Post-Data Breach, British Airways Slapped With Record $230M Fine

UPDATE A record $230 million fine has been proposed against British Airways after a 2018 data breach impacted 500,000 of the airline’s customers. If approved, the fee would be the biggest General Data Protection Regulation GDPR fine to be issued to a company so far. On Monday, the Information...

PTF v2.3 - The Penetration Testers Framework Is A Way For Modular Support For Up-To-Date Tools

The PenTesters Framework PTF is a Python script designed for Debian/Ubuntu/ArchLinux based distributions to create a similar and familiar distribution for Penetration Testing. As pentesters, we've been accustom to the /pentest/ directories or our own toolsets that we want to keep up-to-date all o...

Smart cities, difficult choices: privacy and security on the grid

All is not well in the land of smart city planning, as the latest major planned development from Google's sister company Sidewalk Labs continues to run into problems in Toronto, Canada. A groundswell of support? Building a city “From the ground up” is apparently no longer a thing: at least some...

Know before you go: Talos Threat Research Summit

We are now just 48 hours away from the second annual Talos Threat Research Summit. After last year's success in Orlando, we are back and better than ever from San Diego on Sunday. If you plan on attending, here's what you need to know before Sunday morning. Can't make it out? You can still stream...

PT-2019-12928 · Parso +1 · Parso +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: parso versions through 0.4.0 Description: A deserialization vulnerability exists in the way parso handles grammar parsing from the cache. Cache loading relies on pickle, and if an evil pickle can be written to a cache grammar file and its...

Amazon Linux 2 : kernel (ALAS-2019-1214)

A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's freescale hypervisor manager implementation. A parameter passed via to an ioctl was incorrectly validated and used in size calculations for the page size calculation. An attacker can use this flaw to crash the system or corrupt memory or, possibly, create...

Input validation

The Hustle aka wordpress-popup plugin 6.0.7 for WordPress is vulnerable to CSV Injection as it allows for injecting malicious code into a pop-up window. Successful exploitation grants an attacker with a right to execute malicious code on the administrator's computer through Excel functions as the...

CVE-2019-11872

The Hustle aka wordpress-popup plugin 6.0.7 for WordPress is vulnerable to CSV Injection as it allows for injecting malicious code into a pop-up window. Successful exploitation grants an attacker with a right to execute malicious code on the administrator's computer through Excel functions as the...

Robert Mueller Speaks, Amazon’s New Echo Show, and More News

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CVE-2018-12012

While updating blacklisting region shared buffered memory region is not validated against newly updated black list, causing boot-up to be compromised in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Consumer Electronics Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdrago...

Design/Logic Flaw

While updating blacklisting region shared buffered memory region is not validated against newly updated black list, causing boot-up to be compromised in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Consumer Electronics Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdrago...

CVE-2018-12012

CVE-2018-12012 affects Qualcomm Snapdragon platforms where the blacklisting mechanism uses a shared buffered memory region during boot. The root cause described is that updates to the blacklist are not validated against the newly updated blacklist, allowing boot‑up to be compromised on a wide set...

CVE-2018-12012

While updating blacklisting region shared buffered memory region is not validated against newly updated black list, causing boot-up to be compromised in Snapdragon Auto, Snapdragon Compute, Snapdragon Consumer Electronics Connectivity, Snapdragon Consumer IOT, Snapdragon Industrial IOT, Snapdrago...

World’s most dangerous laptop ‘Persistence of Chaos’ is up for auction

By Ryan De Souza The 'Persistence of Chaos' laptop is infected with some of the most dangerous malware including WannaCry. A Samsung’s 11-year old Notebook called the Persistence of Chaos is dubbed the most dangerous PC in the world because it is loaded with six of the most notorious and damaging...

CVE-2019-7760

Adobe Acrobat and Reader versions 2019.010.20100 and earlier, 2019.010.20099 and earlier, 2017.011.30140 and earlier, 2017.011.30138 and earlier, 2015.006.30495 and earlier, and 2015.006.30493 and earlier have a use after free vulnerability. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code...

CVE-2019-8924

XAMPP through 5.6.8 allows XSS via the cds-fpdf.php interpret or titel parameter. NOTE: This product is discontinued...

CVE-2019-5438

Path traversal using symlink in npm harp module versions = 0.29.0...

CVE-2019-7181

Buffer Overflow vulnerability in myQNAPcloud Connect 1.3.3.0925 and earlier could allow remote attackers to crash the program...

File upload vulnerability in the up***.php file of Pangu's backend management system

Pangu Network is a regional service operator authorized by Baidu, a group of companies providing integrated network marketing services to customers in the region with Baidu's business as the core. A file upload vulnerability exists in the up.php file of Pangu's backend management system. An...

Privilege Escalation

OpenStack Compute nova launches and schedules large networks of virtual machines, creating a redundant and scalable cloud computing platform. Compute provides the software, control panels, and APIs required to orchestrate a cloud, including running virtual machine instances, managing networks, an...