The iPhone 11 Pro’s Location Data Puzzler

One of the more curious behaviors of Apple's new iPhone 11 Pro is that it intermittently seeks the user's location information even when all applications and system services on the phone are individually set to never request this data. Apple says this is by design, but that response seems at odds...

Ruby: Variant of CVE-2013-0269 (Denial of Service and Unsafe Object Creation Vulnerability in JSON)

During my recent keyword argument separation work on rbscanargs in the master branch, I discovered what I now think is a vulnerability. While the CVE-2013-0269 change fixed most usage of JSON.parse, it ended up not fixing KernelJSON. The reason behind this is that internally, in...

This Week in Security News: Magecart Attacks and Is Your Smart TV Spying on You?

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about Magecart attacks and the security implications of PSD2. Also, read about how your smart TV might be leaking your data to the lik...

China's AI Strategy and its Security Implications

Gregory C. Allen at the Center for a New American Security has a new report with some interesting analysis and insights into China's AI strategy, commercial, government, and military. There are numerous security -- and national security -- implications...

Apple Disables Group FaceTime Following Major Privacy Glitch

Apple has made Group FaceTime temporarily unavailable following a major flaw discovered on Monday evening. The bug allows anyone with iOS to FaceTime other iOS users and listen in on their private conversations – without the user on other end rejecting or accepting the call. The bug makes use of ...

Hack Allows Escape of Play-with-Docker Containers

Researchers hacked the Docker test platform called Play-with-Docker, allowing them to access data and manipulate any test Docker containers running on the host system. The proof-of-concept hack does not impact production Docker instances, according to CyberArk researchers that developed the...

setup: nologin listed in /etc/shells violates security expectations

Setup in Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux added /sbin/nologin and /usr/sbin/nologin to /etc/shells. This violates security assumptions made by pamshells and some daemons which allow access based on a user's shell being listed in /etc/shells. Under some circumstances, users which had their shel...

Node.js: Pull Request #12949 - Security Implications without CVE assignment

Summary: Pull Request 12949 has security implications but it was not assigned a CVE by the Node team. It is being reported by Qualys as a 6.8 severity issue without a CVE. Description: Here is the commit and pull request - https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/010f864426...

curl: Invalid URL parsing with '#'

curl before version 7.51.0 doesn't parse the authority component of the URL correctly when the host name part ends with a '' character, and could instead be tricked into connecting to a different host. This may have security implications if you for example use an URL parser that follows the RFC t...

Playback: A TLS 1.3 Story

Introduction Secure communications are one of the most important topics in information security, and the Transport Layer Security TLS protocol is currently the most used protocol to provide secure communications on the internet. For example, when you are connecting to your online banking...

Server side request forgery (ssrf)

curl before version 7.51.0 doesn't parse the authority component of the URL correctly when the host name part ends with a '' character, and could instead be tricked into connecting to a different host. This may have security implications if you for example use an URL parser that follows the RFC t...

CVE-2016-8624

curl before version 7.51.0 doesn't parse the authority component of the URL correctly when the host name part ends with a '' character, and could instead be tricked into connecting to a different host. This may have security implications if you for example use an URL parser that follows the RFC t...

CVE-2016-8624

curl before version 7.51.0 doesn't parse the authority component of the URL correctly when the host name part ends with a '' character, and could instead be tricked into connecting to a different host. This may have security implications if you for example use an URL parser that follows the RFC t...

CVE-2016-8624

CVE-2016-8624 affects curl up to version 7.51.0, where the authority component parsing can mis-handle hostnames ending with a '#', potentially causing connections to an unintended host. Connected sources (e.g., Apple security content and cloud-founding advisories) confirm the issue as a URL parsi...

New strain of Mac malware Proton found after two years

Last week, Kaspersky reported on a new variant of the Mac malware Proton, which they have dubbed Calisto, that has been around for at least two years. Calisto is thoroughly dead at this point, but there are still potential security implications involved with these older infections. Proton was fir...

What’s the real value—and danger—of smart assistants?

You've heard them called virtual assistants, digital personal assistants, voice assistants, or smart assistants. Operated by artificial intelligence, technologies such as Siri, Alexa, Google Assistant, and Cortana have become ubiquitous in our culture. But what exactly do they do? And how serious...

Conservation of Threat

Here's some interesting research about how we perceive threats. Basically, as the environment becomes safer we basically manufacture new threats. From an essay about the research: To study how concepts change when they become less common, we brought volunteers into our laboratory and gave them a...

Shopify: Subdomain Takeover - https://competition.shopify.com/

Dear Shopify Security Team, The Shopify.com subdomain competition.shopify.com was vulnerable to a subdomain takeover as it was pointing to an unclaimed Heroku service through the CNAME competition.shopify.com.herokudns.com, while the custom domain 'competition.shopify.com' was unclaimed in Heroku...

‘Voice-Squatting’ Turns Alexa, Google Home into Silent Spies

A team of academic researchers has tested the phonetic wherewithal of smart-home assistants Amazon Alexa and Google Home, finding it possible to closely mimic legitimate voice commands in order to carry out nefarious actions. The researchers, a composite team from Indiana University in Bloomingto...

Mail.ru: api.icq.com / отсутсвие лимита на отправку сообщений удаляя параметр защиты "&r"

Researcher reported removing r= parameter from request allows to bypass rate limits. This claim was not confirmed, r= paramter protects message from intermediate caching and prevents sending the same message twice in the case of network failure, it does not affect any ratelimits, no security...