Opera and its security team. The backstory Google promptly contacted Symantec who had issued the...