Making Carbon Black a “Top Place to Work” for a Fourth Consecutive Year

Carbon Black is proud to announce we’ve been recognized as a “Top Place to Work” by the Boston Globe for a fourth consecutive year. It’s an honor to receive this award and it’s all thanks to our people who have tirelessly contributed to building the most inspiring, transparent, and positive work...

Trape - People tracker on the Internet (The evolution of phishing attacks) OSINT

Trape is a recognition tool that allows you to track people , the information you can get is very detailed. We want to teach the world through this, as large Internet companies could monitor you, obtaining information beyond your IP. Some benefits One of its most enticing functions is the remote...

About the security content of Xcode 9 - Apple Support

About Apple security updates For our customers' protection, Apple doesn't disclose, discuss, or confirm security issues until an investigation has occurred and patches or releases are available. Recent releases are listed on the Apple security updates page. For more information about security, se...

iPhone Apps With Camera Permissions Can Secretly Take Your Photos Without You Noticing

Are you a proud iPhone owner? If yes, this could freak you up. Trust me! Your iPhone has a serious privacy concern that allows iOS app developers to take your photographs and record your live video using both front and back camera—all without any notification or your consent. This alarming privac...

Women in Tech and Career Spotlight: Michal Pal

We continue our articles focusing on the themes of National Cyber Security Awareness Month with the first of a series of articles spotlighting some of the women who work at Imperva. I spoke to Michal Pal, automation group manager for the Imperva Incapsula product line and got to know about what...

Monitor More, Worry Less. Outpace Threats With Machine Learning.

In the past two years, enterprises have created more data than has been created in the entire history of humankind. At scale, securing this amount of data requires a re-think of how we grant and revoke access to sensitive files and, more importantly, how we identify and track the inevitable acces...

Facebook will use facial recognition to unlock your account

By Carolina Facebook is known for tracking users even when they log This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Facebook will use facial recognition to unlock your account...

Cardiac Scan Authentication — Your Heart As Your Password

Forget fingerprint authentication, retinal scanning or advanced facial recognition that has recently been implemented by Apple in its iPhone X—researchers developed a new authentication system that doesn't require any of your interaction, as simply being near your device is more than enough. A...

A week in security (September 4 – September 10)

Last week, we looked into expired domain names being used for malvertising, delved into dubious Facebook apps, and checked out Chinese seminar scams. We also explained the whys and wherefores of false positives, explained what Google is doing with HTTPs, warned you away from a fake DHS email, and...

Announcing the Fourth Annual Flare-On Challenge

The fourth annual Flare-On Challenge – the FireEye Labs Advanced Reverse Engineering FLARE team’s yearly reverse engineering contest – is scheduled to kick off on Sept. 1, 2017, at 8pm ET. This is a CTF-style challenge for all active and aspiring reverse engineers, malware analysts, and security...

Akamai Is Named A Leader In Gartner's Magic Quadrant For Web Application Firewalls

"Don't work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition" - H. Jackson Brown. A friend sent this quote to me after I explained to her my ambivalence about being recognized by Gartner as a "Leader" in their Web Application Firewall Magic Quadrant. I had mixed feelings because I wanted to...

Self-Driving Cars Can Be Hacked By Just Putting Stickers On Street Signs

Car Hacking is a hot topic, though it's not new for researchers to hack cars. Previously they had demonstrated how to hijack a car remotely, how to disable car's crucial functions like airbags, and even how to steal cars. But the latest car hacking trick doesn't require any extra ordinary skills ...

bash security and bug fix update

4.2.46-28 - CVE-2016-9401 - Fix crash when '-' is passed as second sign to popd Resolves: 1429838 4.2.46-27 - CVE-2016-7543: Fix for arbitrary code execution via SHELLOPTS+PS4 variables Resolves: 1426026 4.2.46-26 - CVE-2016-0634: Fix for arbitrary code execution via malicious hostname Resolves:...

FBI Releases Article on Privacy Risks Associated with Internet-Connected Children's Toys

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has released an article on the privacy risks associated with Internet-connected children's toys. FBI warns that Internet-connected toys may contain "sensors, microphones, cameras, data storage components, and other multimedia capabilities - including speech...

SUSE-SU-2017:1783-1 Security update for postgresql94

This update for postgresql93 fixes the following issues: - bsc1029547: Fix tests with timezone 2017a - CVE-2017-7486: Restrict visibility of pgusermappings.umoptions, to protect passwords stored as user mapping options. bsc1037624 - CVE-2017-7485: Recognize PGREQUIRESSL variable again. bsc1038293...

Stealing Voice Prints

This article feels like hyperbole: The scam has arrived in Australia after being used in the United States and Britain. The scammer may ask several times "can you hear me?", to which people would usually reply "yes." The scammer is then believed to record the "yes" response and end the call. That...

The vulnerabilities in programs for viewing and editing PDF files such as Adobe Reader, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Acrobat Document Cloud, and Adobe Reader Document Cloud allow attackers to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of protected information.

The vulnerability of the DLL library of OCR plugins for programs that read and edit PDF files, such as Adobe Reader, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Acrobat Document Cloud, and Adobe Reader Document Cloud, is related to security configuration errors. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor...

CVE-2017-3012

Adobe Acrobat Reader versions 11.0.19 and earlier, 15.006.30280 and earlier, 15.023.20070 and earlier have an insecure library loading DLL hijacking vulnerability in the OCR plugin...

Samsung Galaxy S8's Facial Unlocking Feature Can Be Fooled With A Photo

Samsung launched its new flagship smartphones, the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8 Plus, at its Unpacked 2017 event on Wednesday in New York, with both IRIS and Facial Recognition features, making it easier for users to unlock their smartphone and signing into websites. All users need to do is simply hol...

Google reCaptcha Bypass Technique Uses Google's Own Tools

A proof of concept bypass of Google’s reCaptcha V2 verification system, posted online Tuesday, uses Google’s own web-based tools to pull off the skirting of the system. The tool dubbed ReBreakCaptcha “lets you easily bypass Google’s reCaptcha v2 anywhere on the web,” according to the author of th...