Team Ghostshell Allegedly Spills 2.5 M Russian Records

As part of what it’s calling “Project Blackstar,” the hacking collective Team Ghostshell posted approximately 2.5 million records it claims belong to Russian individuals who work across the political, educational and law enforcement spectrum online earlier this morning. With the project, detailed...

Secunia launches Secunia Vulnerability Intelligence Manager 4.0

78% of vulnerabilities are found in third-party programs. Security teams cannot monitor all of them manually or determine which ones are critical to their organization. Secunia, the leading provider of IT security solutions that enables businesses and private individuals to manage and control...

Detecting Advanced Persistent Threat with Network Traffic Analysis

A high degree of stealthiness over a prolonged duration of operation in order to do a successful cyber attack can be defined as Advanced Persistent Threat. The attack objectives therefore typically extend beyond immediate financial gain, and compromised systems continue to be of service even afte...

Patriot Hacker 'The Jester' list his all time favorite Open Source Intelligence toolset

Most of the readers have question in mind that, How hackers know everything about their target ? How to DOX finding personal information someone ? So answer is -- Open Source Intelligence OSINT. A Patriot Hacker 'The Jester' or "th3j35t3r" who made his name after harassing Anonymous activist grou...

CVE-2012-1686

Unspecified vulnerability in the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition component in Oracle Fusion Middleware 11.1.1.6 and other versions allows remote attackers to affect integrity via unknown vectors related to Installation...

CVE-2012-1686

CVE-2012-1686 affects Oracle BI Enterprise Edition/BI Publisher help page components. The connected ERPScan advisory documents an XSS vulnerability in Oracle BI Help Page (example path includes vt_chrome.js) affecting Oracle BI Enterprise Edition 10.1.3.4.0. The root cause is an XSS flaw in the O...

Gathering Threat Intelligence With Open Tools

Threat intelligence is one of the go-to buzz phrases for many people in the security industry right now, and it’s thrown in so many contexts and situations, it’s quickly becoming almost meaningless. Most people understand that they need to get better information about what’s happening both on the...

MS12-070: Description of the security update for SQL Server 2012 GDR: October 9, 2012

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Published Threat Intelligence, Not Cybersecurity Laws, Is What's Needed

For several years now, Congress has been wandering around the wilderness, trying to figure out why so much of America’s intellectual property is being sucked into a giant vortex somewhere over Asia and whether they should do something to stop it, like maybe pass a cybersecurity law. They’ve taken...

Grum Botnet Attempts Another Comeback, Fails Again

The Grum botnet, which Dutch authorities and security researchers knocked offline earlier this summer, made a second, unsuccessful attempt at a comeback over the weekend when the bot herders stood up two new command-and-control servers in Turkey. The revival was short-lived however, and both C&Cs...

Splunk 4.3.3 - Arbitrary File Read

Splunk 4.3.3 - Arbitrary File Read Exploit Title: Splunk = 4.3.3 Reading Arbitrary Files Contents Date: 09/03/2012 Exploit Author: Marcio Almeida [email protected] Vendor Homepage: http://www.splunk.com/ Software Link: http://www.splunk.com/download?r=header Version: 4.3.3 and priors...

DataWatch Monarch Business Intelligence (BI) v5.1 admin section stored cross-site scripting

DataWatch Monarch BI v5.1 admin section stored cross-site scripting Class: Input Validation Error Remote: Yes Local: No Published: 26/06/2012 Credit: Raymond Rizk of Dionach Limited [email protected] Vulnerable: DataWatch Monarch BI v5.1 DataWatch's Monarch BI admin section is prone to a stored...

Anonymous hackers target Australian Intelligence and ASIO websites

Hacking group Anonymous claimed to have shut down a computer server belonging to Australia's domestic spy agency ASIO, reportedly briefly closing down access to its public web page. The Australian Security Intelligence Organization acknowledged some disruption to its website. The ASIO website was...

Titan Security Data-Sharing Project Presents Big Opportunity For Change

One of the more pernicious and as-yet incurable diseases in security is the resistance to sharing data. Organizations large and small collect all sorts of information on attacks, vulnerabilities and threats and, for the most part, it simply sits in databases and is never of any use to anyone...

Huawei and Cyber Espionage, a question of trust ?

Chinese telecoms equipment suppliers have previously been criticized for allegedly being security risks. Huawei is working with British spooks to prove that it has no backdoors in its products which would allow Chinese agents to snuffle Her Majesty's secrets. The U.S. and Australia have made clea...

DataWatch Monarch Business Intelligence - Multiple Input Validation Vulnerabilities

DataWatch Monarch Business Intelligence - Multiple Input Validation Vulnerabilities source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54733/info DataWatch Monarch Business Intelligence is prone to multiple input validation vulnerabilities. Successful exploits will allow an attacker to manipulate the XPat...

DataWatch Monarch Business Intelligence - Multiple Input Validation Vulnerabilities

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54733/info DataWatch Monarch Business Intelligence is prone to multiple input validation vulnerabilities. Successful exploits will allow an attacker to manipulate the XPath query logic to carry out unauthorized actions on the XML documents of the...

Hack a Server - The man behind the idea

"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life" said Confucius. These would be the words that describe Marius Corîci the most. In 2003 he started doing business in the plumbing industry and co-founded ITS Group, a franchise for Romstal Company, the biggest plumbing...

Firms Need 'Tough Love' In Struggle Against APTs

Black Hat is upon us and, with it, a lot of chatter about the dangers posed by so-called “APT,” or advanced persistent threats. Rather than get trapped in the hype bubble, Threatpost editor Paul Roberts took the opportunity to check back in with a recognized expert on detecting and combating...

CVE-2012-1739

Unspecified vulnerability in the Oracle E-Business Intelligence component in Oracle E-Business Suite 11.5.10.2, 12.0.4, 12.0.6, 12.1.1, 12.1.2, and 12.1.3 allows remote authenticated users to affect integrity via unknown vectors related to Financials Business Intelligence...