Book Review: Twitter and Tear Gas, by Zeynep Tufekci

There are two opposing models of how the Internet has changed protest movements. The first is that the Internet has made protesters mightier than ever. This comes from the successful revolutions in Tunisia 2010-11, Egypt 2011, and Ukraine 2013. The second is that it has made them more ineffectual...

Virtuozzo 7 : glibc / glibc-common / glibc-devel / glibc-headers / etc (VZLSA-2017-1481)

An update for glibc is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. 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 the...

Virtuozzo 6 : kernel / kernel-abi-whitelists / kernel-debug / etc (VZLSA-2017-1486)

An update for kernel 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...

Virtuozzo 6 : glibc / glibc-common / glibc-devel / glibc-headers / etc (VZLSA-2017-1480)

An update for glibc 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 the...

Virtuozzo 7 : kernel / kernel-abi-whitelists / kernel-debug / etc (VZLSA-2017-1484)

An update for kernel is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. 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...

Over 14 Million Verizon Customers' Data Exposed On Unprotected AWS Server

Verizon, the major telecommunications provider, has suffered a data security breach with over 14 million US customers' personal details exposed on the Internet after NICE Systems, a third-party vendor, mistakenly left the sensitive users’ details open on a server. Chris Vickery, researcher and...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: yara-3.6.2-1.fc25

YARA is a tool aimed at but not limited to helping malware researchers to identify and classify malware samples. With YARA you can create descriptions of malware families or whatever you want to describe based on textual or binary patterns. Each description, a.k.a rule, consists of a set of strin...

CVE-2017-10974

Yaws 1.91 allows Unauthenticated Remote File Disclosure via HTTP Directory Traversal with /%5C../ to port 8080. NOTE: this CVE is only about use of an initial /%5C sequence to defeat traversal protection mechanisms; the initial /%5C sequence was apparently not discussed in earlier research on thi...

DNI Wants Research into Secure Multiparty Computation

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity IARPA is soliciting proposals for research projects in secure multiparty computation: Specifically of interest is computing on data belonging to different -- potentially mutually distrusting -- parties, which are unwilling or unable e.g., due t...

Updated libffi packages fix security vulnerability

libffi, a library used to call code written in one language from code written in a different language, was enforcing an executable stack on the i386 architecture. While this might not be considered a vulnerability by itself, this could be leveraged when exploiting other vulnerabilities, such as t...

The Real-World Impact of Bug Bounties and Vulnerability Research

Running the world’s largest vendor agnostic bug bounty program has afforded us the unique opportunity to purchase bugs of all varieties. The submissions to the Zero Day Initiative ZDI program range in severity from slightly annoying to hugely impactful. We wouldn’t have it any other way. Generall...

Researchers Crack 1024-bit RSA Encryption in GnuPG Crypto Library

Security boffins have discovered a critical vulnerability in a GnuPG cryptographic library that allowed the researchers to completely break RSA-1024 and successfully extract the secret RSA key to decrypt data. Gnu Privacy Guard GnuPG or GPG is popular open source encryption software used by many...

Using the CTS for vulnerability detection and principles of analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

360 Vulpecker team Membership 360 Information Security Department, committed to the Android application and the system-layer vulnerability discovery as well as other Android security research. We passed on the CTS frame of the research, the preparation of a vulnerability detection aspect of the...

Thousands of Security Experts Work Together to Collectively Combat Petya / NotPetya Ransomware Attack

On Tuesday, Carbon Black’s community of security experts began working together with Carbon Black Threat Research to rapidly analyze the new ransomware family that was hitting organizations from Russia to Britain. More than 100 customers and partners communicated IOCs as the attack hit. “I heard...

merton.org XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: http://www.merton.org/Research/Manuscripts/search1.asp?phrase=1"...

litmir.me XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: http://www.litmir.me/bs?Formats=a%27aa%22--%3E%3C/title%3E%3C/script%3E%3Cimg%20src=x%20onerror=prompt%27OPENBUGBOUNTY%27%3E Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| No Latest check for patch:| 21.09.2017 Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:| Publicly disclosed Alex...

[SECURITY] [DSA 3886-2] linux regression update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3886-2 [email protected] https://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso June 27, 2017 https://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

[SECURITY] [DLA 993-2] linux regression update

Package : linux Version : 3.2.89-2 Debian Bug : 865303 The security update announced as DLA-993-1 caused regressions for some applications using Java - including jsvc, LibreOffice and Scilab - due to the fix for CVE-2017-1000364. Updated packages are now available to correct this issue. For...

Alpine Linux: From vulnerability discovery to code execution

I’ve recently uncovered two critical vulnerabilities in Alpine Linux’s package manager, assigned CVE-2017-9669 and CVE-2017-9671. These vulnerabilities could potentially lead to an attacker executing malicious code on your machines, if you are using Alpine knowingly or implicitly. Alpine Linux is...

Another RCE Vulnerability Patched in Microsoft Malware Protection Engine

Google Project Zero continues to scrape away at the ubiquitous Microsoft Malware Protection Engine at the core of many security products embedded in Windows, and it continues to discover new critical vulnerabilities. The latest, another remote code execution flaw, was patched on Friday after it w...