outreach.senate.gov Open Redirect vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-110928 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| outreach.senate.gov Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| Open Redirect / CWE-601 CVSSv3 Score:| 3.4...

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook Discuss the Latest Xen Vulnerability, CISA Passing the Senate, and More

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week: The latest Xen vulnerability, CISA passing the Senate, a researcher challenging that Weak DH paper, and more. Download: newswrap10-30-15.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

sd06.senate.ca.gov Open Redirect vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-85099 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| sd06.senate.ca.gov Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| Open Redirect / CWE-601 CVSSv3 Score:| 3.4...

DHS Raises Privacy Concerns With Senate Cyber Threat Sharing Bill

A major information-sharing bill that’s in the Senate right now would allow private organizations to share threat data with any government agency, something that the Department of Homeland Security says could have severe privacy implications and cause confusion and inefficiencies inside the feder...

Crypto Leaders: 'Exceptional Access' Will Undo Security

A powerhouse baker’s dozen of cryptography experts and pioneers have released a paper explaining the potential legal and ethical issues relative to the government’s continued insistence on access to cryptographic keys that secure communication over the Internet. The paper, called “Keys Under...

US House Votes to End NSA Phone Records Collection

The U.S. House of Representatives’ resounding vote on Wednesday to end the National Security Agency’s collection of phone metadata and business records shifts the Senate focus squarely onto the shoulders of Kentucky Republican Senator, Mitch McConnell. McConnell is a staunch defender of the...

Encrypt Everything Cannot Be Swayed by FREEDOM Act Rejection

Barring another vote before the end of the calendar year and the current Congressional session, the USA FREEDOM Act is dead in the water until 2015—and maybe even beyond. The Senate last night came up two votes shy of passing the bill, which would have overhauled the NSA’s current dragnet...

Lame Duck Senate to Vote on NSA Reforming USA FREEDOM Act

The United States Senate will move to vote on the USA FREEDOM Act before the current congressional session closes at the end of the year, a move that pleases digital rights groups. In its current form, the bill would ban the bulk collection of Americans’ private records while granting the...

Chinese Penetrate TRANSCOM Amid Lack of Data Sharing

Hackers allegedly affiliated with the Chinese government compromised the computer networks of the United States Transportation Command, the group tasked with providing air, land and sea transportation services to the Department of Defense, according to the findings of a Senate Armed Services...

Chinese Hackers Hacked Into U.S. Defense Contractors 20 Times In Just One Year

Chinese hackers associated with the Chinese government have successfully infiltrated the computer systems of U.S. defense contractors working with the government agency responsible for the transportation of military troops and goods across the globe, a Senate investigators have found. The Senate...

democratic-message-center.senate.gov XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-47764 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| democratic-message-center.senate.gov Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Remediation Guide:| OWASP XS...

House Amendment Limits Funding for NSA Surveillance

The House of Representatives last night overwhelmingly passed an amendment to the Department of Defense Appropriations Act that would cut funding for two programs that grant intelligence agencies access to the private data and communications of U.S. citizens. The amendment shows that Congress is...

Draft Bill to Protect Threat Information Sharing

The fear of lawsuits has – for a very long time – been among the primary reasons that public-private cyber-threat information sharing practices have never really materialized. This failure is reality in spite of repeated calls for such partnerships year after year from government and industry...

Surveillance Transparency Act Would Limit NSA Spying

There have been countless hearings in both the House and Senate since the Snowden leaks began in June, and there seems to be no end in sight. The latest committee to get in on the action was the Senate Committee on the Judiciary’s Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law, which held a...

NSA Director Alexander Confirms Cell Location Pilot Program

In between pleas to end the government shutdown that has upwards of 70 percent of the intelligence community furloughed until further notice, NSA director Gen. Keith Alexander and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper spent a significant amount of time before a Senate Judiciary Committe...

NSA Director Alexander Asked About Cell Location Collection

Did we hear the next shoe to drop in the NSA surveillance saga? Yesterday before a hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Oregon, asked some pointed questions of NSA director Gen. Keith Alexander regarding whether the agency collects cell tower location data in addition t...

Leaked credentials of Congress members by Anonymous hacker are inaccurate

Anonymous claimed it had stolen and leaked over 2,000 usernames and passwords for Hill staffers in an anti-PRISM protest, calling the move a pivotal moment for Congress. The Twitter handle @OpLastResort which claims to be affiliated with the famous hacktivist group posted the data and also tweete...

DNI Clapper Says Statement to Congress About NSA Data Collection Was 'Erroneous'

In a highly unusual move, James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, said Tuesday that he misspoke when he told a Congressional committee in March that the National Security Agency does not assemble dossiers on Americans. Clapper said at the time that the agency does not do so...

NSA Director Alexander Grilled by Senate Committee

National Security Agency director Gen. Keith Alexander was asked some pointed questions by the Senate Appropriations Committee this afternoon regarding the spy agency’s surveillance of Americans’ phone calls and electronic communication in the name of fighting terrorism. Alexander provided little...

Always Outmanned, Always Outgunned

We were warned. Over and over again. Not just by privacy advocates and by security experts and by civil liberties organizations and by the guy on the corner in the tin foil hat shouting about the government intercepting his brain waves. We were warned by some of the very people charged with...