[USN-2704-1] Swift vulnerabilities

========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2704-1 August 06, 2015 swift vulnerabilities ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: -...

UBUNTU-CVE-2015-4490

The nsCSPHostSrc::permits function in dom/security/nsCSPUtils.cpp in Mozilla Firefox before 40.0 does not implement the Content Security Policy Level 2 exceptions for the blob, data, and filesystem URL schemes during wildcard source-expression matching, which might make it easier for remote...

Black Hat 2015 Going Dark Cryptography Presentation

LAS VEGAS – Try as they might, technologists are struggling to find a feasible way to solve the government’s and law enforcement’s “Going Dark” crypto issue. Cryptographer Matthew Green and D.C. intellectual property attorney James Denaro today during a talk at the Black Hat conference made no...

Scientific Linux Security Update : pacemaker on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20150722)

A flaw was found in the way pacemaker, a cluster resource manager, evaluated added nodes in certain situations. A user with read-only access could potentially assign any other existing roles to themselves and then add privileges to other users as well. CVE-2015-1867 This update also fixes the...

VUPEN Launches New Zero-Day Acquisition Firm Zerodium

UPDATE–In the weeks since the Hacking Team breach, the spotlight has shone squarely on the small and often shadowy companies that are in the business of buying and selling exploits and vulnerabilities. One such company, Netragard, this week decided to get out of that business after its dealings...

SUSE-SU-2015:1273-1 Security update for mariadb

This update fixes the following security issues: Logjam attack: mysql uses 512 bit dh groups in SSL bnc934789 CVE-2015-3152: mysql --ssl does not enforce SSL bnc924663 CVE-2014-8964: heap buffer overflow bnc906574 CVE-2015-2325: heap buffer overflow in compilebranch bnc924960 CVE-2015-2326: heap...

Oops! Adult Dating Website Ashley Madison Hacked; 37 Million Accounts Affected

"Life is short. Have an affair," but always remember "Cheaters never prosper." AshleyMadison.com, an American most prominent dating website, that helps married people cheat on their spouses has been hacked, potentially putting very private details of Millions of its users at risk of being exposed...

OpenDNS BGP Stream Twitter Feed

Enterprises in the throes of a denial-of-service attack, or suspicious about the integrity of their Internet traffic, will soon have a free data feed available that cuts through the noise produced by normal Internet routing over BGP, the Border Gateway Protocol. During next month’s Black Hat...

Samy Kamkar's ProxyGambit Picks Up for Defunct ProxyHam

Without fail in the weeks leading up to Black Hat and DEF CON, there are inevitably talks that are either pulled by organizers, cancelled by presenters, or strong suggestions are made that the talks don’t happen. This year’s first casualty, Ben Caudill’s scheduled DEF CON demonstration of ProxyHa...

Malware And Hacking Forum Seized, Dozens Arrested

The FBI and other law enforcement agencies have arrested more than 70 people suspected of carrying out cyber criminal activities associated with one of the most active underground web forums known as Darkode. Darkode, also used by notorious Lizard Squad, was an online bazaar for cyber criminals...

CloudFlare Transparency Report Shows Spike in Court Orders

In its latest transparency report, CloudFlare says that the number of subpoenas it has received has remained steady since last year, but the volume of court orders has more than doubled since the second half of last year. While much of the data from CloudFlare’s report for the first half of 2015...

Two Dozen Zoos Potentially Hit by Data Breach

Anyone who’s visited one of two dozen zoos across America over the last several months may want to check their credit and debit card statements. A third party operator of concessions and retail services at zoos from Hawaii to Florida acknowledged this week that it was hit by a data breach earlier...

FreeBSD : libxml2 -- Enforce the reader to run in constant memory (9c7177ff-1fe1-11e5-9a01-bcaec565249c)

Daniel Veilland reports : Enforce the reader to run in constant memory. One of the operation on the reader could resolve entities leading to the classic expansion issue. Make sure the buffer used for xmlreader operation is bounded. Introduce a new allocation type for the buffers for this effect...

HSTS Missing From HTTPS Server

The remote HTTPS server is not enforcing HTTP Strict Transport Security HSTS. HSTS is an optional response header that can be configured on the server to instruct the browser to only communicate via HTTPS. The lack of HSTS allows downgrade attacks, SSL-stripping man-in-the-middle attacks, and...

Fraud Alert Issued on Business Email Compromise Scam

The Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center FS-ISAC and federal law enforcement agencies have released a joint alert warning companies of a sophisticated wire payment scam referred to as business email compromise BEC. Scammers use fraudulent information to trick companies into...

Amazon Transparency Report Shows Few Requests For User Data

Amazon has released its first transparency report, and for a company as large as Amazon, there is surprisingly little in the way of detail or explanation in the report. The company reported that it received 813 subpoenas, 25 search warrants, and 0-249 national security requests. Of the 813...

WAIDPS - Wireless Auditing, Intrusion Detection & Prevention System

WAIDPS is an open source wireless swissknife written in Python and work on Linux environment. This is a multipurpose tools designed for audit penetration testing networks, detect wireless intrusion WEP/WPA/WPS attacks and also intrusion prevention stopping station from associating to access point...

President Urged to Reject Mandatory Backdoors

One-off opposition to calls on Congress from FBI Director James Comey and NSA Director Adm. Mike Rogers to draft a legal framework that would enable law enforcement to access encrypted communication has been scattered at best. Experts have taken to their own forums to voice opposition to the...

Simple Fingerprint Test is Enough to Know Cocaine Use

If you are one of those using cocaine, law enforcement officials may soon catch you by simply examining your fingerprints. Scientists have developed a new type of drug test that can tell whether you have taken cocaine by analyzing chemical traces left behind in your fingerprint. A team of...

Autorize - Automatic Authorization Enforcement Detection (Extension for Burp Suite)

Autorize is an automatic authorization enforcement detection extension for Burp Suite. It was written in Python by Barak Tawily, an application security expert at AppSec Labs. Autorize was designed to help security testers by performing automatic authorization tests. Installation 1. Download Burp...