Labs survey finds privacy concerns, distrust of social media rampant with all age groups

Before Cambridge Analytica made Facebook an unwilling accomplice to a scandal by appropriating and misusing more than 50 million users’ data, the public was already living in relative unease over the privacy of their information online. The Cambridge Analytica incident, along with other, seemingl...

US Hackers' Strike on Russian Trolls Sends a Message—but What Kind?

US Cyber Command's takedown of the Internet Research Agency's network may be more about signaling than immediate effects...

Gen. Nakasone on US Cyber Command

Really interesting article by and interview with Paul M. Nakasone Commander of US Cyber Command, Director of the National Security Agency, and Chief of the Central Security Service in the current issue of Joint Forces Quarterly. He talks about the evolving role of US Cyber Command, and its new...

New Breed of Fuel Pump Skimmer? Not Really

Fraud investigators say they've uncovered a sophisticated new breed of credit card skimmers being installed at gas pumps that is capable of relaying stolen card data via mobile text message. KrebsOnSecurity has since learned those claims simply don't hold water. An earlier version of this story...

Details on Recent DNS Hijacking

At the end of January, the US Department of Homeland Security issued a warning regarding serious DNS hijacking attempts against US government domains. Brian Krebs wrote an excellent article detailing the attacks and their implications. Strongly recommended...

Email service provider loses 2 decades worth of data due to hack attack

By Waqas Famed secure email service provider VFEmail has become a victim of a hack attack by an unknown cybercriminal. The company claims that it has suffered a “catastrophic destruction” of its US servers and almost two decades of data and backups in only a few hours. The entire digital...

Hackers Destroyed VFEmail Service – Deleted Its Entire Data and Backups

What could be more frightening than a service informing you that all your data is gone—every file and every backup servers are entirely wiped out? The worst nightmare of its kind. Right? But that's precisely what just happened this week with VFEmail.net, a US-based secure email provider that lost...

Microsoft Confirms Serious 'PrivExchange' Vulnerability

Microsoft acknowledged an elevated privilege flaw in its Exchange Server could allow a remote attacker with a simple mailbox account to gain administrator privileges. Both a Microsoft advisory and a US-CERT alert were issued on Tuesday warning users of the elevation of privilege flaw, dubbed...

The Threat That the US Can't Ignore: Itself

Tuesday's worldwide threats briefing to Congress outline numerous concerns for US security—many of which Donald Trump has inflamed or denied...

SQL Injection Vulnerability in 162100 Classified Information System us***_lo***.php File

162100 Classified Information System is a classified information website source code developed by php+MySQL. 162100 Classifieds Information System uslo.php file has a SQL injection vulnerability. An attacker can exploit the vulnerability to obtain sensitive database information...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: XSS Reflected

Hi Team , I found that https://████████/████/household/updateProfileInfo.action has vulnerability by XSS Reflected in household.householdID parameter . I can verify it with following URL: https://█████████/██████/household/updateProfileInfo.action?household.householdID=%27;alertdocument.domain//...

Government shutdown impacts .gov websites, puts Americans in danger

If you are in the United States, then you likely already know that we are on our 24th day of a government shutdown. While it is considered a "partial" shutdown, there are still plenty of government workers who are furloughed, which impacts the services they run—both online and off. Last week,...

WeiPHP 5.0beta frontend Us***.php has SQL injection vulnerability

WeiPHP is an open source WeChat public platform development framework, can easily build a personal WeChat public account operation platform. A SQL injection vulnerability exists in WeiPHP 5.0beta frontend at Us.php. Attackers can use this vulnerability to obtain sensitive database information...

ns21.us XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-717566 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| ns21.us Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| hidden until disclosure Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| hidden until...

Major US newspapers suffer malware attack; printing & delivery affected

By Waqas It is believed that the malware attack was carried out from outside the United States. The Los Angeles Times suffered a malware attack earlier this Saturday that disrupted printing and delivery process for several of its print editions across the country, the newspaper said. The malware...

wsdk8.us XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-715629 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| wsdk8.us Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| hidden until disclosure Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| hidden until...

Keyfinder - A Tool For Finding And Analyzing Private (And Public) Key Files, Including Support For Android APK Files

CERT Keyfinder is a utility for finding and analyzing key files on a filesystem as well as contained within Android APK files. CERT Keyfinder development was sponsored by the United States Department of Homeland Security DHS. Installation requirements: 1. Python 3.x recommended androguard...

What the US Can Learn from Israel and China's Collaboration

Opinion: What we can learn from Israel's surprising technological ties with China...

The Iran Hacks Cybersecurity Experts Feared May Be Here

An uptick in potentially Iran-related hacking since the nuclear deal collapsed spells trouble for the US and allies...

Chinese hackers reportedly stole secret US Navy data

By Waqas Hackers of Chinese origin have stolen data from US Navy contractors whose content includes highly confidential information on advanced military technologies. In June this year, it was reported that Chinese hackers stole 614 gigabytes of US Navy’s anti-ship missile data. Now, authorities ...