Protection Against Port Scanners: Portspoof

The portspoof program is designed to enhance OS security through emulation of legitimate service signatures on otherwise closed ports. It is meant to be a lightweight, fast, portable and secure addition to the any firewall system or security infrastructure. The general goal of the program is to...

Gzip Memory Bomb Denial Of Service

This module generates and hosts a 10MB single-round gzip file that decompresses to 10GB. Many applications will not implement a length limit check and will eat up all memory and eventually die. This can also be used to kill systems that download/parse content from a user-provided URL...

General Michael Hayden Talks about the Future of Cybersecurity at MIRcon 2013

When you've got some of the cybersecurity industry's best and brightest practitioners in one room, just how do you top the conversations they're having across the breakfast table? By getting one of the foremost experts on cybersecurity to deliver a top notch speech on the future of the industry,...

Introducing Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET) 4.1

In June 2013, we released EMET 4.0 and customer response has been fantastic. Many customers across the world now include EMET as part of their defense-in-depth strategy and appreciate how EMET helps businesses prevent attackers from gaining access to computers systems. Today, we’re releasing a ne...

MIRcon 2013 – Day 2 Highlights

Thanks for another wonderful MIRcon®, everyone! It's been an honor to bring together so many leading minds in cybersecurity, and to foster conversations about what we can all do to safeguard the information and innovationson which so much of us rely on. The second and final day of MIRcon 2013...

MIRcon 2013 – Day 1 Highlights

Happy Day 2 of MIRcon®! Yesterday, Mandiant's CEO Kevin Mandia kicked off MIRcon 2013 with a keynote on attacking the security gap, discussing the necessity of information-sharing and his experience witnessing the evolution of cybercrime. From there we moved on to thought-provoking discussions in...

DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge Offers $2M to Winners

The bug bounty continues to be turned on its ear. Microsoft began the wave of paying premium money for mitigation technologies via its Blue Hat prizes, and now DARPA has gone all-in to the tune of $2 million for the development of an automated network defense system that not only scans for and...

OpenJDK: AWT hardening fixes (AWT, 7163201)

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment JRE component in Oracle Java SE 7 Update 6 and earlier, and 6 Update 34 and earlier, has no impact and remote attack vectors involving AWT and "a security-in-depth issue that is not directly exploitable but which can be used to aggravate...

OpenJDK: AWT hardening fixes (AWT, 7163201)

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment JRE component in Oracle Java SE 7 Update 6 and earlier, and 6 Update 34 and earlier, has no impact and remote attack vectors involving AWT and "a security-in-depth issue that is not directly exploitable but which can be used to aggravate...

SpecView Directory Traversal

Overview This advisory is a follow up to the original alert titled ICS-ALERT-12-214-01 SpecView Directory Traversal that was published August 01, 2012, on the ICS-CERT Web. This advisory provides mitigation details for a vulnerability, which impacts SpecView products. Independent researcher Luigi...

MIRcon Preview: What to Expect in the Technical Track

MIRcon 2013, Nov. 5-6, Washington, DC is right around the corner. Have you registered yet? Don't miss out! With targeted attacks continuing for the foreseeable future, you should be sure to take advantage of this opportunity to learn from leading industry cybersecurity experts. The two day...

Researcher Takes Home $100k Prize From Microsoft For New Attack

One day after announcing that it had paid researchers $28,000 for reporting a number of vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer 11, Microsoft revealed that it has written a much bigger check–this one for $100,000–to a researcher who has discovered a new attack technique that bypasses all of the...

SAP NetWeaver Message Server – DoS

Application: SAP NetWeaver Message Server Versions Affected: SAP KERNEL 7.20 32BIT Vendor URL: http://www.sap.com Bugs: Improper Input Validation Exploits: PoC Reported: 10.07.2013 Vendor response: 11.07.2013 Date of Public Advisory: 25.01.2014 Reference: SAP Security Note 1773912 Author: George...

Zero Days Are Not the Bugs You're Looking For

BERLIN–The technology industry often is used by politicians, executives and others as an example of how to adapt quickly and shift gears in the face of disruptive changes. But the security community has been doing defense in basically the same way for several decades now, despite the fact that th...

Software Defense: mitigating stack corruption vulnerabilties

Introduction One of the oldest forms of memory safety exploitation is that of stack corruption vulnerabilities, with several early high-profile exploits being of this type. It seems fitting therefore to kick off this Software Defense series by looking at the status of software defense today with...

Software Defense Series: Exploit mitigation and vulnerability detection

Software Defense is a broad topic requiring a multipronged approach including: - the processes and tooling associated with secure development that we try and encapsulate within the Microsoft SDL, - core OS countermeasures that make exploitation of a given vulnerability more difficult for an...

NSA Chief, General Alexander defends US surveillance programs as a Noble Mission

On Wednesday, Chief of National Security Agency NSA, General Keith Alexander defended US surveillance programs as part of a Noble Mission to protect the nation. He said that the collection of bulk phone records by U.S. Intelligence agencies are essential to preventing terrorist attacks. He...

Integrated circuits can be compromised using Undetectable hardware Trojans

A team of researchers from the U.S. and Europe has developed a Hardware Trojan, which is an undetectable to many techniques, raising the question on need of proper hardware qualification. They released a paper on stealthy Dopant-Level Hardware Trojans, showing how integrated circuits used in...

NSA Bought Exploit Service From VUPEN, Contract Shows

The U.S. government–particularly the National Security Agency–are often regarded as having advanced offensive cybersecurity capabilities. But that doesn’t mean that they’re above bringing in a little outside help when it’s needed. A newly public contract shows that the NSA last year bought a...

Rockwell RSLinx EDS Vulnerability

Overview ICS-CERT has received a report from Michael Orlando of CERT Coordination Center CERT/CC identifying a vulnerability in Rockwell Automation Electronic Data Sheet EDS Hardware Installation Tool. This tool is bundled with RSLinx Classic for normal distribution. The install tool exhibits a...