Hackers Could Use Smart Displays to Spy on Meetings

By exploiting flaws in popular video conferencing hardware from DTEN, attackers can monitor audio, capture slides—and take full control of devices...

Serious Security Flaws Found in Children's Connected Toys

Various connected toys for children – hot off the shelves from this holiday shopping season – have been found with deep-rooted security issues, including missing authentication for device pairing and a lack of encryption for connected online accounts. The research, formed by a partnership between...

USN-4202-2 thunderbird regression

USN-4202-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Thunderbird. After upgrading, Thunderbird created a new profile for some users. This update fixes the problem. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: It was discovered that a specially crafted S/MIME message with an inner encryption laye...

USN-4220-1: Git vulnerabilities

Joern Schneeweisz and Nicolas Joly discovered that Git contained various security flaws. An attacker could possibly use these issues to overwrite arbitrary paths, execute arbitrary code, and overwrite files in the .git directory...

TPM-Fail Attacks Against Cryptographic Coprocessors

Really interesting research: TPM-FAIL: TPM meets Timing and Lattice Attacks, by Daniel Moghimi, Berk Sunar, Thomas Eisenbarth, and Nadia Heninger. Abstract: Trusted Platform Module TPM serves as a hardware-based root of trust that protects cryptographic keys from privileged system and physical...

Mail.ru: Account TakeOver through password recovery at am.ru

Insufficient protection allowed account takeover at am.ru via account recovery code bruteforcing Common flaws of SMS auth: https://blog.deteact.com/common-flaws-of-sms-auth/...

CVE-2019-2967 vulnerabilities

Vulnerabilities for packages: mysql...

CVE-2019-2968 vulnerabilities

Vulnerabilities for packages: mysql...

OPENSUSE-SU-2019:2308-1 Security update for the Linux Kernel

The openSUSE Leap 15.1 kernel was updated to receive various security and bugfixes. The following security bugs were fixed: - CVE-2019-15291: There was a NULL pointer dereference caused by a malicious USB device in the flexcopusbprobe function in the drivers/media/usb/b2c2/flexcop-usb.c driver...

The story of Adobe Reader symbols

Posted by Mateusz Jurczyk, Project Zero Modern day security analysis of client applications is often hindered by the inaccessibility of their source code and other aids such as debug symbols. As a result, it is necessary to perform completely black-box reverse engineering of the software, in orde...

Exploit for OS Command Injection in Webmin

Make-and-Break Create and exploit a vulnerable Virtual Mac...

Some D-Link and Comba WiFi Routers Leak Their Passwords in Plaintext

What could be worse than your router leaking its administrative login credentials in plaintext? Cybersecurity researchers from Trustwave's SpiderLabs have discovered multiple security vulnerabilities in some router models from two popular manufacturers—D-Link and Comba Telecom—that involve insecu...

Improper input validation in Apache Santuario XML Security for Java

In version 2.0.3 Apache Santuario XML Security for Java, a caching mechanism was introduced to speed up creating new XML documents using a static pool of DocumentBuilders. However, if some untrusted code can register a malicious implementation with the thread context class loader first, then this...

CVE-2019-12400

In version 2.0.3 Apache Santuario XML Security for Java, a caching mechanism was introduced to speed up creating new XML documents using a static pool of DocumentBuilders. However, if some untrusted code can register a malicious implementation with the thread context class loader first, then this...

CVE-2019-12400

Affected software: Apache Santuario XML Security for Java 2.0.x (from 2.0.3) and all 2.1.x releases before 2.1.4. Root cause: a caching mechanism using a static pool of DocumentBuilders can cache a malicious thread-context class loader implementation registered by untrusted code, leading to reuse...

Software Vulnerabilities in the Boeing 787

Boeing left its software unprotected, and researchers have analyzed it for vulnerabilities: At the Black Hat security conference today in Las Vegas, Santamarta, a researcher for security firm IOActive, plans to present his findings, including the details of multiple serious security flaws in the...

Black Hat 2019 News Wrap: The Best and Worst of the Show

LAS VEGAS – Black Hat and DEF CON 2019 may be wrapping up, but the dual conferences last week in Las Vegas left the security industry with a flurry of new security flaws, topics and announcements to discuss for the weeks to come. Threatpost editors Tara Seals and Lindsey O’Donnell get together to...

Canon DSLR Cameras Can Be Hacked With Ransomware Remotely

The threat of ransomware is becoming more prevalent and severe as attackers' focus has now moved beyond computers to smartphones and other Internet-connected smart devices. In its latest research, security researchers at cybersecurity firm CheckPoint demonstrated how easy it is for hackers to...

Black Hat: LeapFrog Tablet Flaws Let Attackers Track, Message Kids

LAS VEGAS – Serious vulnerabilities have been disclosed in LeapFrog’s tablet for kids, the LeapPad Ultimate, once again throwing child data privacy into the spotlight. The LeapPad Ultimate is a rugged tablet made by LeapFrog that targets children with an array of education, game and eBook apps...

Cisco 'Knowingly' Sold Hackable Video Surveillance System to U.S. Government

Cisco Systems has agreed to pay $8.6 million to settle a lawsuit that accused the company of knowingly selling video surveillance system containing severe security vulnerabilities to the U.S. federal and state government agencies. It's believed to be the first payout on a 'False Claims Act' case...