Voodoo Carrier IQ detector application released for Android

Voodoo Carrier IQ detector application released for Android An Android developer recently discovered a clandestine application called Carrier IQ built into most smartphones that doesn't just track your location; it secretly records your keystrokes, and there's nothing you can do about it. A new...

Like Enterprises, Government Agencies Are Struggling With Security

WASHINGTON–The U.S. government has a lot of money. Not as much as it used to have, of course, but still, it has a lot. It also has a lot of computers and servers and routers and other things that move and store data. In fact, they have so many that they don’t really know what all of them are doin...

Top Government Security Officials Call For Secure OS Development

WASHINGTON–One of the keys to addressing the widespread security threats facing both private and government networks is to develop more secure operating systems from the ground up and not rely on trying to secure existing ones, top CIA and Pentagon information assurance officials said. The federa...

Derbycon 2011 Videos talks

Derbycon 2011 Videos Talks The idea behind DerbyCon was developed by Dave Kennedy ReL1K, Martin Bos PureHate, and Adrian Crenshaw Irongeek. Their motivation stemmed from a desire to see more of the old-style talks and events of the conventions of the past. DerbyCon was hosted by some specialized...

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R1 - Local Denial of Service

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R1 - Local Denial of Service Hi all. Here's a cute little local DoS attack against Windows Server 2008 R1, which will allow any user who can execute unprivileged code to BSoD your server with about three lines of C. I have reported this to Microsoft, but because of t...

Cisco IOS Software Processing of SAA Packets - Cisco Systems

The Service Assurance Agent SAA is the new name for the Response Time Reporter RTR feature. The router is vulnerable only if the RTR responder is enabled. When the router receives a malformed RTR packet, it will crash. RTR is disabled by default. There is no workaround short of disabling the RTR...

Making An Application Security Program Succeed

After winning the attention, and hopefully the backing of executives, as we covered in The Challenge of Starting an Application Security Program, it becomes much more straightforward to win the funding needed for the right tools, services, and training needed for secure application development. N...

Pentagon to Obama: icanhasbilliondollars plz?

Capitol Hill may be awash in tough talk on cuts to domestic programs, but that’s not stopping the Pentagon from seeking an additional billion dollars in funding for cyber security, according to a report from Nextgov.com. The Department of Defense is requesting $3.2 billion, almost $1 billion more...

CVE-2011-0975

Stack-based buffer overflow in BMC PATROL Agent Service Daemon for in Performance Analysis for Servers, Performance Assurance for Servers, and Performance Assurance for Virtual Servers 7.4.00 through 7.5.10; Performance Analyzer and Performance Predictor for Servers 7.4.00 through 7.5.10; and...

Stack overflow

Stack-based buffer overflow in BMC PATROL Agent Service Daemon for in Performance Analysis for Servers, Performance Assurance for Servers, and Performance Assurance for Virtual Servers 7.4.00 through 7.5.10; Performance Analyzer and Performance Predictor for Servers 7.4.00 through 7.5.10; and...

CVE-2011-0975

CVE-2011-0975 affects BMC PATROL family products. A stack-based buffer overflow in the PATROL Agent Service Daemon allows remote code execution via a crafted length value in a BGS_MULTIPLE_READS command to TCP port 6768. Affected components include Performance Analysis for Servers, Performance As...

NSA: Our Development Methods Are in the Open Now

WASHINGTON–Despite its reputation for secrecy and technical expertise, the National Security Agency doesn’t have a set of secret coding practices or testing methods that magically make their applications and systems bulletproof. In fact, one of the agency’s top technical experts said that virtual...

Paypal.com Cross Site Scripting

https://www.paypal.com | HTTP Header Injection | Cross Site Scripting XSS | CAPEC-34 | CWE-79 Hoyt LLC - October 28, 2010 http://cloudscan.blogspot.com | http://cloudscan.me https://www.paypal.com | HTTP Header Injection | Cross Site Scripting XSS Tested on IE8, Chrome, Firefox. The affected URL'...

IBM Rational Quality Manager and Test Lab Manager Policy Bypass

IBM Rational Quality Manager and Test Lab Manager enables quality assurance teams to track all aspects of the quality assurance effort. The central artifact in the tool is a dynamic test plan that contains all information pertaining to the quality assurance effort, such as goals, schedules,...

Mariposa Bot Found Pre-Loaded on Second Vodafone Handset

It seems that the HTC Magic phone distributed by Vodafone in Spain that security researchers discovered recently was pre-loaded with the Mariposa bot client was not an isolated incident after all, as the concerned party had claimed. An employee of another Spanish security vendor found the same...

Vodafone-Distributed Handset Found Pre-installed With Mariposa Bot

Security researchers have found the Mariposa bot client pre-installed on a mobile phone handset distributed in Europe, and say that the malware looks to have been installed on the phone’s memory card. The phone, the HTC Magic, runs the Google Android mobile operating system, and is a low-priced...

IEEE and Cloud Security Alliance Form Partnership

The Cloud Security Alliance CSA and IEEE are joining forces to ensure that best practices and standards are developed and available to provide security assurance for cloud computing. As a result of this collaboration, CSA and IEEE have been conducting a survey to identify and define the most...

New Security Consortium to Focus on Long-Term Projects

The three universities involved in the security consortium put together this week by Northrop Grumman will have wide latitude to pursue research projects as they see fit and will be under no obligation to work only on technology that fits Northrop’s future plans. The researchers, in fact, will be...

NSA to Run $1.5B Security Data Center

The National Security Agency is going to run a planned $1.5 billion data center in Utah that will serve as a support center for the government’s information security programs. The exact mission and function of the data center is a bit unclear, however. The NSA’s core mission is to collect and...

Cross site scripting

Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in the web-based interface in IBM Metrica Service Assurance Framework allow remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via 1 the elementid parameter in a generatedreportresults action to the ReportTree program, 2 the jnlpnam...