New Hack Lets Attackers Bypass MasterCard PIN by Using Them As Visa Card

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a novel attack that could allow criminals to trick a point of sale terminal into transacting with a victim's Mastercard contactless card while believing it to be a Visa card. The research, published by a group of academics from ETH Zurich, builds on a stud...

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: Ill be speaking at Cyber Week Online, October 19-21, 2020. Ill be speaking at the IEEE Symposium on Technology and Society virtual conference, November 12-15, 2020. Ill be keynoting the 2020 Conference on Cyber Norms on November 12...

Unpatchable 'Starbleed' Bug in FPGA Chips Exposes Critical Devices to Hackers

A newly discovered unpatchable hardware vulnerability in Xilinx programmable logic products could allow an attacker to break bitstream encryption, and clone intellectual property, change the functionality, and even implant hardware Trojans. The details of the attacks against Xilinx 7-Series and...

WordPress wp-symposium plugin cross-site scripting vulnerability

WordPress is a blogging platform developed by the WordPress Foundation using the PHP language. The platform supports personal blog sites on PHP and MySQL servers. wp-symposium is a social networking plugin used in it. A cross-site scripting vulnerability exists in the WordPress wp-symposium plugi...

CVE-2015-9414

The wp-symposium plugin through 15.8.1 for WordPress has XSS via the wp-content/plugins/wp-symposium/getalbumitem.php?size parameter...

Code injection

The wp-symposium plugin through 15.8.1 for WordPress has XSS via the wp-content/plugins/wp-symposium/getalbumitem.php?size parameter...

CVE-2015-9414

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CVE-2015-9414

The wp-symposium plugin through 15.8.1 for WordPress has XSS via the wp-content/plugins/wp-symposium/getalbumitem.php?size parameter...

Cellular networks flaws expose 4G & 5G devices to IMSI capturing attacks

By Waqas A team of researchers has disclosed their findings at the NDSS Network and Distributed System Security symposium 2019 held in San Diego, revealing that cellular networks have certain vulnerabilities that can potentially affect not only 4G but 5G LTE protocols to IMSI capturing attacks. T...

BlackIoT Botnet: Can Water Heaters, Washers Bring Down the Power Grid?

We live in a world where washing machines text us when a load of laundry is finished and refrigerators can email grocery lists; but for all the convenience, it turns out that these high-wattage appliances can potentially be marshaled into something very inconvenient indeed: A wide-scale attack on...

Researchers Break IPsec VPN Connections with 20-Year-Old Protocol Flaw

A new Bleichenbacher oracle cryptographic attack has been set loose on the world, using a 20-year-old protocol flaw to compromise the Internet Key Exchange IKE protocol used to secure IP communications. Specifically, the attack targets IKE’s handshake implementation used for IPsec-based VPN...

IoT Discussion at the Leidos Supplier Innovation & Technology Symposium

Coalfire was asked to participate on a technical panel about the Internet of Things IoT at the Leidos Supplier Innovation & Technology Symposium on June 6. This event is a dynamic day enabling Leidos largest suppliers as well as targeted start-ups to showcase their offerings and capabilities to a...

hedgefundsymposium.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-585544 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| hedgefundsymposium.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...

iroast.kumamoto-u.ac.jp XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-457229 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| iroast.kumamoto-u.ac.jp Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Remediation Guide:| OWASP XSS Prevention...

WP Symposium Plugin Arbitrary File Upload

The WP Symposium Plugin for WordPress running on the remote web server is affected with an remote file upload vulnerability. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability, via a specially crafted request, allowing an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target web...

Malware Network Communication Provides Better Early Warning Signal

Research is expected to be unveiled today that challenges the industry’s current reliance on dynamic malware analysis as the best means of early detection of infections. Instead, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology, the IMDEA Software Institute and EURECOM posit that a better...

WordPress Exploit Framework

WordPress Exploit Framework is a Ruby framework for developing and using modules which aid in the penetration testing of WordPress powered websites and systems. Requirements Ensure that you have Ruby 2.2.x installed on your system and then install all required dependencies by opening a command...

WordPress Symposium Plugin SQL Injection (CVE-2015-6522)

An SQL injection vulnerability exists in the WordPress Symposium Plugin. It allows an authenticated remote attacker to inject or manipulate SQL queries in the back-end database, allowing for the manipulation or disclosure of arbitrary data...

Selfrando Technique Mitigates Attacks Unmasking Tor Users

The FBI’s apparent capability to unmask users of the Tor Network has caused hand-wringing among those concerned with privacy and civil liberties, many of whom are busy trying to win legal battles to get law enforcement to confess as to how they’re doing it. A team of academics and researchers,...

Wordpress WP Symposium 15.1 SQL Injection

SQL Injection vulnerability in Wordpress WP Symposium Plugin show parameter Vulnerability Type: SQL Injection For the exploit source code contact DSquare Security sales team...