CVE-2020-11558

An issue was discovered in libgpac.a in GPAC 0.8.0, as demonstrated by MP4Box. audiosampleentryRead in isomedia/boxcodebase.c does not properly decide when to make gfisomboxdel calls. This leads to various use-after-free outcomes involving mdiaRead, gfisomdeletemovie, and gfisomparsemovieboxes...

Study: Ransomware, Data Breaches at Hospitals tied to Uptick in Fatal Heart Attacks

Hospitals that have been hit by a data breach or ransomware attack can expect to see an increase in the death rate among heart patients in the following months or years because of cybersecurity remediation efforts, a new study posits. Health industry experts say the findings should prompt a large...

NCSC Releases 2019 Active Cyber Defence Report

The United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre NCSC has released their 2019 Active Cyber Defence ACD report, which provides an analysis of program outcomes throughout 2018. NCSC’s ACD program—stood up in 2016—seeks to reduce harm from commodity cyberattacks against the United Kingdom. The...

Yi IoT Home Camera Riddled with Code-Execution Vulnerabilities

Multiple vulnerabilities in the firmware used by the Yi Technology Home Camera version 27US have been found, which could allow remote code-execution on the connected devices. The Yi Home Camera i27US is one of the newer IoT camera models sold in the U.S. It’s an entry-level gadget, which lets...

Moodle 2.2.x < 2.2.7 Multiple Vulnerabilities

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Moodle 2.1.x < 2.1.10 Multiple Vulnerabilities

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UBUNTU-CVE-2012-6098

grade/edit/outcome/editform.php in Moodle 1.9.x through 1.9.19, 2.1.x before 2.1.10, 2.2.x before 2.2.7, 2.3.x before 2.3.4, and 2.4.x before 2.4.1 does not properly enforce the moodle/grade:manage capability requirement, which allows remote authenticated users to convert custom outcomes into...

ISC BIND 9 zero length rdata named vulnerability

Overview ISC BIND 9 named contains a vulnerability that could allow a attacker to cause named to terminate unexpectedly. Description According to ISC's security advisory:This problem was uncovered while testing with experimental DNS record types. It is possible to add records to BIND with null ze...

Some Advice for Howard Schmidt

It’s been little more than 24 hours since President Obama named Howard Schmidt his White House Cybersecurity Coordinator, but it didn’t take nearly that long for just about everyone with any interest in security to line up on one side or the other of the “he has no chance/he’ll save the Internet”...

Security is about outcomes, not about process

By Adam Shostack, Emergent Chaos Nearly a decade ago Bruce Schneier wrote “Security is a process, not a product.” His statement helped us advance as a profession, but with the benefit of hindsight, we can see he’s only half right. Security isn’t about technology. Security is about outcomes, and o...