Spear Phishing Attacks

Really interesting research: "Unpacking Spear Phishing Susceptibility," by Zinaida Benenson, Freya Gassmann, and Robert Landwirth. Abstract: We report the results of a field experiment where we sent to over 1200 university students an email or a Facebook message with a link to non-existing party...

IC3 Warns of Employment Scams Targeting College Students

The Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3 has issued an alert on employment scams targeting college students. Phony job opportunities are advertised via college employment websites or students’ university emails. Unfortunately, students who take the bait suffer financial losses. US-CERT encourages...

Photos On Dark Web Reveal Geo-locations Of 229 Drug Dealers — Here's How

It's a Fact! No matter how smart the criminals are, they always leave some trace behind. Two Harvard students have unmasked around 229 drug and weapon dealers with the help of pictures taken by criminals and used in advertisements placed on dark web markets. Do you know each image contains a rang...

cps.unizar.es XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: http://www.cps.unizar.es/ori/students/index.php?page=location" Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| No Latest check for patch:| 27.07.2017 Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:| Publicly disclosed Alexa Rank| Unknown / Not calculated VIP website status:| No Check...

ATutor 2.2.1 - SQL Injection / Remote Code Execution (Metasploit)

This module requires Metasploit: http://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework require 'msf/core' class Metasploit3 'ATutor 2.2.1 SQL Injection / Remote Code Execution', 'Description' = %q This module exploits a SQL Injection vulnerability and an...

Khan Academy: XSS vulnerability in "/coach/roster/" ( create your first class)

Hi Security Team , Today I found xss vulnerability in "/coach/roster/" create your first class steps : - Go to " Manage students " - click in " create your first class " - create your first class Title name === " - click "create class " Good Fix ,...

Damn Vulnerable Node Application: DVNA

Damn Vulnerable Node Application DVNA is a node.js web application that is damn vulnerable. Its main goal is to be an aid for security professionals to test their skills and tools in a legal environment, help web developers better understand the processes of securing web applications and to aid...

GRUB2 the zero-day vulnerability affecting Linux users, Ubuntu, RHEL patch now available-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Canonical's latest Ubuntu Security Notice displayed in GRUB2GNU GRand Unified Bootloader in the presence of a zero-day security vulnerability, it will affect to GRUB version 2. 0 2 Beta of the GNU/Linux distribution. The security vulnerability is Ismael Ripoll and Hector Marco found that when the...

Harvard Breach in June Hit Multiple Schools

Officials from Harvard University are warning some of its students that the school fell victim to a data breach last month and that it’s in the process of determining the scope of the attack. Anne Margulies, Harvard’s vice president and chief information officer, sent a memo to students and facul...

CHIP — The World's First $9 Computer

Wait! What? A $9 computer? This is something magical. A Californian startup lead by Dave Rauchwerk is currently seeking crowdfunding on Kickstarter to create a computer that will cost as much as $9 or £6. The new microcomputer, dubbed CHIP, is a tiny, Linux-based, super-cheap computer that's...

SRTT Vulnerability in BIND Software Puts DNS Protocol Security At Risk

After the Heartbleed bug that exposed half of the Internet vulnerable to hackers thereby marking as one of the largest Internet vulnerability in recent history, the critical flaw in the implementation of the DNS protocol could also represent a serious menace to the Internet security. A Serious...

Google to Stop Scanning Student Accounts

Google yesterday announced it will no longer scan the contents of Gmail accounts associated with the company’s Apps for Education service for the purpose of generating advertisements. It is unclear if Google will continue to scan those accounts for other purposes. This decision is one of two...

Popular Navigation App hijacked with Fake Bots to Cause Traffic Jam

Beware! Hackers can cause Traffic jams with just a navigation Smartphone application. Two Israeli students were assigned by college to hack Google-owned Waze GPS app, an Israeli-made Smartphone app that provides directions and alerts drivers to traffic and accidents. Shir Yadid and Meital...

UBUNTU-CVE-2013-2080

The coregrade component in Moodle through 2.2.10, 2.3.x before 2.3.7, and 2.4.x before 2.4.4 does not properly consider the existence of hidden grades, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information by leveraging the student role and reading the Gradebook Overview report...

Facebook Privacy Flaw exposed two College Gay Students Accidentally

Facebook is continually changing its privacy settings, trying to give users more control over what they want to share and with whom. Two gay college students were outed on Facebook because of a privacy flaw in Facebook Groups. Users can be added to Facebook Groups by friends without the user's...

Iranian Students Claim to have Stolen Thousands of Researcher's Records

There’s still no official response from NASA officials after a group of Iranian student programmers calling themselves Cyber Warriors Team claimed to have swiped records for thousands of NASA researchers by compromising an agency site’s SSL certificate. In a May 16 statement posted on Pastebin, t...

MIT Students Use LED Lights, Hack Building to Play Tetris

Students at MIT took to the university’s Cecil and Ida Green Building over the weekend to transform the 21-story research building into an oversized, playable game of Tetris. Emulating the classic ’80s video game with the help of a console and 153 color-changing LED lights, students were able to...

LA Times Profiles Cyber Defense Competition For Teens

The U.S. and other advanced nations face a drastic cyber security skills gap. Attacks from sophisticated and unsophisticated attackers are on the rise, even as more and more companies and government agencies move more of what they do online to Web based services and the cloud. Of course, the skil...

Video: College Professor, Students Crack Zeus Trojan Mystery

A segment from last night’s Rock Center, Brian Williams’ TV news magazine, gives the inside scoop on how a college professor and his students helped law enforcement crack one of the largest and most profitable banking Trojan operations around. Reporter Richard Engel sat down with Gary Warner, a...

Six arrested for Million Pounds phishing scam

Six arrested for Million Pounds phishing scam Six people from London and the North West were being questioned by police on Friday in connection with a £1 million phishing scam that drained the bank accounts of hundreds of UK students. That is a lot of beer and book money, and the police said that...