High-Severity Cisco Webex Flaws Fixed

Cisco Systems has patched two high-severity vulnerabilities in its popular Webex video conferencing platform, which if exploited could allow an attacker to execute code on affected systems. Two multimedia players tied to the Webex platform are impacted. First is the Cisco Webex Network Recording...

From Minecraft to Metasploit. Game hacking could start your cyber security career

Human beings are curious. Give a computer game to a kid and it’s only a matter of time before they get bored with the constraints of the gameplay and start trying novel things. This is encouraged by a lot of game developers by hiding Easter eggs in hard to reach locations. Once the confines have...

Lenovo, HP, Dell Peripherals Face Unpatched Firmware Bugs

Fresh firmware vulnerabilities in Wi-Fi adapters, USB hubs, trackpads and cameras are putting millions of peripheral devices in danger of a range of cyberattacks, according to research from Eclypsium. TouchPad and TrackPoint firmware in Lenovo Laptops, HP Wide Vision FHD camera firmware in HP...

vulhub

It is an offensive tool for Vulnerability Research. The target product/service or framework is a collection of pre-built vulnerable docker environments, including Flask, Apache, Nginx, and Jenkins. The vulnerability class/vector is various, including SSTI Server-Side Template Injection, RCE Remot...

Talos Vulnerability Discovery Year in Review — 2019

By Martin Zeiser. Cisco Talos' Systems Security Research Team investigates software, operating system, IoT and ICS vulnerabilities to make sure we find vulnerabilities before the bad guys do. We provide this information to the affected vendors so that they can create patches and protect their...

The cybercrime ecosystem: attacking blogs

Executive summary The Cybercrime Ecosystem is a series of articles explaining how cybercriminals operate, what drives them, what techniques they use and how we, regular Internet users, are part of that ecosystem. The articles will also cover technical details and up-to-date research on the threat...

vulhub

It is an offensive tool for Vulnerability Research. The repository, vulhub, is a collection of pre-built vulnerable environments based on Docker-Compose. It is designed to be used for vulnerability research and testing, allowing users to easily create and manage vulnerable environments without...

Hacking Hardware Security Modules

Security researchers Gabriel Campana and Jean-Baptiste Bédrune are giving a hardware security module HSM talk at BlackHat in August: This highly technical presentation targets an HSM manufactured by a vendor whose solutions are usually found in major banks and large cloud service providers. It wi...

eng.relsib.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability

Security Researcher logindenied Helped patch 7927 vulnerabilities Received 8 Coordinated Disclosure badges Received 76 recommendations , a holder of 8 badges for responsible and coordinated disclosure, found a security vulnerability affecting eng.relsib.com website and its users. Following...

SilkETW: Because Free Telemetry is … Free!

Over time people have had an on-again, off-again interest in Event Tracing for Windows ETW. ETW, first introduced in Windows 2000, is a lightweight Kernel level tracing facility that was originally intended for debugging, diagnostics and performance. Gradually, however, defenders realized that ET...

Local privilege escalation via the Windows I/O Manager: a variant finding collaboration

The Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC investigates all reports of security vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft products and services to help make our customers and the global online community more secure. We appreciate the excellent vulnerability research reported to us regularly from the...

Local privilege escalation via the Windows I/O Manager: a variant finding collaboration

The Microsoft Security Response Center MSRC investigates all reports of security vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft products and services to help make our customers and the global online community more secure. We appreciate the excellent vulnerability research reported to us regularly from the...

Practical advice for earning higher Microsoft bounty awards

This year at the Nullcon International Security Conference I shared practical advice for how security researchers can maximize the impact of their security vulnerability submissions and earn higher bounty awards under the Microsoft Bounty Program. For those who couldn’t be there, I had two core...

Fuzzing para-virtualized devices in Hyper-V

Introduction Hyper-V is the backbone of Azure, running on its Hosts to provide efficient and fair sharing of resources, but also isolation. That’s why we, in the vulnerability research team for Windows, have been working in the background for years now helping secure Hyper-V. And why Microsoft...

exploitdb-bin-sploitsss

This is an official repository of The Exploit Database, a project sponsored by Offensive Security. The repository contains a collection of public exploits and corresponding vulnerable software, developed for use by penetration testers and vulnerability researchers. It is intended to serve as the...

Research Drives Protection

The threat landscape has changed often in the 22 years I’ve been working at Trend Micro and it will continue to change for many more years. We in cybersecurity are constantly at battle with hackers and threat actors who look to infect our customers using the many tactics available to them. Our jo...

Back to Basics: Why We Need to Encourage More Secure IoT Development

The Internet of Things IoT is radically reshaping the way we live and work. Before our very eyes, organizations are becoming more agile, efficient and cost effective to run, all while consumers marvel at the wonders of the smart home, fitness trackers and connected cars. There’s just one major...

exploit-database-bin-sploits

This is an official repository of The Exploit Database, a project sponsored by Offensive Security. The repository contains a collection of public exploits and corresponding vulnerable software, developed for use by penetration testers and vulnerability researchers. The aim is to serve as the most...

Zero Day Initiative: A 1H2018 Recap

When the Zero Day Initiative ZDI was formed in 2005, the cyber threat landscape was a bit different from what we see today. Threats were a little less sophisticated, but there was one thing that we saw then that we still see now: the shortage of cybersecurity professionals and researchers. The te...

U.S. sanctions against Russian cybersecurity companies

I never thought that I will write here about state sanctions. Usually I try to ignore political topics. But now it's necessary. Yesterday OFAC introduced sanctions against 5 Russian companies. I would like to mention 3 of them: Digital Security - one of the leading Russian Information Security...