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 ...

Serverless, Real-time Malware Detection: BinaryAlert

BinaryAlert is an open-source serverless AWS pipeline where any file uploaded to an S3 bucket is immediately scanned with a configurable set of YARA rules. An alert will fire as soon as any match is found, giving an incident response team the ability to quickly contain the threat before it spread...

Uber Drivers Hacking the System to Cause Surge Pricing

Interesting story about Uber drivers who have figured out how to game the company's algorithms to cause surge pricing: According to the study. drivers manipulate Uber's algorithm by logging out of the app at the same time, making it think that there is a shortage of cars. ... The study said drive...

karriere.staples.de XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: http://karriere.staples.de/nb/sokeresultater/?country=Germany=2=1=all"--!"device=mobile=120 Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| No Latest check for patch:| 21.11.2017 Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:| Publicly disclosed Alexa Rank| Unknown / Not calculated...

SecuriTeam Secure Disclosure

Hi all, In the past 10 years Beyond Security runs a vulnerability disclosure program called SecurTeam Secure Disclosure SSD. We are looking to acquire high end vulnerabilities in various stages of research, PoC and similar. We also runs Hack2Win online competition. Hack2Win online is a hacking...

On Conveying Doubt

This post was authored by Matt Olney.Typically, Talos has the luxury of time when conducting research. We can carefully draft a report that clearly lays out the evidence and leads the reader to a clear understanding of our well supported findings. A great deal of time is spent ensuring that the...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 3926-1 (chromium-browser - security update)

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser. CVE-2017-5087 Ned Williamson discovered a way to escape the sandbox. CVE-2017-5088 Xiling Gong discovered an out-of-bounds read issue in the v8 javascript library. CVE-2017-5089 Michal Bentkowski discovered a spoofing issue...

Further Advances the State of Cyber Threat Information Sharing into Cyber Threat Management and Response

Healthcare organizations HCOs are not immune to large-scale cyberattacks, as evident by the most recent attacks WannaCry and Petya. In fact, HCOs are an attractive target for hackers because of the immense amount of personally identifiable information housed in their systems. The industry is wide...

Larry's Cabinet of Web Vulnerability Curiosities

One of my responsibilities as a member of the Akamai Security Intelligence Response Team SIRT is to research new web application vulnerabilities. For the last year, I have focused on Wordpress plugin vulnerabilities, and looking for any interesting code tidbits in my box of Wordpress toys. There...

obank.kbstar.com XSS vulnerability

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Shorting-For-Profit Viable Business Model For Security Community

LAS VEGAS–Justine Bone shook up the security research community last year when she decided to do the unconventional. The CEO of MedSec Holdings teamed with hedge fund company Muddy Waters Capital to short the stock of St. Jude Medical in order to profit from research that revealed life-threatenin...

Revoke-Obfuscation: PowerShell Obfuscation Detection Using Science

Many attackers continue to leverage PowerShell as a part of their malware ecosystem, mostly delivered and executed by malicious binaries and documents. Of malware that uses PowerShell, the most prevalent use is the garden-variety stager: an executable or document macro that launches PowerShell to...

Revoke-Obfuscation: PowerShell Obfuscation Detection Using Science

Many attackers continue to leverage PowerShell as a part of their malware ecosystem, mostly delivered and executed by malicious binaries and documents. Of malware that uses PowerShell, the most prevalent use is the garden-variety stager: an executable or document macro that launches PowerShell to...

custominteriorsbythomas.com XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: http://custominteriorsbythomas.com/?s=%3Cimg%20src=x%20onerror=prompt/OPENBUGBOUNTY/%3E Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| No Latest check for patch:| 23.10.2017 Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:| Publicly disclosed Alexa Rank| Unknown / Not calculated VIP...

macOS Fruitfly Backdoor Analysis Renders New Spying Capabilities

LAS VEGAS—The FruitFly backdoor became a known entity in January, but it’s a good bet that for years it had been in the wild, undetected by analysts and security software. The macOS and OS X malware has a number of insidious spying capabilities that would make anyone uneasy, and a variant recentl...

Vulnerability Spotlight: Multiple Vulnerabilities in CorelDRAW X8

Today, Talos is disclosing several vulnerabilities that have been identified in CorelDRAW X8. CorelDRAW X8 is graphics suite used for manipulating raster and vector images and is a common alternative to Adobe Creative Cloud. Several of the vulnerabilities being disclosed today specifically affect...

Modified Versions of Nukebot in Wild Since Source Code Leak

Some opportunistic criminals have put the leaked source code for the Nukebot banking Trojan to use, targeting banks in the United States and France with variants of the malware, while another group has adapted it to steal mail client and browser passwords. The leak was disclosed in early March wh...

Bad Code Library Triggers Devil's Ivy Vulnerability in Millions of IoT Devices

Tens of millions of products ranging from airport surveillance cameras, sensors, networking equipment and IoT devices are vulnerable to a flaw that allows attackers to remotely gain control over devices or crash them. The vulnerability, dubbed Devil’s Ivy, was identified by ​researchers at Senrio...

Cisco DDR2200 / 2201v1 Insecure Direct Object Reference / Path Traversal Vulnerabilities

Cisco DDR2200 and 2201v1 ADSL2+ Residential Gateway devices suffer from insecure direct object reference vulnerabilities that allow for remote code execution as well as a path traversal issue. Copyright and Disclaimer The information in this advisory is Copyright 2017 Conviso and provided so that...

Friday Squid Blogging: Eyeball Collector Wants a Giant-Squid Eyeball

They're rare: The one Dubielzig really wants is an eye from a giant squid, which has the biggest eye of any living animal -- it's the size of a dinner plate. "But there are no intact specimens of giant squid eyes, only rotten specimens that have been beached," he says. As usual, you can also use...