CVE-2017-14568

STDU Viewer 1.6.375 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service via a crafted .xps file, related to an "Illegal Instruction Violation starting at Unknown Symbol @ 0x000000000297024c called from STDUXPSFile!DllUnregisterServer+0x0000000000025630."...

Facebook Awards $100K to Researchers for Credential Spearphishing Detection Method

A group of researchers recently identified a real-time way to detect credential spearphishing attacks in enterprise settings. The discovery net the researchers $100,000 last week from Facebook, which awards money as part of its annual Internet Defense Prize partnership with USENIX Association. Th...

BootStomp: Find Mobile Device Bootloader Vulnerabilities

PenTestIT RSS Feed Oh boy! This post is going to be interesting as it is about an interesting topic - mobile bootloaders. Specifically, this post is about BootStomp, which helps you find vulnerabilities in the bootloader. All of us know; as the name suggests, that bootloader is a program loads th...

CVE-2017-11210

Adobe Acrobat Reader 2017.009.20058 and earlier, 2017.008.30051 and earlier, 2015.006.30306 and earlier, and 11.0.20 and earlier has an exploitable memory corruption vulnerability in the font parsing, where the font is embedded in the XML Paper Specification XPS file. Successful exploitation coul...

CVE-2017-11209

Adobe Acrobat Reader 2017.009.20058 and earlier, 2017.008.30051 and earlier, 2015.006.30306 and earlier, and 11.0.20 and earlier has an exploitable memory corruption vulnerability that occurs when reading a JPEG file embedded within XML Paper Specification XPS file. Successful exploitation could...

CVE-2017-11210

Adobe Acrobat Reader 2017.009.20058 and earlier, 2017.008.30051 and earlier, 2015.006.30306 and earlier, and 11.0.20 and earlier has an exploitable memory corruption vulnerability in the font parsing, where the font is embedded in the XML Paper Specification XPS file. Successful exploitation coul...

Memory corruption

Adobe Acrobat Reader 2017.009.20058 and earlier, 2017.008.30051 and earlier, 2015.006.30306 and earlier, and 11.0.20 and earlier has an exploitable memory corruption vulnerability that occurs when reading a JPEG file embedded within XML Paper Specification XPS file. Successful exploitation could...

CVE-2017-11210

Adobe Acrobat Reader 2017.009.20058 and earlier, 2017.008.30051 and earlier, 2015.006.30306 and earlier, and 11.0.20 and earlier has an exploitable memory corruption vulnerability in the font parsing, where the font is embedded in the XML Paper Specification XPS file. Successful exploitation coul...

EUVD-2017-2843

Adobe Acrobat Reader 2017.009.20058 and earlier, 2017.008.30051 and earlier, 2015.006.30306 and earlier, and 11.0.20 and earlier has an exploitable memory corruption vulnerability that occurs when reading a JPEG file embedded within XML Paper Specification XPS file. Successful exploitation could...

August 8, 2017 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Smokey the Bear” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! August 8, 2017 - Headlines NetWorks Group Joins “Carbon Black Connect” Partner...

Revoke-Obfuscation: PowerShell Obfuscation Detection Using Science

Many attackers continue to leverage PowerShell as a part of their malware ecosystem, mostly delivered and executed by malicious binaries and documents. Of malware that uses PowerShell, the most prevalent use is the garden-variety stager: an executable or document macro that launches PowerShell to...

Libgcrypt Attack Allowed Recovery of RSA-1024 Keys

The cryptographic library Libgcrypt is vulnerable to a local side-channel attack; something researchers warn could allow full key recovery for RSA-1024. The vulnerability CVE-2017-7526 is tied to the fact that Libgcrypt, which is based on code from GnuPG, uses left to right sliding windows...

Researchers Crack 1024-bit RSA Encryption in GnuPG Crypto Library

Security boffins have discovered a critical vulnerability in a GnuPG cryptographic library that allowed the researchers to completely break RSA-1024 and successfully extract the secret RSA key to decrypt data. Gnu Privacy Guard GnuPG or GPG is popular open source encryption software used by many...

my.kellypaper.com XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: https://my.kellypaper.com/default.asp?cURL=1"...

Friday Squid Blogging: Sex Is Traumatic for the Female Dumpling Squid

The more they mate, the sooner they die. Academic paper paywall. News article. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here...

Safety and Security and the Internet of Things

Ross Anderson blogged about his new paper on security and safety concerns about the Internet of Things. See also this short video. It's very much along the lines of what I've been writing...

Curiosity Kills Security When it Comes to Phishing

Regardless of the amount of training and technology applied to phishing prevention, people are going to click on links, trust messages from supposedly known sources and get into trouble online. A recent academic paper collates the results of an experiment conducted with more than 1,200 German...

Passive HTTP2 Client Fingerprinting - White Paper

HTTP2 is the second major version of the HTTP protocol. It changes the way HTTP is transferred "on the wire" by introducing a full binary protocol, made up of TCP connections, streams and frames, rather than simply being a plain-text protocol. Such a fundamental change between HTTP/1.x to HTTP/2,...

Why Is the TSA Scanning Paper?

I've been reading a bunch of anecdotal reports that the TSA is starting to scan paper separately: A passenger going through security at Kansas City International Airport MCI recently was asked by security officers to remove all paper products from his bag. Everything from books to Post-It Notes,...

Dropbox: Dropbox Paper - Markdown XSS

Hello, Today I took a look at Dropbox Paper and noticed there is an option to export/download the project as a Markdown or word docx document. I noticed it doesn't filter any kind of Markdown escaping, meaning when parsed after download will let us execute client side code. equivallent to arbrita...