CVE-2016-10137

CVE-2016-10137 affects BLU R1 HD devices running Shanghai Adups software. The vulnerability arises from the com.adups.fota.sysoper app (package com.adups.fota.sysoper) exposing InfoProvider to any app on the device, coupled with android:sharedUserId set to android.uid.system, causing execution as...

CVE-2016-10137

An issue was discovered on BLU R1 HD devices with Shanghai Adups software. The content provider named com.adups.fota.sysoper.provider.InfoProvider in the app with a package name of com.adups.fota.sysoper allows any app on the device to read, write, and delete files as the system user. In the...

CVE-2016-10139

An issue was discovered on BLU R1 HD devices with Shanghai Adups software. The two package names involved in the exfiltration are com.adups.fota and com.adups.fota.sysoper. In the com.adups.fota.sysoper app's AndroidManifest.xml file, it sets the android:sharedUserId attribute to a value of...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: Personal information disclosure on a DoD website

A Department of Defense website was mis-configured in a manner that could have exposed personal information. Thanks for notifying us of this, @spam404! IDOR exposing PII...

FireEye Cyber Defense Summit 2016: The Incident Response Track – Technical Details and Solutions that Work

2016 has been a year of significant change to the cyber security landscape. The rapid proliferation of ransomware and the emergence of Internet of Things mass compromise has changed the landscape for responders. Similarly, existing threats have become more brazen, with nation-state actors...

Mindoktor: Lack of CSRF in App allows attackers to change patient PII data

Due to the lack of CSRF it's possible for an attacker to change PII data on a user account. The vulnerable endpoint is: https://app.pentestapi.mindoktor.io/api/v1/user/profile A example request: POST /api/v1/user/profile HTTP/1.1 Host: app.pentestapi.mindoktor.io User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Macintosh...

CVE-2016-6653 MySQL Audit logs sent to Syslog | Cloud Foundry

CVE-2016-6653 MySQL Audit logs sent to Syslog High Vendor Cloud Foundry Foundation Versions Affected Cloud Foundry MySQL Release versions 271 and 282 Description MariaDB’s auditplugin, incorporated in cf-mysql-release starting with cf-mysql-release v27, allows the Operator to enable audit trails,...

Mimikittenz - Post-Exploitation Powershell Tool for Extracting Juicy info from Memory

mimikittenz is a post-exploitation powershell tool that utilizes the Windows function ReadProcessMemory in order to extract plain-text passwords from various target processes. mimikittenz can also easily extract other kinds of juicy info from target processes using regex patterns including but no...

IC3 Issues Alert for Fake Government Websites

The Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3 has released an alert that warns consumers of fraudulent government-services websites that mimic legitimate ones. Scam operators lure consumers to these fraudulent websites in order to steal their personal identifiable information PII and collect fees for...

BlackBerry Releases Guidelines to Deter Privacy-Infringing Apps

Aiming to shore up user security BlackBerry this week released a new set of privacy guidelines it’s encouraging third-party app developers to follow to better protect their customers. The guidelines apply to customers’ personally identifiable information PII – the bits of information that apps...

HR Systems Strategies info:HR HRIS allows read access to weakly obfuscated shared database password

Overview HR Systems Strategies info:HR HRIS 7.9 and possibly earlier versions allow read access to a weakly obfuscated database password. This password is shared by all clients within an info:HR site. A local attacker can decipher the password and gain complete control of the database and...

Energy Department networks hit by major Cyber Attack

The Computer networks of Energy Department were attacked by unknown hackers in a major cyber attack two weeks ago and personal information on several hundred employees was compromised. The Washington Free Beacon reports that, FBI agents are investigating the attacks and 14 computer servers and 20...

VSploit Email PII

This auxiliary reads from a file and sends data which should be flagged via an internal or external SMTP server. This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'VSploit Email PII', 'Description...

VSploit Web PII

This module emulates a webserver leaking PII data This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework class MetasploitModule 'VSploit Web PII', 'Description' = 'This module emulates a webserver leaking PII data', 'License...

Massive data leakage in Vodafone Australia !

Australian media giant Fairfax leads today with dramatic claims that customer data from mobile phone company Vodafone Australia is routinely falling into the wrong hands, thanks to lax database security. According to Fairfax, Vodafone's customer database is accessible to all its dealers over the...

Preventing Data Breaches: Lessons From Higher Education

Since 2008, higher education institutions have experienced a staggering 158 data breaches resulting in over 2.3 million reported records compromised. In 2009 alone there were 57 reported data breaches, and year to date through July of 2010, there have already been 32 breaches. Considering that mo...