Charter Communications Fixes Data Leaking Vulnerability

Internet-cable-television provider Charter Communications recently fixed an issue with its website that was inadvertently leaking the information of tens of thousands of customers. Customers’ payment details, modem serial numbers, device names, account numbers, home addresses, were being spilled...

HP ProCurve 5400 zl Switches Compact Flash Card Security Issue

The remote HP ProCurve 5400 zl switch is missing a software update that corrects an issue with a compact flash card that may contain malware-infected content. Note that The J8726A Management Module in 5400 zl switches are only affected if they possess the following serial numbers : - ID116AS04P...

Cleartext Credential Found in ICS Device Firmware

Industrial control systems are rife with security issues, not the least of which is the use of hard-coded credentials. In order to minimize downtime, developers and administrators build in passwords to expedite remote troubleshooting in the event of a system crash or failure. Problems arise when ...

HP ProCurve 5400 zl Switches Security Bulletin

Hewlett-Packard HP has released a security bulletin to address a security vulnerability affecting HP 5400 zl series switches purchased after April 30, 2011. These switches contain a compact flash card that may be infected with malware. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review HP...

Windows Gather Dump Recent Files lnk Info

The dumplinks module is a modified port of Harlan Carvey's lslnk.pl Perl script. This module will parse .lnk files from a user's Recent Documents folder and Microsoft Office's Recent Documents folder, if present. Windows creates these link files automatically for many common file types. The .lnk...

CVE-2009-0171

The Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 and M5000 Server, within a certain range of serial numbers, allows remote attackers to use the manufacturing root password, perform a root login to the eXtended System Control Facility Unit aka XSCFU or Service Processor, and have unspecified other impact...