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Exploit for CVE-2013-2094
CVE-2013-2094 Linux...
China Builds World's Fastest Supercomputer
China has developed a new supercomputer known as Tianhe-2 which is twice as fast as US and Japanese systems has been measured at speeds of 30.65 petaflops or 74 percent faster than the current holder of the world's-fastest-supercomputer title. Titan, the U.S. Department of Energy's fastest...
Vulnerable Microsoft VC++ 2005 RTM runtime libraries installed with "Microsoft Security Essentials" (and numerous other Microsoft products)
Hi @ll, this is part 2 of "Defense in depth -- the Microsoft way", see http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2013/May/107 On Windows NT 5.x the current "Microsoft Security Essentials" v4.2 available from http://www.microsoft.com/securityessentials, and offered as optional update KB2804527 via...
Beta Bot Trojan Emerges as New Type of Banking Malware
A new strain of banking malware, Beta Bot, has been refined over the last few months to target ecommerce and comes complete with an array of features to help prevent it from being caught by usual security measures. According to research conducted by RSA Security’s Limor Kessem, the bot started ou...
LulzSec hacker Jeremy Hammond pleads guilty to Stratfor attack, could face 10 years in prison
A computer hacker linked to the group known as Anonymous and LulzSec pleaded guilty on Tuesday to breaking into Stratfor, a global intelligence company. Hammond, 28, was arrested last March and charged with hacking into the computers of Stratfor. Jeremy Hammond and other members of AntiSec, stole...
Chinese hackers access major U.S. weapon system Designs
According to report published by for the Defense Department and government and defense industry officials, Chinese hackers have gained access to the designs of many of the nation's most sensitive advanced weapons systems. The compromised U.S. designs included those for combat aircraft and ships, ...
US Military approved iPhones and iPads for military networks
The US Department of Defense has cleared Apple's iPhone and iPad for use on its military networks, along with the Samsung Galaxy S4 and BlackBerry 10 devices, the agency said in a statement Friday. The entire DOD is much, much larger, of course, and mobile devices are increasing in importance for...
US Military approved iPhones and iPads for military networks
The US Department of Defense has cleared Apple's iPhone and iPad for use on its military networks, along with the Samsung Galaxy S4 and BlackBerry 10 devices, the agency said in a statement Friday. The entire DOD is much, much larger, of course, and mobile devices are increasing in importance for...
U.S. Department of Defense Officials are potential target of cyber espionage via social networking sites
In the recent months I had the opportunity to conduct an interesting study on the use of Social Media in the Military Sector, large diffusion of media platforms makes them very attractive for governments and intelligence agencies. Social media platforms reveal enormous potentiality that could be...
DDIVRT-2013-53 Actuate 'ActuateJavaComponent' Multiple Vulnerabilities
Title ----- DDIVRT-2013-53 Actuate 'ActuateJavaComponent' Multiple Vulnerabilities Severity -------- High Date Discovered --------------- March 19, 2013 Discovered By ------------- Digital Defense, Inc. Vulnerability Research Team Credit: Dennis Lavrinenko, Bobby Lockett, and r@b13$ 1. Actuate...
Pentagon Decision Moves Android Security in Right Direction
Android’s security gets its share of grief, but perhaps it’s been a bit misguided. Like many other popular open source technologies, there are a number of different flavors of the mobile platform, each with its security properties and nuances. That’s why the Pentagon’s decision to endorse the use...
Finger-Pointing on Cyberespionage Does Little Good Without Plan
In its annual report to Congress detailing the capabilities of and threats from China, Pentagon officials spend dozens of pages explaining the People’s Liberation Army’s strengths and weaknesses in each area, from nuclear weapons to artillery to information warfare. It reads the way you would...
Chinese Hackers Steal Info from top secret U.S military data
QinetiQ, a UK-based defense contractor suffers humiliation as intelligence officials confirmed that China was able to steal the U.S. classified documents and pertinent technological information all this because of QinetiQ's faulty decision-making. QinetiQ North America QQ a world leading defense...
Chinese Hackers Steal Info from top secret U.S military data
QinetiQ, a UK-based defense contractor suffers humiliation as intelligence officials confirmed that China was able to steal the U.S. classified documents and pertinent technological information all this because of QinetiQ's faulty decision-making. QinetiQ North America QQ a world leading defense...
Obama Expands Surveillance to Critical Infrastructure
A little-known policy through which the Departments of Justice, Defense, and Homeland Security offered prosecutorial immunity to companies that helped the U.S. military monitor Internet traffic on the private networks of defense contractors has reportedly been expanded by Executive Order to inclu...
Inductive Automation Ignition Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Overview ICS-CERT has received a report from Rubén Santamarta concerning a vulnerability in Inductive Automation’s Ignition software. Ignition is an updated version of FactoryPMI Plant Management Interface, offered by Inductive Automation. This vulnerability allows unauthorized users to download...
Comment Crew's Operation Beebus Stealing Drone Tech
FireEye experts have been tracking the Operation Beebus campaign for a few months now, and their latest research suggests that whomever is responsible for the attacks is ultimately interested in stealing drone technology-related secrets. Operation Beebus is an APT-style attack campaign targeting...
Anonymous hackers launch massive cyber assault on Israel Cyberspace, #OpIsrael
A cyber attack campaign, dubbed OpIsrael by hacking group Anonymous, targeting Israeli websites caused massive disruption to government, academic and private sites Sunday. Israeli media said small business had been targeted. Some homepage messages were replaced with anti-Israel slogans. Anonymous...
#OpIsrael - 7 APRIL Anonymous calls to army for massive attack against Israel
We are on the eve of the fateful day, April 7th, the collective of Anonymous announced a massive cyber attack against the state of Israel as part of the campaign started in the last months and named OpIsrael. The hacktivists are conducting a massive call to army to recruit new forces and inform a...
Tallinn Manual Interprets International Law in Cyberwar Context
When nations eventually adopt ground rules for conflict in cyberspace as they apply in an actual kinetic war, the Tallinn Manual on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Warfare, is likely to be their key reference material in doing so. The Tallinn Manual, officially released late last week, ...