CISA Pushing U.S. Agencies to Adopt Vulnerability Disclosure Policies

The U.S. government’s cybersecurity agency has issued a draft directive mandating all agencies to develop vulnerability disclosure policies, which would give ethical hackers clear guidelines for submitting bugs found in government systems. Security experts hope that the directive will light a fir...

Unwanted notifications in browser

When, back in 2015, push notifications were just appearing in browsers, very few people wondered how this tool would be used in the future: once a useful technology made to keep regular readers informed about updates, today it is often used to shell website visitors with unsolicited ads. To achie...

CVE-2019-12262

Wind River VxWorks 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 6.9 and 7 has Incorrect Access Control in the RARP client component. IPNET security vulnerability: Handling of unsolicited Reverse ARP replies Logical Flaw...

CVE-2019-12262

Wind River VxWorks 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 6.9 and 7 has Incorrect Access Control in the RARP client component. IPNET security vulnerability: Handling of unsolicited Reverse ARP replies Logical Flaw...

Why Malwarebytes decided to participate in AV testing

Starting this month, Malwarebytes began participating in the antivirus software for Windows comparison test performed by AV-test.org. This is uncharted territory for us, as we have refrained from participating in these types of tests since our inception. Although recent testing results show...

Sophisticated Voice Phishing Scams

Brian Krebs is reporting on some new and sophisticated phishing scams over the telephone. I second his advice: "never give out any information about yourself in response to an unsolicited phone call." Always call them back, and not using the number offered to you by the caller. Always. EDITED TO...

Kidnapping Fraud

Fake kidnapping fraud: "Most commonly we have unsolicited calls to potential victims in Australia, purporting to represent the people in authority in China and suggesting to intending victims here they have been involved in some sort of offence in China or elsewhere, for which they're being held...

CVE-2018-0203

A vulnerability in the SMTP relay of Cisco Unity Connection could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to send unsolicited email messages, aka a Mail Relay Vulnerability. The vulnerability is due to improper handling of domain information in the affected software. An unauthenticated, remote...

Design/Logic Flaw

A vulnerability in the SMTP relay of Cisco Unity Connection could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to send unsolicited email messages, aka a Mail Relay Vulnerability. The vulnerability is due to improper handling of domain information in the affected software. An unauthenticated, remote...

CVE-2018-0203

A vulnerability in the SMTP relay of Cisco Unity Connection could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to send unsolicited email messages, aka a Mail Relay Vulnerability. The vulnerability is due to improper handling of domain information in the affected software. An unauthenticated, remote...

PT-2018-8668

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Cisco Unity Connection affected versions not specified Description: A vulnerability in the SMTP relay could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to send unsolicited email messages. This issue is due to improper handling of domain...

CVE-2018-0203

A vulnerability in the SMTP relay of Cisco Unity Connection could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to send unsolicited email messages, aka a Mail Relay Vulnerability. The vulnerability is due to improper handling of domain information in the affected software. An unauthenticated, remote...

CVE-2018-0203

CVE-2018-0203 : A vulnerability in the SMTP relay of Cisco Unity Connection allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to send unsolicited email messages due to improper handling of domain information. A successful exploit could deliver emails to arbitrary addresses. Affected product: Cisco Unity...

Cisco Unity Connection Mail Relay Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the SMTP relay of Cisco Unity Connection could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to send unsolicited email messages. The vulnerability is due to improper handling of domain information in the affected software. An unauthenticated, remote attacker could exploit this...

IC3 Warns of Impersonation Scams

The Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3 has released an alert on impersonation scams. In these schemes, scammers send emails impersonating IC3 to trick recipients into providing personally identifiable information or downloading malicious files. Users should use caution when reviewing unsolicited...

Is it Time to Can the CAN-SPAM Act?

Regulators at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission FTC are asking for public comment on the effectiveness of the CAN-SPAM Act, a 14-year-old federal law that seeks to crack down on unsolicited commercial email. Judging from an unscientific survey by this author, the FTC is bound to get an earful...

Easter Holiday Phishing Scams and Malware Campaigns

As the Easter holiday approaches, US-CERT reminds users to stay aware of holiday scams and cyber campaigns, which may include: unsolicited shipping notifications that may actually be scams by attackers to solicit personal information phishing scams, electronic greeting cards that may contain...

CVE-2017-6444

The MikroTik Router hAP Lite 6.25 has no protection mechanism for unsolicited TCP ACK packets in the case of a fast network connection, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service CPU consumption by sending many ACK packets. After the attacker stops the exploit, the CPU usage is 10...

MSRT December 2016 addresses Clodaconas, which serves unsolicited ads through DNS hijacking

In this month’s Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool MSRT release, we continue taking down unwanted software, the pesky threats that force onto our computers things that we neither want nor need. BrowserModifier:Win32/Clodaconas, for instance, displays ads when you’re browsing the internet. ...

CVE-2016-7988: Undefined Security Weakness

On Samsung Galaxy S4 through S7 devices, absence of permissions on the BroadcastReceiver responsible for handling the com.Samsung.android.intent.action.SETWIFI intent leads to unsolicited configuration messages being handled by wifi-service.jar within the Android Framework, a subset of...