Charlie Miller to Leave Twitter Security Team

Charlie Miller, one of the more respected and accomplished security researchers in the industry, is leaving Twitter’s security team after three years. Miller said on Monday that he is leaving the company at the end of this week and that he plans to announce his new job next week. Miller joined...

Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in qTranslate WordPress Plugin

Advisory ID: HTB23265 Product: qTranslate WordPress plugin Vendor: Qian Qin Vulnerable Versions: 2.5.39 and probably prior Tested Version: 2.5.39 Advisory Publication: July 1, 2015 without technical details Vendor Notification: July 1, 2015 Public Disclosure: July 29, 2015 Vulnerability Type:...

Microsoft Office 2007 - 'wwlib.dll' fcPlcfFldMom Uninitialized Heap Usage

Source: https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=424&can=1 The following crash was observed in Microsoft Office 2007 with Microsoft Office File Validation Add-In disabled and Application Verifier enabled for testing and reproduction. This bug also reproduced in Office...

Adobe Flash AS2 - Color.setRGB Use-After-Free

Adobe Flash AS2 - Color.setRGB Use-After-Free Source: https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=367&can=1&q=label%3AProduct-Flash%20modified-after%3A2015%2F8%2F17&sort=id Deadline tracking for Chromium VRP bug https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=484610...

Adobe Flash - Pointer Crash in Drawing and Bitmap Handling

Source: https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=396&can=1&q=label%3AProduct-Flash%20modified-after%3A2015%2F8%2F17&sort=id A nasty looking crash is manifesting in various different ways under fuzzing, apparently related to drawing and bitmap handling. A trigger is...

Adobe Flash - Pointer Crash in Button Handling

Adobe Flash - Pointer Crash in Button Handling Source: https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=399&can=1&q=label%3AProduct-Flash%20modified-after%3A2015%2F8%2F17&sort=id The attached sample, signalsigsegv7ffff60a14299554f4dc661554237404dfe394d4c6c3e674.swf, crashes in...

Adobe Flash - Pointer Crash in Drawing and Bitmap Handling

Adobe Flash - Pointer Crash in Drawing and Bitmap Handling Source: https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=396&can=1&q=label%3AProduct-Flash%20modified-after%3A2015%2F8%2F17&sort=id A nasty looking crash is manifesting in various different ways under fuzzing, apparentl...

Adobe Flash - Display List Handling Use-After-Free

Adobe Flash - Display List Handling Use-After-Free Source: https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=349&can=1&q=label%3AProduct-Flash%20modified-after%3A2015%2F8%2F17&sort=id Credit is to KEEN Team. 3 different PoC's in the attached zip. Proof of Concept:...

Microsoft Windows 8.1 - DCOM DCE/RPC Local NTLM Reflection Privilege Escalation (MS15-076)

Source: https://github.com/monoxgas/Trebuchet Trebuchet MS15-076 CVE-2015-2370 Privilege Escalation Copies a file to any privileged location on disk Compiled with VS2015, precompiled exe in Binary directory Usage: trebuchet.exe C:\Users\Bob\Evil.txt C:\Windows\System32\Evil.dll This is a lightly...

Facebook Internet Defense Prize Doubles Payout

Facebook tonight awarded a $100,000 prize to a team of Georgia Tech researchers who found a new class of browser-based memory-corruption vulnerabilities and built a corresponding detection technique. The award brings the social media giant on par with Microsoft and its six-figure payouts for...

Model S has a security vulnerability? Tesla Fury dig Google head of security-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Earlier today broke the Tesla Model S model electric car, there may be hackers exploit major security vulnerability through this vulnerability hackers can remotely control cars, and even let the car flameout, the media reported this message and of the electric car's safety questioned. Tesla in...

'Prohibition Era' Of Security Research May Be Ahead

LAS VEGAS–Export controls have become a dirty phrase in the security community, especially among researchers, pen testers, and others who rely on vulnerability information and exploits to do their jobs. And if the Wassenaar Arrangement rules proposed by the United States aren’t modified...

Government Takes Second Look at US Wassenaar Rules

In spite of self-congratulatory pats on the back from several corners of the security world, this week’s decision from the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security BIS to rewrite the proposed U.S. implementation of the Wassenaar Arrangement rules was an expected outcome—albeit an...

One font vulnerability to rule them all #1: Introducing the BLEND vulnerability

Posted by Mateusz Jurczyk of Google Project Zero Last month, I presented parts of my PostScript font security research at the REcon security conference in Montreal, in a talk titled “One font vulnerability to rule them all: A story of cross-software ownage, shared codebases and advanced...

Hackers Can Remotely Hack Self-Aiming Rifles to Change Its Target

High-tech Sniper Rifles can be remotely hacked to shoot the wrong target – Something really scary and unpredictable. Yes, Hackers can remotely gain access to the $13,000 TrackingPoint sniper rifles that run Linux and Android operating system and have Wi-Fi connections. So then they can either...

Multiple XSS Vulnerabilities in Paid Memberships Pro WordPress Plugin

Advisory ID: HTB23264 Product: Paid Memberships Pro WordPress plugin Vendor: Stranger Studios Vulnerable Versions: 1.8.4.2 and probably prior Tested Version: 1.8.4.2 Advisory Publication: July 1, 2015 without technical details Vendor Notification: July 1, 2015 Vendor Patch: July 8, 2015 Public...

Stakeholders Argue Against Restrictive Wassennaar Proposal

The commenting period regarding the Wassenaar Arrangement expired on Monday but the echo chamber around the largely maligned proposal continues to reverberate. Several stakeholders implicated in the proposal added their voices to that chamber on Friday morning, urging the government to revise...

WordPress Count Per Day 3.4 SQL Injection Vulnerability

WordPress Count Per Day plugin version 3.4 suffers from a remote SQL injection vulnerability. Product: Count Per Day WordPress plugin Vendor: Tom Braider Vulnerable Versions: 3.4 and probably prior Tested Version: 3.4 Advisory Publication: July 1, 2015 without technical details Vendor Notificatio...

EFF Hopeful Car Hacking Demo Could Help Yield DMCA Exemption

The latest car hacking research from Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek has elicited a broad spectrum of reactions: admiration for the skill; outrage at the danger the demo may have put drivers; and even a patch from an automaker. And the EFF is hoping it might also help produce a new exemption to...

Google Calls Proposed U.S. Wassenaar Rules 'Not Feasible'

As the clock winds down on the comment period for the United States government’s proposed implementation of the Wassenaar Arrangement export controls for intrusion software, Google officials say that the rules would have a “significant negative impact” on security research. The Department of...