McDonald’s Email Blast Includes Password to Monopoly Game Database

McDonald’s UK Monopoly VIP game kicked off at the end of August, and a recent round of emails sent to winners of the game’s various prizes included more than a coupon for free fries. The franchise accidentally inserted passwords for a McDonald’s server that hosted information tied to the UK...

[The Lost Bots] Bonus Episode: Velociraptor Contributor Competition

!\The Lost Bots\ Bonus Episode: Velociraptor Contributor Competitionhttps://blog.rapid7.com/content/images/2021/08/-The-Lost-Bots--Episode-1--External-Threat-Intelligence.jpeg Welcome back for a special bonus edition of The Lost Bots, a vlog series where Rapid7 Detection and Response Practice...

Announcing the Eighth Annual Flare-On Challenge

The FLARE team is once again hosting its annual Flare-On challenge, now in its eighth year. Take this opportunity to enjoy some extreme social distancing by solving fun puzzles to test your mettle and learn new tricks on your path to reverse engineering excellence. The contest will begin at 8:00...

YieldSourcePrizePool_canAwardExternal does not work

Handle cmichel Vulnerability details The idea of YieldSourcePrizePoolcanAwardExternal seems to be to disallow awarding the interest-bearing token of the yield source, like aTokens, cTokens, yTokens. "@dev Different yield sources will hold the deposits as another kind of token: such a Compound's...

Missing initialization checks and setters for critical parameters of maxExitFee and maxTimelockDuration

Handle 0xRajeev Vulnerability details Impact maxExitFee and maxTimelockDuration are critical parameters that impact the UX and prize rewards for users. They are initialized once in initialize without any sanity/threshold checks and also lack any setters for modifying their values later in case of...

CISO Challenge: Check Your Cybersecurity Skills On This New Competition Site

InfoSec leaders tend to be a specific type. Their jobs require them to think of possible threats, take actions that may not pay immediate results, plan for unknown security risks, and react quickly when emergencies arise, often before the morning's first coffee. The high-stakes position also mean...

Windows 10, iOS, Chrome, Firefox and Others Hacked at Tianfu Cup Competition

Multiple software products from Adobe, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, and Samsung were successfully pwned with previously unseen exploits in Tianfu Cup 2020, the third edition of the international cybersecurity contest held in the city of Chengdu, China. "Many mature and hard targets have bee...

HashHeroes Tiles Security Breach

HashHeroes Tiles is an ethereum-based guessing game. A security vulnerability exists in the 'determineWinner' function in the smart contract implementation of HashHeroes Tiles. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to control the awarding of prizes by being the last user to make a purchase...

Announcing the Seventh Annual Flare-On Challenge

The Front Line Applied Research & Expertise FLARE team is honored to announce that the popular Flare-On challenge will return for a triumphant seventh year. Ongoing global events proved no match against our passion for creating challenging and fun puzzles to test and hone the skills of aspiring a...

Ronald Graham and the Magic of Math

Late Monday night, I received an email sharing the sad news that Ronald Graham had died that evening at the age of 84. For those who never had the pleasure of knowing Ron, he was a brilliant mathematician with a great sense of humor, a circus-level juggler and magician, a mentor of countless...

New Bill Targeting ‘Warrant-Proof’ Encryption Draws Ire

Privacy advocates are decrying a new bill, which would force tech companies to unlock encrypted devices if ordered to do so by law enforcement with a court issued warrant. The Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act was introduced on Tuesday by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham R-SC,...

Logic Flaw Vulnerability in HashHeroes Tiles

A security vulnerability exists in the 'determineWinner' function in the smart contract implementation of HashHeroes Tiles, an ethereum-based guessing game. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to control the awarding of prizes by being the last user to make a purchase...

Lucky9io has a logic flaw vulnerability

Lucky9io is an ethereum-based virtual gambling game.A security vulnerability exists in Lucky9io's implementation of a simple lotto smart contract, which stems from the use of a fallback function to generate random values using the publicly readable variable entrynumber. An attacker could exploit...

The Incident Response Challenge 2020 — Win $5,000 Prize!

Cybersecurity firm Cynet today announced the launch of a first of its kind challenge to enable Incident Response professionals to test their skills with 25 forensic challenges that were built by top researchers and analysts. The challenge is available on https://incident-response-challenge.com/ a...

The Incident Response Challenge 2020 — Win $5,000 Prize!

Cybersecurity firm Cynet today announced the launch of a first of its kind challenge to enable Incident Response professionals to test their skills with 25 forensic challenges that were built by top researchers and analysts. The challenge is available on https://incident-response-challenge.com/ a...

How to transform your revolutionary idea into a reality: $100K Nokia Bell Labs Prize

Revolutionary ideas in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics don't occur every day. But when those "eureka" moments happen, we need to provide a forum to explore those ideas, judge them on their merits, and distinguish the extraordinary from the merely good. Once a year, Nokia Bell La...

How to transform your revolutionary idea into a reality: $100K Nokia Bell Labs Prize

Revolutionary ideas in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics don't occur every day. But when those "eureka" moments happen, we need to provide a forum to explore those ideas, judge them on their merits, and distinguish the extraordinary from the merely good. Once a year, Nokia Bell La...

$100K Paid Out for Google Cloud Shell Root Compromise

Google has awarded its inaugural annual top prize for the Google Cloud Platform GCP, for vulnerabilities found in the Google Cloud Shell. The find — a container escape that leads to host root access and the ability to use privileged containers — has earned $100,000 for Dutch researcher Wouter ter...

$100K Paid Out for Google Cloud Shell Root Compromise

Google has awarded its inaugural annual top prize for the Google Cloud Platform GCP, for vulnerabilities found in the Google Cloud Shell. The find — a container escape that leads to host root access and the ability to use privileged containers — has earned $100,000 for Dutch researcher Wouter ter...

Sodinokibi Ransomware Group Sponsors Hacking Contest

White hats aren’t alone in holding hacking contests. Russian-language cybercriminals are known for running similar competitions on underground forums. However, an analysis of Dark Web activity has uncovered a trend towards offering increasingly high-stakes prizes during such battles. At the same...