Mozilla Warns of SHA-1 Deprecation Side Effects

As promised, Mozilla officially began rejecting new SHA-1 certificates as of the first of the year. And as promised, there have been some usability issues. Mozilla yesterday said that some security scanners and antivirus products are keeping some from reaching HTTPS websites. “When a user tries t...

BadBarcode Internet Of Things Hack PacSec 2015

Barcodes’ pervasiveness in retail, health care and other service industries notwithstanding, hackers really haven’t paid much attention to these tiny lines of data. But like other technologies supporting the so-called Internet of Things, there are bound to be vulnerabilities and there are bound t...

ZAP 2.4.2 - Penetration Testing Tool for Testing Web Applications

The Zed Attack Proxy ZAP is an easy to use integrated penetration testing tool for finding vulnerabilities in web applications. It is designed to be used by people with a wide range of security experience and as such is ideal for developers and functional testers who are new to penetration testin...

CVE-2010-5306

GE Healthcare Optima CT680, CT540, CT640, and CT520 has a default password of bigguy for the root user, which has unspecified impact and attack vectors...

Default credentials

GE Healthcare Optima CT680, CT540, CT640, and CT520 has a default password of bigguy for the root user, which has unspecified impact and attack vectors...

CVE-2010-5306

This CVE concerns GE Healthcare Optima imaging systems (Optima 520/540/640/680) with default or hard-coded credentials, enabling remote authentication bypass. The ICS-CERT advisory (ICSMA-18-037-02) confirms multiple GE products affected; exploitation could allow an attacker to bypass authenticat...

CVE-2010-5306

GE Healthcare Optima CT680, CT540, CT640, and CT520 has a default password of bigguy for the root user, which has unspecified impact and attack vectors...

PentestBox - Portable Penetration Testing Distribution for Windows Environments

PentestBox is not like other Penetration Testing Distributions which runs on virtual machines. It is created because more than 50% of penetration testing distributions users uses windows. So it provides an efficient platform for Penetration Testing on windows platform. Check out demo video: Easy ...

BodyPrint Technology Turns Smartphones into Biometric Scanners

Yahoo! don’t want you to every time type a PIN or swipe your phone or scan your thumbprint in order to unlock your smartphone. Instead, it only wants you to place your smartphone device on your ear in order to do that. A new concept from Yahoo’s Research Labs is out that doesn’t focus on old...

CVE-2014-7897

The OLE Point of Sale OPOS drivers before 1.13.003 on HP Point of Sale Windows PCs allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving OPOSScanner.ocx for Imaging Barcode scanners, Linear Barcode scanners, Presentation Barcode scanners, Retail Integrated Barcode scanners,...

Code injection

The OLE Point of Sale OPOS drivers before 1.13.003 on HP Point of Sale Windows PCs allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving OPOSScanner.ocx for Imaging Barcode scanners, Linear Barcode scanners, Presentation Barcode scanners, Retail Integrated Barcode scanners,...

CVE-2014-7897

The OLE Point of Sale OPOS drivers before 1.13.003 on HP Point of Sale Windows PCs allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving OPOSScanner.ocx for Imaging Barcode scanners, Linear Barcode scanners, Presentation Barcode scanners, Retail Integrated Barcode scanners,...

CVE-2014-7897

HP OPOS CCO drivers released before 1.13.003 are affected by ARBITRARY CODE EXECUTION via OPOSScanner.ocx and related ActiveX controls across HP POS devices. The connected Nessus/HP advisories identify CVE-2014-7897 and related CVEs (e.g., 2014-7888..7898) as remote code execution vulnerabilities...

Analysis of Flash Zero Day Shows Layers of Obfuscation

The Flash zero day that made its way into the Angler exploit kit was wrapped in multiple layers of obfuscation and has the ability to inject its malicious payload straight into users’ browsers. In the last week, since the news broke of the Adobe Flash zero-day flaw appearing in the Angler kit,...

Detekt Open Source Surveillance Detection Tool

Hours spent on long-distance phone calls to political activists in the Middle East, journalists in Africa or human rights organizations in Asia are stressful for Claudio Guarnieri, an independent security researcher, white-hat hacker and civil rights activist. Often he has to convince that party,...

Google Releases Open Source XSS Web App Scanner

UPDATE: A previous version of this story incorrectly reported that Firing Range is a scanner when in reality Firing Range is a tool that tests Web application security scanners. Google today released to open source tool called Firing Range, which is designed as a test bed for Web application...

Zarp - Local Network Attack Framework

Zarp is a network attack tool centered around the exploitation of local networks. This does not include system exploitation, but rather abusing networking protocols and stacks to take over, infiltrate, and knock out. Sessions can be managed to quickly poison and sniff multiple systems at once,...

F5 Networks BIG-IP : Linux kernel TCP ISN vulnerability (K15301)

The 1 IPv4 and 2 IPv6 implementations in the Linux kernel before 3.1 use a modified MD4 algorithm to generate sequence numbers and Fragment Identification values, which makes it easier for remote attackers to cause a denial of service disrupted networking or hijack network sessions by predicting...

Blackhat 2014 Arsenal Experience

Last week at Blackhat Arsenal 2014, Pete and I @willis presented on Serpico. Arsenal was a great experience and I would highly recommend to anyone as an attendee or presenter. We got some great feedback on the project, so thank you to anyone who stopped by. Here were the top 3 feature requests an...

SGI IRIX 5.1/5.2 sgihelp Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/468/info The sgihelp program, from SGI and included with IRIX 5.1 and 5.2, contains a vulnerability. sgihelp contains an option that allows a user to print to a command. Certain SGI utilities, including PrintStatus,...