$100K Paid Out for Google Cloud Shell Root Compromise

Google has awarded its inaugural annual top prize for the Google Cloud Platform GCP, for vulnerabilities found in the Google Cloud Shell. The find — a container escape that leads to host root access and the ability to use privileged containers — has earned $100,000 for Dutch researcher Wouter ter...

Customer Tracking at Ralphs Grocery Store

To comply with California's new data privacy law, companies that collect information on consumers and users are forced to be more transparent about it. Sometimes the results are creepy. Here's an article about Ralphs, a California supermarket chain owned by Kroger: ...the form proceeds to state...

Google Offers Financial Support to Open Source Projects for Cybersecurity

Besides rewarding ethical hackers from its pocket for responsibly reporting vulnerabilities in third-party open-source projects, Google today announced financial support for open source developers to help them arrange additional resources, prioritizing the security of their products. The...

Google Offers Financial Support to Open Source Projects for Cybersecurity

Besides rewarding ethical hackers from its pocket for responsibly reporting vulnerabilities in third-party open-source projects, Google today announced financial support for open source developers to help them arrange additional resources, prioritizing the security of their products. The...

Google Triples Some Bug Bounty Payouts

Google is upping the ante for its Chrome bug bounty rewards program, doubling payouts from $15,000 to $30,000 for “high-quality” reports. It is also tripling baseline payouts for Chrome to $15,000. The bug-bounty pay raise is part of Google’s Chromium open-source project, which supplies the vast...

ExxonMobil Bungles Rewards Card Debut

Energy giant ExxonMobil recently sent snail mail letters to its Plenti rewards card members stating that the points program was being replaced with a new one called Exxon Mobil Rewards+. Unfortunately, the letter includes a confusing toll free number and directs customers to a parked page that...

LeakVM - Research & Pentesting Framework For Android, Run Security Tests Instantly

LeakVM: Run security tests instantly. Why LeakVM : LeakVM fast security test on Android, by skipping the time-consuming build pen-testing laboratories, you can test on real devices or virtual devices. LeakVM makes researchers and pen-testers more productive since they can run the test on real tim...

Google Awards Record $112,500 Bounty for Android Exploit Chain

Prolific bug hunter Guang Gong has earned the highest-ever payout for a vulnerability in the history of Google’s Android Security Rewards program, which began in 2015. He earned a combined $112,500 for the disclosure of an Android exploit chain impacting Google’s Pixel handset that could allow an...

Google's OSS-Fuzz Finds 1,000 Open Source Bugs

The numbers are in, and judging by them, OSS-Fuzz, the program Google unveiled last December to continuously fuzz open source software, has been a success. In five months the effort has unearthed more than 1,000 bugs, a quarter of them potential security vulnerabilities, Google says. OSS-Fuzz,...

Four New Normals for 2017

Let’s not talk about cybersecurity predictions for 2017. Let’s talk instead about new normals, things that have ceased to be novel because, well, they happen all the time and everywhere. Let’s concede that things such as greedy ransomware, imposing IOT botnets, high-profile bug bounties and...

flashplugin: multiple issues

CVE-2016-4274, CVE-2016-4275, CVE-2016-4276, CVE-2016-4280, CVE-2016-4281, CVE-2016-4282, CVE-2016-4283, CVE-2016-4284, CVE-2016-4285, CVE-2016-6922, CVE-2016-6924 arbitrary code execution Multiple Memory corruption vulnerabilities that could lead to arbitrary code execution have been found...

Yelp Launches Public Bug Bounty

For a long time, Yelp.com has been one of the Internet’s most-frequented resources for crowd-sourced local business, restaurant and hospitality reviews and tips. Starting today, the door will be open to researchers and bug-hunters who are invited to participate in Yelp’s public bug bounty. The...

Google's Android Rewards Program Pays Out Half Million in First Year

Google wrapped up the first year of its Android Security Rewards program this week, a span of time that saw the company pay out just north of half a million dollars to security researchers who helped identify vulnerabilities in the mobile operating system. In all, the company paid 82 researchers ...

Flash Uninitialized Stack Variable MPD Parsing Memory Corruption

Exploit for windows platform in category dos / poc Source: https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=316&can=1&q=label%3AProduct-Flash%20modified-after%3A2015%2F8%2F17&sort=id Tracking for: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=472201 Credit is to bilou,...

Adobe Flash AS2 - Color.setRGB Use-After-Free

Adobe Flash AS2 - Color.setRGB Use-After-Free Source: https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=367&can=1&q=label%3AProduct-Flash%20modified-after%3A2015%2F8%2F17&sort=id Deadline tracking for Chromium VRP bug https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=484610...

Adobe Flash AS2 - textfield.filters Use-After-Free (2)

Source: https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=342&can=1&q=label%3AProduct-Flash%20modified-after%3A2015%2F8%2F17&sort=id Tracking for https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=480496 Credit is to bilou, working with the Chromium Vulnerability Rewards Progra...

Adobe Flash AS2 - Color.setRGB Use-After-Free

Source: https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=367&can=1&q=label%3AProduct-Flash%20modified-after%3A2015%2F8%2F17&sort=id Deadline tracking for Chromium VRP bug https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=484610 Credit is to bilou, working with the Chromium...

Adobe Flash AS2 - textfield.filters Use-After-Free (1)

Source: https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=330&can=1&q=label%3AProduct-Flash%20modified-after%3A2015%2F8%2F17&sort=id Tracking for: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=476926 Credit is to bilou, working with the Chromium Vulnerability Rewards...

Facebook Bug Bounty Submissions Dramatically Increase

Facebook today reported a dramatic increase in 2013 submissions to its bug bounty program, and said that despite reports from researchers that it’s becoming difficult to find severe bugs on its various properties, the social network plans to increase rewards for critical bugs. “The volume of...

Stable Channel Update for Chrome OS

The Stable channel has been updated to 26.0.1410.57 Platform version: 3701.81.2 for all Chrome OS devices. This build contains some security improvements. Machines will be receiving updates over the next several days. Security fixes and rewards: Please see the Chromium security page for more...