A Decade-Old Attack Can Break the Encryption of Most PCs

The computer industry thought cold boot hacks were solved 10 years ago. Researchers have proven that's not the case...

Tesla Model S Hack Could Let Thieves Clone Key Fobs to Steal Cars

Despite having proper security measures in place to protect the driving systems of its cars against cyber attacks, a team of security researchers discovered a way to remotely hack a Tesla Model S luxury sedans in less than two seconds. Yes, you heard that right. A team of researchers from the...

Taking Stock: The Internet of Things, and Machine Learning Algorithms at War

It’s in the news every day; hackers targeting banks, hospitals, or, as we’ve come to fear the most, elections. Suffice to say then that cybersecurity has, in the last few years, gone from a relatively obscure industry – let's qualify that: not in the sense of importance, but rather how folks have...

openaire.eu XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-673604 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| openaire.eu Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

Threat Landscape for Industrial Automation Systems in H1 2018

For many years, Kaspersky Lab experts have been uncovering and researching cyberthreats that target a variety of information systems – those of commercial and government organizations, banks, telecoms operators, industrial enterprises, and individual users. In this report, Kaspersky Lab Industria...

GDPR 101: Monitoring & Maintaining Compliance After the Deadline

Discussions about the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation GDPR reached a crescendo on May 25, the compliance deadline, but many companies continue seeking guidance. The reason: A majority of companies missed the deadline, according to estimates from various sources, including Gartner, Crowd...

DEFCON 26 | use of the Fax function of the vulnerability to penetrate into the corporate network Faxploit-a vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! From the ancient times of the flying Pigeon pass book to the later postal courier, the author and the recipient between the physical message transfer mode gradually in the evolution, and after that Fax technology to some extent, help people get out of a letter delivered to the dark ages. Howeve...

Exploit for CVE-2020-6616

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BEC is Big Business for Hackers: What makes these attacks so hard to prevent?

For years, one of the most lucrative ways for hackers to generate profits was through ransomware attacks. These instances involve the use of strong encryption to lock victims out of their files and data - attackers then sell the decryption key in exchange for an untraceable Bitcoin ransom payment...

Researchers Shine Light on Smart-Bulb Data Theft

Lightbulbs were invented to do one thing: illuminate a room or a space. Cybercriminals, however, may find that these glass miracles can be used to shed light in a more metaphorical sense – to spy on users’ private data and preferences. The light emitted by modern smart bulbs can be used in two...

Security Bulletin: Official Statement On Spectre and Meltdown

Summary IBM Security statement on the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities Vulnerability Details As many clients are likely aware of by now, 2 major security flaws impacting chipsets across the PC and mobile spectrums have unfolded over the last day or so. Meltdown Intel only and Spectre...

Side-Channel Attack Allows Remote Listener to ‘Hear’ On-Screen Images

A stealthy side-channel tactic for digital surveillance has been uncovered, which allows an attacker to “hear” on-screen images. According to a team of academic researchers from Columbia University, the University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania and Tel Aviv University, inaudible acoustic...

CVE-2018-15856

An infinite loop when reaching EOL unexpectedly in compose/parser.c aka the keymap parser in xkbcommon before 0.8.1 could be used by local attackers to cause a denial of service during parsing of crafted keymap files...

Read: Apache Struts Patches ‘Critical Vulnerability’ CVE-2018-11776

On August 22, Apache Struts released a security patch fixing a critical remote code execution vulnerability. This vulnerability has been assigned CVE-2018-11776 S2-057 and affects Apache Struts versions 2.3 to 2.3.34 and 2.5 to 2.5.16. The vulnerability was responsibly disclosed by Man Yue Mo fro...

Apache Struts2 S2-057 vulnerability analysis and early warning-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

It is possible to perform a RCE attack when the namespace value isn't set for a result defined in underlying xml configurations and in the same time, its upper actions configurations have no or wildcard namespace. The Same possibility when using the url tag which doesn't have value and action set...

Back to Basics: Why We Need to Encourage More Secure IoT Development

The Internet of Things IoT is radically reshaping the way we live and work. Before our very eyes, organizations are becoming more agile, efficient and cost effective to run, all while consumers marvel at the wonders of the smart home, fitness trackers and connected cars. There’s just one major...

Microsoft Research Detours Package

Detours is a software package for monitoring and instrumenting API calls on Windows. Detours has been used by many ISVs and is also used by product teams at Microsoft. Detours is now available under a standard open source license MIT. This simplifies licensing for programmers using Detours and...

Dynamic API Call Tracer for Windows and Linux Applications: Drltrace

Drltrace is a dynamic API calls tracer for Windows and Linux applications designed primarily for malware analysis. Drltrace is built on top of DynamoRIO dynamic binary instrumentation framework. Motivation Malware analysis is not an easy task. Sophisticated software packers like Themida and...

New Ways to Track Internet Browsing

Interesting research on web tracking: "Who Left Open the Cookie Jar? A Comprehensive Evaluation of Third-Party Cookie Policies: Abstract: Nowadays, cookies are the most prominent mechanism to identify and authenticate users on the Internet. Although protected by the Same Origin Policy, popular...

New PHP Code Execution Attack Puts WordPress Sites at Risk

Sam Thomas, a security researcher from Secarma, has discovered a new exploitation technique that could make it easier for hackers to trigger critical deserialization vulnerabilities in PHP programming language using previously low-risk considered functions. The new technique leaves hundreds of...