Internet Shortcut used in Necurs malspam campaign

The Necurs botnet continues to be one of the most prolific malicious spam distributors, with regular waves of carefully-crafted attachments that are used to download malware. The majority of malspam campaigns that we track are targeting Microsoft Office with documents containing either macros or...

Delta Electronics PMSoft

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 7.1 ATTENTION : Low skill level to exploit. Vendor : Delta Electronics Equipment : PMSoft Vulnerabilities : Multiple Stack-Based Buffer Overflow vulnerabilities 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could cause the application to crash;...

5 Tips to Make your Online Business Secure from Hackers

By Carolina If you are an entrepreneur who runs an online business, This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 5 Tips to Make your Online Business Secure from Hackers...

Actionable Threat Intelligence, Tailored to You

We are very excited to be launching the next generation of our Client Reputation product. This update takes Client Reputation a huge step further in providing our customers with truly actionable intelligence tailored for them. It computes an even better assessment of the real risk that every...

Microsoft Excel CVE-2018-1026 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Description Microsoft Excel is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability. An attacker can leverage this issue to execute arbitrary code in the context of the currently logged-in user. Failed exploit attempts will likely result in denial of service conditions. Technologies Affected Microsoft...

U.S. DoD Hopes To Stamp Out Threats With Bug Bounty Program

The U.S. Department of Defense is doubling down on routing out vulnerabilities in its massive government systems. On Monday, the DoD announced it was expanding its bug bounty program to include the agency’s massive Defense Travel System. The “Hack the DTS” program launched in partnership with bug...

The digital entropy of death: what happens to your online accounts when you die

Unless you're planning on having your mind jammed inside some sort of computer chip, eventually mortality will catch up and you're going to have to work out what you'll do with all of your online accounts. When it's time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you might, theoretically, be slightly annoy...

2018 Cyberthreat Defense Report: Where IT Security Is Going

What keeps you awake at night? We asked IT security professionals the same question and found that these issues are top of mind: malware and spear phishing, securing mobile devices, employee security awareness and new technologies that detect threats capable of bypassing traditional signature-bas...

Financial Cyber Threat Sharing Group Phished

The Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center FS-ISAC, an industry forum for sharing data about critical cybersecurity threats facing the banking and finance industries, said today that a successful phishing attack on one of its employees was used to launch additional phishing...

On the Security of Walls

Interesting history of the security of walls: Dún Aonghasa presents early evidence of the same principles of redundant security measures at work in 13th century castles, 17th century star-shaped artillery fortifications, and even "defense in depth" security architecture promoted today by the...

File Your Taxes Before Scammers Do It For You

Today, Jan. 29, is officially the first day of the 2018 tax-filing season, also known as the day fraudsters start requesting phony tax refunds in the names of identity theft victims. Want to minimize the chances of getting hit by tax refund fraud this year? File your taxes before the bad guys can...

Domains & Hostings Manager PRO 3.0 - Authentication Bypass

Exploit Title: Domains & Hostings Manager PRO v 3.0 - Authentication Bypass Date: 13.01.2018 Vendor Homepage: http://endavi.com/ Software Buy: https://codecanyon.net/item/advanced-domains-and-hostings-pro-v3-multiuser/10368735 Demo: http://endavi.com/dhrprodemo/ Version: 3.0 Tested on: Windows 10...

A worthy upgrade: Next-gen security on Windows 10 proves resilient against ransomware outbreaks in 2017

Adopting reliable attack methods and techniques borrowed from more evolved threat types, ransomware attained new levels of reach and damage in 2017. The following trends characterize the ransomware narrative in the past year: Three global outbreaks showed the force of ransomware in making...

Bitcoin exchange hit by DDoS attack after kidnapping of its official (Updated)

By Waqas Bitcoin is one of those cryptocurrencies whose value has rapidly This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Bitcoin exchange hit by DDoS attack after kidnapping of its official Updated...

How to harden AdwCleaner’s web backend using PHP

More and more applications are moving from desktop to the web, where they are particularly exposed to security risks. They are often tied to a database backend, and thus need to be properly secured, even though most of the time they are designed to restrict access to authenticated users only. PHP...

CVE-2017-12342

A vulnerability in the Open Agent Container OAC feature of Cisco Nexus Series Switches could allow an unauthenticated, local attacker to read and send packets outside the scope of the OAC. The vulnerability is due to insufficient internal security measures in the OAC feature. An attacker could...

CVE-2017-12342

A vulnerability in the Open Agent Container OAC feature of Cisco Nexus Series Switches could allow an unauthenticated, local attacker to read and send packets outside the scope of the OAC. The vulnerability is due to insufficient internal security measures in the OAC feature. An attacker could...

GHSA-HXHJ-HP9M-QWC4 private_address_check vulnerable to bypass of Resolv.getaddresses method

The privateaddresscheck ruby gem before 0.4.0 is vulnerable to a bypass due to use of Ruby's Resolv.getaddresses method, which is OS-dependent and should not be relied upon for security measures, such as when used to blacklist private network addresses to prevent server-side request forgery...

private_address_check vulnerable to bypass of Resolv.getaddresses method

The privateaddresscheck ruby gem before 0.4.0 is vulnerable to a bypass due to use of Ruby's Resolv.getaddresses method, which is OS-dependent and should not be relied upon for security measures, such as when used to blacklist private network addresses to prevent server-side request forgery...

Cisco NX-OS System Software Guest Shell Unauthorized Internal Interface Access Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the guest shell feature of Cisco NX-OS System Software could allow an authenticated, local attacker to read and send packets outside the scope of the guest shell container. An attacker would need valid administrator credentials to perform this attack. The vulnerability is due t...