Another AWS Bucket exposed to the public. This time the AWS Bucket belonged to Birst. A cyber security team have discovered a massive trove of data exposed due to an unprotected Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 bucket. The database belonged to Birst, a Cloud Business Intelligence (BI) and Analytics firm. The exposed database contained 50.4 […]
Hackers could be close to developing malware that exploits flaws, suggests a German cybersecurity firm. AV-Test, an independent German antivirus testing and security software company, has managed to identify nearly 139 malware samples that most probably indicate growing craze among cybercriminals to exploit the recently discovered CPU bugs Meltdown and Spectre. However, the majority of […]
Hackers can exploit security flaws in ManageEngine software to gain administrator type control of the system. Digital Defense Inc., a San Antonio based IT security firm has identified multiple security flaws in ManageEngine’s IT management software that companies use for management of their IT infrastructure. The Vulnerability Research Team (VRT) at Digital Defense Inc., stated that there are […]
Security researchers have identified a new in-kind Zyklon malware campaign that spreads advanced botnet malware using at least three newly disclosed vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office. Nicknamed Zyklon, the complete malware reappeared after almost two years and focused mainly on telecommunications, insurance, and financial services. Active since early 2016, Zyklon malware is an HTTP botnet malware […]
CS Suite is a one stop tool for auditing the security posture of the AWS infrastructure and does system audits as well. CS Suite leverages current open source tools capabilities and has other missing checks added into one tool to rule them all. The major features include: Simple installation with support of python virtual environment […]
Apple has issued a statement regarding the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, confirming all Mac systems and iOS devices are affected, but saying there are no known exploits impacting customers at this time. Apple, like Microsoft, has urged users to download software only from trusted sources, such as the App Store. The iPhone maker has already […]
The prosecutions were filed in California, Oregon, and Indiana, according to The News. The three incidents focus on the setback in Intel disclosing the Meltdown and Spectre cyber-flaws, which make it and others firms’ parts vulnerable to hackers. The company was first published of the two vulnerabilities in June 2016 but did not openly disclose […]
Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities haunting users and Tech Giants worldwide – Now the Giants have addressed the issue. Recently, we reported about the security flaws that render the inner workings of multiple generations of Intel CPUs vulnerable to exploitation. Now there are new details available about the flaws. These flaws were identified by Google’s Project Zero […]
After initial reports of Intel screwing up big time in the form of massive security flaws, it was later released that the problem is bigger and it affects CPUs from AMD and ARM as well. The flaws being talked about here are Meltdown and Spectre, and they affect almost all devices produced in the last […]
A slew of online services used to manage GPS- and GSM-based location tracking devices have been found vulnerable to flaws that could allow attackers to hijack these devices and reveal their owners’ past and current locations. In an online post on Tuesday, security researchers Vangelis Stykas and Michael Gruhn detailed the vulnerabilities, collectively named Trackmageddon, in 103 […]
Just yesterday, a report from The Register disclosed a massive security screwup on behalf of Intel, which impacted nearly all chips manufactured in the past ten years. It was also reported that future patches released by the developers of Windows and Linux kernel could reduce the performance of devices up to 5-30%. That’s a lot. […]
Trackmadeddon attack puts millions of vulnerable GPS trackers at risk of data exposure. According to a research conducted by two security experts by Vangelis Stykas (@evstykas) and Michael Gruhn (@0x6d696368), a majority of location tracking devices are flawed and vulnerable to exploitation. There are versatile devices such as child or pet trackers, fitness monitoring gadgets and […]
In a statement on Wednesday, the organization said slowing down the telephones via a recent software update was needed because the aging batteries in older phones were making devices to unexpectedly shut down. Many iPhone users didn’t buy Apple’s excuse. Some dictated the company was purposely reducing the performance of older phone models as a […]
Los Angeles natives Stefan Bogdanovich and Dakota Speas, represented by Wilshire Law Firm, this firm honed a lawsuit with the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California challenging Apple of slowing down their older iPhone designs when new models come out. Defendant breached the mentioned contracts it made with Plaintiffs and Class Members […]
In September, the US administration gave federal bureaus three months to eliminate Kaspersky’s security software, citing matters of espionage. It cited “the ties among certain Kaspersky officials and Russian intelligence and other government bureaus, and conditions under Russian law that allow Russian intelligence powers to request or compel support from Kaspersky and to intercept messages […]
Last week, security researchers have published the details of two possibly critical flaws affecting version 5 of the vBulletin forum software. vBulletin is the most popular forum software, which is based on PHP and MySQL database server. It’s currently used by over 100,000 websites, including Fortune 500 and Alexa Top 1 million organizations websites and […]
According to the latest research from Italy based security company TRUELIT’s researcher and an independent security expert, the widely used internet forum software vBulletin has two critical yet unpatched security flaws. One of these flaws can lead to letting an attacker remotely execute malicious code on the application server of vBulletin. It must be noted […]
DAws is an advanced web shell with a lot of features. There are multiple things that make DAws better than every Web Shell out there: Bypasses Security Systems(IPS, WAFs, etc) like Suhosin(uses up to 20 PHP functions just to get a command executed). Drops CGI Shells and communicate with them to bypass Security Systems. Uses […]
Securely-developed apps may be at risk due to security issues in popular interpreted programming languages. Even software that has been built with secure development procedures may still be vulnerable to attack, due to flaws in the interpreted programming languages they depend on. IOActive researcher Fernando Arnaboldi revealed at last week’s Black Hat Europe conference that […]
AWS SSO will let users manage access to multiple AWS accounts and applications using their existing corporate credentials. Amazon Web Services’ re:Invent conference is wrapped up and in the bag, but the cloud juggernaut appears to have had at least one more product to release before the year’s end. On Thursday, the company quietly announced AWS SSO, […]
Tens of thousands of customers of the credit repair service are believed to be affected. The National Credit Federation (NCF) has become the latest in a long list of companies to leave the sensitive, private data of customers exposed for all to see online. According to Chris Vickery, UpGuard Director of Cyber Risk Research, the Tampa, Florida-based credit repair […]