There Goes The Neighborhood: Dealing # With CVE-2020-16898 (a.k.a. “Bad Neighbor”)
by Bob Rudis If you’re in the U.S. and were waiting for an “October surprise”, look no further than CVE-2020-16898...
Money stolen from bank accounts of Russians twice as much as last year
In Russia, for the period from January to August 2020, more than 100 thousand thefts of funds from a Bank...
Common Phishing Email Malware Attachments That You Need To Avoid
One of the most popular ways of distributing malware is via malicious email attachments poised as invoices, payment recipes, error...
PoetRAT Targeting Public and Private Sector in Azerbaijan
APT groups have been targeting the public sector and other major organizations in Azerbaijan via recent versions of PoetRAT. Notably,...
A Government-Backed Advert for Career Opportunities in Cyber Security Taken Down Mere Hours After Release
A campaign originally meant to draw in more individuals to career opportunities in cybersecurity has gone under hefty analysis and...
Apple denied Durov’s statement about the request to block Telegram channels about Belarus
The founder of Telegram, Pavel Durov, accused Apple of trying to "avoid responsibility for complying with its own rules" by...
Nuubi Tools – Information Ghatering, Scanner And Recon
Nuubi Tools: Information-ghatering|Scanner|Recon Options: -h/--help | Show help message and exitArguments: -b/--banner | Banner grabing of target ip address -s/--subnet...
DamnVulnerableCryptoApp – An App With Really Insecure Crypto
Why?If you try to learn a little bit more about crypto, either because you want to know how the attacks...
Patch Tuesday – October 2020
Microsoft brings us an October's Update Tuesday with 87 vulnerabilities, a sub-100 number we haven't experienced in quite some time....
2021 Detection and Response Planning, Part 2: Driving SOC Efficiency With a Detections-First Approach to SIEM
This is the second installment of our series around 2021 security planning. In part one, Rapid7 Detection and Response Practice...
BitDefender Total Security 2020: Review
I use Linux as my daily driver and do not use Bitdefender for those times, but when I do have...
Amazon Prime Day—8 tips for safer shopping
Avid Amazon Prime Day shoppers may have been worried they’d missed it this year—thanks coronavirus. Fear not, last month Amazon...
Lock and Code S1Ep17: Journalism’s role in cybersecurity with Alfred Ng and Seth Rosenblatt
Most everything about cybersecurity—the threats, the vulnerabilities, the breaches and the blunders—doesn’t happen in a vacuum. And the public doesn’t...
Hak5 WiFi Pineapple Nano: Review
Attacks on WiFi networks are well known in the cybersecurity world, as an established technique for penetrating a target. The Hak5 WiFi...
Best Amazon Prime Day Smart Home Deals 2020 – Robots Prime Day Deals, Smart Home Deals, and More!
Yes, it’s that time of year again! Prime Day will be arriving October 13th and running through to October 14th....
O365Enum – Enumerate Valid Usernames From Office 365 Using ActiveSync, Autodiscover V1, Or Office.Com Login Page
Enumerate valid usernames from Office 365 using ActiveSync, Autodiscover, or office.com login page.Usageo365enum will read usernames from the file provided...
Wave-Share – Serverless, Peer-To-Peer, Local File Sharing Through Sound
A proof-of-concept for WebRTC signaling using sound. Works with all devices that have microphone + speakers. Runs in the browser....
What’s New in InsightIDR: Q3 2020 in Review
In July, we provided a rundown of what was new in InsightIDR, our cloud-based SIEM tool, from the first half...
SEC Consult SA-20201012-0 :: Reflected Cross-Site Scripting and Unauthenticated Malicious File Upload in Sage DPW
Posted by SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab on Oct 12SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab Security Advisory < 20201012-0 > ======================================================================= title: Reflected...
The Covid-19 Pandemic Forces Businesses To Prioritise Investment In Cybersecurity Despite The Overall IT Budget Cuts
As per a Kaspersky report on ‘Investment adjustment: aligning IT budgets with changing security priorities’ organizations and businesses have...
Gitjacker – Leak Git Repositories From Misconfigured Websites
Gitjacker downloads git repositories and extracts their contents from sites where the .git directory has been mistakenly uploaded. It will...
Phishing scam lures employees by teasing secrets of Trump COVID diagnosis
Pictured: President Donald Trump in the Presidential Suite at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Oct. 3, after being...
Russian scientists and a graduate student from Syria create a tool for detecting network anomalies of the Internet
Samara Maykhub, a Syrian-born graduate student, to conduct Research at the Samara National Research University named after Academician S. P....
Sharkcop: Google Chrome Extension Makes Use of SVM Machine Learning Algorithm to Detect Phishing URLs
Sharkcop, a Google Chrome browser extension that analyses SSL certificates, URL length, domain age, and the number of redirections to...
