tomcat: Multiple weaknesses in HTTP DIGEST authentication

DigestAuthenticator.java in the HTTP Digest Access Authentication implementation in Apache Tomcat 5.5.x before 5.5.34, 6.x before 6.0.33, and 7.x before 7.0.12 uses Catalina as the hard-coded server secret aka private key, which makes it easier for remote attackers to bypass cryptographic...

Snail mail the device

Don’t want to have your device seized when you cross the border? Why not just stick it in the mail? True: there are no privacy protections afforded to data sent by post. But you can avoid awkward confrontations with border agents if you mailed it and you won’t be questioned about your devices or...

Virtualization: Threats and Protections For SMBs

Join Paul Roberts, Threatpost editor, and his guests, Michael Guigli, CEO of CloudConnect and Tim Armstrong, Malware Researcher at Kaspersky Lab as they discuss Virtualization and the security challenges faced by small businesses. To access your show page for the Threatpost Now! Series, please...

Citing Crisis, Senate Leader Puts Cybersecurity Bill On 2012 Agenda

Citing a looming crisis over lax computer security, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on Wednesday that the Senate will debate cybersecurity legislation. The move comes despite the lack of a coherent Senate plan and could set up a showdown with House Republicans over the government’s role in...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1231-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Ice IX: Not Cool At All

My colleague Jorge Mieres recently found a C&C server of a botnet based on a malicious program called Ice IX. As announced on several user forums, Ice IX is a bot created using the source code of ZeuS 2.0.8.9, which became publicly available in May. The author of the new bot says the program...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-2195-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Douran 3.9.7.8 - File Download/Source Code Disclosure

Title: Douran Portal File Download/Source Code Disclosure Vulnerability Date of Publishing: 16 March 2010 Application Name: Douran Portal Version: 3.9.7.8 Impact: Medium Vendor: www.douran.com Link: http://douran.com/HomePage.aspx?TabID=4862 Vendor Responses: They didn't respond to the emails...

Stephen Fewer won Pwn2Own !

Stephen Fewer won Pwn2Own ! The annual Pwn2Own contest at the CanSecWest conference kicked off Wednesday and one of the winners this year was Stephen Fewer, who exploited Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7. Dennis Fisher spoke with him about the contest, the challenge of attacking IE 8 and the...

Pwn2Own Winner Stephen Fewer

The annual Pwn2Own contest at the CanSecWest conference kicked off Wednesday and one of the winners this year was Stephen Fewer, who exploited Internet Explorer 8 on Windows 7. Dennis Fisher spoke with him about the contest, the challenge of attacking IE 8 and the utility of memory protections...

Sony Sues PlayStation 3 Jailbreakers

Sony has filed a lawsuit against a group of hackers who were able to bypass the DRM protections in the company’s PlayStation 3, compromised the root key and later published tools allowing others to follow in their footsteps and play pirated software on the console. On Tuesday, Sony filed suit in...

White hat hack breaks Windows Phone Marketplace security !

Video shows how Windows Phone 7 apps can be easily swiped and stripped of DRM protections Once more, Microsoft finds itself in the unenviable position of having one of its security flaws shared with the world. WPCentral has posted a video made by a "'white hat' developer" that shows how cyber...

CVE-2010-4259

Stack-based buffer overflow in FontForge 20100501 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long CHARSETREGISTRY header in a BDF font file...

Ubuntu Update for python-django vulnerability USN-1004-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1004-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN10041.nasl 7965 2017-12-01 07:38:25Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for python-django vulnerability USN-1004-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2010 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Internet Explorer CSS Tags Memory Corruption

$Id: ms10xxxiecssclip.rb 10912 2010-11-05 00:08:55Z jduck $ This file is part of the Metasploit Framework and may be subject to redistribution and commercial restrictions. Please see the Metasploit Framework web site for more information on licensing and terms of use...

MS10-090 Microsoft Internet Explorer CSS SetUserClip Memory Corruption

This module exploits a memory corruption vulnerability within Microsoft's HTML engine mshtml. When parsing an HTML page containing a specially crafted CSS tag, memory corruption occurs that can lead arbitrary code execution. It seems like Microsoft code inadvertently increments a vtable pointer t...

New Firefox iFrame Bug Bypasses URL Protections

UPDATED–There is a bug in Mozilla’s flagship Firefox browser related to the way the browser handles obfuscated URLs in iFrames. However, a Mozilla official said the bug poses “very low” risk to users. Johnathan Nightingale of Mozilla said in a blog post late Tuesday that the bug poses little risk...

Changes to DMCA Protect Jailbreaking, Some Security Research

A new change to the much-maligned Digital Millennium Copyright Act free users who jailbreak their iPhones and other mobile handsets from worries about prosecution under the provisions of the DMCA that prevented circumvention of protection technologies. A separate change announced Monday also give...

Flaw in Core IE 8 Component Could Enable Remote Attacks

There’s an unpatched vulnerability affecting Internet Explorer 8 running on most current versions of Windows that could give attackers the ability to run code on remote machines. The flaw is a memory leak that gives attackers key information on the location of a specific address in memory, even...

Anatomy of the New Adobe Flash Exploit

The exploit that is being used in the attacks against the latest zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash is a modified version of a harmless SWF file that is only one byte different from the original file. Researchers have seen the exploit being used in active attacks against the vulnerability in...