Internet media company Oath paid more than $400,000 in bounties during the H1-415 one-day HackerOne event in San Francisco, where 41 hackers from 11 countries were present. HackerOne’s second annual live-hacking event lasted for nine hours but resulted in breaking multiple records on Saturday, April 14, 2018. The Oath security team was present on the ..
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Google Discloses Unpatched Windows Lockdown Policy Bypass A Windows 10 vulnerability that could bypass Windows Lockdown Policy and result in arbitrary code execution remains unpatched 90 days after Microsoft has been informed on the bug’s existence. On systems with User Mode Code Integrity (UMCI) enabled, a .NET bug can be exploited to bypass the Windows ..
reader comments 32 Share this story Attackers are mass-exploiting a recently fixed vulnerability in the Drupal content management system that allows them to take complete control of powerful website servers, researchers from multiple security companies are warning. At least three different attack groups are exploiting “Drupalgeddon2,” the name given to an extremely critical vulnerability Drupal ..
Researchers claim hackers can remotely exploit an unpatched command injection vulnerability to take control of network-attached storage (NAS) devices from LG. VPN specialists at vpnMentor discovered that many LG NAS models are impacted by a flaw that can be exploited without authentication. According to researchers, the password parameter in the login page is vulnerable to ..
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this week announced its medical device safety action plan, which includes seeking additional funding and authorities that would help it improve cybersecurity in the healthcare industry. The FDA’s plan focuses on five key areas and medical device cybersecurity is one of them. As part of its efforts to ..
LinkedIn recently patched a vulnerability that could have been exploited by malicious websites to harvest data from users’ profiles, including private information. The flaw affected the AutoFill functionality, which allows websites to offer users the possibility to quickly fill out forms with data from their LinkedIn profile. Users simply click the AutoFill button on a ..
Cisco informed customers on Wednesday that it has patched critical vulnerabilities in WebEx and UCS Director, along with nine high severity flaws in StarOS, IOS XR, Firepower and ASA products. The WebEx vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-0112, is interesting because it allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a targeted user’s system by sending ..
Updates released on Wednesday for Drupal 8 patch a moderately critical cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting a third-party JavaScript library. The flaw impacts CKEditor, a WYSIWYG HTML editor included in the Drupal core. CKEditor exposes users to XSS attacks due to a flaw in the Enhanced Image (image2) plugin. “The vulnerability stemmed from the fact ..
A feature that allows users to wirelessly sync their iPhones and iPads with iTunes can be abused by hackers to take control of iOS devices in what researchers call a “Trustjacking” attack. This feature can be enabled by physically connecting an iOS device to a computer with iTunes and enabling the option to sync over ..
Rockwell Automation informed customers this week that its Allen-Bradley Stratix and ArmorStratix industrial switches are exposed to remote attacks due to vulnerabilities in Cisco’s IOS software. Allen-Bradley Stratix and ArmorStratix switches, which are used in the critical manufacturing, energy and other sectors, rely on Cisco’s IOS software for secure integration with enterprise networks. Rockwell Automation ..
