Operation Cleaver — Iranian Hackers Targeting Critical Infrastructure Worldwide

For over past two years, Iranian hackers have infiltrated computer networks of some of the world's top organizations including airlines, defense contractors, universities, military installations, hospitals, airports, telecommunications firms, government agencies, and energy and gas companies,...

Operation Cleaver Critical Infrastructure Hacking Attacks

Iranian state-sponsored hackers have been singled out for attacks on critical infrastructure worldwide, including 10 targets in the United States. Security firm Cylance today released an 86-page report on Operation Cleaver that lays out Iran’s hacking capabilities and motivations to attack global...

Siemens Patches WinCC Vulnerabilities Likely Being Exploited

Global industrial supplier Siemens has patched two critical vulnerabilities that it believes are likely being exploited. Organizations running products using the Siemens WinCC application are urged to apply available patches immediately; the company said it is working on updates for any remaining...

ManageEngine OpManager Social IT Plus IT360 - Multiple Vulnerabilities

ManageEngine OpManager Social IT Plus IT360 - Multiple Vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities in ManageEngine OpManager, Social IT Plus and IT360 Discovered by Pedro Ribeiro [email protected], Agile Information Security ==========================================================================...

ManageEngine OpManager / Social IT Plus / IT360 File Upload / SQL Injection

Hi, This is the 8th part of the ManageOwnage series. For previous parts see 1. This time we have a file upload leading to remote code execution and a blind SQL injection in ManageEngine OpManager, Social IT Plus and IT360. ManageEngine have released an emergency fix, see details in the advisory...

Securing an Internet Made From 'Duck Tape and Baling Wire'

LAS VEGAS–The Internet that we use today was not designed as a cohesive network. It was put together from found bits and pieces over the course of the last few decades, and, as major bugs such as Heartbleed and others have shown, it’s a frighteningly fragile construction. Attackers know this as...

Symantec Endpoint Protection 12.1.4023.4080 - Multiple Vulnerabilities

Exploit for jsp platform in category web applications title: XXE & XSS & Arbitrary File Write vulnerabilities product: Symantec Endpoint Protection vulnerable version: 12.1.4023.4080 fixed version: 12.1.5 RU 5 impact: Critical CVE number: CVE-2014-3437, CVE-2014-3438, CVE-2014-3439 homepage:...

Facebook Releases osquery to Open Source

Facebook is in a giving mood today. The social networking giant announced today that it will release to open source a framework that detects and logs state changes in an operating system likely caused by an attack or performance meltdown. It also announced that it will hand out up to $300,000 nex...

Government, Industry Focusing on Issue of Resiliency

WASHINGTON–As things stand right now, the United States has no overarching national information security policy or centralized agency responsible for defending the government’s networks in the event of a serious cyberattack. There have been many pushes over the years to change that and put one...

Infighting, Politics Hampering Cybersecurity Progress in Washington

WASHINGTON–The United States government and private sector are unprepared for a major cyber attack on the country’s critical infrastructure, a former Congressman said, thanks to a divided, risk-averse Congress and an inability for agencies and other organizations to share information effectively...

Cyberattacks Most Imminent Threat to U.S., Economy

ALEXANDRIA, Va – In a panel discussion Monday morning, a crowded table of top-level security experts from industry, military and government agreed that the threat posed by cyberattacks targeting U.S. critical infrastructure and private industry now outweighs any other national security threat...

VoIP Penetration Testing Kit: Viproy

Viproy Voip Pen-Test Kit provides penetration testing modules for VoIP networks. It supports signalling analysis for SIP and Skinny protocols, IP phone services and network infrastructure. Viproy 2.0 is released at Blackhat Arsenal USA 2014 with TCP/TLS support for SIP, vendor extentions support,...

Cybersecurity Legislation Forecast is Grim

MINNEAPOLIS – If you’re expecting federal cybersecurity legislation any time soon, forget it. Despite the number of prospective bills on the Hill right now, Congress is unlikely to move anything forward any time soon, according to Matthew Rhoades, director cyberspace and security program Truman...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: openstack-heat security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Updated openstack-heat packages that fix one security issue, several bugs, and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 4.0. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System...

April 911 Outage Impacted 3.5 Percent of U.S. Population

In the early hours of April 10, a series of errors led to a massive, multi-state outage in the emergency call management centers ECMCs that handle 911 calls in seven geographically dispersed states. The incident originated at an obscure but critical call routing hub in Englewood, Colo., and ended...

Cloud application security: preventing security vulnerabilities-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Currently, cloud-based applications are widely used, and with amazing speed growing. Since cloud-based applications can be accessed through the Internet, and anyone, anywhere can access – therefore, application security becomes particularly important. This is why the creation and management of...

Cisco IOS XE Software Autonomic Networking Infrastructure Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks RPL of Cisco IOS XE could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to inject routes into the autonomic control plane ACP. The vulnerability is due to RPL being active on ACP as well as the external Autonomic Networki...

Cisco IOS XE Software Autonomic Networking Infrastructure Certificate Validation Vulnerability

A vulnerability in certificate validation for Autonomic Networking Infrastructure ANI of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to masquerade as another device. The vulnerability is due to incomplete certificate validation. An attacker could exploit this vulnerabili...

Cisco IOS XE Software Autonomic Networking Infrastructure Certificate Chain Validation Vulnerability

A vulnerability in certificate validation for Autonomic Network Infrastructure ANI of Cisco IOS XE Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to provide an invalid message and have the ANI device accept it. The vulnerability is due to incomplete certificate validation. An attacker...

CVE-2014-3405

Cisco IOS XE enables the IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks aka RPL on both the Autonomic Control Plane ACP and external Autonomic Networking Infrastructure ANI interfaces, which allows remote attackers to conduct route-injection attacks via crafted RPL advertisements on an AN...