Simple Banking Security Tip: Verbal Passwords

There was a time when I was content to let my bank authenticate me over the phone by asking for some personal identifiers SSN/DOB that are broadly for sale in the cybercrime underground. At some point, however, I decided this wasn't acceptable for institutions that held significant chunks of our...

Malaysian Data Breach Leaves Stolen Data Online for a ‘Long Time’

A 2014 data breach may have left the personal details for tens of millions of Malaysians for sale online for “a long time,” according to Vijandren Ramadass, the founder of tech portal Lowyat.net, who uncovered the data leak. According to a New York Times report, “Malaysia said on Wednesday it was...

Dangerous liaisons

It seems just about everyone has written about the dangers of online dating, from psychology magazines to crime chronicles. But there is one less obvious threat not related to hooking up with strangers – and that is the mobile apps used to facilitate the process. We're talking here about...

Sohu Video 5 PC Client Has Denial of Service Vulnerability

Sohu Video 5 is a video player from Sohu. A denial of service vulnerability exists in Sohu Video Player when parsing certain 3gp files, which can be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service attack...

Yet more mobile adware found in Google Play

Finding an adware variant that made its way past the Google Play store is out of the ordinary. So when two adware variants slip by in one week, we take notice. Last week, we added two new Ad SDKs to our growing list of adware detections—Adware.Solid and Adware.Cootek. Both Ad SDKs were found in a...

Today’s Predictions for Tomorrow’s Internet

This weekend I realized just how much the future of securing the Internet of Things IoT will become a critical component to maintain our lifestyle. CyberPatriot is the National Youth Cyber Education Program created by the Air Force Association to encourage careers in STEM. Each year the program...

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Kanboard Design Vulnerability (CNVD-2017-30952)

Kanboard is a French software developer Frederic Guillot developed a set of open source visualization task board software. The software supports customization of the panel according to the business, task dragging and so on. A security vulnerability exists in Kanboard versions prior to 1.0.47. An...

iSmartAlarm cube Device Information Disclosure Vulnerability

The iSmartAlarm cube devices are a smart home device from iSmartAlarm USA. An information disclosure vulnerability exists in the iSmartAlarm cube devices. A remote attack could exploit this vulnerability to obtain arbitrary passwords or personal data...

Equifax Breach Fallout: Your Salary History

In May, KrebsOnSecurity broke a story about lax security at a payroll division of big-three credit bureau Equifax that let identity thieves access personal and financial data on an unknown number of Americans. Incredibly, this same division makes it simple to access detailed salary and employment...

Grab: stored xss in comments : driver exam

@pareshparmar found a Stored XSS vulnerability in an out-of-scope third party web application use by Grab. We decided to make an exception of our bug bounty policy here and accepted this out-of-scope finding because we believed that the stored-XSS was a real risk for our customers. With the...

Fear Not: You, Too, Are a Cybercrime Victim!

Maybe you've been feeling left out because you weren't among the lucky few hundred million or billion who had their personal information stolen in either the Equifax or Yahoo! breaches. Well buck up, camper: Both companies took steps to make you feel better today. Yahoo! announced that, our bad!:...

October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month

October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month NCSAM. NCSAM is a collaborative effort between DHS and its public and private partners--including the National Cyber Security Alliance NCSA--to raise awareness about the vital role cybersecurity plays in the lives of U.S. citizens. US-CERT will be...

GDPR Requirements: Get Started with Classifier

The GDPR requires that organizations exhibit commitment to individuals’ data privacy by implementing a data protection by design and by default approach, meaning organizations need to build privacy and protection into their products, services, and applications. GDPR also mandates that organizatio...

The Data Tinder Collects, Saves, and Uses

Under European law, service providers like Tinder are required to show users what information they have on them when requested. This author requested, and this is what she received: Some 800 pages came back containing information such as my Facebook "likes," my photos from Instagram even after I...

Mobile Stock Trading App Providers Unresponsive to Glaring Vulnerabilities

More than 20 of the most popular mobile trading applications used by consumers and day-traders for securities transactions contain glaring vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to sniff personal data or steal money from accounts. Researchers from IOActive today published a report describing...

Geminabox Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Geminabox aka Gem in a Box is a personal code hosting platform. Geminabox suffers from a cross-site scripting vulnerability that can be exploited by remote attackers to delete arbitrary gems on the server...

Passwords For 540,000 Car Tracking Devices Leaked Online

Another day, another news about a data breach, though this is something disconcerting. Login credentials of more than half a million records belonging to vehicle tracking device company SVR Tracking have leaked online, potentially exposing the personal data and vehicle details of drivers and...

Zomato: [www.zomato.com] IDOR - Leaking all Personal Details of all Zomato Users through an endpoint

Hacker is able to get the PIPersonal Information of any Zomato user...

ZKTeco ZKTime Web 2.0.1.12280 Information Disclosure

Vulnerability Type: Broken Authentication Vendor of Product: ZKTeco Affected Product Code Base: ZKTime Web - 2.0.1.12280 Affected Component: ZK Time Web Interface Management. Attack Type: Local - Unauthenticated Impact: Information Disclosure ------------------------------------------ Product...