Microsoft's Bug Bounty Program and the Law of Unintended Consequences

The Microsoft bug bounty program has been nearly a decade in the making and it is clear from the shape and size of it that the company did not simply slap the program together in order to join the cool kids. Rather, Microsoft’s security team spent years watching the way other programs work, seein...

Heart of Blue Gold – Announcing New Bounty Programs

Our Philosophy At the heart of our community outreach programs, we’ve always had the same philosophy: help increase the win-win between Microsoft’s customers and the security research community. We have evolved and deepened our relationships with this community since the earliest days of...

New Bounty Program Details

Today we announced the upcoming Mitigation Bypass Bounty, the BlueHat Bonus for Defense, and the Internet Explorer 11 Preview Bug Bounty program. It’s very exciting to finally take the wraps off of these initiatives and we are anticipating some great submissions from the security research...

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in Duplicator WordPress Plugin

High-Tech Bridge Security Research Lab discovered XSS vulnerability in Duplicator WordPress plugin, which can be exploited to perform cross-site scripting attacks against vulnerable application. 1 Cross-Site Scripting XSS in Duplicator WordPress Plugin: CVE-2013-4625 The vulnerability exists due ...

XSS Vulnerabilities in OpenCms

High-Tech Bridge Security Research Lab discovered 2 XSS vulnerabilities in OpenCms, which can be exploited to perform Cross-Site Scripting attacks against users of vulnerable application. 1 Multiple Cross-Site Scripting XSS in OpenCms: CVE-2013-4600 1.1 The vulnerability exists due to insufficien...

EU: Harsher Penalties for Convicted Hackers in Europe

Legislation filed late last week in the European Parliament that could broadly reform how convicted cybercriminals are prosecuted, fails to adequately differentiate good hackers from bad hackers, a political group argued today. Jan Philipp Albrech, a spokesman for the Greens/European Free Allianc...

Multiple XSS Vulnerabilities in Jahia xCM

High-Tech Bridge Security Research Lab discovered multiple XSS vulnerabilities in Jahia xCM, which can be exploited to perform cross-site scripting attacks against administrator of vulnerable application. 1 Multiple Cross-Site Scripting XSS Vulnerabilites in Jahia xCM: CVE-2013-4624 1.1 The...

Peer-to-Peer Botnet Takedowns a Challenge

The FBI, Justice Department and technology companies have had success shutting down botnets that rely on a centralized infrastructure and command and control servers to communicate with bots, steal data or send malicious commands. Peer-to-peer botnets, however, have proven more difficult to take...

Activating mobile malware with Music and Light Sensors

Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham UAB presented the research that it is possible to trigger malware hidden in mobile devices using music, lighting, or vibration. In a research paper titled "Sensing-Enabled Channels for Hard-to-Detect Command and Control of Mobile Devices", th...

PT-2013-55: Access Restrictions Bypassing in Huawei SGSN USN9810

The specialists of the Positive Research center have detected an Access Restrictions Bypassing vulnerability in Huawei SGSN USN9810. The platform does not provide sufficient entropy in session identifiers. This allows an attacker to brute force the current ID to bypass the authorization mechanism...

PT-2013-57: Password Access in Huawei M2000

The specialists of the Positive Research center have detected a Password Access vulnerability in Huawei SGSN USN9810. The application stores and displays the FTP server password in clear text. This vulnerability allows the attackers to hijack the password and obtain access to the FTP server. How ...

Researchers Use Music, Light to Trigger Mobile Malware

Calling it a paradigm shift, university researchers were able to trigger mobile-device malware using a modest amount of music, lighting, magnetic fields or sound vibrations. “When you go to an arena or Starbucks, you don’t expect the music to have a hidden message, so this is a big paradigm shift...

VUPEN Security Research - Microsoft Internet Explorer 10-9-8-7-6 VML Remote Integer Overflow (MS13-037 / Pwn2Own)

VUPEN Security Research - Microsoft Internet Explorer 10-9-8-7-6 VML Remote Integer Overflow MS13-037 / Pwn2Own Website : http://www.vupen.com Twitter : http://twitter.com/vupen I. BACKGROUND --------------------- "Microsoft Internet Explorer is a web browser developed by Microsoft and included a...

Exponent CMS 2.2.0 Beta 3 - Multiple Vulnerabilities

Advisory ID: HTB23154 Product: Exponent CMS Vendor: Online Innovative Creations Vulnerable Versions: 2.2.0 beta 3 and probably prior Tested Version: 2.2.0 beta 3 Vendor Notification: April 24, 2013 Vendor Patch: May 3, 2013 Public Disclosure: May 15, 2013 Vulnerability Type: SQL Injection CWE-89,...

PT-2013-52: XML External Entities Injection in Huawei SGSN USN9810

The specialists of the Positive Research center have detected an XML External Entities Injection vulnerability in Huawei SGSN USN9810. An XML document may contain a Document Type Definition that, among other features, allows the definition of external entities. A malicious user may perform attack...

USAID a Target of DoL Watering Hole Attackers

One of the nine sites serving malware tied to the recent watering hole attack on the U.S. Department of Labor was located in Cambodia and has ties to the United States Agency for International Development USAID. Speculation has it that the DoL attack was targeting downstream employees at the...

AlienVault OSSIM 4.1.2 SQL Injection

RunRunLevel Web Security Research - AlienVault OSSIM multiple SQL Injection vulnerabilities Vendor Website : http://www.alienvault.com INDEX --------------------------------------- 1. Background 2. Description 3. Affected Products 4. Vulnerabilities 5. Solution 6. Credit 7. Disclosure Timeline 1...

PHP Code Injection in FUDforum

Advisory ID: HTB23146 Product: FUDforum Vendor: FUDforum Vulnerable Versions: 3.0.4 and probably prior Tested Version: 3.0.4 Vendor Notification: February 21, 2013 Vendor Patch: March 11, 2013 Public Disclosure: April 3, 2013 Vulnerability Type: Code Injection CWE-94 CVE Reference: CVE-2013-2267...

nginx Integer Overflow Vulnerability

Qihoo 360 Web Security Research Team discovered a critical vulnerability in nginx. The vulnerability is caused by a integer overflow error within the Nginx ngxhttpcloseconnection function when r-count is less then 0 or more then 255, which could be exploited by remote attackers to compromise a...

KrisonAV CMS 3.0.1 - Multiple Vulnerabilities

Exploit for php platform in category web applications Advisory Details: High-Tech Bridge Security Research Lab discovered multiple vulnerabilities in KrisonAV CMS, which can be exploited to perform cross-site scripting and cross-site request forgery attacks. 1 Cross-Site Scripting XSS vulnerabili...