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...

DEBIAN-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...

UBUNTU-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...

Attackers Target Yahoo Mail Accounts in 'Coordinated Effort' to Own Users

After years of focusing their attention on Gmail, it seems that attackers have finally gotten around to expending some effort hacking Yahoo mail accounts. Yahoo officials said Thursday that they have reset the passwords on an unspecified number of mail accounts after detecting what they call a...

nova: qpid SSL configuration

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...

Yahoo Mail hacked; Change your account password immediately

A really bad year for the world's second-largest email service provider, Yahoo Mail! The company announced today, 'we identified a coordinated effort to gain unauthorized access to Yahoo Mail accounts', user names and passwords of its email customers have been stolen and are used to access multip...

SpyEye creator pleads guilty in U.S Federal Court

Aleksandr Andreevich Panin, one of the alleged masterminds behind the notorious SpyEye banking trojan, pleaded guilty in an Atlanta courtroom yesterday to conspiracy charges relating to the development and distribution of the the malware. Panin pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit wire and bank...

CBI arrests Indian mastermind behind Hire-a-Hacker service on FBI tip-off

For the first time in history, Indian Law Enforcement Agency 'Central Bureau of Investigation' CBI has arrested a Cyber criminal after getting a tip-off from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI. 33-Year-old Amit Vikram Tiwari, son of an Indian Army colonel and an engineering dropout, who...

Authentication flaw

wp-admin/press-this.php in WordPress before 3.0.6 does not enforce the publishposts capability requirement, which allows remote authenticated users to perform publish actions by leveraging the Contributor role...