HackerOne Breach Leads to $20,000 Bounty Reward

HackerOne has paid out $20,000 after a high-severity vulnerability was discovered in the bug-bounty platform. The flaw allowed an outside bounty hunter to access customers’ reports and other sensitive information. Disclosed this week in a HackerOne report, the security incident stemmed from a...

CISA Pushing U.S. Agencies to Adopt Vulnerability Disclosure Policies

The U.S. government’s cybersecurity agency has issued a draft directive mandating all agencies to develop vulnerability disclosure policies, which would give ethical hackers clear guidelines for submitting bugs found in government systems. Security experts hope that the directive will light a fir...

Meet the BlueHat Content Advisory Board

We couldn’t do BlueHat without the Content Advisory Board, the brain trust reviewing submissions to the CFP. Representing both Microsoft and other parts of security community, the CAB applies their industry and speaker experience to create the BlueHat agenda that’s the right mix of topics and...

Meet the BlueHat Content Advisory Board

We couldn’t do BlueHat without the Content Advisory Board, the brain trust reviewing submissions to the CFP. Representing both Microsoft and other parts of security community, the CAB applies their industry and speaker experience to create the BlueHat agenda that’s the right mix of topics and...

Meet the BlueHat Content Advisory Board

We couldn’t do BlueHat without the Content Advisory Board, the brain trust reviewing submissions to the CFP. Representing both Microsoft and other parts of security community, the CAB applies their industry and speaker experience to create the BlueHat agenda that’s the right mix of topics and...

CVE-2019-16229

drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdkfd/kfdinterrupt.c in the Linux kernel 5.2.14 does not check the allocworkqueue return value, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. NOTE: The security community disputes this issues as not being serious enough to be deserving a CVE id...

Open Sourcing StringSifter

Malware analysts routinely use the Strings program during static analysis in order to inspect a binary's printable characters. However, identifying relevant strings by hand is time consuming and prone to human error. Larger binaries produce upwards of thousands of strings that can quickly evoke...

Apple Upgrades Bug Bounty Program: Adds Macs, $1M Reward

LAS VEGAS – Apple is giving its bug bounty program a much-needed makeover. The device manufacturer in a Thursday Black Hat USA 2019 session said it will open the historically private program to all researchers in the fall. In addition, it plans to drastically boost some rewards for vulnerabilitie...

No Jail Time for “WannaCry Hero”

Marcus Hutchins, the "accidental hero" who helped arrest the spread of the global WannaCry ransomware outbreak in 2017, will receive no jail time for his admitted role in authoring and selling malware that helped cyberthieves steal online bank account credentials from victims, a federal judge rul...

Finding Evil in Windows 10 Compressed Memory, Part One: Volatility and Rekall Tools

Paging all digital forensicators, incident responders, and memory manager enthusiasts! Have you ever found yourself at a client site working around the clock to extract evil from a Windows 10 image? Have you hit the wall at step zero, running into difficulties viewing a process tree, or enumerati...

Apache Struts OGNL injection vulnerability principle with an example-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Through this article, we mainly learn how Apache Struts to achieve OGNL injection. Our examples will be set forth in the Struts of the two critical vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-5638（Equifax information disclosure and CVE-2018-11776。 Apache Struts is a free open source framework for creating modern...

Local privilege escalation via the Windows I/O Manager: a variant finding collaboration

The Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC investigates all reports of security vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft products and services to help make our customers and the global online community more secure. We appreciate the excellent vulnerability research reported to us regularly from the...

CB Customer Spotlight: Q&A with MSD of Mt. Vernon’s William Stein

For the past 28 years, William Stein, Certified Education Technology Leader, has served as the Director of Information Systems for the Metropolitan School District MSD of Mt. Vernon in Indiana. Stein uses Carbon Black solutions to protect the K-12 school district’s data by responding to emerging...

Carbon Black Wins Four 2019 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards

We’re excited to announce that the 2019 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards recognized Carbon Black as a winner of the following four categories: Best Cybersecurity Company Gold Winner Endpoint Security for Predictive Security Cloud Gold Winner Endpoint Detection and Response for CB ThreatHunter Silv...

Carbon Black Named a Finalist in 2019 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards and SC Media Awards

Carbon Black has been a leader in endpoint security for years and, yet, we’re still extremely grateful for continued recognition in the industry. Most recently, Carbon Black is honored to be recognized as a finalist in four categories for the 2019 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards including: Best...

Nessus 8.2.1 Cross Site Scripting

Exploit Title: Nessus 8.2.1 | Stored Cross-Site Scripting Date: 29.01.2019 Exploit Author: Ozer Goker Vendor Homepage: https://www.tenable.com Software Link: https://www.tenable.com/downloads/nessus Version: 8.2.1 Introduction Nessus is 1 For Vulnerability Assessment From the beginning, we've...

APT review of the year

What were the most interesting developments in terms of APT activity throughout the year and what can we learn from them? Not an easy question to answer; everybody has partial visibility and it's never possible to really understand the motivations of some attacks or the developments behind them...

Cb Customer Spotlight Series: Q&A Landmark Credit Union’s Matt Goodacre

Featuring Matt Goodacre, Security Analyst at Landmark Credit Union With all their endpoints in high enforcement mode, Matt Goodacre, Security Analyst at Landmark Credit Union in Wisconsin, is confident the organization’s workstations are up to locked down when it comes to security. Here’s how...

[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: capstone-3.0.5-1.fc29

Capstone is a disassembly framework with the target of becoming the ultimate disasm engine for binary analysis and reversing in the security community...

Finding the signal of community in all the noise at Black Hat

I dont know about you, but I find large conferences overwhelming. Dont get me wrong, nothing beats the innovative potential of bringing a diverse group of brilliant people together to hash through thorny issues and share insights. But there are so many speakers, booths, and people, it can be a...