RSA's SecurID Quandry: Replace or Recall?

RSA acknowledged on Monday that a hack at Lockheed Martin was tied to the theft of information on its SecurID tokens. The company offered to replace the tokens for customers, but experts wonder whether RSA should go further and recall SecurID tokens from the market. After acknowledging that forge...

RSA Says Lockheed Attack Not a New Threat to SecurID, But Will Replace Users' Tokens

In the wake of a string of attacks against high-profile users of RSA Security’s SecurID tokens including Lockheed Martin, the company has posted an open letter to its customers, trying to reassure them that the tokens are secure and that the attacks don’t represent a new threat to these businesse...

While U.S. Plots Cyber Strategy, Experts See Obstacles Ahead

The release of the International Strategy for Cyberspace late last month marked a major shift in the way that United States officials think about and treat information security, which now seems as if it will have a place at the table during diplomatic discussions. However, experts and U.S...

Hackers broke into Lockheed Martin networks & U.S. defense contractors !

Unknown hackers have broken into the security networks of Lockheed Martin Corp and several other U.S. military contractors, a source with direct knowledge of the attacks told Reuters. They breached security systems designed to keep out intruders by creating duplicates to "SecurID" electronic keys...

Obama Administration Lays Out New U.S. Cyberspace Strategy

The Obama administration has unveiled a sweeping strategy for the way that it plans to conduct the country’s business and political dealings online in the coming years, and much of the plan centers on improving the security and reliability of the Internet. The International Strategy for Cyberspac...

CA Total Defense Suite UNCWS Multiple Report Stored Procedure SQL Injections (CVE-2011-1653)

CA Total Defense combines CA Anti-Virus, CA Anti-Spyware, CA Gateway Security and CA Host-Based Intrusion Prevention System. The unified network control UNC offers network access protection by validating endpoints requesting network access. Multiple SQL Injection vulnerabilities have been reporte...

Exclusive Report : Is Department of Defense (DoD), Pentagon, NASA, NSA is Secure ?

Exclusive Report : Is Department of Defense DoD, Pentagon, NASA, NSA is Secure ? Over the past couple of weeks there has been a series of discussions around why the U.S defense and Intelligence agencies are moving so quickly to adopt cloud computing. Are there any Security Holes in their Security...

Preview : Web App Hacker's Handbook 2nd Edition !

Preview : Web App Hacker's Handbook 2nd Edition ! The first draft of the new edition of WAHH is now completed, and the lengthy editing and production process is underway. Just to whet everyone's appetite, I'm posting below an exclusive extract from the Introduction, describing what has changed in...

CA Total Defense UNCWS DeleteReports SQL Injection

Added: 05/12/2011 CVE: CVE-2011-1653 BID: 47355 Background CA Total Defense is a combined host-based anti-virus, anti-spyware, firewall, and IPS solution. Problem CA Total Defense includes a web service management component, which in version r12 prior to SE2, fails to validate certain parameters...

CA Total Defense UNCWS DeleteReports SQL Injection

Added: 05/12/2011 CVE: CVE-2011-1653 BID: 47355 Background CA Total Defense is a combined host-based anti-virus, anti-spyware, firewall, and IPS solution. Problem CA Total Defense includes a web service management component, which in version r12 prior to SE2, fails to validate certain parameters...

CA Total Defense UNCWS DeleteReports SQL Injection

Added: 05/12/2011 CVE: CVE-2011-1653 BID: 47355 Background CA Total Defense is a combined host-based anti-virus, anti-spyware, firewall, and IPS solution. Problem CA Total Defense includes a web service management component, which in version r12 prior to SE2, fails to validate certain parameters...

French security firm VUPEN Say New Bugs Can Bypass Google Chrome Sandbox !

French security firm VUPEN Say New Bugs Can Bypass Google Chrome Sandbox ! Researchers at the French security firm VUPEN say that they have discovered several new vulnerabilities in Google Chrome that enable them to bypass the browser's sandbox, as well as ASLR and DEP and run arbitrary code on a...

Report: RSA Hack Part Of Larger Operation

A sophisticated attack against RSA, the security division of EMC, shares characteristics with similar attacks against Western firms, according to the security blog Krebsonsecurity. Despite RSA’s claims that it was the victim of a unique and targeted attack, research into the incident by reporter...

CA Total Defense UNCWS SQL Injection

Added: 05/02/2011 CVE: CVE-2011-1653 BID: 47355 Background CA Total Defense is a combined host-based anti-virus, anti-spyware, firewall, and IPS solution. Problem CA Total Defense includes a web service management component, which in version r12 prior to SE2, fails to validate certain parameters...

CA Total Defense UNCWS SQL Injection

Added: 05/02/2011 CVE: CVE-2011-1653 BID: 47355 Background CA Total Defense is a combined host-based anti-virus, anti-spyware, firewall, and IPS solution. Problem CA Total Defense includes a web service management component, which in version r12 prior to SE2, fails to validate certain parameters...

CA Total Defense UNCWS SQL Injection

Added: 05/02/2011 CVE: CVE-2011-1653 BID: 47355 Background CA Total Defense is a combined host-based anti-virus, anti-spyware, firewall, and IPS solution. Problem CA Total Defense includes a web service management component, which in version r12 prior to SE2, fails to validate certain parameters...

CA Total Defense UNCWS SQL Injection

Added: 05/02/2011 CVE: CVE-2011-1653 BID: 47355 Background CA Total Defense is a combined host-based anti-virus, anti-spyware, firewall, and IPS solution. Problem CA Total Defense includes a web service management component, which in version r12 prior to SE2, fails to validate certain parameters...

Glass Dragon: China's Cyber Offense Obscures Woeful Defense

The official line in Washington D.C. is that there’s a new Cold War brewing, with an ascendant China in the place of the old Soviet Union, and cyberspace as the new theater of war. But work done by an independent security researcher suggests that the Chinese government is woefully unprepared to...

Report: Application Security Still Mostly Sucks

The third State of Software Security SOSS report finds that software developers are still doing a poor job of making applications secure. Application testing firm Veracode, which compiled the report, found that 58% of almost 5,000 applications failing a security audit on the first pass – about th...

ZDI-11-127: CA Total Defense Suite UNCWS Web Service getDBConfigSettings Credential Disclosure Vulnerability

ZDI-11-127: CA Total Defense Suite UNCWS Web Service getDBConfigSettings Credential Disclosure Vulnerability http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-11-127 April 13, 2011 -- CVE ID: CVE-2011-1655 -- CVSS: 10, AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C -- Affected Vendors: CA -- Affected Products: CA Tota...