Metasploit Weekly Wrap-Up

Mucking out the pipes. Thanks to some quick work by timwr, CVE-2022-0847 aka "Dirty Pipe" gives Metasploit a bit of digital plumber's training. The exploit targeting modern Linux v5 kernels helps elevate user privileges by overwriting a SUID binary of your choice by plunging some payload gold...

oxbridgesummeracademy.co.uk Improper Access Control vulnerability OBB-2417208

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

Summer 2021: Friday Night Funkin’, Måneskin and pop it

This summer, several events that were postponed from 2020 due to the pandemic took place. Some of them interested children, while others barely registered by them. It is worth noting that childrens hobbies typically do not change from winter to summer — the only difference is that they devote mor...

HackerOne: HackerOne making payments in USDC (Coinbase stable coin)

Summary: Hello Everyone, My name is Ariel and I’m a manager in HackerOne’s community team. As a part of a Hack Week project, HackerOne is now supporting payments via USDC, Coinbase’s stable coin. This has been a feature requested by many hackers, that we are now glad to announce as supported. Mor...

Metasploit Wrap-Up

Hey who finked about Flink? In this week's round of modules, contributor bcoles offered up two modules to leverage that Apache Flink install you found in some fun new ways. If you are just looking to filch a few files, auxiliary/scanner/http/apacheflinkjobmanagertraversal leverages CVE-2020-17519...

Intel Owl - Analyze Files, Domains, IPs In Multiple Ways From A Single API At Scale

Do you want to get threatintelligence data about a file, an IP or a domain? Do you want to get this kind of data from multiple sources at the same time using a single API request? You are in the right place! This application is built to scale out and to speed up the retrieval of threat info. It c...

albanysummerpassport.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-1158212 Security Researcher 4NCURZE Helped patch 1496 vulnerabilities Received 7 Coordinated Disclosure badges Received 12 recommendations , a holder of 7 badges for responsible and coordinated disclosure, found a security vulnerability affecting albanysummerpassport.com...

Threat Source newsletter (Jan. 30, 2020)

Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s Threat Source newsletter — the perfect place to get caught up on all things Talos from the past week. Be sure to pay close attention Tuesday for some changes we have coming to Snort.org. We’ll spare you the details for now, but please bea...

The Future is Female: A Key to the Cybersecurity Workforce Challenge

By 2022, 2 million cybersecurity positions globally are projected to be open, even as the threat landscape accelerates and becomes more complex. To meet this growing workforce shortage, women are a crucial, largely untapped reservoir of talent that businesses should be courting. In this Threatpos...

[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: php-phpmyadmin-sql-parser-4.3.2-1.fc29

A validating SQL lexer and parser with a focus on MySQL dialect. This library was originally developed for phpMyAdmin during the Google Summer of Code 2015. Autoloader: /usr/share/php/PhpMyAdmin/SqlParser/autoload.php...

[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: php-phpmyadmin-sql-parser-4.3.2-1.fc30

A validating SQL lexer and parser with a focus on MySQL dialect. This library was originally developed for phpMyAdmin during the Google Summer of Code 2015. Autoloader: /usr/share/php/PhpMyAdmin/SqlParser/autoload.php...

Japan to Hunt Down Citizens' Insecure IoT Devices

The Japanese government is taking the problem of insecure IoT devices into its own hands, with what some say is an audacious plan to carry out wide-scale penetration testing on its citizens’ gadgets. The country’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology NICT has been taske...

Akamai mentors next generations of girls in tech

This summer Akamai hosted Girls Who Code for its fourth year in a row. Girls Who Code is a nonprofit organization that aims to support and increase the number of women in computer science. Akamai sponsored the Girls Who Code Summer Immersion program this past summer by providing the facilities an...

Security fix for the ALT Linux 10 package samba version 4.8.4-alt1.S1

Aug. 14, 2018 Evgeny Sinelnikov 4.8.4-alt1.S1 - Update to summer security release - Security fixes: + CVE-2018-1139 Weak authentication protocol allowed + CVE-2018-1140 Denial of Service Attack on DNS and LDAP server + CVE-2018-10858 Insufficient input validation on client directory listing in...

Akamai Welcomes Girls Who Code

Akamai employees in Cambridge have started to see some new faces around the office for the summer - 20+ high school juniors to be specific! For the fourth consecutive year, Akamai is partnering with Girls Who Code to host a seven-week long summer immersion program dedicated to closing the gender...

ThreatList: Top Summer DDoS Trends

On Tuesday, Akamai released a report on the year’s biggest distributed denial of service DDoS attacks. The report illustrates how this time-tested attack method continues to morph and adopt new tricks, and discusses trends to watch as we move into the summer months. According to the study, Summer...

Summer SOTI - DDoS by the numbers

Time for a Change The State of the Internet / Security report has been the home for Akamai's research on DDoS, attack traffic and Internet threats for over three years. While the report has evolved and expanded its scope considerably over that time, the content and how it's presented have only se...

World Cup, Vacation Scams Lead in Phishing Trips this Summer

Summer is one of the traditional seasons of scamming, and this summer is shaping up to be a hot one on that front, with active campaigns swirling around supposed “security incidents,” vacation bookings and, of course, the World Cup. Scammers, for instance, recently targeted Booking.com customers...

summer-schools.info XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-579589 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| summer-schools.info 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...

[SECURITY] Fedora 26 Update: php-phpmyadmin-sql-parser-4.2.4-3.fc26

A validating SQL lexer and parser with a focus on MySQL dialect. This library was originally developed for phpMyAdmin during the Google Summer of Code 2015. Autoloader: /usr/share/php/PhpMyAdmin/SqlParser/autoload.php...