Schneier on Security

MAY 18, 2018

The problem, of course, is that in the US there isn't any authentication of change-of-address submissions: According to the Postal Service, nearly 37 million change-of-address requests ­ known as PS Form 3575 ­ were submitted in 2017. The company discovered it three months later.

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Google Security

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

During the last three months, we received 9 submissions and paid over 175,000 USD so far. The submissions included five 0days and two 1days. Based on our experience these last 3 months, we made a few improvements to the submission process: Reporting a 0day will not require including a flag at first.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 19, 2023

BlackCat formed by recruiting operators from several competing or disbanded ransomware organizations — including REvil , BlackMatter and DarkSide. BlackCat attacks usually involve encryption and theft of data; if victims refuse to pay a ransom, the attackers typically publish the stolen data on a BlackCat-linked darknet site.

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Hacker Combat

JANUARY 13, 2022

Are you looking to customize forms for your organization? Then getting a form builder may be what you need. Online form builders are beneficial for collecting data from customers, employees, and other sectors of society. Now the question is, what form builder will let you create and customize forms? Google Forms.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

This latest security update fixes a vulnerability that allows for mail submission in disabled forms. Prior to this patch, it was possible for anyone to submit a mail submission to a form even if it was disabled. released version 3.9.11 on August 13, 2019, to patch vulnerabilities found within versions 1.6.2 and 3.9.10.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 22, 2024

The propounded web page is highly customized ([link] and looks like a form with logos and names of the targeted organization with a preset e-mail address and a password field to be typed. In fact, the information entered in the form is sent via a “POST” method to a manned server listening on the same domain.

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Hacker Combat

JANUARY 19, 2022

And that’s why it’s crucial to find a form builder that offers easy plugins for the said platform. Online form makers can help you in your objectives—whether you want to create a contact form to nurture your database or build more complicated web forms for registration, subscription, payment collection, and more.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 12, 2022

Threat actors are spreading the BazarLoader malware via website contact forms to evade detection, researchers warn. Researchers from cybersecurity firm Abnormal Security observed threat actors spreading the BazarLoader/BazarBackdoor malware via website contact forms. 200 using port 443.” ” continues the analysis. .

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 23, 2023

Clickjacking is a form of ad fraud which is also referred to as click fraud or click spam. But it can also be done by tricking legitimate users into clicking ads, visiting pages, and (in some cases) creating fake form submissions. Malwarebytes’ researchers have found a malvertising scheme that leads to clickjacking.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 31, 2022

CERT/CC vulnerability analyst Will Dormann confirmed that the PoC exploit code works against the stock ‘Handling Form Submission’ sample code from spring.io. Can confirm!

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Hacker Combat

JANUARY 13, 2022

The answer is simple: optimized registration forms. And don’t just go with form builders that will make your audience give out personal information like names and email addresses. What Is a Registration Form? How to Optimize Your Registration Form? Make use of a reliable free registration form template.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 26, 2023

Stealing personal information and extorting victims for money, these scams leverage fake job postings, sites or portals, and forms, wrapped in social engineering to attract job seekers. Fake application forms steal sensitive personal information from victims and may be sold, used for fraud, and to further target and extort victims.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Somehow, spambots found your form and blindly barraged your inbox with handbag and sneaker spam, or worse, adult content. The first is to implement a CAPTCHA on the form. Another option for WordPress users is Fast Secure Contact Form. Fast Secure Contact Form. Web Application Firewall (WAF).

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SecureWorld News

MAY 18, 2020

The Ohio unemployment insurance website, and particularly the site's "fraud reporting" form, was a perfect example of these tensions, according to Vice : "State officials created the form to encourage companies to snitch on workers who are refusing to work under unsafe conditions, drawing outrage from workers and labor rights advocates.".

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The question that remains: Is there a fundamental problem with the CVE reporting process which allows for the automated submission of bogus vulnerabilities? And filing vulnerabilities that are in fact bugs that were resolved long ago is a weird form of fear mongering.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

BOSTON–( BUSINESS WIRE )– CyberSaint , the developer of the leading platform delivering cyber risk automation, today announced that the company is seeking speaker submissions for its virtual STRONGER conference, set to occur September 13th-15th 2022. Name of the speaker and company. A brief professional bio of the speaker.

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SiteLock

APRIL 7, 2022

It is easy to understand how an unsuspecting person could see the first image and just put in their credentials in the form, thinking that they were logging into Citi.com. Then you can search (Ctrl-F or Cmd-F) for one of the input fields of the form, ‘User ID’, for example. Figure 7: Phishing Kit Form Submission.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Said malware will attempt to steal passwords from form submissions and send them to the command and control server run by the attackers. They then steal secrets from the compromised project and send it back to base. Additionally, existing JavaScript files already present in the project are tampered with to add malware.

