White House Releases Plan to End Section 215 Bulk Collection

The White House today unveiled a five-point plan to end the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of phone call metadata, preserving what it says is a balance between the intelligence community’s national security needs and the public’s desire to maintain its privacy. The proposal ends the...

Full Disclosure List Rises From the Ashes For Fresh Start

When the Full Disclosure mailing list closed down last week, many in the security community wondered what, if anything, would fill the void. As it turns out, Full Disclosure will fill that void. John Cartwright, one of the creators of the list, announced on March 19 that he was shutting it down...

CVE-2014-2016: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in OXID eShop Professional and Community Edition 4.6.8 and earlier, 4.7.x before 4.7.11, and 4.8.x before 4.8.4, and Enterprise Edition 4.6.8 and earlier, 5.0.x before 5.0.11 and 5.1.x before 5.1.4 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web...

net-snmp: snmptrapd crash when using a trap with empty community string

The perltrapdhandler function in perl/TrapReceiver/TrapReceiver.xs in Net-SNMP 5.7.3.pre3 and earlier, when using certain Perl versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service snmptrapd crash via an empty community string in an SNMP trap, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference...

Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:28.0 / rv:24.4) — Mozilla

Mozilla developers and community identified identified and fixed several memory safety bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances, and we presume that with enough effort at least...

Former Church Committee Members See Need for New Group to Investigate NSA

In a letter sent to President Obama and members of Congress, former members and staff of the Church Committee on intelligence said that the revelations of the NSA activities have caused “a crisis of public confidence” and encouraged the formation of a new committee to undertake “significant and...

Charitable Prelude to Pwn2Own Not Without Its Critics

VANCOUVER – The prelude to the annual Pwn2Own contest between sponsor HP’s Zero Day Initiative and Pwnium contest sponsor Google produced not only zero-day exploits for Internet Explorer and Safari, but some skepticism about whether the exploits and details on the vulnerabilities were held for th...

NTP Amplification DDoS Attacks Increasing

An ever-shrinking number of vulnerable network time protocol NTP servers are being used with customized distributed denial of service DDoS toolkits to perform increasingly potent NTP amplification attacks. According to the DDoS mitigation specialists at Prolexic, who issued a high alert DDoS atta...

Report default community names of the SNMP Agent

Simple Network Management Protocol SNMP is a protocol which can be used by administrators to remotely manage a computer or network device. There are typically 2 modes of remote SNMP monitoring. These modes are roughly SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be...

MGASA-2014-0122 Updated net-snmp packages fix two vulnerabilities

Updated net-snmp packages fix security vulnerabilities: Remotely exploitable denial of service vulnerability in Net-SNMP, in the Linux implementation of the ICMP-MIB, making the SNMP agent vulnerable if it is making use of the ICMP-MIB table objects CVE-2014-2284. Remotely exploitable denial of...

Open-School Community Edition 2.2 Cross Site Scripting

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SA-CONTRIB-2014-020 - Drupal Commons - Cross Site Scripting (XSS)

Drupal Commons is a ready-to-use solution for building either internal or external communities. It provides a complete social business software solution for organizations. Drupal Commons displays an "activity stream" containing messages about actions users take on the site. In some cases, message...

Cost of Doing APT Business Dropping

PUNTA CANA–The term APT often is used as a generic descriptor for any group–typically presumed to be government-backed and heavily financed–that is seen attacking high-value targets such as government agencies, critical infrastructure and financial systems. But the range of targets APT groups are...

Miscellaneous memory safety hazards (rv:27.0 / rv:24.3) — Mozilla

Mozilla developers and community identified identified and fixed several memory safety bugs in the browser engine used in Firefox and other Mozilla-based products. Some of these bugs showed evidence of memory corruption under certain circumstances, and we presume that with enough effort at least...

Wikipedia Remote Execution Vulnerability Patched

A serious remote code execution vulnerability was recently patched by the Wikimedia Foundation. The flaw could have put at risk any of the foundation’s sites running MediaWiki software, including Wikipedia. Researchers within Check Point Software Technologies’ Vulnerability Research Group...

Oversight Board Calls NSA Metadata Collection Illegal

Another independent review board investigating the National Security Agency’s collection of phone records metadata has come down hard on the program, calling it illegal, recommending the government end the program, and questioning its effectiveness in ferreting out terrorists. The Privacy and Civ...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: boinc-client-7.2.33-2.git1994cc8.fc19

The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing BOINC is an open- source software platform which supports distributed computing, primarily in the form of "volunteer" computing and "desktop Grid" computing. It is well suited for problems which are often described as "trivially parallel". BO...

Discuz! X2.5 api.php 信息泄露漏洞

Discuz!是国内一套通用的社区论坛软件系统。 Discuz! X2.5 api.php文件中由于arraykeyexists中的第一个参数只能为整数或者字符串，当?mod=ks时，$mod类型为array，从而导致arraykeyexists产生错误信息。 0 Discuz! X2.5...

NSA Officials Say Snowden Used Legitimate Access to Steal Data

It’s taken more than six months, but top officials at the National Security Agency are finally discussing some of the details of how former agency contractor Edward Snowden got access to all of the documents he stole and what kind of damage they believe the publication of the information they...

NSA Director to Retain Cyber Command Role

Since its inception in 2009, the U.S. Cyber Command has been run by the director of the National Security Agency. The two organizations are intertwined and even share the same space in Maryland. The continuous leaks of NSA documents this year has led some politicians and critics to argue that the...