Counterpoint: The need for a cybersecurity czar is real

As everyone prepares to examine the results of the Obama Administration’s cyber-security review, one of the largest issues in play remains to what extent the White House will embrace recommendations to create a Cabinet-level position to address the matter or some role superior to today’s “cyber...

Patch Tuesday barrage: A bad case of amnesia

Yesterday was a perfect example of the lack of communication between software vendors and their customers about security. Three vendors released major patches for serious bugs, all within hours of each other. You would think that customers would be a high priority for all vendors, especially in...

How employees evade IT security controls

Prior to January of 2007, I had very little exposure to the vast array of applications that employees use while at work. Sure, I used IM, webmail and listened to music online, but I was being paid to do a job, not entertain myself. After joining Palo Alto Networks, and analyzing 18 months worth o...

Critical infrastructure security still lagging

The interdependencies and interconnections of the networks that run the country’s critical infrastructure assets such as water, power and gas have created a dangerously fragile system in which security is just now becoming a priority, experts say. For years the priorities for these networks have...

Economy, SMB security to dominate at RSA Conference

As a security show, the RSA Conference leaves a lot to be desired. Its technical sessions carry an uncomfortable load of marketing baggage and don’t have either the cachet or entertaining edge of those at Black Hat or CanSecWest. Anyone will tell you that the real business of RSA is happening off...

The most important questions to ask your MSSP

From SearchMidmarketSecurity Mike Chapple Many SMB IT administrators face a serious challenge when it comes to delivering serious security to their users. They may not have the budget or expertise they need and outsourcing can be expensive and troublesome if it’s not approached in the right way. ...

[Positive Technologies SA 2009-01] PGP Desktop Pgpdisk.sys And Pgpwded.sys Multiple Vulnerabilities

---------------------------------------------------------------------- PT-2009-01 Positive Technologies Security Advisory PGP Desktop Pgpdisk.sys And Pgpwded.sys Multiple Vulnerabilities ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --- Affected Software PGP Desktop 9.9.0...

Unfixed XSS vulnerability at it-s.visti.net

Security researcher SaMTHG, has submitted on 13/04/2009 a cross-site-scripting XSS vulnerability affecting it-s.visti.net, which at the time of submission ranked 458331 on the web according to Alexa. We manually validated and published a mirror of this vulnerability on 30/06/2009. It is currently...

Chance-i DiViS-Web DVR System ActiveX Control Heap Overflow PoC

Exploit for unknown platform in category dos / poc =============================================================== Chance-i DiViS-Web DVR System ActiveX Control Heap Overflow PoC =============================================================== Digital Security Research Group DSecRG Advisory...

[DSECRG-09-030] PrecisionID Datamatrix ActiveX control - Arbitrary File overwriting

Digital Security Research Group DSecRG Advisory DSECRG-09-030 !!! original advisory !!! http://dsecrg.com/pages/vul/DSECRG-09-030.html Application: PrecisionID activeX controls Versions Affected: Vendor URL: http://PrecisionID.com Bugs: Arbitrary File overwriting Exploits: YES Reported: 03.03.200...

In weak economy, IT pros could turn to e-crime

By Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service Enterprises increasingly feel their employees will be more willing to steal data or sell insider knowledge due to the poor economy, according to an annual security survey infoworld.com conducted by KPMG. Sixty-six percent of respondents felt that out-of-work IT...

Mobile security can no longer be ignored

By Paul F. Roberts, The 451 Group Starting this week at the annual CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, some of the world’s best hackers will crack their knuckles and get to work on a different kind of problem: hacking mobile devices including Apple’s über popular iPhone. The...

Microsoft's Threat Management Gateway is a mixed bag

Microsoft’s initial move into the security products market, the ISA Server, has evolved well beyond its firewall roots. Now known as the Threat Management Gateway, the product is being positioned as a comprehensive Web security gateway. But as Eric Ogren writes in his review of the Threat...

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...

Recently that IE7 0day shellcode decryption-bug warning-the black bar safety net

One, use freshow tool to decrypt Original link http://bbs.kafan.cn/viewthread.php?tid=383769&page=1&extra=page%3D1pid5736829 Need to extract the shellcode decryption 1 dadong replace to % u for once esc decrypt--up 2 esc next fill in 2 1 decode should appear. ! Second, The do-it-yourself it, writ...

Sql injection

SQL injection vulnerability in login.php in IT!CMS 2.1a and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the Username...

CVE-2009-0493

SQL injection vulnerability in login.php in IT!CMS 2.1a and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the Username...

CVE-2009-0493

SQL injection vulnerability in login.php in IT!CMS 2.1a and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the Username...

CVE-2009-0493

The CVE-2009-0493 entry describes a SQL injection in IT!CMS before or at 2.1a, affecting login.php via the Username parameter and allowing remote execution of arbitrary SQL. NVD lists a base score of 7.5 (HIGH) with network access, low attack complexity and no authentication required. The connect...

Reflection for Secure IT Multiple Vulnerabilities (Linux)

This host is installed with Reflections for Secure IT and is prone to Multiple vulnerabilities. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbreflectionsecureitunixmultvulnlin.nasl 7113 2017-09-13 06:03:30Z cfischer $ Reflection for Secure IT Multiple Vulnerabilities Linux Authors: Sujit Ghosal Copyright:...