A recent blog post by FoxGlove Security that described remotely executable exploits against several major middleware products including WebSphere, WebLogic, and JBoss has focused attention on what ...
The Ruby programming language is impacted by a similar "deserialization issue" that has affected and wreaked havoc in the Java ecosystem in 2016; an issue that later also proved to be a problem for ...
PayPal has fixed a serious vulnerability in its back-end management system that could have allowed attackers to execute arbitrary commands on the server and potentially install a backdoor. The ...
Recently, on the "Ask The Architect" session from the Devoxx UK 2018 conference, Oracle's chief architect, Mark Reinhold, shared his thoughts about Java’s serialization mechanism which he called a ...
More than eight years after it first came to light, an unauthenticated Java deserialization vulnerability lurking in the Google Web Toolkit open source application framework remains unpatched, and ...
In the security industry, we know that operating on untrusted inputs is a significant area of risk; and for penetration testers and attackers, a frequent source of high-impact issues. Serialization is ...
The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) was hit with a ransomware attack on Friday, causing fare station terminals to carry the message, “You Hacked. ALL Data Encrypted.” Turns out, ...