A New Privacy Bill, Safer White Hat Hacking, and More Security News This Week

A CIA debacle, a new side channel attack, and more security news this week...

Pentagon Expands Bug-Bounty Program to Include Physical Systems

The Department of Defense is expanding its “Hack the Pentagon” bug-bounty program to include hardware assets, tapping the Synack, HackerOne and Bugcrowd platforms to attract more white hats to the effort. The news comes two weeks after the Government Accountability Office GAO released a report...

8 Popular Courses to Learn Ethical Hacking – 2018 Bundle

Update Oct 2018 — Over 30,000 students from all around the world have joined this training program so far. Due to the growing number of threats in the computer world, ethical hackers have become the most important player for not only governments but also private companies and IT firms in order to...

Naming & Shaming Web Polluters: Xiongmai

What do we do with a company that regularly pumps metric tons of virtual toxic sludge onto the Internet and yet refuses to clean up their act? If ever there were a technology giant that deserved to be named and shamed for polluting the Web, it is Xiongmai -- a Chinese maker of electronic parts th...

Don't Buy the Trump Administration's China Misdirection

The White House keeps accusing China of election interference—but it's nothing like Russia in 2016...

New Android Malware Framework Turns Apps Into Powerful Spyware

Security researchers have uncovered a new, powerful Android malware framework that is being used by cybercriminals to turn legitimate apps into spyware with extensive surveillance capabilities—as part of what seems to be a targeted espionage campaign. Legitimate Android applications when bundled...

Under the hoodie: why money, power, and ego drive hackers to cybercrime

Just one more hour behind the hot grill flipping burgers, and Derek could call it a day. Under his musty hat, his hair was matted down with sweat, and his work uniform was spattered with grease. He knew he’d smell the processed meat and smoke for the next three days, even after he’d showered. But...

Security Bulletin: IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS) Hadoop connector is affected by a security vulnerability (CVE-2015-7430)

Summary A security vulnerability has been identified in the IBM Spectrum Scale GPFS Hadoop connector which could allow an unprivileged user the ability to read, write, modify, or delete any data in a GPFS file system CVE-2015-7430 Vulnerability Details CVEID: CVE-2015-7430 DESCRIPTION: IBM Genera...

On Financial Fraud

There are some good lessons in this article on financial fraud: That's how we got it so wrong. We were looking for incidental breaches of technical regulations, not systematic crime. And the thing is, that's normal. The nature of fraud is that it works outside your field of vision, subverting the...

Integer overflow

An issue was discovered in a smart contract implementation for STeX White List STEWL, an Ethereum token. The contract has an integer overflow. If the owner sets the value of amount to a large number then the "amount 1000000000000000" will cause an integer overflow in withdrawToFounders...

CVE-2018-14088

An issue was discovered in a smart contract implementation for STeX White List STEWL, an Ethereum token. The contract has an integer overflow. If the owner sets the value of amount to a large number then the "amount 1000000000000000" will cause an integer overflow in withdrawToFounders...

CVE-2018-14088

The CVE-2018-14088 issue affects the STeX White List (STE(WL)) Ethereum token smart contract. A vulnerability in withdrawToFounders() arises from an integer overflow when the owner sets amount to a large value, causing amount * 1000000000000000 to overflow. The available sources confirm the overf...

STeX White List Integer Overflow Vulnerability

STeX White List STEWL is an Ether-based digital currency. An integer overflow vulnerability exists in the 'withdrawToFounders' function in the smart contract implementation of STEWL. No detailed vulnerability details are provided at this time...

libgcrypt -- side-channel attack vulnerability

GnuPG reports: Mitigate a local side-channel attack on ECDSA signature as described in the white paper "Return on the Hidden Number Problem"...

lorilocks.ca XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-626871 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| lorilocks.ca Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

webwinkel.jopiehuismanmuseum.nl XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-623073 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| webwinkel.jopiehuismanmuseum.nl Open Bug Bounty Program:| Create your bounty program now. It's open and free. Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1...

This Week in Security News: Hackers and Cyber Attackers

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, Chili’s parent company – Brinker International – announced that consumer credit and debit card information had been compromised at some...

White House Eliminates Cybersecurity Position

The White House has eliminated the cybersecurity coordinator position. This seems like a spectacularly bad idea...

Sending Inaudible Commands to Voice Assistants

Researchers have demonstrated the ability to send inaudible commands to voice assistants like Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant. Over the last two years, researchers in China and the United States have begun demonstrating that they can send hidden commands that are undetectable to the human ear t...

How to Make Your Demo Environment Easy, Accessible...AND Secure

A common misconception I've heard in the field is that a tradeoff exists between easy access for applications and network security. For example, companies want to allow their sales team, partners, and prospects access into demo environments. With traditional access solutions, there is a question ...