Zoom clarifies user consent requirement when training its AI

Changes in the terms of service TOS of the Zoom video-conferencing software have caused some turmoil. Since the pandemic, Zoom Video Conferencing has become a household name. Zoom came up as the big winner in the video conferencing struggle that enabled us to work from home. Now that things are...

AI Coding Companions: Comparing AWS, GitHub, & Google

Top cloud vendors and software companies are rolling out AI coding companions that use generative AI to speed up and streamline DevOps. In this blog, we take a look at what some of these new tools have in common, where they differ, and what they mean for cybersecurity...

Arresting IT Administrators

This is one way of ensuring that IT keeps up with patches: Albanian prosecutors on Wednesday asked for the house arrest of five public employees they blame for not protecting the country from a cyberattack by alleged Iranian hackers. Prosecutors said the five IT officials of the public...

Okta Hackers Behind Twilio and Cloudflare Attacks Hit Over 130 Organizations

The threat actor behind the attacks on Twilio and Cloudflare earlier this month has been linked to a broader phishing campaign aimed at 136 organizations that resulted in a cumulative compromise of 9,931 accounts. The activity has been condemned 0ktapus by Group-IB because the initial goal of the...

Attacking EFB updates

Software So who actually develops the software installed on Electronic Flight Bags EFBs? The software can originate from a large range of sources: System software developers including the OS, drivers, firmware and utility The aircraft manufacturer for Installed & Portable EFB devices The airline...

Colonial Pipeline attack spurs new rules for critical infrastructure

Following a devastating cyberattack on the Colonial Pipeline, the Transportation Security Administration—which sits within the government’s Department of Homeland Security—will issue its first-ever cybersecurity directive for pipeline companies in the United States, according to exclusive reporti...

Create-Project Manager 1.07 Cross Site Scripting / HTML Injection

Exploit Title: Create-Project Manager 1.07 Multi XSS /HTML injection Vunlerabilities Google Dork:N/A Date: 2020-05-06 Exploit Author: @ThelastVvV Vendor Homepage: https://codecanyon.net/item/create-project-manager-with-authenticator/20483329?srank=3 Version: 1.6 Tested on: 5.4.0-kali4-amd64...

How Offensive Research Drives Down the Cost of Attacks

CANCUN–The offensive security research community has evolved in the last decade or so from a relatively small and insular group inwardly focused, to a large and rather vocal group with a wide variety of motives, opinions and skill levels. But, to hear Brad Arkin of Adobe tell it, the huge amount ...

Does Microsoft Need Bug Bounties?

The threats and attacks may have changed in the last decade, but one thing has remained constant: software giant Microsoft doesn’t pay for vulnerabilities. Never has. Never will. Even as rivals like Mozilla and Google have introduced bug bounty program, the Redmond Washington giant has stuck...

Jobs Fighting Cybercrime Are In Demand

Banks, military contractors and software companies, along with federal agencies, are looking for “cyber ninjas” to fend off a sophisticated array of hackers, from criminals stealing credit card numbers to potential military adversaries. Read the full article. NY Times...

[Full-disclosure] [ Suresec Advisories ] - Several MacOS X vulnerabilities

Buffer overflow in ping and traceroute. Vulnerability summary: The ping and traceroute programs used in Mac OS X are vulnerable to a buffer overflow when resolving a hostname. In the case of ping a hostname gets copied into a static buffer which is 80 bytes long. For traceroute the hostname gets...