Surveillance Transparency Act Would Limit NSA Spying

There have been countless hearings in both the House and Senate since the Snowden leaks began in June, and there seems to be no end in sight. The latest committee to get in on the action was the Senate Committee on the Judiciary’s Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law, which held a...

China Builds World's Fastest Supercomputer

China has developed a new supercomputer known as Tianhe-2 which is twice as fast as US and Japanese systems has been measured at speeds of 30.65 petaflops or 74 percent faster than the current holder of the world's-fastest-supercomputer title. Titan, the U.S. Department of Energy's fastest...

China Builds World's Fastest Supercomputer

China has developed a new supercomputer known as Tianhe-2 which is twice as fast as US and Japanese systems has been measured at speeds of 30.65 petaflops or 74 percent faster than the current holder of the world's-fastest-supercomputer title. Titan, the U.S. Department of Energy's fastest...

Citadel Trojan Updates with Dynamic Config Mechanism that Streamlines Fraud Activity

The elusive authors of the Citadel Trojan have released a new version of their banking botnet malware and service. The latest version, the sixth since it debuted in January and dubbed Rain, includes a dynamic configuration mechanism that allows botmasters to inject malicious content to compromise...

multimedia macro allows execution of arbitrary scripts

The multimedia macro in confluence embeds a swf without the 'allowScriptAccess' attribute set to 'none'. This allows the embedded user submitted swf to execute arbitrary javascript on the page, constituting an XSS vulnerability. The multimedia tag is bundled in with the base product and not an...

multimedia macro allows execution of arbitrary scripts

The multimedia macro in confluence embeds a swf without the 'allowScriptAccess' attribute set to 'none'. This allows the embedded user submitted swf to execute arbitrary javascript on the page, constituting an XSS vulnerability. The multimedia tag is bundled in with the base product and not an...

The Importance of Internet Identity and Anonymity

Last year, Craig Mundie issued a call to arms for a more “trustworthy Internet” — not that Microsoft has been entirely successful at implementing its arguably more humble Trustworthy Computing initiative. But let’s not let the computing industry’s failure to bring forward operating systems, web...

CVE-2006-3017

zendhashdelkeyorindex in zendhash.c in PHP before 4.4.3 and 5.x before 5.1.3 can cause zendhashdel to delete the wrong element, which prevents a variable from being unset even when the PHP unset function is called, which might cause the variable's value to be used in security-relevant operations...