Duuzer Trojan: A New Backdoor Targeting South Korean Organizations

Security researchers at Symantec have uncovered a new Backdoor Trojan that grants hackers remote access and some control over infected machines. "Duuzer," as dubbed by the researchers, has been targeting organizations in South Korea and elsewhere in an attempt to steal valuable information. The...

BSIMM6 Data Shows Poor Health Care Software Security

The folks behind the Building Security in Maturity Model BSIMM, its sixth iteration available today, tout the project as an intersection between science and computer security. “It’s more like a science experiment that escaped the test tube,” said Gary McGraw, chief technology officer of Citigal,...

Emerson HART DTM Vulnerability

OVERVIEW This updated advisory is a follow-up to the original advisory titled ICSA-15-008-01 Emerson HART DTM Vulnerability that was published January 8, 2015, on the NCCIC/ICS-CERT web site. Alexander Bolshev of Digital Security has identified an improper input vulnerability in the CodeWrights...

McAfee Vulnerability Manager 'Organizations' Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability

McAfee Vulnerability Manager is a vulnerability management application. A cross-site request forgery vulnerability exists on the McAfee Vulnerability Manager 'Organizations' page, which allows remote attackers to construct malicious URIs, trick users into parsing them, and can target user context...

CVE-2015-7612

Multiple cross-site request forgery CSRF vulnerabilities in the Organizations page in Enterprise Manager in McAfee Vulnerability Manager MVM 7.5.9 and earlier allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that have unspecified impact via unknown vectors...

CVE-2015-7612

Multiple cross-site request forgery CSRF vulnerabilities in the Organizations page in Enterprise Manager in McAfee Vulnerability Manager MVM 7.5.9 and earlier allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators for requests that have unspecified impact via unknown vectors...

New Bug in Bugzilla Software Could Expose Zero-Day Vulnerabilities

A Critical vulnerability discovered in Mozilla's popular Bugzilla bug-tracking software, used by hundreds of thousands of prominent software organizations, could potentially expose details of their non-public security vulnerabilities to the Hackers. So it’s time for developers and organizations...

Installation of Tor Relays in Libraries Attracts DHS Attention

The Tor Project recently started a program to help libraries install Tor relays as a way to protect the privacy of patrons and other Internet users. The program didn’t get too far, however, as the first library to install a relay had to turn it off after town police officials were contacted by...

Multiple unresolved vulnerabilities in Basware Banking/Maksuliikenne

English: Multiple vulnerabilities in Basware Banking/Maksuliikenne software that were reported already 08/2012 may still enable undetectable economic crimes against user organizations companies Finnish: Basware Banking/Maksuliikenne -ohjelmiston haavoittuvuudet, joista raportoitiin jo 08/2012,...

Emissary Panda APT Group Gets Selective About Data it Steals

LAS VEGAS – The Emissary Panda APT group has a long history of invading Western organizations—be they enterprises, government or political outfits—hungry for reams of intellectual property. Lately the group, however, has become a little more selective about what it steals. Researchers at Dell...

FBI Warns of Increase in DDoS Extortion Scams

Online scammers constantly are looking for new ways to reach into the pockets of potential victims, and the FBI says it is seeing an increase in the number of companies being targeted by scammers threatening to launch DDoS attacks if they don’t pay a ransom. The scam is a variation on a theme, th...

New Campaign Targeting Japanese with Hacking Team Zero Day

Yet another group of attackers has quickly cashed in on one of the Adobe Flash zero days uncovered in the HackingTeam leak and is leveraging it to target Japanese organizations. Last week researchers determined that attackers were able to compromise two Japanese websites, the country’s...

Wekby APT 18 Exploiting Hacking Team Flash Zero Day

The Wekby APT group, implicated in a number of targeted attacks against health care organizations such as Community Health Systems and major pharmaceutical companies, is reportedly making use of the Adobe Flash Player zero-day found in the Hacking Team data dump. According to Virginia-based...

Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent in the column: a“watering hole attack”using JSONP hijacking tracking user-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Can you imagine if an authoritarian state to get a way to obtain user privacy information of the tool, and this tool can obtain the user in a specific site on the real name, email address, gender, birthday and phone number, etc., that would be what kind of scene? You can also imagine that an...

Big news from the HITRUST 2015 conference: The HITRUST CSF is gaining momentum as the de facto framework amongst healthcare organizations

As the HITRUST 2015 conference in Grapevine, Texas ended, I was reminded of the numerous predictions that flagged 2015 the year of the healthcare breach. And in just the first half of the year weve already witnessed three mega breaches that combined to compromise over 90 million patient records. ...

COSO Framework for Service Organizations and SOC Reporting (Part 3 of 3)

In part 1 of this series, we discussed the recent changes to the COSO framework and the overall impact that the updated framework has on service organizations that receive Service Organization Controls SOC reports...

American telecommunications giant Verizon aeration have significant security vulnerabilities, leakage of customer information-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

The United States largest wireless communications provider Verizon to 4 4 billion USD acquisition of Aol AOL message Board this week to foreign media news headlines. However, BuzzFeed's latest report shows that Verizon in the design of a major security vulnerability could allow the...

Schneider Electric IMT25 DTM Vulnerability

OVERVIEW Alexander Bolshev, Gleb Cherbov, and Svetlana Cherkasova of Digital Security have identified a memory corruption vulnerability in Schneider Electric IMT25 DTM component. Schneider Electric has produced a patch that mitigates this vulnerability. Digital Security has tested this patch to...

Researchers, FBI Warn of Nepal Earthquake Scams

The earthquake that hit Nepal late last month has caused untold damage in the region and kicked off a massive relief and aid effort. Attackers are loathe to let a chance like that go by, and they have concocted a number of schemes to deprive victims of their money and hope for relief funds. Aid...

COSO Framework for Service Organizations and SOC Reporting (Part 1 of 3)

One of the most important reference tools that companies use to establish and evaluate their internal controls is the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations COSO Internal Control - Integrated Framework. Initially published in 1992 the 1992 Framework, the COSO framework has been the most widely use...