A US Data Protection Agency

The United States is one of the few democracies without some formal data protection agency, and we need one. Senator Gillibrand just proposed creating one...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: Unprotected ██████ and Test site API Exposes Documents, Credentials, and Emails in ██████████ Proposal System

Summary: The test/integration API of the █████ web services is publicly exposed: disclosing documents, emails, and credentials to what appears to be the Seaport Bid proposal system. Because I did not attempt any exploitation outside of that necessary to deem this a reportable issue, it is not cle...

ACCESS Act might improve data privacy through interoperability

Data privacy is back in Congressional lawmakers’ sights, as a new, legislative proposal focuses not on data collection, storage, and selling, but on the idea that Americans should be able to more easily pack up their user data and take it to a competing service—perhaps one that better respects...

ACLU on the GCHQ Backdoor Proposal

Back in January, two senior GCHQ officials proposed a specific backdoor for communications systems. It was universally derided as unworkable -- by me, as well. Now Jon Callas of the ACLU explains why...

GigToDo 1.3 - Cross-Site Scripting

GigToDo 1.3 - Cross-Site Scripting Exploit Title: GigToDo - Freelance Marketplace Script v1.3 Persistent XSS Injection Google Dork: - Date: 2019/07/28 Author: m0ze Vendor Homepage: https://www.gigtodoscript.com Software Link: https://codecanyon.net/item/gigtodo-freelance-marketplace-script/238553...

This Week in Security News: Phishing Attacks and Ransomware

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about schemes used in phishing and other email-based attacks. Also, learn how ransomware continues to make a significant impact in the...

Facebook’s history betrays its privacy pivot

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg proposed a radical pivot for his company this month: it would start caring—really—about privacy, building out a new version of the platform that turns Facebook less into a public, open “town square” and more into a private, intimate “living room.” Zuckerberg promised...

Federal Focus on Cyber Plays Out in President's Budget, IoT Legislation

The federal government is stepping up its game this week on the cybersecurity front, with both proposed budget line items that would requisition nearly $11 billion for cyber, and the introduction of the Internet of Things IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2019, which would require that devices...

Hacking the GCHQ Backdoor

Last week, I evaluated the security of a recent GCHQ backdoor proposal for communications systems. Furthering the debate, Nate Cardozo and Seth Schoen of EFF explain how this sort of backdoor can be detected: In fact, we think when the ghost feature is active­ -- silently inserting a secret...

E.U.: Tech Giants Face Big Fines, 1 Hour Limit to Remove Extremist Content

As the E.U. continues to develop tactics to better combat terrorism, European authorities plan to propose strict rules about content policing by tech giants such as Google, Twitter and Facebook. European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said Wednesday that the proposed rules would specify...

BIP proposal security bypass vulnerability

The BIP proposal is a set of bitcoin verification algorithms. A security bypass vulnerability exists in the 'Bitcoin proof of work' function in BIP proposal. A remote attacker could use this vulnerability to bypass security restrictions and perform unauthorized operations...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

zookeeper is vulnerable to denial of service DoS attacks. The vulnerability is possible because the pRequest method in PrepRequestProcessor.java allows an attacker to generate a proposal from a request that is larger than the maxbuffer . This is possible because it does not check the size of the...

Oracle Linux 7 : openssh (ELSA-2017-2029)

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2017-2029 advisory. 7.4p1-11 + 0.10.3-1 - Compiler warnings 1341754 7.4p1-10 + 0.10.3-1 - Add missing messages in FIPS mode 1341754 7.4p1-9 + 0.10.3-1 - Allow harmless...

openssh security, bug fix, and enhancement update

7.4p1-11 + 0.10.3-1 - Compiler warnings 1341754 7.4p1-10 + 0.10.3-1 - Add missing messages in FIPS mode 1341754 7.4p1-9 + 0.10.3-1 - Allow harmless syscalls for s390 crypto modules 1451809 7.4p1-8 + 0.10.3-1 - Fix multilib issue in documentation 1450361 7.4p1-6 + 0.10.3-1 - ControlPath too long...

Do we need a new heading element? We don't know

There's a proposal to add a new element to the HTML spec. It solves a fairly common use-case. Take this HTML snippet: Do you find the "plot" a distraction in movies? If so, you should check out "John Wick" - satisfaction guaranteed! This could be a web component, or a simple include. The problem...

Bill Calls for Study of Cybersecurity Standards for Cars

A House bill was introduced Tuesday that could accelerate the federal government’s involvement in regulating automobile cybersecurity. The Security and Privacy in Your Car Study Act of 2017, authored by Reps. Ted Lieu D-Calif. and Joe Wilson R-SC, calls on the National Highway Traffic Safety...

ctrls.in XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: http://www.ctrls.in/request-for-a-proposal.php?url='"--...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID16746: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on July 17, 2015

Medium Alert ID: 40022 First Published: 2015 July 17 20:24 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID16746 may contain the following files: Name | Siz...

CollabNet Subversion Edge Management Show LFI

Vuln Title: Local file inclusion in CollabNet Subversion Edge Management Frontend via "fileName" parameter of the show action Date: 10.10.2014 Author: otr Software Link: https://www.open.collab.net/downloads/svnedge Vendor: CollabNet Version: 4.0.11 Tested on: Fedora Linux Type: Local file...

CollabNet Subversion Edge Management 4.0.11 - Local File Inclusion

CollabNet Subversion Edge Management 4.0.11 - Local File Inclusion Vuln Title: Local file inclusion in CollabNet Subversion Edge Management Frontend via logfile "fileName" parameter of the "tail" action Date: 28.06.2015 Author: otr Software Link: https://www.open.collab.net/downloads/svnedge...