Top 10 IT Security Trends for 2011

The crystal ball gazing has started early this year. Typically, tech prediction pieces emerge after Christmas, but the first 'security trends for 2011' missive has already dropped into my inbox. So, what does the somewhat premature Imperva Application Defense Center think will worry us the most o...

Europe tests cyber defences against hackers

BRUSSELS AFP – European computer guards battled Thursday against a simulated attempt by hackers to bring down critical Internet services in the first pan-continental test of cyber defences. All 27 of the European Union's member nations as well as Iceland, Norway and Switzerland took part in the...

Skype 4.2 (Plugin Manager-ezPMUtils.dll) Remote BOF Exploit

Exploit for windows platform in category remote exploits =========================================================== Skype 4.2 Plugin Manager-ezPMUtils.dll Remote BOF Exploit ===========================================================...

New Certifications Will Set High Bar for IT Security Pros

A new non-profit group is developing certifications for information technology security professionals that will set a high bar for IT security practitioners in areas like penetration testing, code auditing and control systems operation. The National Board of Information Security Examiners NBISE i...

Bouncing RPC

In the early years of Core Security Technologies, the company not only offered security consulting services, but often was sub-contracted to do R+D for several security vendors. The first and most intellectually rewarding of such contracts came from Secure Networks Inc. SNI, a Canadian start-up...

Eyeland Studio Inc. - SQL Injection

Eyeland Studio Inc. - SQL Injection Title: Eyeland Studio Inc. SQL Injection Vulnerability Version: 2.0 Author: Mr.P3rfekT Software Site:http://www.eyeland.com/ Tested on Lunix CVE : N/A Home :www.realmadridsy.com & www.v4-team.com/cc Founded By Mr.P3rfekT Dork :"Eyeland Studio Inc. All Rights...

Zeus Trojan Campaign Warning

US-CERT is aware of public reports of malicious code circulating via spam email messages impersonating the Department of Homeland Security DHS. The attacks arrive via unsolicited email messages that may contain subject lines related to DHS or other government activity. These messages may contain ...

Why the U.S. Is an Easy Mark for Hackers

In the wake of the attacks against Google, Adobe and other major high-tech companies, there was a lot of public shock and outrage that this kind of attack happened. But it was really just a small part of what’s been going on for years. In a conversation with Dennis Fisher, Tom Kellermann of Core...

PEAR 1.9.0 Remote File Inclusion

PEAR v.1.9.0 Multiple Remote File Inclusion Vulnerability PEAR, the PHP Extension and Application Repository @package PEAR @Version v.1.9.0 @license http://opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.php New BSD License @link http://pear.php.net/package/PEAR Type : Remote File Inclusion Vulnerability...

Another Look at ATM Skimmers

Brian Krebs talks with Rick Doten, chief scientist at Lockheed Martin’s Center for Cyber Security Innovation. Doten has built an impressive slide deck on ATM fraud attacks. Read the full article. KrebsonSecurity...

Lessons Learned From the Aurora Attacks

It’s been more than two weeks now since the cyber-end of the cyber-world caused by the cyber-attacks on the cyber-networks of Google, Adobe and several other high tech companies, and amid all of the noise and hand-wringing there has been precious little in the way of cool, logical analysis of wha...

US-CERT Technical Cyber Security Alert TA10-013A -- Adobe Reader and Acrobat Vulnerabilities

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 National Cyber Alert System Technical Cyber Security Alert TA10-013A Adobe Reader and Acrobat Vulnerabilities Original release date: Last revised: -- Source: US-CERT Systems Affected Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.2 and earlier 9.x versions Adobe Reader a...

GAO Names Areas of Threat to U.S.

It’s not a very good day when a security report concludes: Disruptive cyber activities expected to become the norm in future political and military conflicts. But such was the case as the Government Accountability Office took yet another critical look at the US federal security systems and found...

Senator Joe Lieberman Wants Head of Cyber Security to Reside in White House

Independent Sen. Joe Lieberman of Conneticut is set to propose a bill that would make the lead security post for the U.S. government a Presidential nominee approved by the Senate and accountable to Congress. This is in sharp contrast to the proposed hierarchy laid out by the ranking Republican...

Q&A: Bruce Schneier

CNet’s Elinor Mills has produced an interesting Q&A interview with security guru Bruce Schneier where the cryptographer pokes fun at the National Cyber Security Month, talks about his background in crypto and working for the U.S. Defense Department, and says he fears privacy invasion more from...

The Malware Cash Factory

Over on our sister site Viruslist.com, researchers Sergey Golovanov and Igor Soumenkov have published an article that studies a single spam e-mail and illustrates the methods used by cyber criminals to create botnets and conduct mass spam mailings. The methods and techniques used are clearly...

MicroCMS 3.5 (SQL/LFI) Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities

No description provided by source. Micro CMS File inclusion Vuln Micro CMS SQLi login bypass By learn3r hacker from Nepal [email protected] Affected version: v 3.5 or may be lower... File Inclusion Vuln Requires register globals to be on... Vuln file: microcms-inlude.php...

Security Pros Are Focused on the Wrong Threats

From The New York Times Riva Richmond Corporate information technology departments are prioritizing the wrong threats to their computer systems, focusing on old problems and leaving their companies open to a raft of new cyberattacks targeting sensitive customer and corporate information. That is...

FreeSchool 1.1.0 - Multiple Remote File Inclusions

FreeSchool 1.1.0 - Multiple Remote File Inclusions x FreeSchool = 1.1.0 Mutiple Remote File Include Vulnerability ! Download Script : http://sourceforge.net/projects/freeschool/files/ ! Author : cr4wl3r ! Contact : cr4wl3r4tlinuxmaildotorg ! Location : Gorontalo - INDONESIA ! Dork : "FuCk y0u...

Amit Yoran on Cyberwar, Federal Cybersecurity and the Evolution of Threats

Dennis Fisher talks with Amit Yoran, former director of the National Cyber Security Division at DHS and CEO of NetWitness, about state-sponsored attacks, federal cybersecurity and the changing nature of security threats. Download Subscribe to the Digital Underground podcast on Podcast audio...