Internet Root Name Servers DDoS Attack

An unusual DDoS amplification attack was carried out 10 days ago against many of the Internet’s 13 root name servers, the authoritative servers used to resolve IP addresses. The attacks happened on Nov. 30 and again on Dec. 1, and each time, massive volumes of traffic, peaking at five million...

TLS NPN Supported Protocol Enumeration

The remote host supports the TLS NPN Transport Layer Security Next Protocol Negotiation extension. This plugin enumerates the protocols the extension supports. TRUSTED...

[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: openssl-1.0.2e-1.fc23

The OpenSSL toolkit provides support for secure communications between machines. OpenSSL includes a certificate management tool and shared libraries which provide various cryptographic algorithms and protocols...

Critical 'Port Fail' Vulnerability Reveals Real IP Addresses of VPN Users

A newly discovered flaw affecting all VPN protocols and operating systems has the capability to reveal the real IP-addresses of users' computers, including BitTorrent users, with relative ease. The vulnerability, dubbed Port Fail by VPN provider Perfect Privacy PP who discovered the issue, is a...

[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: openms-2.0.0-21.20150529git88dc25.fc23

OpenMS is an open-source C++ library for LC/MS data management and analyses. It offers an infrastructure for the rapid development of mass spectrometry related software. It comes with a vast variety ready-to-use tools for proteomics and metabolomics data analysis TOPPTools and powerful 2D and 3D...

Network Forensic Analysis Tool: Xplico

The goal of Xplico is extract from an internet traffic capture the applications data contained. For example, from a pcap file Xplico extracts each email POP, IMAP, and SMTP protocols, all HTTP contents, each VoIP call SIP, FTP, TFTP, and so on. Xplico isn’t a network protocol analyzer. Xplico is ...

Hacking Fitbit Health Trackers Wirelessly in 10 Seconds

Do you need a FitBit Tracker while jogging or running or even sleeping? Bad News! FitBit can be hacked that could allow hackers to infect any PC connected to it. What's more surprising? Hacking FitBit doesn't take more than just 10 Seconds. Axelle Aprville, a researcher at the security company...

CentOS 5 : bind97 (CESA-2015:1707)

"Updated bind97 packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available fr...

October 2015 Oracle Critical Patch Update

Oracle on Tuesday patched 154 vulnerabilities in 54 different products as part of its regularly scheduled Critical Patch Update. More than half of the patches, 84 to be exact, address vulnerabilities that Oracle claims may be remotely exploitable without authentication. Java SE is responsible for...

First Ever Anti-Drone Weapon that Shoots Down UAVs with Radio Waves

While the US military continues to build more advanced unmanned aerial vehicles UAVs, popularly known as Drones, the US company Battelle has developed a shoulder-mounted rifle to deal with unwanted drones flying around. Dubbed DroneDefender, the revolutionary weapon specifically designed to targe...

Oracle: Security Advisory (ELSA-2015-3015)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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...

[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: bind-9.9.6-11.P1.fc21

BIND Berkeley Internet Name Domain is an implementation of the DNS Domain Name System protocols. BIND includes a DNS server named, which resolves host names to IP addresses; a resolver library routines for applications to use when interfacing with DNS; and tools for verifying that the DNS server ...

Design Flaws Make Drones Vulnerable to Cyber-Attacks

In the past, The Hacker News THN reported about various activities surrounding Drones. Whether it was the development of the first backdoor for drones MalDrone, or Weaponized drones getting legal, or Drones hacking smartphones. And now the reports depict... Security Researcher has showcased a...

Git -- Execute arbitrary code

Git release notes: Some protocols like git-remote-ext can execute arbitrary code found in the URL. The URLs that submodules use may come from arbitrary sources e.g., .gitmodules files in a remote repository, and can hurt those who blindly enable recursive fetch. Restrict the allowed protocols to...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for java-1_8_0-openjdk (openSUSE-SU-2015:0773-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 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...

[SECURITY] Fedora 23 Update: bind99-9.9.7-7.P3.fc23

BIND Berkeley Internet Name Domain is an implementation of the DNS Domain Name System protocols. This package set contains only export version of BIND libraries, that are used for building ISC DHCP...

Caution! Hackers Can Easily Hijack Popular Baby Monitors to Watch Your Kids

Several video baby monitors from six different manufacturers were under scrutiny for in-depth security testing, and the outcome was negative. Yes, they lacked in serving basic security through their devices. At the High Technology Crime Investigation Association HTCIA conference on September 2,...

Filet-o-Firewall UPnP Security Vulnerability in Home Routers

Security vulnerabilities in UPnP continue to crop up and continue to put millions of home networking devices at risk for compromise. The latest was revealed in early August, but prompted an advisory yesterday from the DHS-sponsored CERT at the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon...

Sysax Multi Server 6.40 - SSH Component Denial of Service

''' Exploit title: Sysax Multi Server 6.40 ssh component denial of service vulnerability Date: 29-8-2015 Vendor homepage: http://www.sysax.com Software Link: http://www.sysax.com/download/sysaxservsetup.msi Version: 6.40 Author: 3unnym00n Details: ---------------------------------------------- by...

UBUNTU-CVE-2015-4498

The add-on installation feature in Mozilla Firefox before 40.0.3 and Firefox ESR 38.x before 38.2.1 allows remote attackers to bypass an intended user-confirmation requirement by constructing a crafted data: URL and triggering navigation to an arbitrary http: or https: URL at a certain early poin...