Final Report on DigiNotar Hack Shows Total Compromise of CA Servers

The attacker who penetrated the Dutch CA DigiNotar last year had complete control of all eight of the company’s certificate-issuing servers during the operation and he may also have issued some rogue certificates that have not yet been identified. The final report from a security company...

Facebook spam messages says WWE Champion Rey Mysterio dies during fight

A spam message is circulating on Facebook that WWE wrestler Rey Mysterio has died in a stunt gone wrong. Social media is now full of spam messages like this. Last week scammers trick users with "John Cena is died" and this week, rumors about the death of Rey Mysterio. The message actually include...

Scientific Linux Security Update : curl on SL4.x, SL5.x, SL6.x i386/x86_64

cURL provides the libcurl library and a command line tool for downloading files from servers using various protocols, including HTTP, FTP, and LDAP. It was found that cURL always performed credential delegation when authenticating with GSSAPI. A rogue server could use this flaw to obtain the...

CentOS Update for curl CESA-2011:0918 centos4 x86_64

Check for the Version of curl OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for curl CESA-2011:0918 centos4 x8664 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under...

DNSChanger FAQ: The Internet Is Not Broken

You know things have gone sideways when NPR and local TV news are talking about the “Internet doomsday” or “Black Monday”. We have DNSChanger to thank for this latest bout of Internet paranoia, and there’s a ton of misinformation and craziness circulating about the malware. We’re here to provide...

Flame Malware Spread Via Rogue Microsoft Security Certificates

Flame Malware Spread Via Rogue Microsoft Security Certificates Microsoft released an emergency Windows update on Sunday after revealing that one of its trusted digital signatures was being abused to certify the validity of the Flame malware that has infected computers in Iran and other Middle...

Top Web Browsers Vulnerable To Rogue Download Vulnerability

Security researcher and Google employee Michal Zalewski is warning of a potentially serious security hole that affects the three major Web browsers, Internet Explorer, Firefox and Google’s Chrome browser and that could make it easy for attackers to push malicious downloads from domains other than...

Browser Navigation Download Trick

Another moderately interesting tidbit, I guess... It is an important and little-known property of web browsers that one document can always navigate other, non-same-origin windows to arbitrary URLs. Perhaps more interestingly, you can also navigate third-party documents to resources served with...

New P2P Zeus Variant Targets Popular Sites with Bogus Offers

Facebook, Gmail, Yahoo and Hotmail users should beware of rogue rebate offers and new secure payment options aimed at getting them to part with their debit card information. Earlier this week Amit Klein, CTO of Trusteer, announced the discovery of a peer-to-peer variant of the Zeus platform that...

Google's rogue engineer want to Stumble WI-FI Networks on Globe ?

Google's rogue engineer want to Stumble WI-FI Networks on Globe ? European privacy regulators said Wednesday that they were considering reopening their inquiries into Google's collection of personal e-mails and Web searches for its Street View service. Google's public version of events of how it...

DNSChanger Malware Detection

DNSChanger appears to be installed on the remote host. This malware configures the host to use rogue DNS servers, which could cause requests for legitimate websites and hostnames to be routed to attacker controlled machines. Nessus determines the likelihood of infection by comparing the list of D...

Crime with $50 GPS jammer increasing rapidly in UK

Crime with $50 GPS jammer increasing rapidly in UK Too many are using illegal GPS jamming devices on UK roads, according to a study, and are putting critical emergency systems at risk of failure and it's at extreme risk from criminals, terrorist organizations and rogue states and even someone wit...

SuSE 10 Security Update : NetworkManager (ZYPP Patch Number 7957)

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 ...

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 : 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...

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 : 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...

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...