An Unhappy Birthday For Uncle Sam On Cyber Security

Here’s the good news on America’s birthday: the last year has seen the U.S. emerge as an undisputed global leader in the use of offensive cyber operations. Averting another “Sputnik” moment, the nation’s longest running and most successful democracy blazed new trails in non-kinetic warfare,...

Three Baltic Men Jailed After Using SpyEye Malware

Two men found using the SpyEye Trojan to swindle users out of their banking information were jailed last week after violating the United Kingdom’s Computer Misuse Act. Pavel Cyganok, 28, a Lithuanian, along with Ilja Zakrevski, 26, an Estonian, were jailed for four years while a third man, Latvia...

TEMENOS T24 7 Cross Site Scripting

Rewterz Security Research Group Advisory ======================================================== I. Overview ======================================================== A Cross-Site Scripting XSS vulnerability has been identified in TEMENOS T24 Core Banking Solution System. This vulnerability allow...

Report: Websites Getting Safer, Yet XSS Bugs Persist

The number of vulnerabilities in the average Web site is actually decreasing, one of the more surprising findings in an annual study done by WhiteHat Security. The 30-page report is the culmination of a project in which the firm combed through approximately 7,000 websites and discovered 79 seriou...

New Fraud Ring 'Operation High Roller' Targets the Rich

A recent fraud ring through which attackers raided high-value bank accounts, nicknamed Operation High Roller .PDF, employed attacks that were quick, required no human interaction and have already affected several tiers of credit unions, regional banks and large global banks, over the last several...

Financial Industry Needs Government Supoport with Security, Not Regulation

Regulation is not the answer. That’s what the CISO of Regions Bank, Michele B. Cantley repeatedly responded with when asked what the government can do to improve the financial sector’s current security climate in a hearing hosted by the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets and...

House Hearing to Address Capital Market Threats

The House Committee on Financial Services is hosting a hearing tomorrow in which they will explore the various cyber threats targeting capital markets and government sponsored enterprises. Entitled “Cyber Threats to Capital Markets and Corporate Accounts,” the hearing in front of the Committee on...

Industry Groups Bid To Control New .Bank And .Insurance TLDs

Two financial industry groups: The American Bankers Association ABA and the Financial Services Roundtable announced on Thursday that they have applied to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ICANN to operate to top level Internet domains, .bank and .insurance, on behalf of the...

Tiny New Tinba Banker Trojan Found Stealing Financial Data

Security researchers have discovered a tiny new banking Trojan that comprises just 20 KB of code and uses a number of well-word man-in-the-browser tricks in an attempt to defeat two-factor authentication. Known as Tinba, the new malware doesn’t bother with any encryption or packing and yet is...

FBI Warns Top Firms Of Anonymous Protest Hacks on May 25

The FBI Cyber Division has sent a warning to some of the world’s top corporations about a coordinated campaign of denial of service attacks and hacking, scheduled for Friday, May 25. Apple Computer, McDonald’s, ExxonMobil, Hewlett-Packard, Bank of China and Walmart are among the firms singled out...

Trojan Mimics Chrome Installer to Steal Banking Information

Malware impersonating a Google Chrome Installer is actually stealing data while stripping software used to protect online banking transactions. The Trojan at present appears to target users in Brazil and Peru. Trend Micro researchers report in a blog post that they have discovered a malicious fil...

WordPress BulletProof Security Cross Site Scripting

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Wordpress Security audit BulletProof Security 1. Cross-site scripting reflected Summary Severity: High Confidence: Certain Host: http://127.0.0.1 Path: /wp-admin/admin.php?page=bulletproof-security/admin/options.php Issue detail The value of the...

ISPA to launch cyber security code of practice in SA

ISPA to launch cyber security code of practice in SA South Africa's Internet Service Providers' Association ISPA has teamed with Australia's Internet Industry Association to develop a new voluntary industry code of practice to improve cybersecurity for end users. Known as the 'icode', and develop...

CVE-2012-1676

Unspecified vulnerability in the Oracle FLEXCUBE Direct Banking component in Oracle Financial Services Software 5.0.2, 5.3.0 through 5.3.4, 6.0.1, and 6.2.0 allows remote authenticated users to affect confidentiality via unknown vectors related to Virtual Banking...

CVE-2012-1679

Unspecified vulnerability in the Oracle FLEXCUBE Direct Banking component in Oracle Financial Services Software 5.0.2, 5.3.0 through 5.3.4, 6.0.1, and 6.2.0 allows remote authenticated users to affect integrity via unknown vectors related to Core-Base...

CVE-2012-1706

Unspecified vulnerability in the Oracle FLEXCUBE Direct Banking component in Oracle Financial Services Software 5.0.2, 5.3.0 through 5.3.4, 6.0.1, and 6.2.0 allows remote authenticated users to affect confidentiality and integrity via unknown vectors related to Logging...

CVE-2012-1707

Unspecified vulnerability in the Oracle FLEXCUBE Direct Banking component in Oracle Financial Services Software 5.0.2, 5.3.0 through 5.3.4, 6.0.1, and 6.2.0 allows remote authenticated users to affect confidentiality via unknown vectors related to Core-Base, a different vulnerability than...

CVE-2012-1704

Unspecified vulnerability in the Oracle FLEXCUBE Direct Banking component in Oracle Financial Services Software 5.0.2, 5.3.0 through 5.3.4, 6.0.1, and 6.2.0 allows remote authenticated users to affect confidentiality via unknown vectors related to Core-Base, a different vulnerability than...

CVE-2012-0571

Unspecified vulnerability in the Oracle FLEXCUBE Universal Banking component in Oracle Financial Services Software 10.0.0 through 10.5.0 and 11.0.0 through 11.4.0 allows remote authenticated users to affect integrity via unknown vectors related to Core, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-054...

CVE-2012-0575

Unspecified vulnerability in the Oracle FLEXCUBE Universal Banking component in Oracle Financial Services Software 10.0.0 through 10.5.0 and 11.0.0 through 11.2.0 allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors related to Core...