Dow Jones’ screening watchlist data exposed online

By Waqas A database hosted on Amazon Web Services AWS and owned by Dow Jones has accidentally been exposed putting approx. 2.4 million corporate entities and individuals at risk of data theft. Reportedly, the exposed database comprises sensitive information about terrorists, criminals, and shady...

Can Everybody Read the US Terrorist Watch List?

After years of claiming that the Terrorist Screening Database is kept secret within the government, we have now learned that the DHS shares it "with more than 1,400 private entities, including hospitals and universities...." Critics say that the watchlist is wildly overbroad and mismanaged, and...

Don't Fear the TSA Cutting Airport Security. Be Glad That They're Talking about It.

Last week, CNN reported that the Transportation Security Administration is considering eliminating security at U.S. airports that fly only smaller planes -- 60 seats or fewer. Passengers connecting to larger planes would clear security at their destinations. To be clear, the TSA has put forth no...

Stego-Toolkit - Collection Of Steganography Tools (Helps With CTF Challenges)

This project is a Docker image useful for solving Steganography challenges as those you can find at CTF platforms like hackthebox.eu. The image comes preinstalled with many popular see list below and several screening scripts you can use check simple things for instance, run checkjpg.sh image.jpg...

High network usage after you implement file screening on a Windows Server 2012 R2-based Work Folders sync server

High network usage after you implement file screening on a Windows Server 2012 R2-based Work Folders sync server This article describes an issue that occurs on a Windows Server 2012 R2-based Work Folders sync server. You can fix this issue by using the update in this article. Before you install...

Hack The Pentagon Bug Bounty Opens April 18

The Department of Defense announced today that registration for its Hack the Pentagon bug bounty trial program is open, and that the program will be run on the HackerOne platform. The trial of the government’s first bug bounty program will run April 18 to May 12. The DoD said only certain...

USN-2545-1 linux-lts-utopic vulnerabilities

A flaw was discovered in the automatic loading of modules in the crypto subsystem of the Linux kernel. A local user could exploit this flaw to load installed kernel modules, increasing the attack surface and potentially using this to gain administrative privileges. CVE-2013-7421 A flaw was...

Fedora 20 : gnupg-1.4.17-1.fc20 (2014-7676)

New upstream v1.4.17 - Avoid DoS due to garbled compressed data packets. - Screen keyserver reponses to avoid import of unwanted keys by rogue servers. - Add hash algorithms to the 'sig' records of the colon output. - More specific reason codes for INVRECP status. - Drop gpg.ru.1 Note that Tenabl...

Localize: XSS in main page (invitation)

If a project name is saved with a XSS string such as: “!-- and a translator visits and requests and invite, it'll result in the xss executing in the main page, due to the fact that it shows your requests. Screen: http://prntscr.com/3awwuv...

Edward Snowden asylum : Hong Kong, Ecuador and Iceland

Edward Snowden, an American former contractor for the National Security Agency NSA, came forward as the whistle-blower in one of the biggest internal leaks in U.S. intelligence history now seeking asylum According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Snowden would not be given...

Applicants Coerced Into Surfing Facebook While Employers Watch

If you want to get that slick job you’ve been gunning for, you might have to suffer a bit of snooping. According to recent news reports, employers are increasingly asking applicants for jobs to submit their user credentials or asking to watch while applicants peruse their own social media account...

Oracle Java ICC Screening Tag Parsing Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Oracle Java Runtime. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the way Java...

Rogue iPhone Apps Explored at Black Hat

Lax security screening at Apple’s App Store and a design flaw are putting iPhone users at risk of downloading malicious apps that could steal data and spy on them, a Swiss researcher warns at Black Hat DC. Read the full article. cnet...

Fixing a Security Problem Isn't Always the Right Answer

An unidentified man breached airport security at Newark Airport on Sunday, walking into the secured area through the exit, prompting an evacuation of a terminal and flight delays that continued into the next day. This problem isn’t common, but it happens regularly. The result is always the same,...

NAI Gauntlet mishandling of NAT

In some circumstances NAI Gauntlet firewall performs Network Address Translation in an unexpected manner, causing incorrect routable IP addresses to be generated. This can enable unprivileged users on the protected network to knowingly or unknowingly generate spurious source IP addresses. Vendor...