SuSE 11.1 Security Update : NetworkManager-gnome (SAT Patch Number 5621)

NetworkManager did not pin a certificate's subject to an ESSID. A rogue access point could therefore be used to conduct MITM attacks by using any other valid certificate issued by same CA as used in the original network. CVE-2006-7246 Please note that existing WPA2 Enterprise connections need to ...

GlobalSign Says No Evidence of CA Compromise Found

GlobalSign, the certificate authority that the attacker who compromised Comodo and DigitNotar claimed he had infiltrated as well, said it has completed its months-long security review and found no evidence that its CA infrastructure was compromised or that any rogue certificates had been issued...

SuSE 10 Security Update : dhcp6 (ZYPP Patch Number 7465)

A rogue DHCP server could instruct clients to use a host name that contains shell meta characters. Since many scripts in the system do not expect unusal characters in the system's host name the DHCP client needs to sanitize the host name offered by the server. CVE-2011-0997 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C...

SuSE 10 Security Update : dhcp (ZYPP Patch Number 7430)

A rogue DHCP server could instruct clients to use a host name that contains shell meta characters. Since many scripts in the system do not expect unusal characters in the system's host name the DHCP client needs to sanitize the host name offered by the server. CVE-2011-0997 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C...

SuSE 11.1 Security Update : NetworkManager (SAT Patch Number 5381)

NetworkManager did not pin a certificate's subject to an ESSID. A rogue access point could therefore be used to conduct MITM attacks by using any other valid certificate issued by same CA as used in the original network CVE-2006-7246. This has been fixed. Please note that existing WPA2 Enterprise...

SuSE 10 Security Update : dhcp (ZYPP Patch Number 7451)

A rogue DHCP server could instruct clients to use a host name that contains shell meta characters. Since many scripts in the system do not expect unusal characters in the system's host name the DHCP client needs to sanitize the host name offered by the server. CVE-2011-0997 Note: this is a...

FTC Gives Refunds to Rogue Antivirus Victims

The Federal Trade Commission FTC is sending reimbursement checks to more than 300,000 people victimized by a rogue antivirus scam. According to the FTC, the checks are the result of the settlement between the agency and several defendants named in a complaint the FTC filed in 2008. As part of the...

SuSE Update for NetworkManager, wpa_supplicant, NetworkManager-gnome SUSE-SA:2011:045

Check for the Version of NetworkManager, wpasupplicant, NetworkManager-gnome OpenVAS Vulnerability Test SuSE Update for NetworkManager, wpasupplicant, NetworkManager-gnome SUSE-SA:2011:045 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.ne...

Operation Ghost Click by FBI - Online advertising scam taken Down

Operation Ghost Click by FBI - Online advertising scam taken Down A gang of internet 'cyber bandits' who stole $14 million after hacking into at least 4 million computers in an online advertising scam have been arrested following a joint investigation by the FBI and Nasa. Six men are in custody i...

Computershare Says No Customer Data Exposed In Breach

The investor services company told Threatpost that an investigation has determined that data stolen by a rogue employee didn’t contain shareholder data. However, the company still hasn’t retrieved two USB drives containing company email and documents that outline some of Computershare’s closely...

China is the birth place for most of malicious Android apps

China is the birth place for most of malicious Android apps Mobile malware is rising, and there have been explosions in the world of viruses and Trojans. Virus makers are now targeting mobile platforms- thanks to their growing popularity. If we take the statistics from last 6 months, the chances ...

Android malware - Works on remote commands form encrypted blog

Android malware - Works on remote commands form encrypted blog Researchers from Trend Micro have spotted a piece of malicious software for Android. This is the first known Android malware that reads blog posts and interprets these as commands. It can also download and install additional...

uTorrent Site Compromised, Client Replaced With Scareware

Attackers on Tuesday hacked the uTorrent.com service, replacing the uTorrent software download with a rogue antivirus program that demanded payment from users in order to remove non-existent malware from their machines. The attack occurred Tuesday just after 4 a.m. Pacific time and the rogue AV...

Mozilla Asks Firefox CAs to Audit Security Systems in Wake of DigiNotar Hack

Already having revoked trust in the root certificates issued by DigiNotar, Mozilla is taking steps to avoid having to repeat that process with any other certificate authority trusted by Firefox, asking all of the CAs involved in the root program to conduct audits of their PKIs and verify that...

Ten Reasons The Diginotar Breach Will Be Bigger Than Stuxnet

by Roel Schouwenberg Editor’s note: This story was reposted from Securelist.com. In an almost unprecedented event the Dutch minister of internal affairs gave a press conference at 1:15 AM Friday to Saturday night. He announced the Dutch government was revoking trust in Diginotar. Diginotar...

Audit Report Shows Many Cracks in DigiNotar Security

A new report on the security of DigiNotar paints an ugly picture of the certificate authority’s safeguards and network infrastructure, showing that the company had all of its CA servers on one Windows domain and likely failed to separate the critical components on its network, making it easy for...

Comodo Hacker Claims Credit for DigiNotar Attack

The same attacker who claimed to have compromised Comodo in March is now claiming responsibility for the attack on DigiNotar, the Dutch certificate authority that issued fraudulent certificates for several hundred domains in he last few weeks, including Google, Yahoo, Mozilla Add-Ons and several...

Hacked WordPress Blogs Used to Poison Google Image Search

A researcher has found evidence of thousands of compromised WordPress blogs that are being used to insert malicious images into Google search results. The report, from the unmaskparasites.com blog, may be evidence of the after affects of a widespread attack on WordPress blogs reported last week, ...

IBM to Unveil Secure Open Wireless System at Black Hat

LAS VEGAS–Researchers from IBM’s ISS X-Force plan to unveil a new system for running an open wireless network in a secure mode at the Black Hat conference here this week. The system mimics the way that Web sites browsers use digital certificates to establish a trusted connection with one another...

Get Your New Video Codecs–and Scareware

Scareware gangs have been using pretty much the same tactics since the dawn of time. Or at least since 2005. They compromise Web sites, use them as jumping off points for pop-up boxes that aim to terrify the citizenry into thinking their PCs are infected and downloading fake security software. Bu...