Report: Missouri Governor’s Office Responsible for Teacher Data Leak

Missouri Governor Mike Parson made headlines last year when he vowed to criminally prosecute a journalist for reporting a security flaw in a state website that exposed personal information of more than 100,000 teachers. But Missouri prosecutors now say they will not pursue charges following...

It’s Not You. It’s Them. On Hacking and Responsible Disclosure.

A story was recently posted to Hacker News celebrating a hack of IoT devices at a school that let a student and their friends rickroll the school via a video system. On the one hand, this guy is my personal hero and I want to be them. But Im a cybersecurity professional, I run a team that has the...

Missouri Governor Vows to Prosecute St. Louis Post-Dispatch for Reporting Security Vulnerability

On Wednesday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ran a story about how its staff discovered and reported a security vulnerability in a Missouri state education website that exposed the Social Security numbers of 100,000 elementary and secondary teachers. In a press conference this morning, Missouri Gov...

Friday Squid Blogging: Calamari vs. Squid

St. Louis Magazine answers the important question: "Is there a difference between calamari and squid?" Short answer: no. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I havent covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here...

st-louis.enquira.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-601864 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| st-louis.enquira.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...

On the Star Wars Twitter Botnet, the Return of Lavabit, Ransomware and More

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including the Star Wars Twitter botnet, the return of Lavabit, a critical Cisco Webex flaw, and the St. Louis Library ransomware story. Download: ThreatpostNewsWrapJanuary272017.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

St. Louis Public Library Recovers from Ransomware Attack

Services are being restored to the St. Louis Public Library computer system after a ransomware attack last Thursday impacted access to machines and data at all 17 branches. Library management refused to pay the $35,000 demanded as ransom, and IT staff wiped affected servers and restored them from...

Former Cardinals Scout Christopher Correa Sentenced Four Years for Houston Astros Hack

The Federal Court came down hard on a former scouting director for the St. Louis Cardinals on Monday, sentencing Christopher Correa to almost four years in prison for hacking into a computer system that belongs to the Houston Astros. Correa, who until last summer served as Director of Baseball...

FBI Investigating Alleged Attack on Houston Astros

In one of the more bizarre alleged hacking stories to emerge recently, federal authorities are investigating whether employees of the St. Louis Cardinals hacked into systems belonging to the Houston Astros and got access to internal team conversations about players, trades, scouting reports, and...

Anonymous Hackers Claim to Identify the Cop Who killed Mike Brown in Ferguson

Members of the international hacker collective Anonymous have claimed they have identified the Ferguson, Missouri law enforcement officer involved in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed teenager killed on Saturday, which sparked days of protest and raised racial tensions. The hacktivi...

Managing Your Nexpose Scan Engines through the API

Here's a walk-through of a Ruby script that uses the nexpose gem to add and configure your Nexpose Scan Engines. This script configures the Dynamic Scan Pool feature. A Scan Engine pool is a group of shared Scan Engines that can be bound to a site so that the load is distributed evenly across the...

Local Training Center, Hacker University, 8 in the USA Participate in Global Launch of Certified Ethical Hacker version 7

450 Global Training Centers Nominated, 25 Selected Worldwide, 8 in the USA, 1 in St. Louis February 2, 2011 St. Louis, MO – Hacker University is pleased to announce it has been asked by EC-Council, the leading international certification body in information security, to participate in the Global...