Multicast DNS Vulnerability Could Lead to DDOS Amplification

The Department of Homeland Security sponsored CERT at Carnegie Mellon University on Tuesday released an advisory warning infrastructure providers of a vulnerability in Multicast DNS, or mDNS, that could leak device information that could be leveraged in high volume DDoS amplification attacks. “I...

BMW security vulnerability details: the ancient Bole to identify a good horse, today there are hackers escapement BMW-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

ADAC whole German automobile club want to in-depth understanding of embedded mobile network modem of the car to the manufacturer to send data. C't German computer technology magazine for the ADAC introduced a security expert. The expert in-depth analysis of the BMW ConnectedDrive system the data...

Markey Car Security Report Just the Start for Automakers

This may come as a surprise to one of you, but it turns out that computers and, by extension, things that contain computers, are vulnerable to attackers. That includes cars, something that the United States government has now discovered, and Sen. Edward Markey is now warning consumers that...

Malwarebytes Anti-Malware / Anti-Exploit Update Remote Code Execution Exploit

This Metasploit module exploits a vulnerability in the update functionality of Malwarebytes Anti-Malware consumer before 2.0.3 and Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit consumer 1.03.1.1220. Due to the lack of proper update package validation a man-in-the-middle attacker could execute arbitrary code by...

White House Creates Cyber Governance Unit Within OMB

With the framework explained for a number of government cybersecurity-related initiatives, now it’s time to talk money. The White House anted up strong in 2015 with proposals for a new data breach notification standard, as well as plans to facilitate information-sharing between the public and...

VulnCheck KEV: CVE-2012-0159

Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2, R2, and R2 SP1, Windows 7 Gold and SP1, and Windows 8 Consumer Preview; Office 2003 SP3, 2007 SP2 and SP3, and 2010 Gold and SP1; Silverlight 4 before 4.1.10329; and Silverlight 5 before 5.1.104...

House Takes First Steps on Federal Data Breach Law

The House Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade today held its first hearing of the 114th Congress in order to begin work on developing federal data breach legislation. Pre-hearing memos suggested that any data breach notification law would be primarily concerned with protecting...

President Proposes National Breach Notification Standard

Lacking precious detail, President Obama today proposed a national data breach notification standard, legislation that would mandate breached companies notify affected consumers inside of 30 days. The national law would supersede the current collection of state laws that govern notification...

FTC Urges IoT Privacy, Security at Consumer Electronics Show

In her keynote address yesterday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Federal Trade Commission Chairwoman Edith Ramirez imagined the dystopic convergence of big data conglomerates and a ceaseless information gathering machine fueled by the constant connectivity ushered in by the so-call...

Misfortune Cookie Home Router Vulnerability Discovered

More than 12 million devices running an embedded webserver called RomPager are vulnerable to a simple attack that could give a hacker man-in-the-middle position on traffic going to and from home routers from just about every leading manufacturer. Mostly ISP-owned residential gateways manufactured...

CVE-2014-4936

The upgrade functionality in Malwarebytes Anti-Malware MBAM consumer before 2.0.3 and Malwarebytes Anti-Exploit MBAE consumer 1.04.1.1012 and earlier allow man-in-the-middle attackers to execute arbitrary code by spoofing the update server and uploading an executable...

Ransomware is the Future of Internet of Things Malware

WASHINGTON D.C. — It’s 2020, bitter cold outside, you’re running late for work, and the Linux box that controls your car isn’t going to start unless you wire $20 worth of Bitcoin to an increasingly business-like criminal enterprise operating out of Eastern Europe. Of course it’s not 2020. And to...

76M Households, 7M Businesses Impacted in JPMorgan Chase Breach

A securities filing on Thursday revealed that up to 76 million households and seven million small businesses, far more than initially thought, were implicated in the cyber attack that hit JPMorgan Chase over the summer, making it one of the largest data breaches in U.S. history. The New York-base...

Apple Pay: A New Way to Pay

Every September, Apple announces exciting new products that promise to change how we interact with not only our devices, but with the world around us. 2014 has been no exception; in San Francisco this morning, Apple announced the iPhone 6, Apple Watch and Apple Pay. Even though Im excited about t...

CVE-2014-2685

The GenericConsumer class in the Consumer component in ZendOpenId before 2.0.2 and the ZendOpenIdConsumer class in Zend Framework 1 before 1.12.4 violate the OpenID 2.0 protocol by ensuring only that at least one field is signed, which allows remote attackers to bypass authentication by leveragin...

Authentication flaw

The GenericConsumer class in the Consumer component in ZendOpenId before 2.0.2 and the ZendOpenIdConsumer class in Zend Framework 1 before 1.12.4 violate the OpenID 2.0 protocol by ensuring only that at least one field is signed, which allows remote attackers to bypass authentication by leveragin...

CVE-2014-2685

The GenericConsumer class in the Consumer component in ZendOpenId before 2.0.2 and the ZendOpenIdConsumer class in Zend Framework 1 before 1.12.4 violate the OpenID 2.0 protocol by ensuring only that at least one field is signed, which allows remote attackers to bypass authentication by leveragin...

One in Five Massachusetts Residents Breached in 2013

Roughly one in five Massachusetts residents were affected by a data breach last year, according to numbers released today by the Commonwealth’s Office of Consumer Affairs & Business Regulation OCABR. The number, about 1.2 million residents, is nearly a 60 percent increase from 2012. “Last year wa...

Hurray! Unlocking Your Cell Phone is Officially Legal Again

President Barack Obama signed a bill into law Friday that aims to make it legal for consumers to “unlock” their cell phones in order to change their cell phone service providers without paying for a new phone. The bill is known as the Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act, which...

Consumer Groups Urge FTC to Halt Facebook Data Collection Program

A collection of privacy and consumer groups from the United States and Europe has asked the Federal Trade Commission to force Facebook to suspend a recently installed program that mines information on sites that users’ visit around the Web in order to serve them interest-based ads. The groups say...