Microsoft discontinues MD5 crypto for digital certificates to improve RDP Authentication

This week Microsoft has released several advisories to help their users update from weak crypto. Microsoft is beginning the process of discontinuing support for digital certificates that use the MD5 hashing algorithm and to improve the network-level authentication for the Remote Desktop Protocol...

Juniper Junos OSPF Protocol Vulnerability (JSA10582)

According to its self-reported version number, the remote Juniper Junos device has a flaw in its OSPF implementation. A rogue router in the same autonomous system AS could exploit this to control the routing tables of all other routers in the AS. Note that this issue does not affect device with o...

Android vulnerability allows hackers to modify apps without breaking signatures

Almost all Android handsets are vulnerable to a flaw that could allow hackers to seize control of a device to make calls, send texts, or build a mobile botnet, has been uncovered by Bluebox Security .i.e almost 900 million Android devices globally. Or simply, The Flaw allow hackers to modify any...

Android vulnerability allows hackers to modify apps without breaking signatures

Almost all Android handsets are vulnerable to a flaw that could allow hackers to seize control of a device to make calls, send texts, or build a mobile botnet, has been uncovered by Bluebox Security .i.e almost 900 million Android devices globally. Or simply, The Flaw allow hackers to modify any...

iPhones Automatically Connect to Rogue Networks

Some iPhone users are vulnerable to having their devices automatically join rogue Wi-Fi networks because of a combination of an iOS feature that allows devices to reconnect to known networks and a directory of carrier-specific wireless network SSIDs that are preloaded into iOS, according to mobil...

Android malware loaded with Linux kernel privilege escalation exploit

Malware authors are notorious for quickly leveraging new exploits in the public domain for nefarious purposes. A recently discovered Linux kernel Local privilege escalation exploit, which allows attackers to gain complete control of infected devices, has been ported to the Android smartphone...

Cisco Prime Infrastructure Rogue AP SSID Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the wireless configuration module of Cisco Prime Infrastructure could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to insert scripts into the listing of rogue access points. The vulnerability is due to a failure to properly sanitize SSIDs before inserting them into the XML windowi...

Vulnerability in "Fujitsu Desktop Update" (for Windows)

Hi @ll, Fujitsu's update utility "Fujitsu Desktop Update" see http://support.ts.fujitsu.com/DeskUpdate/Index.asp, which is factory-preinstalled on every Fujitsu Siemens PC with Windows, has a vulnerability which allows the execution of a rogue program in the security context of the current user...

Malware that turns computers into Bitcoin miners

Researchers from Kaspersky Lab have discovered a new spam message campaign being transmitted via Skype contains malware capable of using an infected computer to mine for Bitcoins. The malware, identified as Trojan.Win32.Jorik.IRCbot.xkt. Bitcoin is a non-governmental, fully-digital currency based...

Malware that turns computers into Bitcoin miners

Researchers from Kaspersky Lab have discovered a new spam message campaign being transmitted via Skype contains malware capable of using an infected computer to mine for Bitcoins. The malware, identified as Trojan.Win32.Jorik.IRCbot.xkt. Bitcoin is a non-governmental, fully-digital currency based...

qpid-cpp: qpid authentication bypass

It was found that the Apache Qpid daemon qpidd treated AMQP connections with the federationtag attribute set as a broker-to-broker connection, rather than a client-to-server connection. This resulted in the source user ID of messages not being checked. A client that can establish an AMQP connecti...

elinks security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2013:0250 An updated elinks package that fixes one security issue is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS...

Predictive Security Analytics Tool Available Free to Researchers

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Dan Hubbard has lately been a regular face at a lot of big data meet-ups. He’s also often been the lone security face at these meet-ups, which are dominated by analytics, search, social media and advertising professionals. That may change soon for the CTO of DNS and securi...

Chrome for Android - Download Function Information Disclosure

CVE Number: CVE-2012-4906 Title: Chrome for Android - Download Function Information Disclosure Affected Software: Confirmed on Chrome for Android v18.0.1025123 Credit: Takeshi Terada Issue Status: v18.0.1025308 was released which fixes this vulnerability Overview: Rogue Android apps can steal...

Debian DSA-2599-1 : nss - mis-issued intermediates

Google, Inc. discovered that the TurkTrust certification authority included in the Network Security Service libraries nss mis-issued two intermediate CAs which could be used to generate rogue end-entity certificates. This update explicitly distrusts those two intermediate CAs. The two existing...

[SECURITY] [DSA 2599-1] nss security update

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2599-1 (nss - mis-issued intermediates)

Google, Inc. discovered that the TurkTrust certification authority included in the Network Security Service libraries nss mis-issued two intermediate CAs which could be used to generate rogue end-entity certificates. This update explicitly distrusts those two intermediate CAs. The two existing...

DSA-2599-1 nss - mis-issued intermediates

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Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-2599-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013 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...

Spammers Using Fake YouTube Notifications to Peddle Drugs

Spammers are attempting to deceive unsuspecting users into clicking on fake YouTube links that lead to a counterfeit drug website, according to a report yesterday from security firm Webroot. Dancho Danchev writes that pharmaceutical scammers are circulating emails that mimic legitimate Youtube...