Indian Government approved National Cyber Security Policy

The IT sector has become one of the most significant growth catalysts for the Indian economy. The government approved the National Cyber Security Policy that aims to create a secure computing environment in the country and build capacities to strengthen the current set up with focus on manpower...

CVE-2013-1959

kernel/usernamespace.c in the Linux kernel before 3.8.9 does not have appropriate capability requirements for the uidmap and gidmap files, which allows local users to gain privileges by opening a file within an unprivileged process and then modifying the file within a privileged process...

Air Force Classifies Some Cybersecurity Tools as Weapons

The United States government for years has been developing and deploying offensive cyber capabilities, most of it done without much in the way of public notice. That’s been changing of late, as government and military officials have become more open in discussing these capabilities and under what...

USN-1775-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

A flaw was reported in the permission checks done by the Linux kernel for /dev/cpu//msr. A local root user with all capabilities dropped could exploit this flaw to execute code with full root capabilities. CVE-2013-0268 A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernels handling of memory ranges with...

[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: privoxy-3.0.21-1.fc18

Privoxy is a web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for protecting privacy, filtering web page content, managing cookies, controlling access, and removing ads, banners, pop-ups and other obnoxious Internet junk. Privoxy has a very flexible configuration and can be customized to suit...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 2650-2 (libvirt - files and device nodes ownership change to kvm group)

Bastian Blank discovered that libvirtd, a daemon for management of virtual machines, network and storage, would change ownership of devices files so they would be owned by user libvirt-qemu and group kvm , which is a general purpose group not specific to libvirt, allowing unintended write access ...

kernel security update

kernel 2.6.18-348.3.1 - utrace ensure archptrace can never race with SIGKILL Oleg Nesterov 912071 912072 CVE-2013-0871 - x86 msr: Add capabilities check Nikola Pajkovsky 908696 908697 CVE-2013-0268...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for libvirt (openSUSE-SU-2013:0274-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription scriptxrefname:"URL",...

Nmap NSE 6.01: mysql-info

Connects to a MySQL server and prints information such as the protocol and version numbers, thread ID, status, capabilities, and the password salt. If service detection is performed and the server appears to be blocking our host or is blocked because of too many connections, then this script isn'...

Nmap NSE 6.01: pop3-capabilities

This VT has been deprecated and is therefore no longer functional. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Nmap NSE 6.01: imap-capabilities

This VT has been deprecated and is therefore no longer functional. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Fedora Update for libvirt FEDORA-2013-1644

Check for the Version of libvirt OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for libvirt FEDORA-2013-1644 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the...

Cyberwar Name Game a Dangerous Play

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – The term “cyberwar” is the “zero day” of security jargon; it’s getting so that every bug is a zero day and every attack is hash-tagged cyberwar. This serves only to distract smart people from making smart decisions. Too much brainpower and bandwidth is being wasted on...

Researchers Deconstruct Pobelka Botnet

How many inconspicuous botnets are alive and siphoning banking credentials and real money from online accounts that get little to no attention? They feast on unwitting consumers using an array of available banking Trojans to steal legitimate log-in information and sell it to the highest bidder,...

Charybdis IRC server DoS

assert on client capabilities negotiation...

Carberp Banking Trojan Goes Commercial; Adds Bootkit and $40K Price Tag

You can say one thing for the underground malware distribution market, there’s certainly never a lack of drama. Weeks after the banning of Aquabox, the keeper of the Citadel banking Trojan, from an underground forum, another player has popped up to fill the market gap, this time with a new versio...

DARPA Seeks Revolution, Not Evolution, in Cyberspace Capabilities

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA, the avant-garde research and development arm of the Department of Defense – perhaps best known for its central role in the development of the Internet – is soliciting research proposals that would help the military improve its cyber battlespace...

Cross site scripting

Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in Mahara 1.4.x before 1.4.5 and 1.5.x before 1.5.4, and other versions including 1.2, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a CSV header with "unknown fields," which are not properly handled in error messages in the 1...

New Mandiant Offering: Response Readiness Assessment

Today, I am pleased to announce the release of Mandiant's newest Strategic Solutions offering: Response Readiness Assessment. In this post, I'll explain what the service provides, why our customer's requested such a service, and who can benefit from the Response Readiness Assessment offering...

CentOS Update for dbus CESA-2012:1261 centos6

Check for the Version of dbus OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for dbus CESA-2012:1261 centos6 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the...