Uber Reveals 2016 Breach of 57 Million User Accounts

Ride-hailing service Uber Technologies revealed Tuesday that the company suffered a breach of 57 million Uber user accounts in 2016. According to reports, Uber then attempted to cover up the incident by paying $100,000 to attackers to keep the hack a secret and delete the data. Dara Khosrowshahi,...

CVE-2017-4931

VMware AirWatch Console 9.x prior to 9.2.0 contains a vulnerability that could allow an authenticated AWC user to add malicious data to an enrolled device's log files. Successful exploitation of this issue could result in an unsuspecting AWC user opening a CSV file which contains malicious conten...

Hacking a Fingerprint Biometric

Embedded in this story about infidelity and a mid-flight altercation, there's an interesting security tidbit: The woman had unlocked her husband's phone using his thumb impression when he was sleeping...

Me on the Equifax Breach

Testimony and Statement for the Record of Bruce Schneier Fellow and Lecturer, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School Hearing on "Securing Consumers' Credit Data in the Age of Digital Commerc...

Information disclosure

IBM OpenPages GRC Platform 7.2 and 7.3 with OpenPages Loss Event Entry LEE application could allow a user to obtain sensitive information including private APIs that could be used in further attacks against the system. IBM X-Force ID: 122201...

International Islamic University Chittagong: #2 Full Path Disclosure on http://119.18.148.140/iiuc/login/logining

This researcher able to bypass our fix on full path disclosure on login page...

jQuery Official Blog Hacked — Stay Calm, Library is Safe!

The official blog of jQuery—most popular JavaScript library used by millions of websites—has been hacked by some unknown hackers, using the pseudonym "str0ng" and "n3tr1x." jQuery's blog website blog.jquery.com runs on WordPress—the world's most popular content management system CMS used by...

Hacker Hijacks CoinHive's DNS to Mine Cryptocurrency Using Thousands of Websites

When yesterday I was reporting about the sudden outbreak of another global ransomware attack 'Bad Rabbit,' I thought what could be worse than this? Then late last night I got my answer with a notification that Coinhive has been hacked — a popular browser-based service that offers website owners t...

davidlichfield.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-359923 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| davidlichfield.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...

CVE-2017-15610

An issue was discovered in Octopus before 3.17.7. When the special Guest user account is granted the CertificateExportPrivateKey permission, and Guest Access is enabled for the Octopus Server, an attacker can sign in as the Guest account and export Certificates managed by Octopus, including the...

ocms.ac.uk XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-339752 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| ocms.ac.uk 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...

Internal Accenture Data, Customer Information Exposed in Public Amazon S3 Bucket

A potentially devastating Amazon S3 bucket exposure left internal Accenture private keys, secret API data and other information publicly available to anyone who could then leverage it to attack the global consulting firm and its clients. The exposure was privately reported to Accenture on Sept. 1...

CVE-2017-7816

WebExtensions could use popups and panels in the extension UI to load an "about:" privileged URL, violating security checks that disallow this behavior. This vulnerability affects Firefox 56...

Deloitte Hacked — Cyber Attack Exposes Clients' Emails

Another day, another data breach. This time one of the world's "big four" accountancy firms has fallen victim to a sophisticated cyber attack. Global tax and auditing firm Deloitte has confirmed the company had suffered a cyber attack that resulted in the theft of confidential information,...

qigames.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-311149 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| qigames.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...

Verizon Wireless Internal Credentials, Infrastructure Details Exposed in Amazon S3 Bucket

Organizations continue to leak data through publicly accessible Amazon S3 buckets, pointing a harsh finger at continued lax attitudes toward the custodianship of sensitive data. Verizon is the latest business affected by this epidemic, leaking in this case files marked confidential from an intern...

Protecting Confidential Data: You May Not Be as Secure as You Think

Part One of a Three Part Series Unless you have been out of the country or otherwise shunning the news, you have likely heard that on September 7th and again on September 15th, Equifax reported that it suffered a security incident from May 13th through July 30th, 2017. This breach is broad reachi...

Equifax Suffered Earlier Breach in March

In addition to this summer’s massive attack, Equifax suffered an earlier breach of its systems in March, the company revealed Monday. While the company has been relatively transparent around May’s breach related to 143 million U.S. consumers, details around March’s breach, including how its syste...

[Updated] Infected CCleaner downloads from official servers

Update 9/19/2017: Avast posted a clarification explaining what happened and giving a timeline of the events. One point we should take note of is that the breach preceded the take-over of Piriform by Avast. Users that are unsure whether they were affected by this and whether their data may have be...

GitLab: all private tokens are leaked to an unauthenticated attacker

Using the api, one can obtain the authentication token for any user on gitlab: $ curl -s --request GET https://gitlab.com/api/v4/users/951422 | jq '.authenticationtoken' "redacted" We can then use this token to impersonate any user to perform any action they can perform: $ curl --request POST...