Help Others Be "Cyber Aware" This Festive Season—And All Year Round!

Are you tired of being the cybersecurity help desk for everyone you know? Are you frustrated with spending all your time securing your corporate environment, only to have to deal with the threat that snuck in through naive end-users? Are you new to security and wondering how you ended up here? Th...

3M Users Targeted by Malicious Facebook, Insta Browser Add-Ons

Twenty-eight popular extensions for Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge browsers may contain malware and likely should be uninstalled by the more than 3 million people that already have downloaded them, security researchers said Thursday. Extensions for the browsers that potentially could pose a...

45 Million Medical Images Left Exposed Online

More than 45 million medical images—and the personally identifiable information PII and personal healthcare information PHI associated with them–have been left exposed online due to unsecured technology that’s typically used to store, send and receive medical data, new research has found. A team...

Western Digital My Cloud OS 5 Licensing Issue Vulnerability

Western Digital My Cloud is a personal cloud storage device from Western Digital, Inc. An authorization issue vulnerability exists in versions prior to Western Digital My Cloud OS 5.07.118, which could be exploited by attackers to gain access to the device...

Spotify Changes Passwords After Another Data Breach

Spotify has alerted users that some of their registration data was inadvertently exposed to a third-party business partner, including emails addresses, preferred display names, passwords, gender and dates of birth. This is at least the third breach in less than a month for the world’s largest...

Ditch Your Data-Hungry Apps for These Privacy-Focused Swaps

From messaging to maps, many popular apps slurp up your data to sell you ads. There’s a better way...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: PII Information Leak at https://████████.mil/

Summary: While making use of some recon techniques I came across this file which is leaking PII information publically on the Internet. In the description section, I explain the contents of the file and why it shouldn't be public like this. Description: The file in the POC section contains more...

Askey AP5100W Dual SIG Security Feature Issue Vulnerability

The Askey AP5100W Dual SIG is a router from China-based Askey Electronics Technology Askey. The Askey AP5100W Dual SIG suffers from a security signature issue vulnerability that stems from a faulty random number selection in the Diffie-Hellman exchange. By capturing an attempted or even failed WP...

The California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA)

The California Privacy Rights Act CPRA was passed in November by voters in California. Adding another entry to the alphabet soup that is privacy regulations, the CPRA known as Proposition 24 when it was on the ballot expands on the states landmark consumer privacy law, the California Consumer...

CVE-2020-8920

An information leak vulnerability exists in Gerrit versions prior to 2.14.22, 2.15.21, 2.16.25, 3.0.15, 3.1.10, 3.2.5 where an overoptimization with the FilteredRepository wrapper skips the verification of access on All-Users repositories, allowing an attacker to get read access to all users'...

CVE-2020-8920

An information leak vulnerability exists in Gerrit versions prior to 2.14.22, 2.15.21, 2.16.25, 3.0.15, 3.1.10, 3.2.5 where an overoptimization with the FilteredRepository wrapper skips the verification of access on All-Users repositories, allowing an attacker to get read access to all users'...

Information disclosure

An information leak vulnerability exists in Gerrit versions prior to 2.15.21, 2.16.25, 3.0.15, 3.1.10, 3.2.5 where a missing access check on the branch REST API allows an attacker with only the default set of priviledges to read all other user's personal account data as well as sub-trees with...

CVE-2020-8920 Overoptimization leads to private information leak in Gerrit

An information leak vulnerability exists in Gerrit versions prior to 2.14.22, 2.15.21, 2.16.25, 3.0.15, 3.1.10, 3.2.5 where an overoptimization with the FilteredRepository wrapper skips the verification of access on All-Users repositories, allowing an attacker to get read access to all users'...

The story of the year: remote work

The coronavirus pandemic has caused sudden, sweeping change around the world. The necessary social distancing measures are having an impact on all of us. One large part of society that has been affected by these measures more than others is the employed. While direct customer facing businesses li...

Gerrit Security Vulnerabilities

Gerrit is a code review software for the Gerrit community. Gerrit has a security vulnerability that originates from a lack of authentication measures or insufficient authentication strength in a networked system or product. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability to gain read access to the...

Gerrit Authorization Issues Vulnerability

Gerrit is a code review software for the Gerrit community. A security vulnerability exists in Gerrit, which can be exploited by an attacker to gain read access to the personal information of all users associated with an account. The following products and versions are affected: Gerrit...

The Remote-Work Transition Shifts Demand for Cyber Skills

The mass migration to remote working has forced chief information security officers to rethink what “secure” means and to re-prioritize the skillsets needed within their information-security teams. This creates challenges for companies — but also creates wide-open opportunities for those willing ...

Gitlab CE/EE Information Disclosure Vulnerability

GitLab is a Ruby on Rails-developed, self-hosted, Git version control system project repository application from the American company GitLab. The program can be used to access a project's file contents, commit history, bug lists, and more. An information disclosure vulnerability exists in Gitlab...

'Free' Cyberpunk 2077 Downloads Lead to Data Harvesting

The hotly anticipated videogame title Cyberpunk 2077 comes out on Dec. 10, inspiring breathless countdowns from gaming publications and enthusiasts across the globe. As with all things zeitgeisty, cybercriminals are looking to cash in on the excitement, with scams that offer “free copies” while...

Researchers call for a determined path to cybersecurity

Despite our continuous research efforts to detect cyberattacks and enable defense, we often feel that we, as members of a global community, are failing to achieve an adequate level of cybersecurity. This is threatening the proper development and use of information technologies and digital assets,...