Patrick Wardle: Apple Devices Hit With Recycled macOS Malware

SAN FRANCISCO – Advanced persistent threat APT groups are hitting Apple devices with malware that has been reverse engineered and redeployed for malicious acts. This technique is complicating attribution efforts, Patrick Wardle, security researcher with Jamf, said this week during RSA Conference...

Improper access control

Improper access control vulnerability in Configuration Tool in McAfee Mcafee Endpoint Security ENS Prior to 10.6.1 February 2020 Update allows local users to disable security features via unauthorised use of the configuration tool from older versions of ENS...

CVE-2020-7251

The CVE-2020-7251 issue affects McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows specifically its Configuration Tool. The root cause is improper access control in the Configuration Tool prior to ENS 10.6.1 (February 2020 Update), enabling local users to disable security features via unauthorized use of...

CVE-2020-7251: Improperly Implemented Security Check for Standard

Improper access control vulnerability in Configuration Tool in McAfee Mcafee Endpoint Security ENS Prior to 10.6.1 February 2020 Update allows local users to disable security features via unauthorised use of the configuration tool from older versions of ENS...

Hackers Exploited Twitter Bug to Find Linked Phone Numbers of Users

Twitter today issued a warning revealing that attackers abused a legitimate functionality on its platform to unauthorizedly determine phone numbers associated with millions of its users' accounts. According to Twitter, the vulnerability resided in one of the APIs that has been designed to make it...

Pen Testing Ships. A year in review

Partially driven by the upcoming inclusion of Cyber Security by the IMO International Maritime Organisation, 2019 was a really busy year for maritime security testing at PTP. What can we all learn from a year of evaluating the security of ships? We’ve been involved in all sorts of ship testing,...

Mandatory IoT Security in the Offing with U.K. Proposal

The U.K. government has unveiled a proposed law aimed at securing internet of things IoT devices, which have historically been riddled with basic security issues. The drafted law, announced on Monday, comprises three main mandates for IoT manufacturers. First, all consumer IoT device passwords mu...

Cisco IOS XE Software Switch Integrated Security Features IPv6 DoS (cisco-sa-20180328-sisf)

According to its self-reported version, Cisco IOS XE Software is affected by a denial of service DoS vulnerability in the Switch Integrated Security Features due to incorrect handling of crafted IPv6 packets. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, by sending crafted IPv6 packets to...

Black Friday Shopping: Protect Your Identity

Black Friday is one of the most lucrative shopping days of the year for retailers in brick-and-mortar shops and online, but shoppers aren't the only ones looking for deals. Malicious people may be able to obtain personal information such as credit card numbers, phone numbers, account numbers, and...

CVE-2019-15685

Kaspersky Anti-Virus, Kaspersky Internet Security, Kaspersky Total Security, Kaspersky Free Anti-Virus, Kaspersky Small Office Security, Kaspersky Security Cloud up to 2020, the web protection component allowed an attacker remotely disable such product's security features as private browsing and...

CVE-2019-15685: Undefined Security Weakness

Kaspersky Anti-Virus, Kaspersky Internet Security, Kaspersky Total Security, Kaspersky Free Anti-Virus, Kaspersky Small Office Security, Kaspersky Security Cloud up to 2020, the web protection component allowed an attacker remotely disable such product's security features as private browsing and...

IoT bills and guidelines: a global response

You may not have noticed, but Internet of Things IoT rules and regulations are coming whether manufacturers want them or not. From experience, drafting up laws which are hopefully sensible and have some relevance to problems raised by current technology is a time-consuming, frustrating process...

McAfee Endpoint Security for Windows 10.5.x < 10.5.5 October 2019 Update / 10.6.x < 10.6.1 February 2020 Update / 10.7.x < 10.7.0 February 2020 Update Multiple Vulnerabilities (SB10299)

The version of the McAfee Endpoint Security ENS for Windows installed on the remote Windows host is 10.5.x prior to 10.5.5 October 2019 Update, 10.6.x prior to 10.6.1 February 2020 Update, or 10.7.x prior to 10.7.0 February 2020 Update. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities: - Co...

Threat Source newsletter (Sept. 26)

Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week. An attacker known as “Tortoiseshell” is using a phony, malicious website to deliver malware. The site specifically targets U.S. military...

CVE-2019-16097 Harbor privilege elevation vulnerability analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

The Harbor is one for the storage and distribution Docker image of the enterprise Registry server, by adding some of the business functions necessary characteristics, such as security, identification, and management, the expansion of the open-source Docker Distribution. As an enterprise-level...

[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: curl-7.65.3-4.fc30

curl is a command line tool for transferring data with URL syntax, supporti ng FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, LDAP, LDAPS, FILE, I MAP, SMTP, POP3 and RTSP. curl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies,...

A Secure “Smart” Kettle?

We haven’t looked at smart kettles for a long time, mostly as the UK market leader, Smarter, fixed their security with the iKettle 3.0. So I got quite excited when a colleague pointed out the Xiaomi ‘smart’ kettle a few weeks back. It’s the first kettle with a mobile app that we’ve seen for a...

Apple iOS 13 will better protect user privacy, but more could be done

Last week, Apple introduced several new privacy features to its latest mobile operating system, iOS 13. The Internet, predictably, expressed doubt, questioning Apple’s oversized influence, its exclusive pricing model that puts privacy out of reach for anyone who can’t drop hundreds of dollars on ...

[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: curl-7.61.1-11.fc29

curl is a command line tool for transferring data with URL syntax, supporti ng FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, LDAP, LDAPS, FILE, I MAP, SMTP, POP3 and RTSP. curl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies,...

Tor Browser for Android — First Official App Released On Play Store

Wohooo! Great news for privacy-focused users. Tor Browser, the most popular privacy-focused browser, for Android is finally out of beta, and the first stable version has now arrived on Google Play Store for anyone to download. The Tor Project announced Tuesday the first official stable release of...