Webmin, the web-based interface for system administration for Unix and Linux, had a remote code execution vulnerability deliberately introduced into its source code in April 2018. It was only publicised in August 2019 when a zero day exploit was published at DefCon 27. Webmin has been installed over a million times worldwide. The malicious code […]
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At the recent Usenix Security Syposium, researchers presented a paper detailing how the Bluetooth Classic key negotiation protocol is flawed and can be easily compromised during device pairing. Bluetooth BR/EDR (also known as Bluetooth Classic) is found in more than a billion Bluetooth enabled devices ranging from keyboards and mice, to wireless modems, phones and
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Symantec Endpoint Protection for Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 is blocking Windows updates since August 2019. Back in April 2019 we reported that Microsoft planned to amend the way it digitally signed Windows updates in order to protect against supply chain attacks and ensure only valid, unmodified Microsoft issued patches are installed. This change
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Vulnerability scanners are tool that identify mis-configured or flawed devices and systems on your network that could be exploited by attackers in order to gain access to your data and systems. In order to successfully infiltrate access your network, an attacker has two questions they want answered: What software and devices are used on the
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Microsoft announces hacker friendly Azure instance for security research At BlackHat 2019 Microsoft announced the launch for the Azure Security Lab along with a range of bug bounties for Azure vulnerabilities up to $300,000. The ASL is a separate instance of the Azure hosting platform which is available for approved security researchers to attempt to exploit
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Microsoft details IoT devices used in corporate breaches in new report. Microsoft’s Security Response Centre has recently published a report listing several instances they have analysed where IoT devices were used as a beach head in attacks against corporate networks. There are more IoT (Internet of Things) devices currently in use than the total number of mobile
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At Black Hat 2019 Tencent reveals QualPwn vulnerability which could allow over the air RCE on Android devices using Qualcomm chips The vulnerabilities, known as QualPwn, can be chained together to first compromise the WiFi controller and then overwrite a portion of the Android Kernel. CVE-2019-10539: is a buffer-overflow vulnerability in Qualcomm’s Wi-Fi controller firmware.
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Recent research from Sophos highlights your public RDP server as the primary attack vector against your data centre. During April and May 2019, Sophos deployed 10 standard out-of-the-box configured Windows 2019 servers into AWS data centres around the world. By default, Windows 2019 has RDP enabled. They configured each server with uncrackably long passwords and
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Over 106 million individuals have had their credit application details stolen from Amazon S3 data buckets which had been insecurely configured by Capital One. The 30Gb of data from the S3 bucket was downloaded and then posted onto a Github account by the attacker. The stolen data was soon spotted and then reported to Capital One’s
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