#ssl

An SSL.com vulnerability allowed attackers to issue valid SSL certificates for major domains by exploiting a bug in…

In this week’s newsletter, Thorsten muses on how search engines and AI quietly gather your data while trying to influence your buying choices. Explore privacy-friendly alternatives and get the scoop on why it's important to question the platforms you interact with online.

The New Jersey attorney general claims Discord’s features to keep children under 13 safe from sexual predators and harmful content are inadequate.

A lawsuit over the Trump administration’s infamous Houthi Signal group chat has revealed what steps departments took to preserve the messages—and how little they actually saved.

View CSAF 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v4 8.8 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity Vendor: ABB Equipment: M2M Gateway Vulnerabilities: Integer Overflow or Wraparound, Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request/Response Smuggling'), Unquoted Search Path or Element, Untrusted Search Path, Use After Free, Out-of-bounds Write, Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow'), Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime, Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling, Improper Privilege Management, Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal'), Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection'), Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer, Incorrect Calculation of Buffer Size, Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition'), Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type C...

President Trump last week revoked security clearances for Chris Krebs, the former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) who was fired by Trump after declaring the 2020 election the most secure in U.S. history. The White House memo, which also suspended clearances for other security professionals at Krebs's employer SentinelOne, comes as CISA is facing huge funding and staffing cuts.

### Summary gorilla/csrf is vulnerable to CSRF via form submission from origins that share a top level domain with the target origin. ### Details gorilla/csrf does not validate the Origin header against an allowlist. Its executes its validation of the Referer header for cross-origin requests only when it believes the request is being served over TLS. It determines this by inspecting the `r.URL.Scheme` value. However, this value is never populated for "server" requests [per the Go spec](https://pkg.go.dev/net/http#Request), and so this check does not run in practice. ``` // URL specifies either the URI being requested (for server // requests) or the URL to access (for client requests). // // For server requests, the URL is parsed from the URI // supplied on the Request-Line as stored in RequestURI. For // most requests, fields other than Path and RawQuery will be // empty. (See [RFC 7230, Section 5.3](https://rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7230.html#section-5.3)) // // For client r...

For the past decade, this group of FSB hackers—including “traitor” Ukrainian intelligence officers—has used a grinding barrage of intrusion campaigns to make life hell for their former countrymen and cybersecurity defenders.

Hackers exploit Fortinet flaws to plant stealth backdoors on FortiGate devices, maintaining access even after patches. Update to…

Fortinet has revealed that threat actors have found a way to maintain read-only access to vulnerable FortiGate devices even after the initial access vector used to breach the devices was patched. The attackers are believed to have leveraged known and now-patched security flaws, including, but not limited to, CVE-2022-42475, CVE-2023-27997, and CVE-2024-21762. "A threat actor used a known