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Google Security

APRIL 21, 2021

Users come to Google Play to find helpful, reliable apps on everything from COVID-19 vaccine information to new forms of entertainment, grocery delivery, communication and more. Our core efforts around identifying and mitigating bad apps and developers continued to evolve to address new adversarial behaviors and forms of abuse.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

The vulnerabilities below were addressed: Vulnerability in com_contact component that allowed submissions even on disabled forms. is encouraging users to update their applications as soon as possible to avoid possible compromise as a result of them being exploited.

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Security Affairs

MAY 30, 2019

New subscribers can use a specific form that allows them to define the role they want, of course, administrator accounts are not in the list of possible options og a drop-down menu. .” “However, in vulnerable versions of the plugin, this intended user role wasn’t fetched from the database on submission.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

And that’s the essence of what this post is about when it comes to contact forms. You’ll learn some easy ways to make your forms more friendly and get your visitors clicking submit. A Brief History of Web Forms. A web form, or HTML form, on a web page allows a user to enter data that is sent to a server for processing.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 20, 2022

The page, sporting a Target logo and banner at the top, asks visitors to check their balance via an entry form. Digging into a card submission. This isn’t, typically, what you’d expect to find in a gift card search. It’s likely the site was compromised, with the bogus card check page added in afterwards.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

When cybercriminals use cross-site scripting, they inject code on a site via form fields or other areas of user inputs in order to target website users. Sanitizing an input field — or validating that the data is in the proper form — ensures that only expected content can be submitted by your visitors. Sanitize input fields.

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Andrew Hay

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

I’ve had a lot of positive feedback from my first post which explained how to create the Trello board to track your Call For Paper (CFP) due dates, submissions, and results. I also pate the URL for the CFP submission form into the card so that I don’t have to hunt for it later (it automatically saves it as an attachment).

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Your submission has been received! Something went wrong while submitting the form. Stay ahead of threats using Strobes: Strobes will help you correlate data between vulnerability scans and vulnerability intelligence making sure to keep you updated whenever there is a zero-day in the wild. . ‍. Subscribe to our blog.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 14, 2022

If you're interested in presenting at a SecureWorld conference, please fill out our speaker submission form. To hear more from industry experts like Rob Dalzell, register to attend an upcoming SecureWorld conference or Remote Sessions webcast. Continue to follow our Spotlight Series for more highlights from leaders in cybersecurity.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 11, 2023

According to a recent post on its Facebook account, all of the corporation's public-facing applications have been back online since October 6, 2023, including "the website, Member Portal, eClaims for electronic submission of hospital claims, and EPRS for employer remittances." How to avoid ransomware Block common forms of entry.

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Google Security

OCTOBER 1, 2021

During submission evaluation we will consider the guidelines established by the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s definition in response to the recent Executive Order on Cybersecurity along with criteria listed below: The impact of the project: How many and what types of users will be affected by the security improvements?

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Utilizing behavioral analytics for web logs analysis to include initial URL structure, form submission and redirections. Occasionally re-assessing security policies regarding passwords and credential resets.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 8, 2023

We have reported this malicious ad to Microsoft via their low quality ad submission & escalation form. Malwarebytes Browser Guard can block those phishing websites and malicious ads to keep you out of harm's way.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 27, 2019

“This is likely an intentional effect by the threat actor in the form of more than 1200 lines of garbage code that appears to be base64 encoded. However, the commonly used public methods of submission, email and API, are set to 32MB maximum with special circumstances for API submission going up to 200MB.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2019

The report includes a disturbing excerpt from a submission published by O’Rourke: “One day, as I was driving home from work, I noticed two children crossing the street. Mr. O’Rourke described his submission as “really hateful, really bad stuff,”. They were happy, happy to be free from their troubles….

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 17, 2021

After the attack, Pfizer and BioNTech issued a joint statement that confirms that some documents related to their COVID-19 submissions were accessed by the threat actors. We have seen that some of the correspondence has been published not in its integrity and original form and, or with, comments or additions by the perpetrators.”.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Here is the first point of emphasis from the memo: "To the extent they have not already done so, all courts should issue a standing or general order or adopt some other equivalent procedure requiring that highly sensitive documents (HSDs) will be accepted for filing only in paper form or via a secure electronic device.

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Cisco Security

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

However, our team decided that simply creating the SecureX incident was not enough and that a more active form of notification was necessary to ensure nothing got overlooked. This incident can be assigned to a team member and investigated in SecureX threat response, to gain additional context from various intelligence sources.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 3, 2022

If you're interested in presenting at an upcoming SecureWorld conference, please fill out our speaker submission form. To learn more about the National Cybersecurity Alliance, visit their website. Continue to follow our Spotlight Series for more highlights from industry experts!

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