PT-2026-32900

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions AMD Zen 3, Zen 4, and Zen 5-based products affected versions not specified Description A missing lock verification in AMD Secure Processor ASP firmware allows a locally authenticated attacker with administrative or UEFI privileges to alter...

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Ethical Problems in Computer Security

Tadayoshi Kohno, Yasemin Acar, and Wulf Loh wrote excellent paper on ethical thinking within the computer security community: "Ethical Frameworks and Computer Security Trolley Problems: Foundations for Conversation": Abstract: The computer security research community regularly tackles ethical...

WiFi Flaws Allow Network Traffic Interception on Linux, iOS, and Android

By Deeba Ahmed The findings are to be presented at the Usenix Security Symposium. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: WiFi Flaws Allow Network Traffic Interception on Linux, iOS, and Android...

AuraBorealisApp - Do You Know What's In Your Python Packages? A Tool For Visualizing Python Package Registry Security Audit Data

AuraBorealis is a web application for visualizing anomalous and potentially malicious code in Python package registries. It uses security audit data produced by scanning the Python Package Index PyPI via Aura, a static analysis designed for large scale security auditing of Python packages. The...

Newest Intel Side-Channel Attack Sniffs Out Sensitive Data

Intel processors are vulnerable to a new side-channel attack, which researchers said can allow attackers to steal sensitive information such as encryption keys or passwords. Unlike previous side-channel attacks, this attack does not rely on sharing memory, cache sets and other former tactics...

New Hack Lets Attackers Bypass MasterCard PIN by Using Them As Visa Card

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a novel attack that could allow criminals to trick a point of sale terminal into transacting with a victim's Mastercard contactless card while believing it to be a Visa card. The research, published by a group of academics from ETH Zurich, builds on a stud...

Unpatchable 'Starbleed' Bug in FPGA Chips Exposes Critical Devices to Hackers

A newly discovered unpatchable hardware vulnerability in Xilinx programmable logic products could allow an attacker to break bitstream encryption, and clone intellectual property, change the functionality, and even implant hardware Trojans. The details of the attacks against Xilinx 7-Series and...

HeapHopper - A Bounded Model Checking Framework For Heap-implementations

HeapHopper is a bounded model checking framework for Heap-implementations. Setup sudo apt update && sudo apt install build-essential python-dev virtualenvwrapper git clone https://github.com/angr/heaphopper.git && cd ./heaphopper mkvirtualenv -ppython2 heaphopper pip install -e . Required Package...

BlackIoT Botnet: Can Water Heaters, Washers Bring Down the Power Grid?

We live in a world where washing machines text us when a load of laundry is finished and refrigerators can email grocery lists; but for all the convenience, it turns out that these high-wattage appliances can potentially be marshaled into something very inconvenient indeed: A wide-scale attack on...

Samsung, Huawei and other phone Bootloader was traced to the presence of many high-risk bug-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

California University research team to create the main stream mobile platform in the bootloader exists in the code test and the DOS of the security gap. Workshop staff with a BootStomp to create 6 new found cracks, 5 of which division is the manufacturer to confirm. There is also a su XI reported...

Multiple Vulnerabilities Found in NVIDIA, Qualcomm and Huawei's Bootloaders

Six exploitable flaws in chipsets used by Huawei, Qualcomm, MediaTek and NVIDIA were found in popular Android handsets, according to a report by University of California at Santa Barbara computer scientists. Each of the flaws exist in phones sold by Huawei, Sony and Google, and are tied to each o...

The four mainstream Android phone manufacturers the BootLoader in the presence of multiple flaws vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

University of California, Santa Barbara 9 the researchers found that the four mainstream chip manufacturers of the Android bootloader component the presence of multiple vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities can lead to the phone chain of trust during the boot process is compromised, so that the...

Facebook Awards $100K to Researchers for Credential Spearphishing Detection Method

A group of researchers recently identified a real-time way to detect credential spearphishing attacks in enterprise settings. The discovery net the researchers $100,000 last week from Facebook, which awards money as part of its annual Internet Defense Prize partnership with USENIX Association. Th...

DDoSCoin — New Crypto-Currency Pays Users for Participating in DDoS Attacks

It’s 2016, and now, you can earn some dollars by contributing into well-organized DDoS attack scheme. Do you know while mining Bitcoins you are actually contributing a significant computational power to keep the Bitcoin network running? In Bitcoins, the miners actually build and maintain massive...

OpenSSLX509Certificate deserialization Vulnerability, CVE-2 0 1 5-3 8 2 5）cause analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Serialization Serialization, is the state of the object information can be converted to storage or transmission in the form of the process. During serialization, the object will be in its current state is written to a temporary or persistent storage area. The user can pass from the storage area t...

How to Crack RC4 Encryption in WPA-TKIP and TLS

Security researchers have developed a more practical and feasible attack technique against the RC4 cryptographic algorithm that is still widely used to encrypt communications on the Internet. Despite being very old, RC4 Rivest Cipher 4 is still the most widely used cryptographic cipher implemente...

Facebook Releases osquery to Open Source

Facebook is in a giving mood today. The social networking giant announced today that it will release to open source a framework that detects and logs state changes in an operating system likely caused by an attack or performance meltdown. It also announced that it will hand out up to $300,000 nex...

Facebook Awards $50,000 Under Its New 'Internet Defense Prize' Program

Along with a dream to make Internet access available to everyone across the world, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is working to make the Internet a more secure place as well. Till now, a number of large technology companies have bug bounty programs to reward researchers and cyber enthusiast who...

New Facebook Internet Defense Prize Pays Out $50,000 Award

Large technology companies may already have bug bounty programs in place that reward researchers who attack and find holes in software or web platforms. Slowly, some are also starting to institute programs that pay for defensive measures. Facebook is the latest to do so with the implementation of...