#web

By Uzair Amir Your web browser serves as the gateway to the internet, but it also acts as a potential entry point for cybercriminals to access your computer and smartphone. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Why Browser Security Matters More Than You Think

View CSAF 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v4 7.1 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity/public exploits are available Vendor: Advantech Equipment: WebAccess/SCADA Vulnerability: SQL Injection 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an authenticated attacker to read or modify a remote database. 3. TECHNICAL DETAILS 3.1 AFFECTED PRODUCTS The following versions of Advantech WebAccess/SCADA, a bowser-based SCADA software, are affected: WebAccess/SCADA: Version 9.1.5U 3.2 Vulnerability Overview 3.2.1 IMPROPER NEUTRALIZATION OF SPECIAL ELEMENTS USED IN AN SQL COMMAND ('SQL INJECTION') CWE-89: There is a SQL Injection vulnerability in Advantech's WebAccess/SCDA software that allows an authenticated attacker to remotely inject SQL code on the database. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to read or modify data on the remote database. CVE-2024-2453 has been assigned to this vulnerability. A CVSS v3.1 base score of 6...

By Waqas About to pay your taxes? Watch out for tax return phishing and malware campaigns targeting individual taxpayers and businesses. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Microsoft Warns of New Tax Returns Phishing Scams Targeting You

Researchers scanned the internet for incorrectly configured Firebase instances and what they found was frightening.

It's not unusual for the data brokers behind people-search websites to use pseudonyms in their day-to-day lives (you would, too). Some of these personal data purveyors even try to reinvent their online identities in a bid to hide their conflicts of interest. But it's not every day you run across a US-focused people-search network based in China whose principal owners all appear to be completely fabricated identities.

By Waqas CISPA Researchers Unveil 'Loop DoS' Attack: A New Frontier in Denial-of-Service Tactics! This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: New Loop DoS Attack Threatens Hundreds of Thousands of Systems

By Waqas No age verification? No VPN? No Pornhub for you in Texas! This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Texas Adult Site Age Verification Law Sparks 234.8% VPN Surge

Cookie pop-ups now show the number of “partners” that websites may share data with. Here's how many of these third-party companies may get your data from some of the most popular sites online.

There is also a newly disclosed vulnerability in a graphics driver for some NVIDIA GPUs that could lead to a memory leak.

## Summary `jupyter-server-proxy` is used to expose ports local to a Jupyter server listening to web traffic to the Jupyter server's _authenticated users_ by proxying web requests and websockets. Dependent packages ([partial list](https://www.wheelodex.org/projects/jupyter-server-proxy/rdepends/)) also use `jupyter-server-proxy` to expose other popular interactive applications (such as [RStudio](https://github.com/jupyterhub/jupyter-rsession-proxy), [Linux Desktop via VNC](https://github.com/jupyterhub/jupyter-remote-desktop-proxy), [Code Server](https://github.com/betatim/vscode-binder), [Panel](https://github.com/holoviz/jupyter-panel-proxy), etc) along with the Jupyter server. This feature is commonly used in hosted environments (such as a JupyterHub) to expose non-Jupyter interactive frontends or APIs to the user. `jupyter-server-proxy` did not check user authentication appropriately when proxying websockets, allowing unauthenticated access to anyone who had network access to the...