Newly Declassified Study Demonstrates Uselessness of NSA's Phone Metadata Program

The New York Times is reporting on the NSA's phone metadata program, which the NSA shut down last year: A National Security Agency system that analyzed logs of Americans' domestic phone calls and text messages cost $100 million from 2015 to 2019, but yielded only a single significant investigatio...

Gadgetinspector - A Byte Code Analyzer For Finding Deserialization Gadget Chains In Java Applications

This project inspects Java libraries and classpaths for gadget chains. Gadgets chains are used to construct exploits for deserialization vulnerabilities. By automatically discovering possible gadgets chains in an application's classpath penetration testers can quickly construct exploits and...

Windows Kernel - Information Disclosure Vulnerability

PoC for the SWAPGS attack CVE-2019-1125 This holds the sources for the SWAPGS attack PoC publicly shown at Black Hat USA, 2019. Contents leakgsbkva - variant 1 look for random values in kernel memory; limited to PE kernel image header leakgsbkvat - variant 2 extract random values from kernel...

A US Data Protection Agency

The United States is one of the few democracies without some formal data protection agency, and we need one. Senator Gillibrand just proposed creating one...

Loda RAT Grows Up

By Chris Neal. Over the past several months, Cisco Talos has observed a malware campaign that utilizes websites hosting a new version of Loda, a remote access trojan RAT written in AutoIT. These websites also host malicious documents that begin a multi-stage infection chain which ultimately serve...

Exploit for CVE-2019-1125

PoC for the SWAPGS attack CVE-2019-1125https://nvd.nist.go...

Windows Kernel - Information Disclosure

Windows Kernel - Information Disclosure PoC for the SWAPGS attack CVE-2019-1125 This holds the sources for the SWAPGS attack PoC publicly shown at Black Hat USA, 2019. Contents leakgsbkva - variant 1 look for random values in kernel memory; limited to PE kernel image header leakgsbkvat - variant ...

klett-usa.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability

Security Researcher devl00p Helped patch 2581 vulnerabilities Received 10 Coordinated Disclosure badges Received 15 recommendations , a holder of 10 badges for responsible and coordinated disclosure, found a security vulnerability affecting klett-usa.com website and its users. Following coordinat...

lakehomes-usa.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability

Security Researcher geeknik Helped patch 8616 vulnerabilities Received 8 Coordinated Disclosure badges Received 20 recommendations , a holder of 8 badges for responsible and coordinated disclosure, found a security vulnerability affecting lakehomes-usa.com website and its users. Following...

UPDATE: Tsurugi Linux 2019.1

Tsurugi Linux 2019.1 has now been released. I briefly mentioned it in my older post titled List of Operating Systems for OSINT. This post discusses the updates made to the latest version of Tsurugi Linux, that was released at BlackHat USA. This release includes a lot of bug fixes, updates, additi...

Fedora Update for firefox FEDORA-2019-d2856deb1f

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2019 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Announcing the Security Researcher Quarterly Leaderboard

Right before Black Hat USA 2019, we announced our new researcher recognition program, and at Black Hat we announced the top researchers from the previous twelve months. Since it’s easier to track your progress with regular updates than with just an annual report, we are excited to...

Announcing the Security Researcher Quarterly Leaderboard

Right before Black Hat USA 2019, we announced our new researcher recognition program, and at Black Hat we announced the top researchers from the previous twelve months. Since it’s easier to track your progress with regular updates than with just an annual report, we are excited to...

U.S. Dept Of Defense: Command Injection (via CVE-2019-11510 and CVE-2019-11539)

Summary: The Navy has a Pulse Secure SSL VPN https://████████/dana-na/auth/urldefault/welcome.cgi that is vulnerable to: CVE-2019-11510 - Pre-auth Arbitrary File Reading CVE-2019-11539 - Post-auth Command Injection vulnerable hostname from ssl certificate: ██████████.navy.mil The pre-auth arbitra...

Bypassing Apple FaceID's Liveness Detection Feature

Apple's FaceID has a liveness detection feature, which prevents someone from unlocking a victim's phone by putting it in front of his face while he's sleeping. That feature has been hacked: Researchers on Wednesday during Black Hat USA 2019 demonstrated an attack that allowed them to bypass a...

Evaluating the NSA's Telephony Metadata Program

Interesting analysis: "Examining the Anomalies, Explaining the Value: Should the USA FREEDOM Act's Metadata Program be Extended?" by Susan Landau and Asaf Lubin. Abstract: The telephony metadata program which was authorized under Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act, remains one of the most controversi...

DEF CON 2019: Researchers Demo Hacking Google Home for RCE

LAS VEGAS – The Tencent Blade Team of researchers demonstrated several ways they have developed to hack and run remote code on Google Home smart speakers. The hacks center around what is known as a Magellan vulnerability, which can be used to exploit the massively popular SQLite database engine...

State Farm Falls Victim to Credential-Stuffing Attack

State Farm Insurance is notifying customers that accounts have been compromised by hackers in a credential-stuffing attack. Credential-stuffing is accomplished by hackers who take advantage of users who often reuse the same passwords across multiple online accounts. The cyberattackers use stolen...

Researchers Bypass Apple FaceID Using Biometrics 'Achilles Heel'

LAS VEGAS – Vulnerabilities have been uncovered in the authentication process of biometrics technology that could allow bad actors to bypass various facial recognition applications – including Apple’s FaceID. But there is a catch. Doing so requires the victim to be out cold. Researchers on...

Black Hat 2019: WhatsApp Users Still Open to Message Manipulation

LAS VEGAS – Researchers at Black Hat USA 2019 demoed how known vulnerabilities in WhatsApp could still be exploited in several attacks that manipulate chats. Facebook-owned WhatsApp is a popular end-to-end encrypted messaging platform with at least 1.5 billion users. Researchers with Check Point...