Feds indict Fxmsp hacker who breached anti-virus firms to sell data

By Sudais Asif The Fxmsp hacker is a Kazakhstani citizen who... This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Feds indict Fxmsp hacker who breached anti-virus firms to sell data...

CVE-2020-7280 Symbolic Link vulnerability during DAT update

Privilege Escalation vulnerability during daily DAT updates when using McAfee Virus Scan Enterprise VSE prior to 8.8 Patch 15 allows local users to cause the deletion and creation of files they would not normally have permission to through altering the target of symbolic links. This is timing...

21 Tips to Stay Secure, Private, and Productive as You Work from Home on Your Mac

Nowadays, Macs are part of the work-from-home workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic. If you’ve brought a Mac from the office to home, it’s likely your IT department has already set it up to meet your company’s security policies. But what if you’re enlisting a Mac already at home to do duty for...

New Android Flaw Affecting Over 1 Billion Phones Let Attackers Hijack Apps

Remember Strandhogg? A security vulnerability affecting Android that malicious apps can exploit to masquerade as any other app installed on a targeted device to display fake interfaces to the users, tricking them into giving away sensitive information. Late last year, at the time of its public...

[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: clamav-0.102.3-1.fc32

Clam AntiVirus is an anti-virus toolkit for UNIX. The main purpose of this software is the integration with mail servers attachment scanning. The package provides a flexible and scalable multi-threaded daemon, a command line scanner, and a tool for automatic updating via Internet. The programs ar...

Nishang - Offensive PowerShell For Red Team, Penetration Testing And Offensive Security

Nishang is a framework and collection of scripts and payloads which enables usage of PowerShell for offensive security, penetration testing and red teaming. Nishang is useful during all phases of penetration testing. By nikhilmitt Usage Import all the scripts in the current PowerShell session...

McAfee VirusScan Enterprise Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

McAfee VirusScan Enterprise VSE is a suite of antivirus software from the American company McAfee. The software provides a full range of security protection, scans memory for malicious code and optimizes updates for remote systems. An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in versions prior ...

CVE-2020-7267

Privilege Escalation vulnerability in McAfee VirusScan Enterprise VSE for Linux prior to 2.0.3 Hotfix 2635000 allows local users to delete files the user would otherwise not have access to via manipulating symbolic links to redirect a McAfee delete action to an unintended file. This is achieved...

ILOVEYOU Virus

It's the twentieth anniversary of the ILOVEYOU virus, and here are three interesting articles about it and its effects on software design...

Hackers Exploit Critical Flaw in Ghost Platform with Cryptojacking Attack

Hackers targeted the publishing platform Ghost over the weekend, launching a cryptojacking attack against its servers that led to widespread outages. The attack stemmed from the exploit of critical vulnerabilities in SaltStack, used in Ghost’s server management infrastructure. Ghost is a free,...

MS02-008: XMLHTTP control in MSXML 4.0 can allow access to local files

For additional information about this vulnerability, click the following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:318203 MS02-008: XMLHTTP control in MSXML 3.0 can allow access to local files318202 MS02-008: XMLHTTP control in MSXML 2.0 can allow access to local...

CS:GO & Team Fortress 2 source code leaked – Virus alert for TF2

By Waqas The source code for Counter-Strike Global Offensive CS:GO and Team Fortress 2 TF2 have been leaked. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: CS:GO & Team Fortress 2 source code leaked - Virus alert for TF2...

November 11, 2014 update for SharePoint Server 2013 (KB2883055)

November 11, 2014 update for SharePoint Server 2013 KB2883055 This article describes update KB2883055 for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 that was released on November 11, 2014. This update has a prerequisite. Fixes and Improvements Fixes the following issue: Assume that you open an Excel workbo...

Description of the SharePoint Server 2013 update: September 10, 2013

Description of the SharePoint Server 2013 update: September 10, 2013 INTRODUCTION Microsoft has released an update for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013. This update provides the latest fixes for the 64-bit edition of SharePoint Server 2013. Additionally, this update contains stability and...

CVE-2020-7257

Privilege escalation vulnerability in McAfee Endpoint Security ENS for Windows prior to 10.7.0 February 2020 Update allows local users to cause the deletion and creation of files they would not normally have permission to through altering the target of symbolic links whilst an anti-virus scan was...

Privilege escalation

Privilege escalation vulnerability in McAfee Endpoint Security ENS for Windows prior to 10.7.0 February 2020 Update allows local users to cause the deletion and creation of files they would not normally have permission to through altering the target of symbolic links whilst an anti-virus scan was...

CVE-2020-7257

CVE-2020-7257 is a local privilege-escalation in McAfee Endpoint Security (ENS) for Windows prior to 10.7.0 February 2020 Update. The vulnerability arises from symbolic-link manipulation that can let an authenticated local user alter files they normally lack permission to modify, specifically whe...

CVE-2020-7257 Privilege Escalation vulnerability through Symbolic links in ENS

Privilege escalation vulnerability in McAfee Endpoint Security ENS for Windows prior to 10.7.0 February 2020 Update allows local users to cause the deletion and creation of files they would not normally have permission to through altering the target of symbolic links whilst an anti-virus scan was...

Lock and Code S1Ep4: coronavirus and responding to computer viruses with Akshay Bhargava

This week on Lock and Code, we discuss the top security headlines generated right here on Labs and around the Internet. In addition, we talk to Akshay Bhargava, Chief Product Officer of Malwarebytes, about the similarities between coronavirus and computer viruses. We discuss computer virus...

MS14-081: Description of the security update for Word 2013: December 9, 2014

Resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office that could allow remote code execution if an attacker convinces a user to open or preview a specially crafted Microsoft Word file in an affected version of Office.IntroductionThis security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office that could...