Congress to Consider Critical Infrastructure Protection Bill

The National Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Protection Act of 2013 would amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to better protect the country against potentially destructive cyber attacks targeting national utilities and other critical infrastructure systems. The House Subcommittee on...

[MIDAS] Mac Intrusion Detection Analysis System

MIDAS is a framework for developing a Mac Intrusion Detection Analysis System, based on work and collaborative discussions between the Etsy and Facebook security teams. This repository provides a modular framework and a number of helper utilities, as well as an example module for detecting...

Safari Phishing Alert Bypass

Abstract: The PhishingAlert of Safari stops functioning in Windows systems if an abnormal URL is being used. Details: There is a defense mechanism in Safari which recognizes URL deceits such as http://[email protected]. The phishing alert will be activated once the HTTP URL that we want to...

A bypass the majority of antivirus software method-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Brief description: Affected manufacturers:including but not limited to Kaspersky, 3 6 0, Baidu, Tencent, Swiss Star, Jiang min, AVG, nod32 Detailed description: Antivirus in the Proactive Defense when relying too heavily on WFP, the drain-proof the system its own file, resulting in the malicious...

Software defense: mitigating common exploitation techniques

In our previous posts in this series, we described various mitigation improvements that attempt to prevent the exploitation of specific classes of memory safety vulnerabilities such as those that involve stack corruption, heap corruption, and unsafe list management and reference count...

[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: lynis-1.3.6-1.fc18

Lynis is an auditing and hardening tool for Unix/Linux and you might even c all it a compliance tool. It scans the system and installed software. Then it performs many individual security control checks. It determines the hardeni ng state of the machine, detects security issues and provides...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: lynis-1.3.6-1.fc19

Lynis is an auditing and hardening tool for Unix/Linux and you might even c all it a compliance tool. It scans the system and installed software. Then it performs many individual security control checks. It determines the hardeni ng state of the machine, detects security issues and provides...

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...

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...