GTA Fan Forum Hacked: Old vBulletin Software To Blame

Outdated vBulletin forum software is being blamed for the breach of a Grand Theft Auto fan forum called GTAGaming. It marks the second time in two days a gaming forum has been targeted by hackers and that a SQL injection vulnerability is believed to have been exploited. The fan website notified...

Latest Windows UAC Bypass Permits Code Execution

Less than a month after disclosing a Windows User Account Control bypass, researcher Matt Nelson today published another attack that circumvents the security feature and leaves no traces on the hard disk. This time, the bypass relies on Event Viewer eventvwr.exe, a native Windows feature used to...

Two Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities Exist in Antenna Defense

Anthem Defense is Anthem's antivirus program. Antenna Defense 7 Antivirus has two different memory corruption vulnerabilities when dealing with specific PE files, which allow attackers to exploit the vulnerabilities to construct malformed PE files that cause Antenna Defense 7 to crash due to memo...

IBHsoftec S7-SoftPLC CPX43 Heap-based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

OVERVIEW Ariele Caltabiano kimiya working with Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative has identified a buffer overflow vulnerability in IBHsoftec’s S7-SoftPLC. IBHsoftec has produced a new version to mitigate this vulnerability. This vulnerability could be exploited remotely. AFFECTED PRODUCTS IBHsoft...

FreeBSD : lighttpd - multiple vulnerabilities (ef0033ad-5823-11e6-80cc-001517f335e2)

Lighttpd Project reports : Security fixes for Lighttpd : - security: encode quoting chars in HTML and XML - security: ensure gid != 0 if server.username is set, but not server.groupname - security: disable statcache if server.follow-symlink = 'disable' - security: httpoxy defense: do not emit...

lighttpd - multiple vulnerabilities

Lighttpd Project reports: Security fixes for Lighttpd: security: encode quoting chars in HTML and XML security: ensure gid != 0 if server.username is set, but not server.groupname security: disable statcache if server.follow-symlink = “disable” security: httpoxy defense: do not emit HTTPPROXY to...

SUSE-SU-2016:1785-1 Security update for kvm

kvm was updated to fix 33 security issues. These security issues were fixed: - CVE-2016-4439: Avoid OOB access in 53C9X emulation bsc980711 - CVE-2016-4441: Avoid OOB access in 53C9X emulation bsc980723 - CVE-2016-3710: Fixed VGA emulation based OOB access with potential for guest escape bsc97815...

Latest PhD Thesis Title and Abstract

In January I posted Why a War Studies PhD? I recently decided to revise my title and abstract to include attention to both offensive and defensive aspects of intrusion campaigns. I thought some readers might be interested in reading about my current plans for the thesis, which I plan to finish an...

Selfrando Technique Mitigates Attacks Unmasking Tor Users

The FBI’s apparent capability to unmask users of the Tor Network has caused hand-wringing among those concerned with privacy and civil liberties, many of whom are busy trying to win legal battles to get law enforcement to confess as to how they’re doing it. A team of academics and researchers,...

milforddailynews.com XSS vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-161390 Description| Value ---|--- Affected Website:| milforddailynews.com Vulnerable Application:| Custom Code Vulnerability Type:| XSS Cross Site Scripting / CWE-79 CVSSv3 Score:| 6.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Remediation Guide:| OWASP XSS Prevention...

Meaningful Surveillance Reform Risks Defeat Over US House Rules Change

Civil liberties groups are anxiously waiting to see if an anti-surveillance amendment will be added to a Department of Defense spending bill Tuesday. The so-called Massie-Lofgren amendment would rein in U.S. domestic mass surveillance by the NSA and protect U.S. encryption standards. The amendmen...

Hack the Pentagon: Hackers find over 100 Bugs in U.S. Defense Systems

The "Hack the Pentagon" bug bounty program by the United States Department of Defense DoD has been successful with more than 100 vulnerabilities uncovered by white hat hackers in Pentagon infrastructure. In March, the Defense Department launched what it calls "the first cyber Bug Bounty Program i...

North Korean Hackers Steal thousands of Military files from S. Korea

Hackers aligned with North Korea have always been accused of attacking and targeting South Korean organizations, financial institutions, banks and media outlets. Recent reports indicate that North Korean hackers have hacked into more than 140,000 computers of at least 160 South Korean government...

Wireless Keyloggers Hidden in USB Wall Chargers, FBI Warns

A private industry notification sent by the FBI in late April to its business partners warns of the risks associated with KeySweeper, a tool released in January 2015 by noted hardware hacker and researcher Samy Kamkar. Sixteen months ago, Kamkar released the source code and instructions on how to...

Unraveling Turla APT Attack Against Swiss Defense Firm

Ever since hackers targeted Swiss defense contractor RUAG, government officials have been tight lipped about the breach. But on Monday Switzerland’s CERT Computer Emergency Readiness Team spilled the beans on the attack against the firm and the how perpetrators pulled it off. While Monday’s repor...

Adobe issued a warning: cybercriminals are taking advantage of the Flash 0 day vulnerabilities-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! As the title of this article, if the user in Windows, Mac, Linux, or Chrome OSoperating systemon the platform to install the Adobe Flash plugin, then the user will likely be subjected to hacker attacks. Adobe has released a security Bulletin and in the Bulletin to remind the user that the Flash...

SA123 : OpenSSL Vulnerabilities 3-May-2016

SUMMARY Blue Coat products using affected versions of OpenSSL are susceptible to multiple vulnerabilities. A remote attacker can exploit these vulnerabilities to intercept and decrypt TLS sessions, obtain arbitrary data from the target's memory stack, or execute arbitrary code through buffer...

Antenna Defense Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Anthem Defense is Anthem's antivirus program. Antenna Defense 7 Antivirus has a memory corruption vulnerability when dealing with PE files, which allows attackers to exploit the vulnerability to construct malformed PE files that can cause Antenna Defense 7 to crash due to memory corruption while...

A Cyber Revolution: Advanced Attacks Increasing in EMEA Reflect Political Tension

Financial, geopolitical and economical changes made 2015 a very busy year for the Europe, Middle East and Africa EMEA region, particularly in the cyber realm. FireEye has been monitoring these shifting cyber trends and has identified considerable evolutions to the EMEA threat landscape when...

A Cyber Revolution: Advanced Attacks Increasing in EMEA Reflect Political Tension

Financial, geopolitical and economical changes made 2015 a very busy year for the Europe, Middle East and Africa EMEA region, particularly in the cyber realm. FireEye has been monitoring these shifting cyber trends and has identified considerable evolutions to the EMEA threat landscape when...