News Wrap: Amazon Ring Risks, Stalkerware, and D-Link Router Flaws

Threatpost news editors break down the top stories of the week, including: The Coalition Against Stalkerware launched this week, with the aim of offering a centralized location for helping victims of stalkerware, as well as defining what stalkerware is in the first place. Five U.S. Senators are...

Senators Demand Amazon Disclose Ring Privacy Policies

Five U.S. Senators are demanding that Amazon disclose how it’s securing Ring home-security device footage – and who is allowed to access that footage. The demands, outlined in a Wednesday letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, come on the heels of several security vulnerabilities and privacy-related...

Microsoft Windows 7 (x86) - (BlueKeep) RDP Remote Windows Kernel Use After Free Exploit

EDB Note: Download https://github.com/offensive-security/exploitdb-bin-sploits/raw/master/bin-sploits/47683.zip import rdp import socket import binascii import time def poolsprays, crypter, payload: times = 10000 count = 0 while count times: count += 1 print'time through %d' % count try:...

This Week in Security News: APT33 Botnets Used for Extreme Narrow Targeting and Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday Arrives with A Patch for An IE Zero-Day

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 APT33 threat group that is using live C&C servers for extremely narrow targeting. Also, read about Trend Micro’s complete...

Huge Data Leak Doxes Members of Notorious Neo-Nazi Forum

Apple Mail encryption, Ring doorbell Wi-Fi, and more of the week's top security news...

This Week in Security News: Amazon Echo Hacked at Pwn2Own Tokyo 2019 and Ransomware Attacks Hit Spanish Companies

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 a ransomware that is attacking Spanish companies and how nearly 50 adware apps were found on Google Play. Also, read about how a...

Amazon Fixes Ring Video Doorbell Flaw That Leaked Wi-Fi Credentials

UPDATE Amazon has patched a vulnerability in its Ring smart doorbell device that could allow attackers to access the owner’s Wi-Fi network credentials and potentially reconfigure the device to launch an attack on the home network, researchers have found. Researchers discovered the problem in...

Unspecified Vulnerability in Amazon Ring Video Doorbell

Amazon Ring Video Doorbell is a smart wireless home security doorbell camera that allows users to use to remotely control their doorbell. The Amazon Ring Video Doorbell suffers from a security vulnerability that stems from information shared between the application and the doorbell, including Wi-...

Amazon's Ring Video Doorbell Lets Attackers Steal Your Wi-Fi Password

Security researchers at Bitdefender have discovered a high-severity security vulnerability in Amazon's Ring Video Doorbell Pro devices that could allow nearby attackers to steal your WiFi password and launch a variety of cyberattacks using MitM against other devices connected to the same network...

Amazon's Ring Video Doorbell Lets Attackers Steal Your Wi-Fi Password

Security researchers at Bitdefender have discovered a high-severity security vulnerability in Amazon's Ring Video Doorbell Pro devices that could allow nearby attackers to steal your WiFi password and launch a variety of cyberattacks using MitM against other devices connected to the same network...

Kernel: KVM: OOB memory access via mmio ring buffer

An out-of-bounds access issue was found in the way Linux kernel's KVM hypervisor implements the Coalesced MMIO write operation. It operates on an MMIO ring buffer 'struct kvmcoalescedmmio' object, wherein write indices 'ring-first' and 'ring-last' value could be supplied by a host user-space...

Kernel: KVM: OOB memory access via mmio ring buffer

An out-of-bounds access issue was found in the way Linux kernel's KVM hypervisor implements the Coalesced MMIO write operation. It operates on an MMIO ring buffer 'struct kvmcoalescedmmio' object, wherein write indices 'ring-first' and 'ring-last' value could be supplied by a host user-space...

Privacy Groups: Ring's Police Partnerships Can Lead to Sinister Ends

More than 30 privacy and consumer advocacy groups are urging local legislators to intervene in doorbell-camera company Ring’s partnerships with law enforcement. In 2018, Amazon-owned Ring announced that it was starting a “new neighborhood watch” effort, to allow homeowners to provide voluntary...

UBUNTU-CVE-2019-14821

An out-of-bounds access issue was found in the Linux kernel, all versions through 5.3, in the way Linux kernel's KVM hypervisor implements the Coalesced MMIO write operation. It operates on an MMIO ring buffer 'struct kvmcoalescedmmio' object, wherein write indices 'ring-first' and 'ring-last'...

Ring Camera Surveillance Is Transforming Suburban Life

Consumer surveillance cameras are everywhere now, and they’re capturing moments we otherwise would never have known happened...

An illegal prostitution ring took Kazakhstan offline

By Sudais On 31st July 2019, internet users within Kazakhstan experienced a show of dismay unseen before. Suddenly, hundreds of website could not be accessed. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: An illegal prostitution ring took Kazakhstan offline...

DEBIAN-CVE-2019-14821

An out-of-bounds access issue was found in the Linux kernel, all versions through 5.3, in the way Linux kernel's KVM hypervisor implements the Coalesced MMIO write operation. It operates on an MMIO ring buffer 'struct kvmcoalescedmmio' object, wherein write indices 'ring-first' and 'ring-last'...

News Wrap: Dentist Offices Hit By Ransomware, Venmo Faces Privacy Firestorm

In this week’s news wrap podcast, editor Lindsey O’Donnell and Tara Seals break down the top news of the week – from ransomware attacks to companies responding to outcry over privacy issues. Top stories include: Ring announced it is working with more than 400 US police departments to streamline...

Cops Are Offering Ring Doorbell Cameras in Exchange for Info

Amazon-owned Ring has cozied up to law enforcement, and critics say it's using police departments to help market its surveillance cameras...

CVE-2019-5722

An issue was discovered in portier vision 4.4.4.2 and 4.4.4.6. Due to a lack of user input validation in parameter handling, it has various SQL injections, including on the login form, and on the search form for a key ring number...