When you shouldn’t trust a trusted root certificate

Root certificates are the cornerstone of authentication and security in software and on the Internet. They're issued by a certified authority CA and, essentially, verify that the software/website owner is who they say they are. We have talked about certificates in general before, but a recent eve...

Motherboard Digital Security Guide

This digital security guide by Motherboard is very good. I put alongside EFF's "Surveillance Self-Defense" and John Scott-Railton's "Digital Security Low Hanging Fruit." There's also "Digital Security and Privacy for Human Rights Defenders." There are too many of these...

CVE-2017-7839

Control characters prepended before "javascript:" URLs pasted in the addressbar can cause the leading characters to be ignored and the pasted JavaScript to be executed instead of being blocked. This could be used in social engineering and self-cross-site-scripting self-XSS attacks where users are...

UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7840

JavaScript can be injected into an exported bookmarks file by placing JavaScript code into user-supplied tags in saved bookmarks. If the resulting exported HTML file is later opened in a browser this JavaScript will be executed. This could be used in social engineering and self-cross-site-scripti...

CVE-2017-7840

JavaScript can be injected into an exported bookmarks file by placing JavaScript code into user-supplied tags in saved bookmarks. If the resulting exported HTML file is later opened in a browser this JavaScript will be executed. This could be used in social engineering and self-cross-site-scripti...

mozilla -- multiple vulnerabilities

Mozilla Foundation reports: CVE-2017-7828: Use-after-free of PressShell while restyling layout CVE-2017-7830: Cross-origin URL information leak through Resource Timing API CVE-2017-7831: Information disclosure of exposed properties on JavaScript proxy objects CVE-2017-7832: Domain spoofing throug...

General Security Guidelines for Veeam Self-Service Backup Portal

Security Considerations The security advice in this article is provided as a courtesy and is not intended to replace the advice of a professional security consultant. The advice in this article has been tested with the assumption that the machine operating Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager and/or...

CVE-2017-9758

Savitech driver packages for Windows silently install a self-signed certificate into the Trusted Root Certification Authorities store, aka "Inaudible Subversion."...

Session fixation

Savitech driver packages for Windows silently install a self-signed certificate into the Trusted Root Certification Authorities store, aka "Inaudible Subversion."...

CVE-2017-9758

Savitech driver packages for Windows silently install a self-signed certificate into the Trusted Root Certification Authorities store, aka "Inaudible Subversion."...

CVE-2017-9758

CVE-2017-9758 affects Savitech USB audio driver packages for Windows. Some driver installers silently install a root CA certificate (SaviAudio) into the Windows Trusted Root Certification Authorities store, creating a trust-anchor that can be abused for man-in-the-middle attacks. Impact reported ...

Mail.ru: Self-xss via drag&drop in email form

User-assisted XSS in message composer's drag-n-drop feature via alt property of emoji-style image...

Shopify: Self-XSS in password reset functionality

Hi, When I opened this domain of yours, https://accounts.shopify.com/password-reset/new I just put the following text into email address box, [email protected] it change the colour of the text. Well my point here is that if you could inject HTML, you might be able to add a tag to the page. I...

Rekall v1.7 - Forensic and Incident Response Framework

The Rekall Framework is a completely open collection of tools, implemented in Python under the Apache and GNU General Public License, for the extraction and analysis of digital artifacts computer systems. The Rekall distribution is available from: http://www.rekall-forensic.com/ Rekall should run...

When cybersecurity isn’t all cyber: What does it really take to work in cybersecurity?

With the multitude of breaches and outbreaks already witnessed in 2017, it's become clear that industries across all verticals are challenged by cybersecurity. This is a serious business problem that needs to be addressed ASAP. As much talk as there is about organizations getting hacked, scores o...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : WebKitGTK+ vulnerabilities (USN-3460-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3460-1 advisory. A large number of security issues were discovered in the WebKitGTK+ Web and JavaScript engines. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious website, ...

Mail.ru: Stored self-XSS pubg.mail.ru в нескольких местах

Stored self-XSS in pubg.mail.ru via account name if login via social network is used. pubg.mail.ru is not currently in bug bounty scope...

Xen Hypervisor Translated Guest Self-linear Shadow Mapping Handling Guest-to-Host Privilege Escalation (XSA-243)

According to its self-reported version number, the Xen hypervisor installed on the remote host is affected by an unspecified flaw in mm/shadow/multi.c that is triggered during the handling of self-linear shadow mappings with translated guests. This may allow an attacker on the guest to cause a...

CVE-2017-15592

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing x86 HVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service hypervisor crash or possibly gain privileges because self-linear shadow mappings are mishandled for translated guests...

Kaspersky Anti-Virus Unhandled Windows Messages Denial of Service Vulnerability(CVE-2016-4329)

Summary An local denial of service vulnerability exists in window broadcast message handling functionality of Kaspersky Anti-Virus software. Sending certain unhandled window messages, attacker can cause application termination and in the same way bypass KAV self-protection mechanism. Tested...