ZeroAccess Botnet Cashing in on Click Fraud and Bitcoin Mining

A mid-year switch in communication protocol and distribution strategy is behind a spike in activity from the ZeroAccess botnet, a prolific and malicious ad click fraud network. Researchers at Kindsight Security Lab reported today that ZeroAccess accounts for 29 percent of home network infections ...

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...

DEBIAN-CVE-2012-3552

Race condition in the IP implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.0 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service slab corruption and system crash by sending packets to an application that sets socket options during the handling of network traffic...

Race condition

Race condition in the IP implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.0 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service slab corruption and system crash by sending packets to an application that sets socket options during the handling of network traffic...

UBUNTU-CVE-2012-3552

Race condition in the IP implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.0 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service slab corruption and system crash by sending packets to an application that sets socket options during the handling of network traffic...

CVE-2012-3552

Race condition in the IP implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.0 might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service slab corruption and system crash by sending packets to an application that sets socket options during the handling of network traffic...

PT-2015-12: Privilege Gaining in Siemens SIMATIC WinCC (TIA Portal)

The specialists of the Positive Research center have detected a Privilege Gaining vulnerability in Siemens SIMATIC WinCC TIA Portal. Vulnerability exists due to a hard coded encryption key in WinCC RT Professional, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information and escalate their...

[USN-1566-1] Bind vulnerability

========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-1566-1 September 13, 2012 bind9 vulnerability ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: -...

[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: wireshark-1.8.2-1.fc18

Wireshark is a network traffic analyzer for Unix-ish operating systems. This package lays base for libpcap, a packet capture and filtering library, contains command-line utilities, contains plugins and documentation for wireshark. A graphical user interface is packaged separately to GTK+ package...

CVE-2012-3901

The updateTime function in sensorApp on Cisco IPS 4200 series sensors 7.0 and 7.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service process crash and traffic-inspection outage via network traffic, aka Bug ID CSCta96144...

CVE-2012-3901

CVE-2012-3901 affects Cisco IPS 4200 series sensors (versions 7.0 and 7.1). The updateTime function in sensorApp is susceptible, allowing remote attackers to trigger a denial of service (process crash and traffic-inspection outage) via network traffic. Exploit details, specific vulnerable compone...

CVE-2012-3901

The updateTime function in sensorApp on Cisco IPS 4200 series sensors 7.0 and 7.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service process crash and traffic-inspection outage via network traffic, aka Bug ID CSCta96144...

Fedora Update for wireshark FEDORA-2012-5214

Check for the Version of wireshark OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for wireshark FEDORA-2012-5214 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under th...

Fedora Update for wireshark FEDORA-2012-12085

Check for the Version of wireshark OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for wireshark FEDORA-2012-12085 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under t...

Fedora Update for wireshark FEDORA-2012-12091

Check for the Version of wireshark OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for wireshark FEDORA-2012-12091 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under t...

[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: wireshark-1.6.10-1.fc17

Wireshark is a network traffic analyzer for Unix-ish operating systems. This package lays base for libpcap, a packet capture and filtering library, contains command-line utilities, contains plugins and documentation for wireshark. A graphical user interface is packaged separately to GTK+ package...

[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: wireshark-1.6.10-1.fc16

Wireshark is a network traffic analyzer for Unix-ish operating systems. This package lays base for libpcap, a packet capture and filtering library, contains command-line utilities, contains plugins and documentation for wireshark. A graphical user interface is packaged separately to GTK+ package...

Cisco IOS Software Music on Hold Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Cisco IOS software contains a vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to access and disclose sensitive information. The vulnerability is due to insecure handling of multicast network traffic. An unauthenticated, remote attacker could exploit the vulnerability by...

wireshark -- denial of service in DRDA dissector

RedHat security team reports: A denial of service flaw was found in the way Distributed Relational Database Architecture DRDA dissector of Wireshark, a network traffic analyzer, performed processing of certain DRDA packet capture files. A remote attacker could create a specially-crafted capture...

Android Security Evaluation Framework: ASEF

Have you ever looked at your Android applications and wondered if they are watching you as well? Whether it’s a bandwidth-hogging app, aggressive adware or even malware, it would be interesting to know if they are doing more than what they are supposed to and if your personal information is...