The U.S., China and Glass Houses

That was quite a show the government put on Monday. The dramatic press conference featuring Attorney General Eric Holder, the coordinated press leaks ahead of the announcement, the strong statements about the sanctity of American commerce and how the United States will prosecute those who conduct...

SuSE 11.3 Security Update : pam (SAT Patch Number 9119)

This update changes the broken default behavior of pampwhistory to not enforce checks when the root user requests password changes. In order to enforce pwhistory checks on the root user, the 'enforceforroot' parameter needs to be set for the pampwhistory.so module. This pam update fixes the...

New Guidelines Explain How Apple will Legally Process Law Enforcement Data Requests

Despite the contrary regarding NSA’s DROPOUTJEEP program, Apple had always denied working with the NSA in the creation of any backdoors used to spy on its users and also claimed that the NSA doesn't have backdoor access to its data. But, Apple could legally share your phone data with the law...

Legal Guidelines Say Apple Can Extract Data From Locked iOS Devices

If law enforcement gets hold of your locked iPhone and has some interest in its contents, Apple can pull all kinds of content from the device, including texts, contacts, photos and videos, call history and audio recordings. The company said in a new document that provides guidance for law...

Iowa State Hacked--To Mine Bitcoins

It’s an odd week these days when there isn’t a data breach at some university or college. These institutions are prime targets for attackers for several reasons, not the least of which are their open network environments and databases bulging with personal information. But now attackers are looki...

Cyber Intelligence Asia 2014: CERTs and Industrial Security

In March I spoke at Cyber Intelligence Asia 2014, where CERTs from most Asians countries were presented. The fact is that only a few CERTs are now dealing in some way with industrial security, ICS and SCADA matters. One of the best of those is CERT of Japan, which is doing a great job here, and...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for lighttpd (openSUSE-SU-2014:0496-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Design/Logic Flaw

Luci in Red Hat Conga does not properly enforce the user session timeout, which might allow attackers to gain access to the session by reading the ac session cookie. NOTE: this issue has been SPLIT due to different vulnerability types. Use CVE-2012-3359 for the base64-encoded storage of the user...

U.S. Government Seeks Laxer Hacking Rules for Law Enforcement

The federal government is looking for a way to relax the laws to make it simpler for law enforcement agents to target and compromise the computers of suspects involved in criminal cases. The Department of Justice has forwarded a request to the body that considers such changes, asking that judges ...

PYSEC-2014-57

typeswidget.py in Plone 2.1 through 4.1, 4.2.x through 4.2.5, and 4.3.x through 4.3.1 does not properly enforce the immutable setting on unspecified content edit forms, which allows remote attackers to hide fields on the forms via a crafted URL...

Pinterest Issues First Transparency Report

Pinterest, the social image-sharing site known predominately for wedding planning and recipe dissemination, released its first transparency report on Friday. While the government – unsurprisingly – makes few requests of this most bubbly of social networks, the report seems to carry a broader...

Microsoft Disclosed User Content in 10% of U.S. Law Enforcement Requests

Microsoft supplied user content in response to 10.8 percent of the law enforcement requests it received from United States agencies in the second half of 2013. The company got more than 5,600 requests from U.S. agencies in the last six months of the year, and in the vast majority of those–68...

Government Surveillance Could Targeted Automated Updates

SAN FRANCISCO – As more Web-based services are encrypted, privacy advocates are concerned the next wave of aggressive surveillance activity could target automated update services that essentially provide Internet companies root access to machines. Chris Soghoian, principal technologist with the...

CVE-2014-0732

The Real Time Monitoring Tool RTMT web application in Cisco Unified Communications Manager Unified CM 10.01 and earlier does not properly enforce authentication requirements, which allows remote attackers to read application files via a direct request to a URL, aka Bug ID CSCum46495...

PostgreSQL -- multiple privilege issues

PostgreSQL Project reports: This update fixes CVE-2014-0060, in which PostgreSQL did not properly enforce the WITH ADMIN OPTION permission for ROLE management. Before this fix, any member of a ROLE was able to grant others access to the same ROLE regardless if the member was given the WITH ADMIN...

Cisco Unified Communications Manager Java Class File Availability Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the administration interface of Cisco Unified Communications Manager Cisco Unified CM could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to access Java class files. The vulnerability is due to insufficient authentication enforcement. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by...

Cisco Unified Communications Manager Real Time Monitoring Tool Information Disclosure Vulnerability

A vulnerability in Real Time Monitoring Tool RTMT web application of Cisco Unified Communications Manager Cisco Unified CM could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to access several files related to the RTMT application. The vulnerability is due to insufficient authentication enforcement. ...

Kickstarter Compromised, User Data Stolen

Attackers broke into the network of Kickstarter, the crowdfunding platform, and stole a variety of user data, including usernames, addresses, email addresses and encrypted passwords. Company officials didn’t specify exactly how many users were affected and said that “no credit card data of any ki...

Unseen 4096-Bit Encrypted Email, Chat and File Sharing Service to counter NSA Spying

With the beginning of a new week, we always came across a new revelation of surveillance programs run by the U.S. Government. A Recent NYT Report disclosed that how whistleblower Edward Snowden downloaded 1.7 million classified files which are revealing a number of secret spying projects that are...

CVE-2013-6491

The python-qpid client common/rpc/implqpid.py in OpenStack Oslo before 2013.2 does not enforce SSL connections when qpidprotocol is set to ssl, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by sniffing the network...