GitHub Hit With DDoS Attack

A large-scale DDoS attack, apparently emanating from China, has been hammering the servers at GitHub over the course of the last 12 hours, periodically causing service outages at the code-sharing and collaboration site. The attack appears to have begun around 2 AM UTC on Friday and has been going...

Bypass Demonstrated for Microsoft Use-After-Free Mitigation in IE

For a long time, Microsoft’s monthly Patch Tuesday security bulletins have periodically addressed use-after free vulnerabilities, the latest class of memory corruption bugs that have already found their way into a number of targeted attacks. Microsoft has implemented mitigations to address memory...

New Research Refines Security Vulnerability Metrics

Adequate security metrics have seemingly been an unattainable goal, especially when it comes to software security. Too often, organizations simply rely on vulnerability counts for flaws disclosed in an operating system or popular application as a measure of its security. But too often, variables...

How to Detect SQL Injection Attacks

SQL Injection SQLi attacks have been around for over a decade. You might wonder why they are still so prevalent. The main reason is that they still work on quite a few web application targets. In fact, according to Veracode’s 2014 State of Security Software Report , SQL injection vulnerabilities...

IRCCloud: Bruteforcing irccloud login

There is no mitigation, defenses in anyway or a lockout mechanism in the login page. A malicious minded user can continually tries to brute force an account password. I have tried to input 20 incorrect password and I have not been lockout, tried the corrct password in the 21st time and it login...

Microsoft Mitigation Bypass Bug Bounty Winner Yang Yu

Microsoft has paid out another $100,000 bounty as part of its Security Response Center’s bounty program. A researcher from Asia named Yang Yu was awarded the prize today for three mitigation bypass variants, Microsoft announced. “This payout reflects the fact that we learned something new that wi...

GameOver Zeus Now Using Encryption to Bypass Detection

Cybercriminals have begun to tweak the way the GameOver Zeus Trojan is being delivered to users’ machines, making it easier for the banking malware to evade detection and steal victims’ credentials. To get the job done the malware has been working in tandem with the malware Upatre. For about a we...

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...

An update on the bounty programs

Back in June of this year, we announced three new bounty programs that will pay researchers for techniques that bypass built-in OS mitigations and protections, for defenses that stop those bypasses and for vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer 11 Preview. This past Friday, we provided some...

Microsoft is sponsoring the Cyber Security Challenge UK

The global adoption of computing continues to draw attackers toward ever-richer targets. The latest data from the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report shows that although industry-wide vulnerability disclosures are down and computer defenses are improved, exploit activity has actually increased...

Iran Retracts Reports of New Stuxnet-Like Attacks Against Utilities

Iranian officials are retracting Christmas day reports that malware resembling Stuxnet had been used to attack manufacturing facilities including a power utility in southern Iran. Ali Akbar Akhavan, head of Iran’s Passive Defense Organization, was quoted in reports yesterday by the Iranian...

How SQL Injection Attacks Work

SQL injection attacks have been going on for years, and the vulnerabilities and exploitation techniques are well-understood and widely discussed. However, they’re still quite prevalent and are used in a variety of scenarios. One recent example is the attack on a Yahoo site that resulted in a brea...

An Unhappy Birthday For Uncle Sam On Cyber Security

Here’s the good news on America’s birthday: the last year has seen the U.S. emerge as an undisputed global leader in the use of offensive cyber operations. Averting another “Sputnik” moment, the nation’s longest running and most successful democracy blazed new trails in non-kinetic warfare,...

Tiny New Tinba Banker Trojan Found Stealing Financial Data

Security researchers have discovered a tiny new banking Trojan that comprises just 20 KB of code and uses a number of well-word man-in-the-browser tricks in an attempt to defeat two-factor authentication. Known as Tinba, the new malware doesn’t bother with any encryption or packing and yet is...

Experts Tell Senate: Government Networks Owned, Resistance Is Futile

Network security experts from across the U.S. government told a U.S. Senate Armed Services Subcommittee Tuesday that federal networks have been thoroughly penetrated by foreign spies, and that current perimeter-based defenses that attempt to curb intrusions are outdated and futile. Speaking befor...

HITB2011KUL - Post Memory Corruption Analysis

Document Title: =============== HITB2011KUL - Post Memory Corruption Analysis References: =========== Download: http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/resources/videos/398.wmv View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOgarD9KCbg Release Date: ============= 2012-01-26 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID:...

Offensive Research Continuing to Advance

MIAMI BEACH–It’s the accepted wisdom these days that many of the traditional security defenses organizations depend on just aren’t effective at deterring attackers. But this glosses over the fact that the last few years have included some major advances in defensive technologies, including the...

NSA Director Says U.S. Working to Push Attack Data to ISPs

WASHINGTON–The commander of the U.S. Cyber Command said that the federal government is working on a system now that would allow it to work with ISPs and others to help stop ongoing attacks against government and private networks by pushing intelligence and attack signatures to them. Gen. Keith...

Ten Years After, the Attackers Have Taken the Lead

In the days following 9/11 we heard alarmist warnings of a coming wave of cyberterrorism. In the early days of the war in Afghanistan when an Al Qaeda computer was found, it was treated as evidence that terrorists knew how to use computers so therefore they would soon be sending worms to shut dow...

Are Some Certificate Authorities Too Big To Fail?

In the wake of this weekend’s revelations of the seriousness of the attack on certificate authority DigiNotar, security experts have renewed criticism of the Internet’s digital certificate infrastructure, with some wondering if larger certificate authorities CAs might be too big to fail...