Last week, the Chrome team warned that attackers were exploiting a zero day vulnerability in the popular browser in the wild. At a high level, Chrome’s FileReader suffers from a memory corruption vulnerability that attackers could exploit to escape Chrome’s sandbox and execute code. The criminals exploiting the flaw are also leveraging a Windows vulnerability as well. Watch the … [Read more...]
Citrix Data Breach – Security Byte
Late last week, Citrix warned that they had suffered a network breach. According to reports, the attackers made off with six terabytes of business documents. Since Citrix learned of the breach from external sources (Resecurity and the FBI), they’re still investigating the full impact of the breach, and whether or not it affects their customers or products. Watch today’s video … [Read more...]
Critical Cisco VPN Router Flaw – Security Byte
Recently, Cisco released a software update for a critical vulnerability in their Wireless-N VPN Routers. If you expose the management page remotely, an attacker can totally take over your router with a single web query. Researchers disclosed the flaw to Cisco six months ago and they just patched it last week. If you're a Cisco customer that uses this particular router, watch … [Read more...]
Exploit Kit Vulnerability Exposes C2s – Security Byte
Cobalt Strike is an exploit kit, similar to Metasploit but slightly less popular. Months ago, the researchers at Fox-IT noticed that a vulnerability in the exploit kit’s web server allowed them to track malicious command and control (C2) servers. In today’s video, learn more about the vulnerability in this semi-popular exploit kit, and how it allowed researchers to find and … [Read more...]
Seven Rad Women in Cyber Security
Like the hidden figures of NASA, tons of amazing and ingenious women have helped pioneer and progress the information security (infosec) industry over the decades, without always receiving their fair share of credit and recognition. Though the number of women in cyber security has risen to 20 percent over the last five years, that’s still far too small of a percentage. The need … [Read more...]