Secure Speculative Execution

We're starting to see research into designing speculative execution systems that avoid Spectre- and Meltdown-like security problems. Here's one. I don't know if this particular design secure. My guess is that we're going to see several iterations of design and attack before we settle on something...

Beers with Talos EP31 - Live from Cisco Live! - VPNFilter and Our First Summit Recap

Beers with Talos BWT Podcast Episode 31 is now available. Download this episode and subscribe to Beers with Talos: If iTunes and Google Play aren't your thing: www.talosintelligence.com/podcast EP31 Show Notes: Recorded June 12, 2018 — This is a special episode for two reasons! To start, we...

Magento Hackers Using Simple Evasion Trick to Reinfect Sites With Malware

Security researchers have been warning of a new trick that cybercriminals are leveraging to hide their malicious code designed to re-introduce the infection to steal confidential information from Magento based online e-commerce websites. So, if you have already cleaned up your hacked Magento...

U.S. sanctions against Russian cybersecurity companies

I never thought that I will write here about state sanctions. Usually I try to ignore political topics. But now it's necessary. Yesterday OFAC introduced sanctions against 5 Russian companies. I would like to mention 3 of them: Digital Security - one of the leading Russian Information Security...

Draft of Microsoft Security Servicing Commitments for Windows

Updated September 10, 2018 The Servicing Criteria for Windows has transitioned to an official document and can be found at the link below. Microsoft thanks the members of the research community who provided feedback on the draft copy. Microsoft Security Servicing Criteria for Windows...

U.S. Builds World's Fastest Supercomputer – Summit

China no longer owns the fastest supercomputer in the world; It is the United States now. Though China still has more supercomputers on the Top 500 list, the USA takes the crown of "world's fastest supercomputer" from China after IBM and the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laborato...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Virtualization security, bug fix, and enhancement update

An update for imgbased, redhat-release-virtualization-host, and redhat-virtualization-host is now available for Red Hat Virtualization 4 for RHEL-7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, whic...

WordPress Woocommerce Notifier Lite plugin <= 1.5.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability

Cross-Site Request Forgery CSRF vulnerability found by ThreatPress Security Research Team in WordPress Woocommerce Notifier Lite- Send automated web push desktop notifications plugin versions = 1.5.1. Solution Update the WordPress Woocommerce Notifier Lite- Send automated web push desktop...

WordPress Woocommerce Blocker Lite plugin <= 1.6.5 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability

Cross-Site Request Forgery CSRF vulnerability found by ThreatPress Security Research Team in WordPress Woocommerce Blocker Lite – Prevent fake orders and Blacklist fraud customers plugin versions = 1.6.5. Solution Update the WordPress Woocommerce Blocker Lite – Prevent fake orders and Blacklist...

pewresearch.org Improper Access Control vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-628098 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| pewresearch.org Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Wordpress Vulnerability Type:| IAC Improper Access Control / CWE-284 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.5...

Auth0 Glitch Allows Attackers to Launch Phishing Attacks

UPDATE Researchers are warning of a glitch in the Auth0 identity-as-a-service offering, which could allow bad actors to spoof a legitimate website and collect sensitive information from visitors. Researchers at Imperva on Tuesday found that the subdomain names of Auth0 are susceptible to security...

WARDroid Uncovers Mobile Threats to Millions of Users Worldwide

An analysis of 10,000 mobile apps has found that a significant portion of them are open to web API hijacking – something that potentially affects the privacy and security of tens of millions of business users and consumers globally. The root of the threat lies in the inconsistencies that are ofte...

Talos Threat Research Summit Guide and Cisco Live Preview

The first Cisco Talos Threat Research Summit is coming up at Cisco Live! in Orlando, so we are providing a quick guide to all the activities going on at the summit and beyond. The response to the summit was stronger than we could have anticipated for the first year - it sold out fast! Next time, ...

Debian DLA-1390-1 : procps security update

The Qualys Research Labs discovered multiple vulnerabilities in procps, a set of command line and full screen utilities for browsing procfs. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : CVE-2018-1122 top read its configuration from the current working...

CentOS 6 : procps (CESA-2018:1777)

An update for procps is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from th...

WordPress WooCommerce Enhanced Ecommerce Analytics Integration with Conversion Tracking plugin <= 1.8 - Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability

Cross-Site Request Forgery CSRF vulnerability found by ThreatPress Research Team in WordPress WooCommerce Enhanced Ecommerce Analytics Integration with Conversion Tracking plugin versions = 1.8. Solution 3 June 2018 - plugin still closed by WordPress Security team, no patched version available...

WordPress WooCommerce Product Attachment plugin <= 1.1.2 - Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting XSS vulnerability found by ThreatPress Research Team in WordPress WooCommerce Product Attachment plugin versions = 1.1.2. Solution 3 June 2018 - plugin still closed by WordPress Security team, no patched version available...

WordPress WooCommerce Enhanced Ecommerce Analytics Integration with Conversion Tracking plugin <= 1.8 - Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

Cross-Site Scripting XSS vulnerability found by ThreatPress Research Team in WordPress WooCommerce Enhanced Ecommerce Analytics Integration with Conversion Tracking plugin versions = 1.8. Solution 3 June 2018 - plugin still closed by WordPress Security team, no patched version available...

WordPress Advance Search for WooCommerce plugin <= 1.0.9 - Stored Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability

Stored Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability found by ThreatPress Research Team in WordPress Advance Search for WooCommerce plugin versions = 1.0.9. Solution 3 June 2018 - plugin still closed by WordPress Security team, no patched version available...

WordPress WooCommerce Quick Reports plugin <= 1.0.6 - Stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability

Stored Cross-Site Scripting XSS vulnerability found by ThreatPress Research Team in WordPress WooCommerce Quick Reports plugin versions = 1.0.6. Solution 3 June 2018 - plugin still closed by WordPress Security team, no patched version available...