Don’t get burnt on pay day. How to buy IoT gadgets sensibly

As it’s the end of the month, and pay day for many, I thought some timely advice would be helpful for people itching to spend their money on IoT gadgets. It’s not all bad. While many manufacturers happily continue to fill shelves with dross, we know plenty of responsible companies whose products...

Airbnb Superhost Secretly Recorded Guests with Hidden Bedroom Camera

An Airbnb “superhost” in China has been arrested after a guest staying in his house found a hidden camera recording her in the bedroom. The guest, an unnamed woman who was staying in the Airbnb in eastern China last week, said she discovered the camera after spotting a light that looked unusual i...

This Week in Security News: BEC Attacks and Botnet Malware

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about the prevalence and impact of BEC attacks. Also, find out how botnet malware can perform remote code execution, DDoS attacks and...

Researchers: Facebook's Data-Leveraging Scandal Puts Users on Notice

On the heels of reports that Facebook leveraged its users’ data in its relationships with other companies, researchers say that the tech space needs to re-assess the value of data as it relates to user privacy measures. However, they also said that users need to take steps themselves to safeguard...

The AWS Cloud Security Issues You Don’t Want to Ignore

AWS is the biggest name in IaaS, but the shared responsibility model leaves you open to risk. A full approach to AWS cloud security can fill the gap...

PortSwigger Web Security: Build fetches jars over HTTP

CWE-829: Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere CWE-494: Download of Code Without Integrity Check PortSwigger maintains several Open Source Projects under the PortSwigger GitHub organization. Some of these projects contain build files that indicate that some of these projects ar...

The RPC vulnerability mining case studies, on-vulnerability and early warning-the black bar safety net

2018 8 the end of the month, a self-proclaimed“sandbox escape”SandboxEscaperof female researchers released a Windows local privilege escalation 0 day vulnerability. In addition, also attach a proof of concept attack that allows hackers to read the system in unauthorized areas, but at the moment...

Microsoft Calls For Facial Recognition Tech Regulation

As facial recognition continues to gain traction in public use cases, Microsoft on Thursday called for regulation of the technology, citing heightened concerns around privacy and consent. Over the past year, facial recognition technology has started to pop up in various government-related...

Imperva Integration With AWS Security Hub: Expanding Customer Security Visibility

This article explains how Imperva application security integrates with AWS Security Hub to give customers better visibility and feedback on the security status of their AWS hosted applications. Securing AWS Applications Cost reduction, simplified operations, and other benefits are driving...

AWS Security Hub and Deep Security

One of the biggest challenges in maintaining your security posture is visibility. You have security controls deployed throughout the stack, and each fo these tools is generating its own set of data points and has its own view of your deployment. Managing the multitude of alerts and events from...

Podcast: Troy Hunt Talks Bad Passwords – and Who’s to Blame for Them

With credential-stuffing making headlines when it comes to certain data breaches – including the recent HSBC breach reported earlier this week – the security community has continued to ponder an age-old question: Who is responsible for effective password hygiene and security measures? The account...

Qualys Broadens Security Offerings for Azure

Qualys is expanding its security and compliance capabilities for Microsoft Azure, by adding protection for the on-premises Azure Stack and extending capabilities for public cloud deployments. By using Qualys’ platform to defend hybrid IT environments, organizations get a unified view of their...

Microsoft and Imperva Collaboration Bolsters Data Compliance and Security Capabilities

This article explains how Imperva SecureSphere V13.2 has leveraged the latest Microsoft EventHub enhancements to help customers maintain compliance and security controls as regulated or sensitive data is migrated to Azure SQL database instances. Database as a Service Benefits Platform as a Servic...

ASWCrypter - An Bash&Python Script For Generating Payloads that Bypasses All Antivirus

An Bash&Python Script For Generating Payloads that Bypasses All Antivirus so far FUD. PLEASE DON'T UPLOAD BACKDOOT TO WWW.VIRUSTOTAL.COM Important This Version Just for test , In future I will update ASWCrypter to generate a payloads for linux ,Mac and Windows . ; Legal Disclamer: The author does...

PTP, IoT & the Norwegian Government

We were privileged to be invited to speak an event in Arendal, Norway yesterday to make the case for IoT regulation. 'Arendalsuka' is the largest political gathering in Norway, an open forum event where the public can interact directly with political leaders, business leaders, entrepreneurs,...

What I expect from IT Asset Inventory

The main problem of vulnerability management, in my opinion, is that it is not always clear whether we know about ALL network hosts existing in our infrastructure or not. So, not the actual process of scanning and the detection of vulnerabilities, but the lack of knowledge what we should scan...

CVE-2018-13818

Twig before 2.4.4 allows Server-Side Template Injection SSTI via the search searchkey parameter. NOTE: the vendor points out that Twig itself is not a web application and states that it is the responsibility of web applications using Twig to properly wrap input to it...

Input validation

DISPUTED Twig before 2.4.4 allows Server-Side Template Injection SSTI via the search searchkey parameter. NOTE: the vendor points out that Twig itself is not a web application and states that it is the responsibility of web applications using Twig to properly wrap input to it...

GDPR Is Here: Don’t Neglect Public Cloud Security

With organizations aggressively moving workloads to public cloud platforms, such as Amazon’s AWS, protecting these environments is critical for complying with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation GDPR. GDPR, which went into effect in May, imposes strict requirements on millions of business...

When It Comes To IoT Security, Liability Is Muddled

BOSTON—From hacked connected cars to power grids, the implications of IoT security issues seem to be getting graver – yet when it comes to pointing fingers for security troubles, many times victims don’t even know where to start. IoT experts said at the Security of Things Forum today said that a...