PWN2OWN 2017 the Linux kernel to mention the right vulnerability analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! 0. Foreword In 2017, the PWN2OWN contest, the long Pavilion security research lab Chaitin Security Research Lab successfully demonstrates Ubuntu 16.10 Desktop of the local extraction rights. This attack mainly use the linux kernel IPSEC frameworkfrom linux2. 6 Start supportin a memory bounds...

fr.flamingtext.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-230308 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| fr.flamingtext.com Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

Auto Lender Exposes Loan Data For Up To 1 Million Applicants

A California auto loan company left the names, addresses, credit scores and partial Social Security numbers of up to 1 million people exposed on an insecure online database. The company behind the database is Alliance Direct Lending Corporation, according to Kromtech Security Research Center, whi...

Exception-oriented exploitation on iOS

Posted by Ian Beer, Project Zero This post covers the discovery and exploitation of CVE-2017-2370, a heap buffer overflow in the machvoucherextractattrrecipetrap mach trap. It covers the bug, the development of an exploitation technique which involves repeatedly and deliberately crashing and how ...

Harley Geiger on Cybersecurity Policy

Harley Geiger, director of public policy at Rapid7, talks to Threatpost editor Mike Mimoso at RSA Conference 2017 about how policy goes hand in hand with technology when it comes to cybersecurity, the government’s focus on IoT and critical infrastructure, and the role independent security researc...

CentOS Update for firefox CESA-2017:0558 centos7

Check the version of firefox SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription scriptoid"1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.882683";...

CentOS 7 : firefox (CESA-2017:0558)

An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from th...

firefox security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2017:0558 An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity...

Critical: Red Hat Security Advisory: firefox security update

An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from th...

WordPress Plugin NewStatPress 1.2.4 - Cross-Site Scripting

WordPress Plugin NewStatPress 1.2.4 - Cross-Site Scripting Source: https://sumofpwn.nl/advisory/2016/persistentcrosssitescriptinginthewordpressnewstatpressplugin.html Abstract A persistent Cross-Site Scripting XSS vulnerability has been found in the WordPress NewStatPress plugin. By using this...

Gang Up on the Problem, Not Each Other

Threatpost Op-Ed is a regular feature where experts contribute essays and commentary on what’s happening in security and privacy. Today’s contributor is Katherine Carpenter. The imaginary world in which an artificial intelligence can kill a person by adjusting the insulin from his pump to a deadl...

Mirai Vulnerability Disclosed, But Exploits May Constitute Hacking Back

The Mirai botnet apparently has a weakness that could shut down its ability to flood targets with HTTP requests. But exploiting that vulnerability puts defenders in a gray area with regard to hacking back. Researchers at Invincea Labs discovered three vulnerabilities in Mirai, one of which is the...

iSpy Keylogger Targets Passwords, Skype, Webcams

Researchers are monitoring sales and infection rates of a new keylogger being sold on the dark web for $25 to $35. Along with capturing keystrokes, iSpy grabs passwords stored in web browsers, records Skype chats, takes webcam screenshots and steals the license keys of software such as Adobe...

Neverquest Trojan Gets Big Summer Update

The once prolific banking Trojan Neverquest received a major code revamp over the summer and is now armed with modifications that can more adeptly hijack a victim’s PC, inject code into webpages and steal credentials. The update represents a significant enough change to the malware that researche...

How to Leak Data From Air Gapped Computers With USB Devices

Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of Negev have found a way to take a run-of-the-mill USB device and use it to leak data from an air-gapped computers via RF signals. Academics with the school’s Cyber Security Research Labs division claim they’ve come up with software, dubbed USBee, that can...

D-TECT - Pentesting the Modern Web

D-TECT is an All-In-One Tool for Penetration Testing. This is specially programmed for Penetration Testers and Security Researchers to make their job easier, instead of launching different tools for performing different task. D-TECT provides multiple features and detection features which gather...

Unmasking xDedic's Black Market for Servers and PCs

LAS VEGAS — Black market machine trading of PC and server resources is maturing at alarming speeds. Underground networks such as xDedic have fine-tuned their compute platform to the point where they are almost indistinguishable to legitimate networks such as Amazon Web Services and Rackspace. Tho...

Firefox local file disclosure and same-origin policy bypass-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Security research experts found that an attacker can use the Firefox browser offers“page Save as”function to read the target user's computer stored in any file. In addition, the attacker can also use this mechanism to get external web server in the data content. This kind of thing occurs, is...

Fiat Chrysler Launches Bug Bounty with $1.5K Payout Cap

Hacking Jeeps is about to get a lot more competitive. That’s because Jeep maker Fiat Chrysler Automobiles has launched a bug bounty program in conjunction with Bugcrowd that will payout as much as $1,500 per bug. Fiat Chrysler, the world’s No. 7 automaker, claims it will be the first Detroit...

Microsoft Bounty Program expansion - .NET Core and ASP.NET RC2 Beta Bounty

Today I have another exciting expansion of the Microsoft Bounty Program. Please visit https://aka.ms/BugBounty to find out more. As we approach release for .NET Core and ASP.NET, we would like to get even more feedback from the security research community. We are offering a bounty on the .NET Cor...