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

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...

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...

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...

Over The Air - Vol. 2, Pt. 3: Exploiting The Wi-Fi Stack on Apple Devices

Posted by Gal Beniamini, Project Zero In this blog post we’ll complete our goal of achieving remote kernel code execution on the iPhone 7, by means of Wi-Fi communication alone. After developing a Wi-Fi firmware exploit in the previous blog post, we are left with the task of using our newly...

CVE-2017-12170

Downstream version 1.0.46-1 of pure-ftpd as shipped in Fedora was vulnerable to packaging error due to which the original configuration was ignored after update and service started running with default configuration. This has security implications because of overriding security-related...

Default configuration

Downstream version 1.0.46-1 of pure-ftpd as shipped in Fedora was vulnerable to packaging error due to which the original configuration was ignored after update and service started running with default configuration. This has security implications because of overriding security-related...

CVE-2017-12170

Downstream version 1.0.46-1 of pure-ftpd as shipped in Fedora was vulnerable to packaging error due to which the original configuration was ignored after update and service started running with default configuration. This has security implications because of overriding security-related...

CVE-2017-12170

Downstream version 1.0.46-1 of pure-ftpd as shipped in Fedora was vulnerable to packaging error due to which the original configuration was ignored after update and service started running with default configuration. This has security implications because of overriding security-related...

CVE-2017-12170

Downstream version 1.0.46-1 of pure-ftpd as shipped in Fedora was vulnerable to packaging error due to which the original configuration was ignored after update and service started running with default configuration. This has security implications because of overriding security-related...

Introduction to DNS Data Exfiltration

Written by Asaf Nadler and Avi Aminov Spyware is a malicious software malware used to gather information about a person or organization without their consent. In a typical setting, a remote server, that acts as a command and control server C&C, waits for an incoming connection from the spyware th...

CVE-2017-9333

OpenWebif 1.2.5 allows remote code execution via a URL to the CallOPKG function in the IpkgController class in plugin/controllers/ipkg.py, when the URL refers to an attacker-controlled web site with a Trojan horse package. This has security implications in cases where untrusted users can trigger...

Remote code execution

OpenWebif 1.2.5 allows remote code execution via a URL to the CallOPKG function in the IpkgController class in plugin/controllers/ipkg.py, when the URL refers to an attacker-controlled web site with a Trojan horse package. This has security implications in cases where untrusted users can trigger...