Third Party Testing of Security is a Very Big Deal for Customers

User Reviews + Test Results Peer reviews are an important part of product selection. Everything I buy on Amazon and most other things I buy I check for reviews first. That’s the “do I like it” or the test-drive part of the selection. But the “how well does it work” part is lab testing. I’m not...

The vulnerability of AMD Secure Processor technology allows for the execution of arbitrary code on a secure processor.

The vulnerability of AMD Secure Processor-based Ryzen and Ryzen Pro processors lies in the implementation flaws of security functions. Exploiting this vulnerability allows an attacker who has access to the targeted computer and possesses administrator privileges to execute arbitrary code on the...

Why you have to move beyond “We have a policy for that”

Ive never been a big fan of - or have believed in the value of - security policies. Sure, theyre necessary for setting expectations and auditors want to see them. They can also serve as a sort of insurance policy to fall back on when an unexpected security "event" occurs. But, at the end of the...

The Mac OS X operating system, and found 2 pieces of Privilege elevation 0day vulnerabilities-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Apple Mac OS X operating system, and found 2 pieces new, 0day vulnerabilities, if an attacker successfully exploited, may be in the victim's equipment on elevated privileges to get root access. Vulnerability details These two vulnerabilities is by Italian security researcher Luca Todesco found, a...

Cross site scripting

The issafeurl function in utils/http.py in Django 1.4.x before 1.4.6, 1.5.x before 1.5.2, and 1.6 before beta 2 treats a URL's scheme as safe even if it is not HTTP or HTTPS, which might introduce cross-site scripting XSS or other vulnerabilities into Django applications that use this function, a...

CVE-2009-1299

The pamakesecuredir function in core-util.c in PulseAudio 0.9.10 and 0.9.19 allows local users to change the ownership and permissions of arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a /tmp/.esd- temporary file...

Webspell 4 (Auth Bypass) SQL Injection Vulnerability

Exploit for unknown platform in category web applications ==================================================== Webspell 4 Auth Bypass SQL Injection Vulnerability ==================================================== Webspell Login Bypass Found by: h0yt3r Checklogin.php Line 60: setcookie"wsauth",...

Particle Gallery 1.0.1 - SQL Injection

!/usr/bin/php -q -d shortopentag=on setvar"COMMENTID", ""; if $GET"editcomment" "" $sql = "SELECT FROM " . $dbprefix . "comments WHERE commentid = " . dbSecure$GET"editcomment"; $cme = $db-execute$sql; if $usr-Access 1 || $SESSION"userid" == $cme-fields"userid" // allow user to edit the comment...