Wikileaks Unveils Project Protego: CIA's Secret Missile Control System

Every week since March Wikileaks has been leaking secrets from the United States Central Intelligence Agency CIA, which mainly focus on surveillance techniques and hacking tools employed by its agents. However this time, the whistleblower organisation has released something different from its...

AngelFire: CIA Malware Infects System Boot Sector to Hack Windows PCs

A team of hackers at the CIA, the Central Intelligence Agency, allegedly used a Windows hacking tool against its targets to gain persistent remote access. As part of its Vault 7 leaks, WikiLeaks today revealed details about a new implant developed by the CIA, dubbed AngelFire, to target computers...

Vault 7 Leak: CIA Collected Biometric Data from Partner Agencies

By Waqas New Vault 7 Documents by WikiLeaks Show How CIA Collected This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Vault 7 Leak: CIA Collected Biometric Data from Partner Agencies...

Updating to Secure Hub 10.5.5 causes Passcode prompt to appear repeatedly

You may find that after upgrading to Secure Hub 10.5.5 on Android, the device repeatedly requests the Passcode to be entered even though the Passcodeentered is known to be valid. Upon investigation of the Secure Hub log files, you may notice an error message which states "SecretVaultProvider:Fail...

WikiLeaks Reveals How CIA Malware Tracks Geo-Location of its Targeted

WikiLeaks has just published a new batch of the ongoing Vault 7 leak, and this time the whistleblowing website has unveiled a classified malware for that tracks geo-location of targeted PCs and laptops running the Microsoft Windows operating system. In short, the malware does it by capturing the...

FAQ: XenMobile Derived Credentials

What are Derived Credentials? Derived credentials provide strong authentication for mobile devices. The credentials, derived from a smart card, reside in a mobile device instead of the card. The smart card is either a Personal Identity Verification PIV card or Common Access Card CAC. The derived...

Digging Into WannaCry Details: Answers to Your Burning Questions

Jimmy Graham, Director of Product Management, Qualys Threat Protection & AssetView The WannaCry ransomware attack spread so quickly and has been so disruptive that IT departments can’t get enough information about what caused it, how it can be remediated and what can be done to protect their...

Qualys Cloud Suite 8.10 New Features

This new release of the Qualys Cloud Suite, version 8.10, includes new capabilities and improvements to for VM, PC and shared platform improvements: Authentication Vault integration with BeyondTrust Mandate-Based reporting for Policy Compliance to simplify reporting against multiple mandates and...

WikiLeaks Reveals 'AfterMidnight' & 'Assassin' CIA Windows Malware Frameworks

When the world was dealing with the threat of the self-spreading WannaCry ransomware, WikiLeaks released a new batch of CIA Vault 7 leaks, detailing two apparent CIA malware frameworks for the Microsoft Windows platform. Dubbed "AfterMidnight" and "Assassin," both malware programs are designed to...

Wikileaks Unveils CIA's Man-in-the-Middle Attack Tool

Wikileaks has published a new batch of the Vault 7 leak, detailing a man-in-the-middle MitM attack tool allegedly created by the United States Central Intelligence Agency CIA to target local networks. Since March, WikiLeaks has published thousands of documents and other secret tools that the...

Timing Attack

github.com/hashicorp/vault is vulnerable to timing attacks. This vulnerability is caused because passwords are not compared in constant time, allowing malicious users to guess valid passwords based on the time that a comparison takes...

Source Code for CIA’s Tool to Track Whistleblowers Leaked by Wikileaks

Wikileaks has just published a new batch of the Vault 7 leak, exposing the documentation and source code for a CIA project known as "Scribbles." Scribbles, a.k.a. the "Snowden Stopper," is a piece of software allegedly designed to embed 'web beacon' tags into confidential documents, allowing the...

WordPress Plugin WP Vault Local File Inclusion

Description: Type user access: any user. $GET“wpv-image” is not escaped in include file. File / Code: Path: /wp-content/plugins/wp-vault/trunk/wp-vault.php includedirnameFILE . "/images/" . $GET"wpv-image"; if isset$GET"wpvfileid" includedirnameFILE . "/wpv-file-handler.php"; exit; else if...

Cisco Catalyst 2960 switch in CVE-2017-3881 vulnerability analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! 2017 3 December 17, Cisco official website announced that the Cisco IOS&IOS-XE Software Cluster Management ProtocolCluster Management Protocolthe presence of a remote code execution vulnerability, CVE-2017-3881-in. The vulnerability is Cisco in the study of the CIA leak of the document“Vault 7”...

CVE-2017-3881: Cisco Catalyst switches remote code execution vulnerability analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Your Catalyst switches whether to enable the telnet in? If Yes, it would have to be careful. This article will be to introduce the reader for the equipped with the latest firmware the Catalyst 2960 switch the remote code execution vulnerability proof-of-concept attack technique. Specific exploit...

Tools Used by Lamberts APT Found in Vault 7 Dumps

Links have emerged connecting targeted attacks going back a decade against high-profile government, industrial and financial targets around the world to hacking tools and documents leaked in the Vault 7 dump. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab today published a technical report on the activities of a...

WikiLeaks Reveals CIA's Grasshopper Windows Hacking Framework

As part of its Vault 7 series of leaked documents, whistleblowing website WikiLeaks today released a new cache of 27 documents allegedly belonged to the US Central Intelligence Agency CIA. Named Grasshopper, the latest batch reveals a CLI-based framework developed by the CIA to build "customised...

CVE-2017-5670

Riverbed RiOS through 9.6.0 deletes the secure vault with the rm program not shred or srm, which makes it easier for physically proximate attackers to obtain sensitive information by reading raw disk blocks...

CVE-2017-7306

Riverbed RiOS through 9.6.0 has a weak default password for the secure vault, which makes it easier for physically proximate attackers to defeat the secure-vault protection mechanism by leveraging knowledge of the password algorithm and the appliance serial number. NOTE: the vendor believes that...

CVE-2017-7305

Riverbed RiOS through 9.6.0 does not require a bootloader password, which makes it easier for physically proximate attackers to defeat the secure-vault protection mechanism via a crafted boot. NOTE: the vendor believes that this does not meet the definition of a vulnerability. The product contain...