New OSX/Imuler Variant Targeting Tibetan Activists

Researchers over at Intego have recently discovered a new variant of OSX/Imuler the data-stealing Mac malware, detected as OSX/Imuler.E which is believed to be targeting Tibetan rights activists. "This backdoor Trojan family was first discovered in September 2011 as a Mac PDF Trojan horse and has...

Plugx RAT targeting government organizations in Japan using spear phishing

Roland Dela Paz Threat Researcher at TrendMirco reported that last year a Malware Campaign to target specific users in Japan, China, and Taiwan once again on rise using new breed of Remote Access Tool RAT called Plugx also known as Korplug. This new custom made version comes for less recognition...

Report: Advanced Malware Targeting Organizations up Nearly 400 Percent

There’s been a huge jump in malicious, web-based infections targeting companies in the last year, a nearly 400 percent increase from last year, according to research released today by network security company FireEye. The company’s “Advanced Threat Report – 1H 2012,” blames the jump on attackers’...

Users Remain Mostly Oblivious to Spear Phishing

A new survey shows that 50 percent of employees think that their company has been the victim of a targeted attack. Security firm Proofpoint found in its survey that these targeted attacks continue to be a nuisance, affecting both small and large organizations. A similar number, 56 percent of...

Adobe Flash Player AVM Verification Logic Array Indexing Code Execution

This module exploits a vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player versions 10.3.181.23 and earlier. This issue is caused by a failure in the ActionScript3 AVM2 verification logic. This results in unsafe JITJust-In-Time code being executed. This is the same vulnerability that was used for attacks against...

Liferay users can assign themselves to organizations, leading to possible privilege escalation

Liferay users can assign themselves to organizations, leading to possible privilege escalation Description: Liferay Portal is an enterprise portal written in Java Due to insufficient permission checking in the updateOrganizations method of UserService any user can assign hem or her self to any...

Ajaxmint Gallery 1.0 Local File Inclusion

========================================================= VUlnerable Software: Ajaxmint Gallery version 1.0 @Software AjaxMint Gallery @Author Rajapandian - [email protected] http://ajaxmint.com/ =========================================================...

Report: Strategic Web Compromises Behind Recent Hack of Amnesty, Others

A recent string of Web site hacks at Amnesty International and other NGOs are evidence of a campaign of cyber espionage directed against human rights orgnaizations, according to a report from The Shadowserver Foundation. In a report on Tuesday, the Foundation said that its members had witnessed a...

Anon Tweets About Hack, Gets Arrested

A 21 year-old Ohio man associated with the Anonymous Internet collective is in detention after boasting on Twitter about his involvement in the hack of the Utah Chiefs of Police Association and the Salt Lake City Police Department. John Anthony Borell III was charged with two counts of computer...

Verizon: Hacktivists Steal Most Data In 2011

It can be hard to parse the results of the Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report DBIR, what with the shifts from year to year in the sources of breach data collected. Last year’s report, if you recall, found a stunning drop in incidents of data theft in 2010, even as tracking sites like...

Is your HIPAA Security and HITECH audit program in order?

Healthcare organizations have been working towards HIPAA and HITECH compliance for a few years now. "Surprise" HIPAA compliance audits conducted by the OCR have begun and at Coalfire weve come across some gaps that have led organizations to fall short of their compliance initiatives...

[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: torque-3.0.3-1.fc15

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....

Phishing Campaign Using Spoofed US-CERT Email Addresses

On January 10, 2012, US-CERT received reports of a phishing campaign that is spoofing US-CERT email to deliver a variant of the Zeus/Zbot Trojan known as Ice-IX. This campaign appears to be targeting a large number of private sector organizations as well as federal, state, and local governments...

Bypass SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) DNS Blocking with DeSopa 1.1

Bypass SOPA Stop Online Piracy Act DNS Blocking with DeSopa 1.1 A developer who calls himself T Rizk doesn't have much faith in Congress making the right decision on anti-piracy legislation, so he's built a work around for the impending censorship measures being considered DeSOPA. The Firefox...

[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: zabbix-1.8.9-1.fc16

ZABBIX is software that monitors numerous parameters of a network and the health and integrity of servers. ZABBIX uses a flexible notification mechanism that allows users to configure e-mail based alerts for virtually any event. This allows a fast reaction to server problems. ZABBIX offers...

Elgg 1.7.9 Cross Site Scripting

Elgg 1.7.9 = | Multiple Cross Site Scripting Vulnerabilities 1. OVERVIEW The Elgg 1.7.9 and lower versions are vulnerable to multiple Cross Site Scripting. 2. BACKGROUND Elgg is an award-winning social networking engine, delivering the building blocks that enable businesses, schools, universities...

VUPEN Security Research - Oracle Java ICC Profile "mluc" Tag Integer Overflow Code Execution Vulnerability

VUPEN Security Research - Oracle Java ICC Profile "mluc" Tag Integer Overflow Code Execution Vulnerability http://www.vupen.com/english/research.php I. BACKGROUND --------------------- "Java is a programming language and computing platform released by Sun Microsystems now Oracle. It is the...

Microsoft Release Security Intelligence Report !

Microsoft Release Security Intelligence Report ! The Security Intelligence Report SIR is an investigation of the current threat landscape. It analyzes exploits, vulnerabilities, and malware based on data from over 600 million systems worldwide, as well as internet services, and three Microsoft...

Taiwan Struggles To Combat Attacks From China

Cyber crime, online fraud and copyright infringement are growing rapidly in Taiwan as law enforcement officials, law makers and the courts struggle to stay abreast of the problem, according to a local prosecutor says. In a Webcast presented to students and faculty at Harvard’s Berkman Center for...

Expert: Three Quarters of Employees Duped by Phishing Scams

In the wake of the data breach at e-mail marketing firm Epsilon, the specter looms of widespread phishing attacks on hundreds of millions of e-mail users whose information was stolen from the firm. But according to Aaron Higbee, the Chief Technology Officer at Intrepidus Group, organizations had...