Report Claims U.S. Cyber Analysts Trace Most Serious Attacks To Just 12 Hacking Groups in China

Cyber security analysts at private sector firms in the U.S. say they have linked a string of devastating hacks of military networks and defense contractors to a small cadre of hacking groups within China, and are pushing the U.S. government for the green light to strike back. The report Monday in...

DDIVRT-2011-38 KnowledgeTree login.php Blind SQL Injection

Title ----- DDIVRT-2011-38 KnowledgeTree login.php Blind SQL Injection Severity -------- High Date Discovered --------------- November 18, 2011 Discovered By ------------- Digital Defense, Inc. Vulnerability Research Team Credit: sxkeebler and r@b13$ Vulnerability Description...

Attackers Using Known Trojan in Exploits on Adobe Zero Day

The newly discovered vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat that the company is planning to patch next week is being used to install a known Trojan that has been used in attacks against other Adobe vulnerabilities in the past. Researchers who have analyzed the payload of the attacks against th...

Adobe Zero-Day Targets Lockheed Martin

Adobe said a previously undisclosed vulnerability in its Reader and Acrobat applications was passed along by defense contractor Lockheed Martin, raising the specter of a targeted attack on the important military supplier. In issuing a warning about a critical flaw on Tuesday, Adobe credied both...

House Committee OKs Bill To Allow Government, Private Sector To Share Cyber Threat Data

A cybersecurity bill approved by the House of Representatives’ Intelligence Committee on Thursday will allow the government and private companies to share information about electronic threats and attacks going forward. Introduced on Wednesday by Mike Rogers R-Mich., and C.A. “Dutch” Ruppersberger...

HP Intelligent Management Center iNodeMngChecker.exe Buffer Overflow (CVE-2011-1867)

A remote code execution vulnerability has been reported in the HP Intelligent Management Center User Access Manager UAM and Endpoint Admission Defense EAD. The vulnerability is due to insufficient user input data validation by the application. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by...

New UK Cyber Security Strategy Released

New UK Cyber Security Strategy Released The UK's intelligence agency GCHQ will become a main port of call for businesses dealing with cyberattacks, under the government's new cybersecurity strategy revealed on Friday. The Cheltenham-based GCHQ agency will receive huge amount of fund for its large...

Wikileaks Founder, Julian Assange Hires Pirate Bay Lawyer

Wikileaks Founder, Julian Assange Hires Pirate Bay Lawyer Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange has fired his lawyer in favour of one with experience in batting for The Pirate Bay, according to a Swedish news report. Julian Assange has ditched his Swedish legal counsel and lined up a new defence team ...

Wikileaks Founder, Julian Assange Hires Pirate Bay Lawyer

Wikileaks Founder, Julian Assange Hires Pirate Bay Lawyer Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange has fired his lawyer in favour of one with experience in batting for The Pirate Bay, according to a Swedish news report. Julian Assange has ditched his Swedish legal counsel and lined up a new defence team ...

US military's offensive operations in cyberspace to shoot Hackers

US military's offensive operations in cyberspace to shoot Hackers The US military is now legally in the clear to launch offensive operations in cyberspace, the commander of the US Strategic Command has said. The Pentagon has just sent a report to Congress where it says that it has the right to...

US military's offensive operations in cyberspace to shoot Hackers

US military's offensive operations in cyberspace to shoot Hackers The US military is now legally in the clear to launch offensive operations in cyberspace, the commander of the US Strategic Command has said. The Pentagon has just sent a report to Congress where it says that it has the right to...

Duqu computer virus Detected by Iran civil defense organization

Duqu computer virus Detected by Iran civil defense organization The virus is called W32.Duqu, or just Duqu create fear after the opening Pandora's Box of Stuxnet. The head of Iran's civil defense organization told the official IRNA news agency that computers at all main sites at risk were being...

Duqu computer virus Detected by Iran civil defense organization

Duqu computer virus Detected by Iran civil defense organization The virus is called W32.Duqu, or just Duqu create fear after the opening Pandora's Box of Stuxnet. The head of Iran's civil defense organization told the official IRNA news agency that computers at all main sites at risk were being...

DARPA to Hackers: Help, Please?

The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA, which is credited with helping to create the modern Internet, used a conference to call on hackers and other visionaries to help save it. DARPA’s Director, Dr. Regina Dugan used a speech at the DARPA Colloquium on Future Directions i...

Hacker selling compromised websites gets hacked by d33ds

Hacker selling compromised websites gets hacked by d33ds A hacking group called d33ds broke into the online shop of a rival hacker who sells unauthorized access to high-profile websites and data. A hacker calling himself Srblche, also offered information stolen from websites belonging to the U.S...

CapitalOne Bank taken down by Anonymous hackers

CapitalOne Bank taken down by Anonymous hackers Anonymous Hackers claim to taken down the official website of CapitalOne Bank. Currently Site is showing message on Homepage that "Site under maintenance". In a pastebin release Anonymous Hacker wrote "ya know.. every guy Fawkes day companies go hir...

DDIVRT-2011-33 IBM WebSphere Application Server 'help' Servlet Plug-in Bundle Directory Traversal [CVE-2011-1359]

Title ----- DDIVRT-2011-33 IBM WebSphere Application Server 'help' Servlet Plug-in Bundle Directory Traversal CVE-2011-1359 Severity -------- High Date Discovered --------------- July 28, 2011 Discovered By ------------- Digital Defense, Inc. Vulnerability Research Team Credit: Javier Castro,...

Micro-point active Defense software privilege escalation-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Brief description: Micro-point active Defense software could allow elevation of Privilege, leading to execute arbitrary kernel code Detailed description: Micro-point active Defense software mp110012. sys file fails to properly check user of the incoming parameters, can lead to execute arbitrary...

DDIVRT-2011-35 Cisco Unified Contact Center Express Directory Traversal [CVE-2011-3315]

Title ----- DDIVRT-2011-35 Cisco Unified Contact Center Express Directory Traversal CVE-2011-3315 Severity -------- High Date Discovered --------------- August 9, 2011 Discovered By ------------- Digital Defense, Inc. Vulnerability Research Team Credit: r@b13$ Vulnerability Description...

Top Government Security Officials Call For Secure OS Development

WASHINGTON–One of the keys to addressing the widespread security threats facing both private and government networks is to develop more secure operating systems from the ground up and not rely on trying to secure existing ones, top CIA and Pentagon information assurance officials said. The federa...