Havex, It’s Down With OPC

FireEye recently analyzed the capabilities of a variant of Havex referred to by FireEye as “Fertger” or “PEACEPIPE”, the first publicized malware reported to actively scan OPC servers used for controlling SCADA Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition devices in critical infrastructure e.g., wate...

International Authorities Take Down Shylock Banking Malware

Like most profitable criminal enterprises, the Shylock banking malware thrived because it was supported by a nimble infrastructure that allowed it to stay one step ahead of network and security monitoring capabilities, and the authorities. That race ended this week. Europol announced today that i...

Infosec A-Team to Launch NSA-Proof Invisible Messenger for Whistleblowers

If a whistleblower discloses an activity to the public, then there should be a trust-based mechanism that ensure the protection of truth-tellers on an international level by hiding their identities. In an effort to provide this kind of service and security, Security experts grouped together to...

Latest Microsoft Malware Takedown Causes Waves in Security Community

Microsoft’s latest takedown of a malware operation, announced Monday and involving the infrastructure of several malware families, has, like many of the company’s actions, elicited strong opinions on both sides of the issue from security researchers, activists and others with a stake in the game...

Lucent 8.x VitalNet Password Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3784/info VitalNet is part of Lucent's VitalSuite SP product family. VitalNet allows users to monitor, analyze, manage and predict the performance of their network infrastructure. The implementation of VitalNet's...

TANDBERG vF8.2, F8.0, F7.2, and F6.3 - Remote Denial of Service

No description provided by source. Security Advisory Platform : TANDBERG Date : November 6, 2009 Affected : All MXP FIPS140 Current as of December 8, 2009 Tested : F8.2, F8.0, F7.2, F6.3 Unconf : VCS, BC, C90 Author : otokoyama Problem Description: Issues with the H.225 RAS implementation in...

Nortel CVX 1800 Multi-Service Access Switch Default SNMP Community Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4507/info Nortel CVX 1800 Multi-Service Access Switch is a hardware modem bank. The device contains a default SNMP community string of public, which may allow enable a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive informati...

CylantSecure 1.0 Kernel Module Syscall Rerouting Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2958/info CylantSecure is a commercial Linux hardening tool and security infrastructure available from Cylant Technology. A problem in the CylantSecure infrastructure could allow users to escape monitoring. A user with ro...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: zabbix-2.0.12-3.fc20

Zabbix is software that monitors numerous parameters of a network and the health and integrity of servers. Zabbix uses a flexible notification mechan ism that allows users to configure e-mail based alerts for virtually any event. This allows a fast reaction to server problems. Zabbix offers...

Kaspersky, Citizen Lab Uncover HackingTeam Mobile Malware

Controversial spyware commercially developed by Italy’s HackingTeam and sold to governments and law enforcement for the purpose of surveillance, has a global command and control infrastructure and for the first time, security experts have insight into how its mobile malware components work...

OpenSSL Heartbleed Patch Progress Slowing Two Months Later

It’s been more than two months since news broke of the Heartbleed vulnerability in OpenSSL one of the Internet’s most widely deployed cryptographic libraries. In the days and weeks that followed the emergence of the bug, which affected an unknown but arguably vast swath of the Web, vendors were...

Google Announces its BoringSSL OpenSSL Fork

In the year-plus since surveillance, privacy and Snowden became part of the daily security conversation, technologies that safeguard online communication and commerce have become Job 1 for experts anxious to plug gaping flaws and shore up other usability deficiencies. OpenSSL is probably at the t...

Google Unveils BoringSSL, Another Flavor of OpenSSL

The open source encryption protocol, OpenSSL, which is used by several social networks, search engines, banks and other websites to enable secure connections while transmitting data, came to everybody's attention following the Heartbleed vulnerability, a critical bug in the OpenSSL's implementati...

FTC Asking DEF CON to Help Catch Robocallers

The United States Federal Trade Commission is sick and tired of illegal robocalling, and it’s hosting a contest this year at the DEF CON hacker conference in Las Vegas in an attempt to do something about it. The consumer protection agency’s weariness likely stems from the more than 150,000...

IBM DB2 Stored Procedure Infrastructure Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

According to its version, the installation of IBM DB2 running on the remote host is affected by a privilege escalation vulnerability. An error exists related to the Stored Procedure infrastructure and the 'CREATEEXTERNALROUTINE' authority that allows an authenticated user to escalate privileges...

[musl] Security advisory for musl libc - remote stack-based buffer overflow in DNS response parsing [CVE-2014-3484]

A remote stack-based buffer overflow has been found in musl libc's dns response parsing code. The overflow can be triggered in programs linked against musl libc and making dns queries via one of the standard interfaces getaddrinfo, getnameinfo, gethostbyname, gethostbyaddr, etc. if one of the...

DDoS Attacks Take Down Evernote, Feedly

UPDATED — News aggregator Feedly is still offline Thursday as continues to battle a series of distributed denial of service attacks that’s kept the service down for two consecutive days. The site was able to get back online shortly after 3 p.m. Wednesday after it neutralized the first DDoS attack...

Android Ransomware First to Encrypt Data on Mobile Devices

A strain of ransomware that encrypts data on Android mobile devices, the first of its kind, has spread to 13 countries since it was first spotted less than a month ago. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab today disclosed details on Pletor, an expensive Trojan that popped up on an underground forum selli...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 2953-1 (dpkg - security update)

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered in dpkg that allow file modification through path traversal when unpacking source packages with specially crafted patch files. This update had been scheduled before the end of security support for the oldstable distribution squeeze, hence an exception has...

OpenSSL issued a warning: memory 1 0 years of vulnerability may be hackers for“man in the middle”attack-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

On Thursday, the OpenSSL Foundation issued a warning that one already exists 1 0 years of the vulnerabilities could lead to hackers through the use of OpenSSL to encrypt the traffic to launch“man in the middle”attack. Information security experts are still trying to solve the OpenSSL encryption...