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...

Ecava IntegraXor DLL Hijacking (Update B)

Overview This advisory is a follow-up to ICS-ALERT-10-362-01—Ecava IntegraXor DLL Hijacking. ICS-CERT has become aware of a Uncontrolled Search Path Element vulnerability, commonly referred to as DLL Hijacking, in the Ecava IntegraXor supervisory control and data acquisition SCADA product. ICS-CE...

MS KB2861855: Updates to Improve Remote Desktop Protocol Network-Level Authentication

The remote host is missing Microsoft KB2861855. This update provides defense-in-depth measures for Remote Desktop Protocol Network Level Authentication. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid69333; scriptversion"1.5"; scriptcvsdate"Date: 2018/11/15 20:50:28"...

Mitigating the LdrHotPatchRoutine DEP/ASLR bypass with MS13-063

Today we released MS13-063 which includes a defense in depth change to address an exploitation technique that could be used to bypass two important platform mitigations: Address Space Layout Randomization ASLR and Data Execution Prevention DEP. As we’ve described in the past, these mitigations pl...

Encrypted Email Service 'Lavabit' abruptly shut down under U.S. Government Pressure

Texas-based Encrypted Email Service 'Lavabit' abruptly shut down for reasons linked to National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden. The Feds want to Lavabit demanding access to Ed Snowden's email. Lavabit refused! Snowden was using the Lavabit service while holed-up in the Moscow airpor...

Encrypted Email Service 'Lavabit' abruptly shut down under U.S. Government Pressure

Texas-based Encrypted Email Service 'Lavabit' abruptly shut down for reasons linked to National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden. The Feds want to Lavabit demanding access to Ed Snowden's email. Lavabit refused! Snowden was using the Lavabit service while holed-up in the Moscow airpor...

Chinese computer maker Lenovo banned by Spy Agencies

According to a new report, the world’s biggest personal computer maker, Chinese firm Lenovo Group Limited has reportedly been banned from supplying equipment for networks of the intelligence and defense services of Australia, the United States, Britain, Canada and New Zealand, due to hacking...

House Rejects Amendment to Sever NSA Data Collection Funding

By a narrow dozen votes, the U.S. House of Representatives yesterday failed to pass an amendment to the Department of Defense Appropriations Act of 2014 that would have severed funding for the NSA’s phone record surveillance program turned out by Edward Snowden. The amendment, put forth by Rep...

A little of Arp attack and Defense combat-website security-the black bar safety net

Frankly, I'm a noob, that is the big hackers and security vendors said the target groups, the former is to attack me, which is likely to protect me. But in any case, the times should also very helpless--I encountered the legendary Arp attack. In a continuous one week time, I found I could not...

Comodo Internet Security Race Condition Vulnerability-02

The host is installed with Comodo Internet Security and is prone to race condition vulnerability. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbcomodoracecondvuln02win.nasl 6074 2017-05-05 09:03:14Z teissa $ Comodo Internet Security Race Condition Vulnerability-02 Authors: Arun Kallavi Copyright: Copyright c...

South Korea defense bans Smartphones for data security

South Korea's Ministry of National Defense is banning its employees from using the smart phones inside of the ministry's building in a bid to prevent military data leaks. At present, the only way to ensure sensitive corporate and Defense data is not lost is to provide employees with devices owned...

South Korea defense bans Smartphones for data security

South Korea’s Ministry of National Defense is banning its employees from using the smart phones inside of the ministry's building in a bid to prevent military data leaks. At present, the only way to ensure sensitive corporate and Defense data is not lost is to provide employees with devices owned...

Doors Open for New Bounty Programs

As we announced last week, Microsoft is now offering $100,000 bounties for new exploitation techniques that can bypass our latest platform-wide defenses and up to $50,000 bonus bounties for defense ideas. We’re also offering from now until July 26 bounties of up to $11,000 for critical security...

Carberp Source Code Leaked

The source code for the Carberp Trojan, which typically sells for $40,000 on the underground, has been leaked and is now available to anyone who wants it. The leak has echoes of the release of the Zeus crimeware source code a couple of years ago and has security researchers concerned that it may...

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will not leave Ecuadorian Embassy in London

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says he will not leave the Ecuadorian Embassy after Ecuador's foreign minister has said its embassy in London will continue to provide political asylum to Julian Assange. He was staying in embassy for the past year to avoid extradition to Sweden. The Australian wi...