Multiple remote vulnerabilities (RCE, bof) in Nuuo NVR and NETGEAR Surveillance

Multiple vulnerabilities in NUUO NVRmini2 / NVRsolo / Crystal devices and NETGEAR ReadyNAS Surveillance application Discovered by Pedro Ribeiro [email protected], Agile Information Security http://www.agileinfosec.co.uk/ Disclosure: 04/08/2016 / Last updated: 05/08/2016 Background on the affected...

Phone Maker BLU Settles with FTC Over Unauthorized User Data Extraction

Android phone-maker BLU Products agreed to a proposed settlement on Tuesday with the Federal Trade Commission, over allegations it allowed the third-party firm Adups Technology to collect detailed consumer data from users without their consent. In an administrative complaint filed earlier this we...

PROTECTING YOUR PRIVACY – Part 2: How to Maximize Your Privacy on Social Media and in Your Browser

In the last post we highlighted the privacy risks associated with using popular social networking sites and browsers. You might not appreciate just how much of your personal data is being accessed by advertisers and other third parties via your social media accounts and internet browsing...

Design/Logic Flaw

ILIAS 5.3.4 has XSS through unsanitized output of PHPSELF, related to shiblogout.php and third-party demo files...

CVE-2018-10665

ILIAS 5.3.4 has XSS through unsanitized output of PHPSELF, related to shiblogout.php and third-party demo files...

CVE-2018-10665

CVE-2018-10665 : A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability affects ILIAS 5.3.4, caused by unsanitized output of PHP_SELF, related to shib_logout.php and third-party demo files. Multiple connected sources (Red Hat, CNVD, NVD, OSV, CVE lists) confirm the issue as an XSS in ILIAS 5.3.4. The provide...

CVE-2018-10665

ILIAS 5.3.4 has XSS through unsanitized output of PHPSELF, related to shiblogout.php and third-party demo files...

PROTECTING YOUR PRIVACY – Part 1: The Privacy Risks of Social Networks and Online Browsing

Most Americans today spend many of their waking hours online. In fact, we’re up to spending an average of five hours per day just on our mobiles. Much of this time is spent browsing the web or checking in, updating and sharing via our favorite social networks. There’s just one problem: unless you...

IoT Inspector Tool from Princeton

Researchers at Princeton University have released IoT Inspector, a tool that analyzes the security and privacy of IoT devices by examining the data they send across the Internet. They've already used the tool to study a bunch of different IoT devices. From their blog post: Finding 3: Many IoT...

A PowerShell Toolkit for Attacking SQL Server: PowerUpSQL

The PowerUpSQL module includes functions that support SQL Server discovery, auditing for common weak configurations, and privilege escalation on scale. It is intended to be used during internal penetration tests and red team engagements. However, PowerUpSQL also includes many functions that could...

Who is doing what on your network?

Over the past few months, while talking to customers, the topic of Zero Trust Architecture keeps coming up. Seemingly everyone is thinking of implementing the model - which we fully encourage! One of the core components of the principle is the ability to inspect and log all network and system...

Overwhelmed by overchoice at RSA Conference 2018

As over 500 companies vied for mindshare at this years RSA conference - a cacophony of vendors pitching thousands of products from brightly colored booths - it reminded me of how challenging it was for me to separate signal from noise when I was managing global networks. And the rapid growth of...

BD Pyxis

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 6.8 ATTENTION : Public exploits are available. Vendor : Becton, Dickinson and Company BD Equipment : Certain BD Pyxis Products Vulnerability : Reusing a Nonce 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow data traffic manipulation,...

Node.js third-party modules: [entitlements] Command injection on the 'path' parameter

Hello again, another command injection, this time on the entitlements module. Module module name: entitlements version: 1.2.0 npm page: https://www.npmjs.com/package/entitlements Module Description check the entitlements of a .app bundle Module Stats 26 downloads in the last day 328 downloads in...

Flaw in LinkedIn AutoFill Plugin Lets Third-Party Sites Steal Your Data

Not just Facebook, a new vulnerability discovered in Linkedin's popular AutoFill functionality found leaking its users' sensitive information to third party websites without the user even knowing about it. LinkedIn provides an AutoFill plugin for a long time that other websites can use to let...

How Can Manufacturing Companies Improve Network Access and Security?

The manufacturing industry faces complex challenges other sectors of the economy need not worry about. Manufacturers rely heavily on everything from positive global economic trends to laws that lift certain burdens. And companies involved with manufacturing consistently focus on increased...

Podcast: How Millions of Apps Leak Private Data

SAN FRANCISCO – Threatpost’s Tom Spring talked to Roman Unuchek, senior malware analyst at Kaspersky Lab, about new research on leaky apps made public this week. Unuchek released his research at the RSA conference this week, revealing that millions of apps leak personal identifiable information –...

Millions of Apps Leak Private User Data Via Leaky Ad SDKs

SAN FRANCISCO – Millions of apps leak personal identifiable information such as name, age, income and possibly even phone numbers and email addresses. At fault are app developers who do not protect ad-targeting data transmitted to third-party advertisers. “The scale of what we first thought was...

Privilege escalation

IPVanish 3.0.11 for macOS suffers from a root privilege escalation vulnerability. The com.ipvanish.osx.vpnhelper LaunchDaemon implements an insecure XPC service that could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code as the root user. IPVanish uses a third-party library for converting xpcobjectt...

CVE-2018-10192

IPVanish 3.0.11 for macOS suffers from a root privilege escalation vulnerability. The com.ipvanish.osx.vpnhelper LaunchDaemon implements an insecure XPC service that could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code as the root user. IPVanish uses a third-party library for converting xpcobjectt...