SAS 2019: Fake News Peddlers Adopt Clever New Trick to Fool Facebook, Twitter

Fake news peddlers have devised a cunning new way to stump Facebook, Twitter and others cracking down on lies and half-truths spreading on social media. Instead of linking to fake news, bad actors are now linking to posts promoting older news articles that may no longer be accurate – but won’t be...

PT-2019-2071 · Mcafee · Mcafee Tie Server +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: McAfee DXL Platform versions prior to 5.0.1 HF2 McAfee TIE Server versions prior to 2.3.1 HF1 Description: The issue is related to a lack of protection for service data, which can be exploited to gain read access to confidential information i...

KinagaCMS vulnerable to cross-site scripting

Overview KinagaCMS is an opensource Contents Management System CMS. KinagaCMS uses the old version of Bootstrap thus inherits multiple cross-site scripting vulnerabilities CWE-79: CVE-2018-14040, CVE-2018-14041, CVE-2019-8331 existed in Bootstrap. Project Kinaga reported this vulnerability to IPA...

Cisco Talos Honeypot Analysis Reveals Rise in Attacks on Elasticsearch Clusters

Christopher Evans of Cisco Talos conducted the research for this post. Executive Summary Cisco Talos warns users that they need to keep a close eye on unsecured Elasticsearch clusters. We have recently observed a spike in attacks from multiple threat actors targeting these clusters. These attacke...

Sextortion Bitcoin scam makes unwelcome return

Heads up: a particularly nasty sextortion Bitcoin scam from at least the middle of 2018 is making the rounds once again. The scam involves making use of old breach dumps, then emailing someone from the list and reminding them of their old password. When something lands in your mailbox with “Hey,...

iPhone FaceTime Vulnerability

This is kind of a crazy iPhone vulnerability: it's possible to call someone on FaceTime and listen on their microphone -- and see from their camera -- before they accept the call. This is definitely an embarrassment, and Apple was right to disable Group FaceTime until it's fixed. But it's hard to...

CVE-2018-15986

Adobe Acrobat and Reader versions 2019.008.20081 and earlier, 2019.008.20080 and earlier, 2019.008.20081 and earlier, 2017.011.30106 and earlier version, 2017.011.30105 and earlier version, 2015.006.30457 and earlier, and 2015.006.30456 and earlier have an integer overflow vulnerability. Successf...

Oracle MySQL Server Access Control Error Vulnerability (CNVD-2019-26711)

Oracle MySQL is an open source relational database management system from Oracle Corporation, of which MySQL Server is a database server component. An access control error vulnerability exists in the MySQL Server component of Oracle MySQL, version 5.7.24 and earlier, and the Server: Optimizer...

20-Year-Old Man Arrested For Carrying Out Germany's Biggest Data Leak

German federal police have arrested a 20-year-old local student for stealing and publishing a massive trove of personal data of hundreds of politicians, journalists and other public figures last month. The young man, whose identity has not been revealed by the police, was arrested after police...

macOS 10.14.1 Carbon Core Memory corruption Vulnerability

CVE: CVE-2018-4463 Old and funny bug CVE-2018-4463 was patched by Apple in last macOS security update. Since 2015 Apple was exposing the users using Apple’s filesystem for stack overflow and infection by hidedd malware in DMG image. Insufficient patch for old vulnerability is the cause of problem...

Google Chrome URL Formatter Address Bar Forgery Vulnerability (CNVD-2019-01577)

Google Chrome is a web browser developed by Google, Inc. URL Formatter is one of the URL formatting components. A security vulnerability exists in URL Formatter in versions of Google Chrome prior to 71.0.3578.80, which stems from insufficient policy enforcement. The vulnerability can be exploited...

oldmillhs.org XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-705009 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| oldmillhs.org 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...

dcraw buffer overflow vulnerability (CNVD-2019-00791)

dcraw is a U.S. software developer David J. Coffin developed a set of open source for the camera to shoot the RAW film into PPM or TIFF format picture tool . A heap buffer overflow vulnerability exists in parsetiffifd in dcraw 9.28 and earlier versions, which can be exploited by an attacker to...

CVE-2018-16862

A security flaw was found in the Linux kernel in a way that the cleancache subsystem clears an inode after the final file truncation removal. The new file created with the same inode may contain leftover pages from cleancache and the old file data instead of the new one...

CVE-2018-16862

A security flaw was found in the Linux kernel in a way that the cleancache subsystem clears an inode after the final file truncation removal. The new file created with the same inode may contain leftover pages from cleancache and the old file data instead of the new one...

PYSEC-2018-77

The client in Tryton 5.x before 5.0.1 tries to make a connection to the bus in cleartext instead of encrypted under certain circumstances in bus.py and jsonrpc.py. This connection attempt fails, but it contains in the header the current session of the user. This session could then be stolen by a...

Apple and Samsung fined millions for intentionally slowing down old smartphones

By Waqas The Italian Competition Authority AGCM has fined Apple and Samsung a whopping 5 million Euros $5.7m - £4.4m and 10 million Euros $11.4m - £8.84m. for what it called "planned obsolescence" of their smartphones. If you have ever noticed how your old iPhone or Samsung device had performance...

DEBIAN-CVE-2018-12383

If a user saved passwords before Firefox 58 and then later set a master password, an unencrypted copy of these passwords is still accessible. This is because the older stored password file was not deleted when the data was copied to a new format starting in Firefox 58. The new master password is...

Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Safari Plans to Disable TLS 1.0 and 1.1 in 2020

All major web browsers, including Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer, and Mozilla Firefox, altogether today announced to soon remove support for TLS 1.0 20-year-old and TLS 1.1 12-year-old communication encryption protocols. Developed initially as Secure Sockets Layer...

cairo Denial of Service Vulnerability (CNVD-2018-20468)

cairo is a cross-platform open source vector graphics library developed by software developers Carl Worth and Behdad Esfahbod, which supports 2D drawing in multiple contexts and provides high-quality display and printouts. A security vulnerability exists in cairo 1.15.14 and earlier versions. An...