From E-Commerce to Enterprise Employee: How I Overcame my Fears and Doubts

By Efrat Silberhaft One year ago, I was working as the sole designer in a small e-commerce startup. When the company shut down, I had to start looking for a new job. I decided to leave the startup world. What I didn't know is that my next step would turn out to be in a different field —...

CVE-2018-20951

cPanel before 68.0.27 allows self XSS in WHM Spamd Startup Config SEC-387...

Design/Logic Flaw

cPanel before 68.0.27 allows self XSS in WHM Spamd Startup Config SEC-387...

Trump's Cyber Czar Is Back—and He Wants to Make Hackers Suffer

Former White House top cybersecurity official Tom Bossert reveals his new startup, Trinity. Its focus: "active threat inference."...

startup.ut.ac.kr Cross Site Scripting vulnerability

Security Researcher Renzi Helped patch 6742 vulnerabilities Received 8 Coordinated Disclosure badges Received 36 recommendations , a holder of 8 badges for responsible and coordinated disclosure, found a security vulnerability affecting startup.ut.ac.kr website and its users. Following coordinate...

CVE-2019-11230

In Avast Antivirus before 19.4, a local administrator can trick the product into renaming arbitrary files by replacing the Logs\Update.log file with a symlink. The next time the product attempts to write to the log file, the target of the symlink is renamed. This defect can be exploited to rename...

July 16, 2019—KB4507451 (Preview of Monthly Rollup)

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July 16, 2019—KB4507437 (Preview of Monthly Rollup)

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CVE-2019-0318

Under certain conditions SAP NetWeaver Application Server for Java Startup Framework, versions 7.21, 7.22, 7.45, 7.49, and 7.53, allows an attacker to access information which would otherwise be restricted...

CVE-2019-0318

CVE-2019-0318 affects SAP NetWeaver Application Server for Java (Startup Framework) versions 7.21, 7.22, 7.45, 7.49 and 7.53. Under certain conditions, an attacker can access information that would be restricted (information disclosure). The Connected documents reiterate the same affected product...

I'm Leaving IBM

Today is my last day at IBM. If you've been following along, IBM bought my startup Resilient Systems in Spring 2016. Since then, I have been with IBM, holding the nicely ambiguous title of "Special Advisor." As of the end of the month, I will be back on my own. I will continue to write and speak,...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : policykit-desktop-privileges update (USN-4037-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4037-1 advisory. The policykit-desktop-privileges Startup Disk Creator policy allowed administrative users to overwrite disks. As a security improvement, this operatio...

USN-4037-1 policykit-desktop-privileges update

The policykit-desktop-privileges Startup Disk Creator policy allowed administrative users to overwrite disks. As a security improvement, this operation now requires authentication...

June 20, 2019—KB4503271 (Preview of Monthly Rollup)

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Enhancing video streaming quality for ExoPlayer - Part 1: Quality of User Experience Metrics

Authors: Mark Greve, Domițian Tămaș-Selicean The online video player landscape is fragmented with a wide variety of players across a mix of popular platforms. In the world of HTML5-video players in browsers, there are a number of open-source solutions e.g., hls.js, dash.js, Shaka Player, as well ...

CVE-2019-12133

Multiple Zoho ManageEngine products suffer from local privilege escalation due to improper permissions for the %SYSTEMDRIVE%\ManageEngine directory and its sub-folders. Moreover, the services associated with said products try to execute binaries such as sc.exe from the current directory upon syst...

June 11, 2019—KB4503276 (Monthly Rollup)

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CVE-2019-12777

An issue was discovered on the ENTTEC Datagate MK2, Storm 24, Pixelator, and E-Streamer MK2 with firmware 70044update05032019-482. They replace secure and protected directory permissions set as default by the underlying operating system with highly insecure read, write, and execute directory...

RARLAB WinRAR ACE Format Input Validation Remote Code Execution

This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework TODO: add other non-payload files class MetasploitModule 'RARLAB WinRAR ACE Format Input Validation Remote Code Execution', 'Description' = %q In WinRAR versions prior t...

Microsoft’s Latest Patch Hoses Some Antivirus Software

Microsoft’s April 9 security update is bogging down systems running antivirus software packages made by McAfee, Avast, ArcaBit, Avira and Sophos. According to Microsoft, the company’s April Patch Tuesday security update is causing some systems to have slow startup times, sluggish performance or...