As the Government Shutdown Drags on, Security Risks Intensify

From potential nation state hacks to a brain drain, the shutdown has done nothing good for cybersecurity...

How the government shutdown is influencing cybersecurity jobs

As of this writing, the government shutdown of 2019 is the longest ever in America. The only good news about this situation is that, with each passing day, a new group of people in the country seems to rediscover just how essential government services are, now that they're unavailable. The next...

A city in Texas is using paper after suffering ransomware attack

By Waqas Another day, another devastating ransomware attack; this time, computers at The City Hall of Del Rio, Texas have suffered a massive ransomware attack forcing authorities to completely shut down the targeted network. The attack took place on Thursday, January 10th after which the City's...

Government shutdown impacts .gov websites, puts Americans in danger

If you are in the United States, then you likely already know that we are on our 24th day of a government shutdown. While it is considered a "partial" shutdown, there are still plenty of government workers who are furloughed, which impacts the services they run—both online and off. Last week,...

U.S. Government Shutdown Leaves Dozens of .Gov Websites Vulnerable

As the U.S. federal shutdown continues, dozens of U.S. government websites have been rendered either insecure or inaccessible due to expired transport layer security TLS certificates that have not been renewed. In fact, .gov websites are using more than 80 TLS certificates that have expired,...

Emerson DeltaV

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 8.8 ATTENTION: Low skill level to exploit Vendor: Emerson Equipment: DeltaV Distributed Control System Workstations Vulnerability: Authentication Bypass 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to shut down a service,...

rendertron can remotely shut down Chrome instance

Rendertron 1.0.0 includes an ah/stop route to shutdown the Chrome instance responsible for serving render requests to all users. Visiting this route with a GET request allows any unauthorized remote attacker to disable the core service of the application...

GHSA-4Q69-Q4Q7-X82C rendertron can remotely shut down Chrome instance

Rendertron 1.0.0 includes an ah/stop route to shutdown the Chrome instance responsible for serving render requests to all users. Visiting this route with a GET request allows any unauthorized remote attacker to disable the core service of the application...

Fedora 28 : curl (2018-fa01002d7e)

fix FTP shutdown response buffer overflow CVE-2018-1000300 - fix RTSP bad headers buffer over-read CVE-2018-1000301 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and...

Battelle V2I Hub Denial of Service Vulnerability

The Battelle V2I Hub is a connected vehicle and roadway information management system from Battelle Memorial Institute, Inc. The system supports effective communication between infrastructure information and vehicle information. A denial-of-service vulnerability exists in Battelle V2I Hub version...

CVE-2018-1000624

Battelle V2I Hub 2.5.1 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the failure to restrict access to a sensitive functionality. By visiting http://V2IHUB/UI/powerdown.php, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to shut down the system...

CVE-2018-1000624

Battelle V2I Hub 2.5.1 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by the failure to restrict access to a sensitive functionality. By visiting http://V2IHUB/UI/powerdown.php, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to shut down the system...

CVE-2017-18353

Rendertron 1.0.0 includes an ah/stop route to shutdown the Chrome instance responsible for serving render requests to all users. Visiting this route with a GET request allows any unauthorized remote attacker to disable the core service of the application...

CVE-2017-18353

Rendertron 1.0.0 includes an ah/stop route to shutdown the Chrome instance responsible for serving render requests to all users. Visiting this route with a GET request allows any unauthorized remote attacker to disable the core service of the application...

Design/Logic Flaw

Rendertron 1.0.0 includes an ah/stop route to shutdown the Chrome instance responsible for serving render requests to all users. Visiting this route with a GET request allows any unauthorized remote attacker to disable the core service of the application...

CVE-2017-18353

Rendertron 1.0.0 includes an ah/stop route to shutdown the Chrome instance responsible for serving render requests to all users. Visiting this route with a GET request allows any unauthorized remote attacker to disable the core service of the application...

Google+ to Shut Down Early After New API Flaw Hits 52.5 Million Users

Google today revealed that Google+ has suffered another massive data breach, forcing the tech giant to shut down its struggling social network four months earlier than its actual scheduled date, i.e., in April 2019 instead of August 2019. Google said it discovered another critical security...

Google+ Exposed Data of 52.5 Million Users and Will Shut Down in April

A month after Google had already decided to shut down Google+, a new bug made its problems much, much worse...

Google Accelerates Google+ Shutdown After New Bug Discovered

The discovery of a new API bug in Google+ has led Google to hasten the shuttering of its consumer version of the social-networking platform, the tech giant said Monday. Google was already in the process of shutting down Google+ after a different API software bug in the platform, disclosed in...

A week in security (November 26 – December 2)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we took a look at our cybersecurity predictions for 2019, we explained why Malwarebytes participated in AV testing and how we took part in an joint take down of massive ad fraud botnets, warned that ESTA registration websites still lurk in paid ads on Google,...