Vera Bradley Retail Chain Breached

Retailer Vera Bradley warned customers on Wednesday of a compromise of its point-of-sale system that allowed hackers to make off with an undisclosed number of credit card records. The breach impacts only retail customers who shopped at one of 159 Vera Bradley locations between July 25 and Sept. 2...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: checkpolicy-2.5-8.fc25

Security-enhanced Linux is a feature of the Linux=EF=BF=BD=EF=BF=BD kernel and a number of utilities with enhanced security functionality designed to add mandatory access controls to Linux. The Security-enhanced Linux kernel contains new architectural components originally developed to improve th...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: libselinux-2.5-12.fc25

Security-enhanced Linux is a feature of the Linux=EF=BF=BD=EF=BF=BD kernel and a number of utilities with enhanced security functionality designed to add mandatory access controls to Linux. The Security-enhanced Linux kernel contains new architectural components originally developed to improve th...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: libsepol-2.5-10.fc25

Security-enhanced Linux is a feature of the Linux=EF=BF=BD=EF=BF=BD kernel and a number of utilities with enhanced security functionality designed to add mandatory access controls to Linux. The Security-enhanced Linux kernel contains new architectural components originally developed to improve th...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: libsemanage-2.5-8.fc25

Security-enhanced Linux is a feature of the Linux=EF=BF=BD=EF=BF=BD kernel and a number of utilities with enhanced security functionality designed to add mandatory access controls to Linux. The Security-enhanced Linux kernel contains new architectural components originally developed to improve th...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: policycoreutils-2.5-17.fc25

Security-enhanced Linux is a feature of the Linux=EF=BF=BD=EF=BF=BD kernel and a number of utilities with enhanced security functionality designed to add mandatory access controls to Linux. The Security-enhanced Linux kernel contains new architectural components originally developed to improve th...

Facebook (Law Enforcement) - Persistent Vulnerability

Document Title: =============== Facebook Law Enforcement - Persistent Vulnerability References Source: ==================== http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=1767 Release Date: ============= 2016-10-01 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID: ==================================== 1767...

Facebook (Law Enforcement) - Persistent Vulnerability

Document Title: =============== Facebook Law Enforcement - Persistent Vulnerability References Source: ==================== http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=1767 Release Date: ============= 2016-09-30 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID: ==================================== 1767...

Apple Tracks Who You're Chatting Using iMessage — and Shares that Data with Police

Doing conversations with your friend on iMessage and thinking that they are safe and out of reach from anyone else other than you and your friend? No, it's not. End-to-end encryption doesn't mean that your iMessages are secure enough to hide your trace because Apple not only stores a lot of...

New Google Tools Help Devs Improve Content Security Policy Protection

Cross-site scripting is the cockroach of web application security vulnerabilities, enjoying continued longevity despite the abundant availability of scanning tools and programming advice designed to squash it. Google yesterday took another shot at eradicating XSS attacks with the release of two...

FBI Encouraging Ransomware Victims To Report Infections

The Federal Bureau of Investigation this week urged victims of ransomware to report infections to federal law enforcement in hopes of better understanding the threat. The agency, in tandem with the Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3, issued a public service announcement on Thursday asking...

CVE-2016-3372

The kernel API in Microsoft Windows Vista SP2 and Windows Server 2008 SP2 does not properly enforce permissions, which allows local users to spoof processes, spoof inter-process communication, or cause a denial of service via a crafted application, aka "Windows Kernel Elevation of Privilege...

Dutch Police Seize Two VPN Servers, But Without Explaining... Why?

Recently, two European countries, France and Germany, have declared war against encryption with an objective to force major technology companies to built encryption backdoors in their secure messaging services. However, another neighborhood country, Netherlands, is proactively taking down cyber...

CVE-2016-6338

It was discovered that the ovirt-engine webadmin session would not properly enforce timeouts. Browser sessions would remain logged in beyond the administratively configured session timeout period...

HTTPS best practices: pshtt

HTTPS best practices “pshtt” is the sound you make when you feel mildly astonished. pshtt “pushed” is a tool to scan domains for HTTPS best practices. It saves its results to a CSV or JSON. pshtt was developed to push organizations— especially large ones like the US Federal Government — to adopt...

Germany and France declare War on Encryption to Fight Terrorism

Yet another war on Encryption! France and Germany are asking the European Union for new laws that would require mobile messaging services to decrypt secure communications on demand and make them available to law enforcement agencies. French and German interior ministers this week said their...

Oops! Microsoft Accidentally Leaks Backdoor Keys to Bypass UEFI Secure Boot

It's True — There is no such backdoor that only its creator can access. Microsoft has accidentally leaked the Secret keys that allow hackers to unlock devices protected by UEFI Unified Extensible Firmware Interface Secure Boot feature. What's even worse? It will be impossible for Microsoft to und...

Service Provider Licensing

Challenge Starting with Veeam Backup & Replication 9.0 Update 2, there have been several changes to licensing for service providers. Solution Usage reporting Veeam Backup & Replication 9.0 Update 2 introduced usage reporting by the backup server. This is considered a pilot and does not yet replac...

Researchers Go Inside a Business Email Compromise Scam

LAS VEGAS – Poor operational security on the part of Nigerian scammers running a Business Email Compromise BEC scheme has given researchers a window into their operations. Dell SecureWorks today published a report at Black Hat USA 2016 on what the criminals involved call wire-wire, or “waya-waya....

Public, Private Sector Team to Fight Ransomware

Knowing where to turn for help when victimized by ransomware isn’t always clear. Should you pay the ransom? Are there alternatives to getting your precious data back? Who can you turn to for help? In an effort to answer those questions and help victims retrieve data encrypted by ransomware a uniq...