Stephen Toulouse on the MSRC, the Evolution of Security at Microsoft and Securing Xbox Live

Dennis Fisher talks with Stephen Toulouse, director of policy and enforcement for Xbox Live at Microsoft, about his years at the Microsoft Security Response Center, the evolution of security at Microsoft and the joy and pain of being the bad guy on Xbox Live. Download Subscribe to the Digital...

Hacking Services On the Rise

The last couple of years have seen a dramatic rise in the number and quality of malware-as-a-service and hacking-as-a-service providers, with many of them advertising their services on the Web. And while law enforcement officials are well aware of the problem, they’re not having much luck in...

CVE-2009-2208

FreeBSD 6.3, 6.4, 7.1, and 7.2 does not enforce permissions on the SIOCSIFINFOIN6 IOCTL, which allows local users to modify or disable IPv6 network interfaces, as demonstrated by modifying the MTU...

FBI, US Marshals hit by mystery malware

From the Associated Press Law enforcement computers were struck by a Mystery computer virus Thursday, forcing the FBI and the U.S. Marshals to shut down part of their networks as a precaution. The U.S. Marshals confirmed it disconnected from the Justice Department’s computers as a protective...

Unfixed XSS vulnerability at www.kronofogden.se

Security researcher DellNull, has submitted on 15/05/2009 a cross-site-scripting XSS vulnerability affecting www.kronofogden.se, which at the time of submission ranked 159295 on the web according to Alexa. We manually validated and published a mirror of this vulnerability on 03/07/2009. It is...

Forensic experts fuse technology, intelligence for investigations

From The New York Times John Markoff The small cadre of experts who spend their time doing the meticulous, painstaking work of tracing cyber attacks is increasingly relying on a combination of advanced technical tools and old-fashioned intelligence-gathering techniques to track down the people an...

CVE-2009-0579

Linux-PAM before 1.0.4 does not enforce the minimum password age MINDAYS as specified in /etc/shadow, which allows local users to bypass intended security policy and change their passwords sooner than specified...

Radical steps are needed to fix Internet security

The Internet as we know it today was designed to be a place where people could go about their business, whatever it happened to be, anonymously and without interference from other users. This model worked reasonably well for a long time, but it’s become painfully clear in recent months that some...

Security is about outcomes, not about process

By Adam Shostack, Emergent Chaos Nearly a decade ago Bruce Schneier wrote “Security is a process, not a product.” His statement helped us advance as a profession, but with the benefit of hindsight, we can see he’s only half right. Security isn’t about technology. Security is about outcomes, and o...

Tor: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Tor is an implementation of second generation Onion Routing, a connection-oriented anonymizing communication service. Description Theo de Raadt reported that the application does not properly drop privileges to the primary groups of the user specified via the "User" configuration optio...

How the economy is hurting security

From Purdue University’s CERIAS The economic crisis has affected virtually every facet of society, and information security is no exception. In a new report titled Unsecured Economies: Protecting Vital Information, researchers from Purdue University’s CERIAS security center lay out the fairly ble...

CVE-2009-1078

Sun Java System Identity Manager IdM 7.0 through 8.0 does not enforce the expected privilege requirements for 1 deleting audit policies and 2 modifying workflows, which allows remote authenticated users to have an unspecified impact...

kernel security and bug fix update

2.6.9-78.0.17.0.1.EL - fix entropy flag in bnx2 driver to generate entropy pool John Sobecki orabug 5931647 - fix skb alignment that was causing sendto to fail with EFAULT Olaf Kirch orabug 6845794 - fix enomem due to larger mtu size page alloc Zach Brown orabug 5486128 - fix percpu api bugon wit...

USN-727-2: NetworkManager vulnerability

USN-727-1 fixed vulnerabilities in network-manager-applet. This advisory provides the corresponding updates for NetworkManager. It was discovered that NetworkManager did not properly enforce permissions when responding to dbus requests. A local user could perform dbus queries to view system and...

Google launching members-only security forum

internetnews.com’s Kenneth Corbin has the scoop on plans by Google to launch a members-only security forum for businesses, law enforcement, government agencies and others to combat malware and fraud on the Web. In addition to Google, the Internet Security Community will draw participation from...

[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: squidGuard-1.2.1-2.fc9

squidGuard can be used to - limit the web access for some users to a list of accepted/well known web servers and/or URLs only. - block access to some listed or blacklisted web servers and/or URLs for some users. - block access to URLs matching a list of regular expressions or words for some users...

CVE-2008-6109

The CVE-2008-6109 issue affects the Robin Rawson-Tetley Animal Shelter Manager (ASM) prior to version 2.2.2, where user privileges are not properly enforced. This enables local users to bypass access restrictions by (a) opening unspecified screens related to the so‑called “double click selector b...

Code injection

Microsoft Windows does not properly enforce the Autorun and NoDriveTypeAutoRun registry values, which allows physically proximate attackers to execute arbitrary code by 1 inserting CD-ROM media, 2 inserting DVD media, 3 connecting a USB device, and 4 connecting a Firewire device; 5 allows...

CVE-2008-4297

Mercurial before 1.0.2 does not enforce the allowpull permission setting for a pull operation from hgweb, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files from a repository via an "hg pull" request...

CVE-2008-2246

Microsoft Windows Vista through SP1 and Server 2008 do not properly import the default IPsec policy from a Windows Server 2003 domain to a Windows Server 2008 domain, which prevents IPsec rules from being enforced and allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions...