Healthcare Hacks on the Rise

The last quarter of 2009 saw an average of 13,400 attempts to hack healthcare organizations, compared to an average of 6,500 in the first nine months, say researchers. Read the full article. Infosecurity...

Large DDoS Attacks Still a Serious Problem

In the world of botnets and denial-of-service attacks, 2009 was a very interesting year. While a handful of large, noisy botnets got most of the attention, there were thousands of serious, prolonged DDoS attacks that not only chewed up huge amounts of bandwidth but likely caused major problems fo...

[SECURITY] Fedora 11 Update: sahana-0.6.2.2-6.fc11

Sahana is a free and open source Disaster Management System.It mainly facilitates management of Missing people, disaster victims, Managing and administrating various organisations, managing camps and managing requests and assistance in the proper distribution of resources...

Chris Hoff on Cloud Security, Disruptive Technologies and PCI DSS

Dennis Fisher talks with Chris Hoff of Cisco about the challenges of cloud deployment and security, cloud use cases and the effect that disruptive technologies can have on enterprises, vendors and standards organizations. Download Subscribe to the Digital Underground podcast on Podcast audio...

SMBs, Non-Profits New Targets of Choice for Attackers

Large enterprises and consumers have been dealing with sophisticated phishing scams, online extortion plots and other assorted theft schemes for years, but now attackers are turning their attention to the huge population of small businesses and non-profits in the U.S. And they are finding a gold...

Health Care Breach Notification Mandated

From SC Magazine Angela Moscaritolo Two new rules were created this week requiring health care organizations, and other entities that interact with personal health records PHRs, to issue notifications in the event of a data breach. The key rule, issued Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Health a...

IT staffs pressured to relax Web security

From SearchSecurity.com Rob Westervelt IT managers are under pressure from the top executives in their organizations to relax their policies on Web security in order to make users more productive. A new survey of more than 1,000 IT managers found that sales and marketing personnel also are leanin...

Cybercriminals in the cloud

From Forbes Charlotte Dunlap Security breaches continue to plague organizations, causing CIOs to question whether their traditional network security solutions are adequate for protecting against increasingly sophisticated cybercriminals. Recently, it was reported that foreign hackers broke into t...

Health scares can provide lessons for security

The swine flu outbreak has inspired a flood of comparisons and false analogies to Conficker and other worms, most of which miss the many key differences between the Internet infrastructure and the human population. But there are lessons that security personnel can learn from the ways that health...

The hype factor at the RSA conference

From CNet Jon Oltsik It’s nearly time for that annual spring ritual: the RSA Conference at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. ESG data tells me that, despite the recession, global organizations continue to spend on security products. So I expect another good show, though I do anticipate that th...

Seperate label permissions from edit issue permission

In 3.11 the labels plugin changed so that manipulating labels required the "Edit Issue" permission. This drastically impacted our organizations workflow, as we'd just introduced labels in our previous upgrade, and we don't give "edit issues" to all users, but we do want all authenticated users to...

PHP Project Management <= 0.8.10 Multiple RFI / LFI Vulnerabilities

Exploit for unknown platform in category web applications =================================================================== PHP Project Management = 0.8.10 Multiple RFI / LFI Vulnerabilities =================================================================== PHP Project Management = 0.8.10...

Claroline 1.7.4 - 'scormExport.inc.php' Remote Code Execution

!/usr/bin/php -q -d shortopentag=on works with registerglobals = On & allowurlfopen = On\r\n\r\n"; echo "dork: "Powered by Claroline" -demo\r\n\r\n"; if $argc5 echo "Usage: php ".$argv0." host path location OPTIONS\r\n"; echo "host: target server ip/hostname\r\n"; echo "path: path to...

Appfluent Database IDS 2.1.0.103 - Environment Variable Local Overflow

Appfluent Database IDS 2.1.0.103 - Environment Variable Local Overflow / $ An open security advisory 14 - Appfluent Database IDS Environment Variable Overflow 1: Bug Researcher: c0ntex - c0ntexbatgmail.com -+- www.open-security.org 2: Bug Released: December 07th 2005 3: Bug Impact Rate: Hi 4: Bug...

CVE-2002-1888

CommonName Toolbar 3.5.2.0 sends unqualified domain name requests to the CommonName organization and possibly other web servers for name resolution, which allows those organizations to obtain internal server names...

CVE-2004-9998

CVE-2004-9998 is rejected/not used; this placeholder does not represent an active vulnerability.

FileMaker Pro network protocol sends passwords to any client attempting to connect to a shared database.

I recently discovered a serious bug in FileMaker Pro's database sharing. FileMaker have just released an advisory about this on their security pages: http://www.filemaker.com/support/security -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Subject: FileMaker Pro network protocol sends passwords to...