ICS, SCADA Attacks Targeted and Disruptive

Honeypots and honeynets have long been used as enticements to lure hackers into a false network in order to study attacks. While long a favorite of many high-end enterprises and security researchers studying attacks against traditional IT infrastructures, a number of industrial control system...

Secret warrant forced Google to hand over WikiLeaks Volunteer's Data to Feds

According to the court records released this week on web, The Justice Department used a secret search warrant to obtain the entire contents of a Gmail account used by a former WikiLeaks volunteers in Iceland. Smari McCarthy and Herbert Snorrason, are the two Icelandic freedom of information...

Secret warrant forced Google to hand over WikiLeaks Volunteer’s Data to Feds

According to the court records released this week on web, The Justice Department used a secret search warrant to obtain the entire contents of a Gmail account used by a former WikiLeaks volunteers in Iceland. Smari McCarthy and Herbert Snorrason, are the two Icelandic freedom of information...

New Bill Would Declassify FISC Opinions

A group of eight senators from both parties have introduced a new bill that would require the attorney general to declassify as many of the rulings of the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court as possible as a way of bringing into the sunlight much of the law and opinion that guides the...

26 Million Veterans data breached by eight state sponsored organizations

Since 2010, foreign state sponsored organizations have repeatedly compromised an unencrypted database maintained by the Veterans Affairs Department that contains personally identifiable information on roughly 26 million veterans. Including at least eight foreign-sponsored organizations, mostly...

26 Million Veterans data breached by eight state sponsored organizations

Since 2010, foreign state sponsored organizations have repeatedly compromised an unencrypted database maintained by the Veterans Affairs Department that contains personally identifiable information on roughly 26 million veterans. Including at least eight foreign-sponsored organizations, mostly...

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...

Blueprints of Australia's top spy agency headquarters stolen by Chinese hackers

Secret and highly sensitive and $630 million building blueprints outlining the layout of Australia's top spy agency's new headquarters have been stolen by Chinese hackers. According to a report by the ABC's Four Corners, the blueprints included floor plans, communications cabling, server location...

Blueprints of Australia's top spy agency headquarters stolen by Chinese hackers

Secret and highly sensitive and $630 million building blueprints outlining the layout of Australia's top spy agency's new headquarters have been stolen by Chinese hackers. According to a report by the ABC's Four Corners, the blueprints included floor plans, communications cabling, server location...

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...

USAID a Target of DoL Watering Hole Attackers

One of the nine sites serving malware tied to the recent watering hole attack on the U.S. Department of Labor was located in Cambodia and has ties to the United States Agency for International Development USAID. Speculation has it that the DoL attack was targeting downstream employees at the...

Microsoft Patch Zero Day Used to Attack Deptartment of Labor

Microsoft will ship 10 bulletins in the May edition of Patch Tuesday. The company considers just two of the patches critical, one of which supplements the currently available “Fix it” tool that resolved the IE zero-day vulnerability exploited recently in a watering-hole attack targeting the U.S...

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...

OpenDocMan 1.2.6.5 Cross Site Scripting

Exploit Title: OpenDocMan 1.2.6.5 Stored/Reflective XSS Date: 05/04/2013 Exploit Author: drone @dronesec More Exploit Information: Vendor Homepage: http://www.opendocman.com/ Software Link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/opendocman/files/opendocman/1.2.6.5/opendocman-1.2.6.5.zip/download Version...

Microsoft Internet Explorer CGenericElement Object Use-After-Free

This file is part of the Metasploit Framework and may be subject to redistribution and commercial restrictions. Please see the Metasploit Framework web site for more information on licensing and terms of use. http://metasploit.com/framework/ require 'msf/core' class Metasploit3 HttpClients::IE,...

Microsoft Internet Explorer - CGenericElement Object Use-After-Free (Metasploit)

This file is part of the Metasploit Framework and may be subject to redistribution and commercial restrictions. Please see the Metasploit Framework web site for more information on licensing and terms of use. http://metasploit.com/framework/ require 'msf/core' class Metasploit3 HttpClients::IE,...

Microsoft Internet Explorer CGenericElement Object Use-After-Free

This Metasploit module exploits a vulnerability found in Microsoft Internet Explorer. A use-after-free condition occurs when a CGenericElement object is freed, but a reference is kept on the Document and used again during rendering, an invalid memory that's controllable is used, and allows...

IE 8 Zero Day Widens Scope of DoL Watering Hole Attack

The scope of a watering hole attack targeting the U.S. Department of Labor website widened significantly over the weekend. Researchers are reporting that as many as nine websites, including a European aerospace, defense and security manufacturer as well as a number of non-profit organizations hav...