Root Access Vulnerability on ZTE Android Device

Certain Android devices manufactured by the China-based ZTE Corporation contain a poorly protected setuid shell that can be used to gain root-access to vulnerable devices, according to Lookout Mobile Security. Any attacker who successfully exploits the vulnerability will have complete control of...

Siemens SIMATIC STEP 7 DLL Vulnerability

Overview Siemens has released a software update for a DLL hijacking vulnerability in SIMATIC STEP 7 and SIMATIC PCS 7 software. Previous versions of SIMATIC STEP 7 and PCS 7 allowed the loading of malicious DLL files into the STEP 7 project folder that can be used to attack the system on which ST...

IT-Grundschutz M5.091: Einsatz von Personal Firewalls für Internet-PCs

IT-Grundschutz M5.091: Einsatz von Personal Firewalls für Internet-PCs. ACHTUNG: Dieser Test wird nicht mehr unterstützt. Er wurde ersetzt durch den entsprechenden Test der nun permanent and die aktuelle EL angepasst wird: OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.95070 Diese Prüfung bezieht sich auf die 12...

IT-Grundschutz M5.091: Einsatz von Personal Firewalls für Internet-PCs

IT-Grundschutz M5.091: Einsatz von Personal Firewalls für Internet-PCs. ACHTUNG: Dieser Test wird nicht mehr unterstützt. Er wurde ersetzt durch den entsprechenden Test der nun permanent and die aktuelle EL angepasst wird: OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.95070 Diese Prüfung bezieht sich auf die 12...

New Worm Morto Using RDP to Infect Windows PCs

A new worm called Morto has begun making the rounds on the Internet in the last couple of days, infecting machines via RDP Remote Desktop Protocol. The worm is generating a large amount of outbound RDP traffic on networks that have infected machines, and Morto is capable of compromising both...

Another Government contractor - PCS Consultants (USA) got Hacked by #Antisec

Another Government contractor - PCS Consultants USA got Hacked Another Government contractor - PCS Consultants USA got hacked by Anonymous Hackers & Antisec operation Hackers. Database of website has been extracted and leaked on internet via tweeter on Pastebin.The leaked Data extracted Includes...

Another Government contractor - PCS Consultants (USA) got Hacked by #Antisec

Another Government contractor - PCS Consultants USA got Hacked Another Government contractor - PCS Consultants USA got hacked by Anonymous Hackers & Antisec operation Hackers. Database of website has been extracted and leaked on internet via tweeter on Pastebin.The leaked Data extracted Includes...

Microsoft Says Rustock Botnet Cut in Half

In March, Microsoft announced that its Digital Crimes Unit had scored a major victory in the war against hackers with the takedown of the Rustock botnet. Since then, the company has continued to monitor the activity of the network and the machines infected with the Rustock-related malware and fou...

Report: Rustock Operators or Operator

A Krebsonsecurity piece looks into the unknown party behind the Rustock botnet, and whether it may have been operated by just one person. By interviewing investigators involved in the takedown, a joint operation carried out by Microsoft, FireEye, and various law enforcement agencies, Krebs...

World's Largest Touchscreen Hacked !

It's gigantic ! It can handle over 100 simultaneous touch points! It has a curvature of 135 degrees! And best of all, it is NOT the newest, insanely expensive gadget to hit the market. Instead, this touchscreen was hacked together with a bunch of PCs, video cameras, projectors and cheap infrared...

Conficker Working Group: Efforts To Fight Botnet A Mixed Bag

A new report from the Conficker Working Group concludes that coordinated efforts to stomp out the botnet were a mixed bag: helping to thwart the worm’s efforts to register Web domains that it used to spread, but failing to remove the worm from infected Windows computers. The report released this...

Microsoft botnet take down will not stop spam !

A prominent security researcher said he doubts Microsoft's take down of the Waledac botnet would have any impact on spam levels, as the company claimed. "Waledac just is not a hugely prolific spammer," said Joe Stewart, director of malware analysis at SecureWorks and a noted botnet researcher. "S...

NetSupport Manager Gateway Detection

NetSupport Manager Gateway, a secure method to establish connections between NetSupport control and client PCs, is installed on the remote system. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid50545; scriptversion"1.5"; scriptcvsdate"Date: 2019/11/22";...

New Windows 8 Rumors Highlight Advanced Features and Enhanced Security

Just as you were getting comfortable with Windows 7, Windows 8 seems to be on the horizon for the next two years. Celebrating the one-year anniversary of Windows 7— the fastest-selling OS in history—Microsoft’s Dutch website briefly mentioned its successor: “Microsoft is on course for the next...

Security Firms Scramble For SCADA Talent After Stuxnet

Three months after the world first learned of the sophisticated Stuxnet worm, insiders say that there’s a scramble to find and hire engineers with knowledge of both security and the industrial control systems that were Stuxnet’s intended target. Anti virus companies admit their research teams wer...

VulnCheck KEV: CVE-2010-2772

Siemens Simatic WinCC and PCS 7 SCADA system uses a hard-coded password, which allows local users to access a back-end database and gain privileges, as demonstrated in the wild in July 2010 by the Stuxnet worm, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-2568...

CVE-2010-2772

CVE-2010-2772 affects Siemens SIMATIC WinCC and SIMATIC PCS 7: a security bypass via default hard-coded SQL credentials allows remote attackers to access the backend database with administrative-like access. The vulnerability is tied to use of default credentials in the WinCC SQL server, permitti...

CVE-2010-2772

Siemens Simatic WinCC and PCS 7 SCADA system uses a hard-coded password, which allows local users to access a back-end database and gain privileges, as demonstrated in the wild in July 2010 by the Stuxnet worm, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-2568...

CVE-2010-2772

Siemens Simatic WinCC and PCS 7 SCADA system uses a hard-coded password, which allows local users to access a back-end database and gain privileges, as demonstrated in the wild in July 2010 by the Stuxnet worm, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-2568...

Hardcoded credentials

Siemens Simatic WinCC and PCS 7 SCADA system uses a hard-coded password, which allows local users to access a back-end database and gain privileges, as demonstrated in the wild in July 2010 by the Stuxnet worm, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-2568...