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OpenSSL Receives Funding for Developers, Will Undergo Security Audit
Scarcely a month after announcing the formation of a group designed to help fund open source projects, the Core Infrastructure Initiative has decided to provide the OpenSSL Project with enough money to hire two full-time developers and also will fund an audit of OpenSSL by the Open Crypto Audit...
[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: zabbix-2.0.12-1.fc19
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...
[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: zabbix-2.0.12-1.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...
Executive Agencies Pass on New Cybersecurity Regulations
Three Executive Branch federal agencies crucial to critical infrastructure protection will be allowed to continue to voluntarily assess cyber risk, rather than force the development and implementation of additional regulations. The White House yesterday released its conclusions as they relate to...
Critical Infrastructure Continues to Patch Heartbleed
Unified Automation issued a security advisory warning that its OPC UA software developers kit SDK for Windows contains the OpenSSL cryptography library that is vulnerable to Heartbleed. Schneider Electric, another industrial control system ICS manufacturer, posted its own advisory with mitigation...
Points of Sale Poorly Secured, Facing Sophisticated Attacks
The point-of-sale PoS systems on which financial transactions are conducted at nearly every physical retail location in the U.S. and and beyond are fast becoming a favorite target for sophisticated criminal organizations as well as standalone attackers. The emergence of this trend is unsurprising...
Fedora Update for python-fedora FEDORA-2014-5962
Check for the Version of python-fedora OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for python-fedora FEDORA-2014-5962 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright C 2014 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it...
Skybox Security 6.3.x - 6.4.x - Multiple Information Disclosure
Exploit for hardware platform in category web applications Exploit Title: SKYBOX Security – Multiple Information Disclosure Date: 22-Jan-2014 Exploit Author: Luigi Vezzoso Vendor Homepage: http://www.skyboxsecurity.com Version: Skybox View Appliances with ISO versions: 6.3.33-2.14, 6.3.31-2.14,...
Fedora Update for zabbix FEDORA-2014-5551
Check for the Version of zabbix OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for zabbix FEDORA-2014-5551 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright C 2014 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the term...
[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: zabbix-2.0.11-3.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...
[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: zabbix-2.0.11-3.fc19
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...
Debian Security Advisory DSA 2915-1 (dpkg - security update)
Jakub Wilk discovered that dpkg did not correctly parse C-style filename quoting, allowing for paths to be traversed when unpacking a source package - leading to the creation of files outside the directory of the source being unpacked. The update to the stable distribution wheezy incorporates...
Group Backed by Google, Microsoft and Others to Help Fund OpenSSL and Other Open Source Projects
After the dust had started to settle in the wake of the OpenSSL Heartbleed vulnerability earlier this month, one of the common sentiments that emerged was that the small group developing and maintaining the software needed some help. And money. And resources. But mostly money. Now, the OpenSSL...
OpenICS ICS Protocol Decoder Builds Data Dictionaries
Industrial control system security has been called archaic, laughable and even non-existent. Most ICS and SCADA systems weren’t built with the Internet in mind, much less security, but yet they are at the forefront of manufacturing, building automation and critical infrastructure operations...
Experts Worry About Future of Critical Infrastructure Security
SAN FRANCISCO–The problem of critical infrastructure security has become a key issue in the last few years, as high-profile attacks such as Stuxnet and others have grabbed headlines and alerted politicians and others to the weaknesses facing these vital systems. It’s an issue that Eugene Kaspersk...
Satellite Communication (SATCOM) Devices Vulnerable to Hackers
The growing threat of cyber-attacks and network hacking has reached the satellite-space sector, posing a growing challenge to the satellite operators. Because the satellite system are the critical components for the Nation to a modern military, they have become an attractive target of cyber...
Certificate Revocation Slow on Heartbleed Web Servers
The rush to revoke and replace digital certificates on Heartbleed-vulnerable Web servers seems to be no rush at all. Internet research and security services firm Netcraft reports today that of the more than 500,000 servers it knows of that are running vulnerable versions of OpenSSL, only 80,000...
Eugene Kaspersky on Critical Infrastructure Security
Dennis Fisher talks with Eugene Kaspersky about the need for better critical infrastructure security, the major threats facing enterprises today and the specter of cyberwar. Download: digitalunderground150.mp3...
Government, Private Sector Must Have a 'Need to Share' Mindset on Threats
SAN FRANCISCO–The security of both government and private enterprise systems going forward relies on the ability of those two parties to share threat, attack and compromise information on a real-time basis, former Department of Homeland Security secretary Tom Ridge said. Without that cooperation,...
