[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: torque-3.0.4-5.fc19

TORQUE Tera-scale Open-source Resource and QUEue manager is a resource manager providing control over batch jobs and distributed compute nodes. TORQUE is based on OpenPBS version 2.3.12 and incorporates scalability, fault tolerance, and feature extension patches provided by USC, NCSA, OSC, the U....

Zero-Day in Bugzilla Exposes Zero-Day Vulnerabilities to Hackers

A critical zero-day vulnerability discovered in Mozilla’s popular Bugzilla bug-tracking software used by hundreds of prominent software organizations, both private and open-source, could expose sensitive information and vulnerabilities of the software projects to the hackers. The critical flaw...

Second jQuery Hack of Week Reported

Update A day after a compromise of the jQuery website was disclosed, the open source JavaScript library is dealing with a second attack. JQuery Foundation board member Ralph Whitbeck confirmed via email to Threatpost that a new compromise was under way and the organization was taking steps to...

Bitcoin Phishing Scam Takes Aim at 400 Organizations

More than 400 organizations were recently targeted by a Bitcoin phishing campaign that intended to con users into disclosing their wallet passwords. According to Proofpoint, a California-based email security firm that recapped the campaign Wednesday, 12,000 messages were recently sent in two wave...

Keeping your restaurant & hospitality Cardholder Data Environment safe

Reports of new credit card data breaches seem to be in the news daily. Recent high profile breaches within major retailers this year should serve as a wake-up call to the restaurant and hospitality industries. As a result of having high volumes of credit card transactions and decentralized securi...

Miniduke APT Campaigh Returns with New Targets, Hacking Tools

The Miniduke advanced persistent threat APT campaign uncovered by researchers at Kaspersky Lab and CrySys Lab in February 2013 is back after a year-long hiatus in which attacks abated almost entirely. While the initial Miniduke operations primarily targeted government organizations in Europe, thi...

Terrorist Group Al-Qaeda Uses New Encryption Softwares After NSA Revelations

Last year, Just after Snowden leaks, the U.S Government warned that NSA surveillance revelations will make harder to track bad guys trying to harm the United States, as disclosures can be helpful to terrorist groups. In response to the NSA revelations, the terrorists at Al-Qaeda have started usin...

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...

PCI DSS 3.0 ROC Reporting Template Released

Heads up for our PCI customers: the PCI SSC released the "ROC Reporting Template for v3.0" this last weekend and it is available here. This document supports the PCI DSS 3.0 standard and must be used by all QSA organizations to create and submit a Report on Compliance ROC. What does this mean?...

Samsung Knox Vulnerable to Data Intercept

An Israeli security researcher from the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev’s Cyber Security Labs claims to have uncovered a serious security flaw in Samsung Knox. Knox is a security- and privacy-centric platform built into certain Samsung devices running Android. The Knox architecture, tailored f...

Gary McGraw on BSIMM-V and Software Security

Dennis Fisher talks with Gary McGraw of Cigital about the progress of the BSIMM software security measurement model and how development organizations are addressing the challenges of securing their software. Download: digitalunderground131.mp3...

26 Million Veterans data breached by eight state sponsored organizations

Since 2010, foreign state sponsored organizations have repeatedly compromised an unencrypted database maintained by the Veterans Affairs Department that contains personally identifiable information on roughly 26 million veterans. Including at least eight foreign-sponsored organizations, mostly...

26 Million Veterans data breached by eight state sponsored organizations

Since 2010, foreign state sponsored organizations have repeatedly compromised an unencrypted database maintained by the Veterans Affairs Department that contains personally identifiable information on roughly 26 million veterans. Including at least eight foreign-sponsored organizations, mostly...

Determining if your Company is Prepared for FedRAMP

Many companies interested in pursuing FedRAMP are seeking guidelines, checklists and any referenceable source to help them understand and determine their level of preparedness to go through the FedRAMP process. The GSAs FedRAMP.gov site provides documentation on the FedRAMP process in their "Guid...

Researchers uncovered new malware used by Chinese cyber criminals

Trend Micro researchers have uncovered a new backdoor pieces of malware from the Winnti family, which are mainly used by a Chinese cyber criminal group to target South East Asian organizations from the video gaming sector. Winnti malware used by hackers to hijack control of web users systems usin...

Vendor Admin Accounts Warning

Overview An asset owner recently notified the ICS-CERT that a vendor support contractor had added an administrative-level account during installation of new control systems software. The support contractor intended the account to be the default used to train their people for all future work on...

Anonymous #OpIsrael, cyber crime and assumptions on state-sponsored interference

Last April 7th the Anonymous collective hit the Israeli networks with a huge as historic offensive, for the first time an independent group of hackers declared war to a Governments to protest against its policy. Many web sites of the country were hit by DDoS attacks, the data on the event reporte...

Software Security Programs May Not Be Worth the Investment for Many Companies

SAN FRANCISCO–The discipline of software security has been gaining traction in a lot of organizations both large and small in recent years, thanks in part to the success that vendors such as Microsoft, Adobe and others have had with it. However, for many companies, the time and money spent on...

Business Partners Give Hackers Easy Access to Secure Firms

As frequently targeted, high-value companies continue fortifying their defenses, FireEye researchers claim that attackers are increasingly setting their sights on the affiliated but not-as-well-protected third-party organizations that do business with them. By aiming phishing email campaigns at...

SCADA, ICS Bug Brokering Mirrors IT Vulnerability Market

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – The world of SCADA and industrial control system vulnerabilities is starting to mirror that of IT security, not only in the demonstration and exploitation of zero-day vulnerabilities, but in the brokering of flaws and exploits between hackers and organizations interested i...