DoD Inspector General Calls Out Army CIO For Poor Mobile Device Security

The CIO of the U.S. Army failed to put in place a comprehensive security program capable of protecting data stored on commercial mobile devices such as iPhones and Androids, leaving sensitive information in key Army installations exposed. The Inspector General of the Department of Defense took th...

Multiple Vulnerabilities in KrisonAV CMS

High-Tech Bridge Security Research Lab discovered multiple vulnerabilities in KrisonAV CMS, which can be exploited to perform cross-site scripting and cross-site request forgery attacks. 1 Cross-Site Scripting XSS vulnerability in KrisonAV CMS: CVE-2013-2712 The vulnerability exists due to...

McAfee Virtual Technician (MVT) 6.5.0.2101 Unsafe Active-X

Advisory ID: HTB23128 Product: McAfee Virtual Technician MVT 6.5.0.2101 Vendor: McAfee Vulnerable Versions: 6.5.0.2101 and probably prior Tested Version: 6.5.0.2101 on Windows 7 SP1 and Internet Explorer 9 Vendor Notification: November 19, 2012 Vendor Patch: March 15, 2013 Public Disclosure: Marc...

AWS XMS 2.5 Path Traversal

Advisory ID: HTB23147 Product: AWS XMS Vendor: http://www.aws-dms.com Vulnerable Versions: 2.5 and probably prior Tested Version: 2.5 Vendor Notification: March 6, 2013 Vendor Patch: March 16, 2013 Public Disclosure: March 27, 2013 Vulnerability Type: Path Traversal CWE-22 CVE Reference:...

WordPress Plugin Mathjax Latex 1.1 - Cross-Site Request Forgery

Title: Wordpress Mathjax Latex 1.1 Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability Release Date: 25/03/13 Author: Junaid Hussain illSecure Research Group Contact: [email protected] | Website: illSecure.com Software Link: http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/mathjax-latex.1.1.zip Tested on...

Wordpress Mathjax Latex 1.1 CSRF Vulnerability

Exploit for php platform in category web applications Title: Wordpress Mathjax Latex 1.1 Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability Release Date: 25/03/13 Author: Junaid Hussain illSecure Research Group Contact: email protected | Website: illSecure.com Software Link:...

VUPEN Security Research - Microsoft Internet Explorer 10-9-8-7-6 "OnMove" Use-after-free (MS13-021 / CVE-2013-0087)

VUPEN Security Research - Microsoft Internet Explorer 10-9-8-7-6 "OnMove" Use-after-free MS13-021 / CVE-2013-0087 Website : http://www.vupen.com Twitter : http://twitter.com/vupen I. BACKGROUND --------------------- "Microsoft Internet Explorer is a web browser developed by Microsoft and included...

Researchers Uncover 'TeamSpy' Attack Campaign Against Government, Research Targets

Researchers have uncovered a long-term cyber-espionage campaign that used a combination of legitimate software packages and commodity malware tools to target a variety of heavy industry, government intelligence agencies and political activists. Known as the TeamSpy crew because of its affinity fo...

The GNU/Linux kernel new features initiator to mention the right vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

SUSE security research members of the Sebastian Krahmer has published the GNU/Linux kernel to mention the right vulnerability, recent GNU/Linux kernel3.8+have introduced a In order to facilitate the container to achieve the new features: user-namespacesuser-ns, CLONENEWUSER flag, this feature...

[SE-2012-01] The "allowed behavior" in Java SE 7 (Issue 54)

Hello All, We decided to release technical details of Issue 54 that was reported to Oracle on Feb 25, 2013 and that was evaluated by the company as the "allowed behavior". As of Mar 18, 2013 we have no information that Oracle treats Issue 54 as a security vulnerability. We believe that 3 weeks fr...

AT&T Hacker Andrew Auernheimer sentenced to 3.5 Years in prison

Self-described troll and Grey hat AT&T Hacker Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer, 26, has been sentenced to 41 months in prison for exploiting an AT&T security hole three years ago, and releasing thousands of iPad owners email addresses. According to authorities, they obtained the ICC-ID and e-mail addres...

Chinese hackers infiltrate Indian Defence Research Organisation

According to an exclusive report published today by DNA news, the computers of highly sensitive Defence Research and Development Organisation DRDO have reportedly been hacked by Chinese hackers as biggest security breach in the Indian Defence ever. Infiltrate leading to the leak of thousands of t...

Slideshow: Scenes from CanSecWest 2013

VIEW SLIDESHOW Scenes from CanSecWest 2013 The CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver last week included technical presentations on bypassing ASLR and DEP and the intricacies of Android research, as well as a fascinating talk on the red team exercises Facebook’s security team runs. We put...

Multiple XSS vulnerabilities in Events Manager WordPress plugin

Advisory ID: HTB23139 Product: Events Manager WordPress plugin Vendor: Marcus Sykes Vulnerable Versions: 5.3.3 and probably prior Tested Version: 5.3.3 Vendor Notification: January 16, 2013 Vendor Patch: January 17, 2013 Public Disclosure: March 6, 2013 Vulnerability Type: Cross-Site Scripting...

Multiple NULL Pointer Dereference Vulnerabilities in Corel Quattro Pro X6

Advisory ID: HTB23112 Product: Corel Quattro Pro X6 Standard Edition Vendor: Corel Corporation Vulnerable Versions: 16.0.0.388, other versions may be also affected Tested Version: 16.0.0.388 on Windows 7 SP1 32 bits Vendor Notification: August 27, 2012 Public Disclosure: March 7, 2013 Vulnerabili...

Corel Quattro Pro X6 Standard Edition NULL Pointer Dereference

Advisory ID: HTB23112 Product: Corel Quattro Pro X6 Standard Edition Vendor: Corel Corporation Vulnerable Versions: 16.0.0.388, other versions may be also affected Tested Version: 16.0.0.388 on Windows 7 SP1 32 bits Vendor Notification: August 27, 2012 Public Disclosure: March 7, 2013 Vulnerabili...

Threats and Market Share Increase for Android, Decrease for Symbian

No real surprise that F-Secure’s fourth quarter threat report further accentuated the all-but-definite-reality that there is a direct correlation between a platform’s market share and the volume of threats targeting it. “As its market share declines,“ F-Secure researchers reasoned, “so does malwa...

Mudge on the CFT

Peiter Zatko, also known as Mudge, has run the DARPA Cyber Fast Track program for the last three years, but he said that the researcher program is ending on April 1. The CFT program funded a wide range of security research projects in its time, including Charlie Miller’s NFC work and Moxie...

WordPress Events Manager 5.3.3 Cross Site Scripting

Advisory ID: HTB23139 Product: Events Manager WordPress plugin Vendor: Marcus Sykes Vulnerable Versions: 5.3.3 and probably prior Tested Version: 5.3.3 Vendor Notification: January 16, 2013 Vendor Patch: January 17, 2013 Public Disclosure: March 6, 2013 Vulnerability Type: Cross-Site Scripting...

Groundbreaking Cyber Fast Track Research Program Ending

VANCOUVER–When Peiter Zatko, the security researcher and pioneering hacker known as Mudge, joined the federal government several years ago to help run a DARPA research program, some in the security industry wondered what effect someone with his background could have in an organization as famously...