Australia’s Telstra Wiretapping undersea cables from past 12 years for FBI

According to a secret agreement it signed in 2001 with the FBI and US Department of Justice - Telstra, Australia’s largest phone company is storing huge volumes of electronic communications it carried between Asia and the US for potential surveillance by US intelligence agencies. The contract was...

Google Releases Chrome 20 With Fixes for 20 Security Vulnerabilities

Google has released version 20 of its Chrome browser, and has fixed a nice, symmetrical 20 flaws in the browser, including 13 high-risk bugs. Google also paid out $8,000 in rewards to researchers who reported bugs. A large number of the bugs fixed in Chrome 20 are use-after-free vulnerabilities i...

Tracker: SpyEye Not Yet Zeus-Like In Stature

The SpyEye Tracker, a new site that hopes to trace the activity of the budding SpyEye Trojan, went live this week and shows the emerging SpyEye botnet to be global in reach, but still much smaller than the Zeus botnet with which it has merged. SpyEye Tracker has already identified 68 malicious...

Quagga bgpd DoS

bgpd/bgpattr.c in Quagga 0.98.6 and earlier, and 0.99.6 and earlier 0.99 versions, does not validate length values in the MPREACHNLRI and MPUNREACHNLRI attributes, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service daemon crash or exit via crafted UPDATE messages that trigger an assertion...

CVE-2005-2329

MRV Communications In-Reach LX-8000S, LX-4000S, and LX-1000S 3.5.0, when using SSH public key authentication, does not properly restrict access to ports, which allows remote authenticated users to access the consoles of other users...

CVE-2005-2329

MRV Communications In-Reach LX-8000S, LX-4000S, and LX-1000S 3.5.0, when using SSH public key authentication, does not properly restrict access to ports, which allows remote authenticated users to access the consoles of other users...

MRV In-Reach console server: Port Access Control Bypass Vulnerability

Hi, this is another bug I encountered during my research on console servers. Summary: Port Access Control Bypass Vulnerability on MRVs In-Reach console servers. Details: MRV's In-Reach console servers come with feature that enables access to their ports by ssh public keys. As opposed to e.g...