FTC to Black Hat Attendees: Help Us Make Good Tech Policy
8/12/2015The FTC’s chief technologist made a direct appeal to security, privacy, and technology communities to get involved and help shape tech laws and policies.
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Contributing Editor, Dark Reading News & Commentary Posts: 4Fahmida Y. Rashid is an analyst who has covered networking and security for a number of publications, including PCMag, eWEEK, and CRN. She has written about security, core Internet infrastructure, networking security software, hardware, cloud services, and open source.
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The FTC’s chief technologist made a direct appeal to security, privacy, and technology communities to get involved and help shape tech laws and policies.
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Inside The Aftermath Of The Saudi Aramco Breach
8/8/2015Former security advisor to the oil giant describes the days following the Armageddon-style cyberattack that wiped the hard drives of tens of thousands of computers.
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New SMB Relay Attack Steals User Credentials Over Internet
8/5/2015Researchers found a twist to an older vulnerability that lets them launch SMB relay attacks from the Internet.
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Terracotta VPN Piggybacks On Network Of Compromised Windows Servers
8/4/2015APT groups use this VPN service to launch attacks against organizations around the world.
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CVE-2017-0290
Published: 2017-05-09
NScript in mpengine in Microsoft Malware Protection Engine with Engine Version before 1.1.13704.0, as used in Windows Defender and other products, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (type confusion and application crash) via crafted JavaScript code within ...
CVE-2016-10369NScript in mpengine in Microsoft Malware Protection Engine with Engine Version before 1.1.13704.0, as used in Windows Defender and other products, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (type confusion and application crash) via crafted JavaScript code within ...
Published: 2017-05-08
unixsocket.c in lxterminal through 0.3.0 insecurely uses /tmp for a socket file, allowing a local user to cause a denial of service (preventing terminal launch), or possibly have other impact (bypassing terminal access control).
CVE-2016-8202unixsocket.c in lxterminal through 0.3.0 insecurely uses /tmp for a socket file, allowing a local user to cause a denial of service (preventing terminal launch), or possibly have other impact (bypassing terminal access control).
Published: 2017-05-08
A privilege escalation vulnerability in Brocade Fibre Channel SAN products running Brocade Fabric OS (FOS) releases earlier than v7.4.1d and v8.0.1b could allow an authenticated attacker to elevate the privileges of user accounts accessing the system via command line interface. With affected version...
CVE-2016-8209A privilege escalation vulnerability in Brocade Fibre Channel SAN products running Brocade Fabric OS (FOS) releases earlier than v7.4.1d and v8.0.1b could allow an authenticated attacker to elevate the privileges of user accounts accessing the system via command line interface. With affected version...
Published: 2017-05-08
Improper checks for unusual or exceptional conditions in Brocade NetIron 05.8.00 and later releases up to and including 06.1.00, when the Management Module is continuously scanned on port 22, may allow attackers to cause a denial of service (crash and reload) of the management module.
CVE-2017-0890Improper checks for unusual or exceptional conditions in Brocade NetIron 05.8.00 and later releases up to and including 06.1.00, when the Management Module is continuously scanned on port 22, may allow attackers to cause a denial of service (crash and reload) of the management module.
Published: 2017-05-08
Nextcloud Server before 11.0.3 is vulnerable to an inadequate escaping leading to a XSS vulnerability in the search module. To be exploitable a user has to write or paste malicious content into the search dialogue.
Nextcloud Server before 11.0.3 is vulnerable to an inadequate escaping leading to a XSS vulnerability in the search module. To be exploitable a user has to write or paste malicious content into the search dialogue.
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