OpenVPN Patches Denial of Service Vulnerability

An update for OpenVPN released on Monday patches a serious denial of service vulnerability present in the open source VPN software since 2005. “It is also possible that even older versions are affected,” OpenVPN said in its advisory, clarifying that the flaw affects primarily OpenVPN 2.x versions...

Craigslist Back Online Following DNS Hijack

The popular classifieds website Craigslist is back online today following a DNS attack that forced it offline for several hours Sunday evening. According to a blogpost Sunday night by Craigslist’s CEO Jim Buckmaster, DNS records maintained at one of Craigslist’s domain registrars were compromised...

The PCI Enforcement Hammer is Ready to Drop

The time for nervous anticipation for PCI breach response is over …. VISA has issued dramatic PCI Data Security Standard Compliance enforcement guidance for Level 1 and 2 merchants and all Service Providers. Effective January 1st, 2015, noncompliance costs will be applied sooner and will escalate...

Xen Bug Could cause Crashes, Expose Cloud Data

The Xen Project published a security advisory yesterday about a critical vulnerability in its virtual machine and hypervisor systems that could expose public cloud servers to attacks capable of crashing host machines and even stealing small amounts of random data. The fix was made available under...

Comcast Calls Reports it Will Terminate Tor Users Inaccurate

Comcast’s damage-control processes continue to get a workout. Weeks after an infamously exasperating exchange went public between a customer service person and a customer wishing to disconnect their service, the mega ISP spent most of the weekend defending itself from charges it was discouraging...

NewGOZ Gameover Zeus Botnet Rebuilds

It didn’t take long for an updated version of GameOver Zeus to make some headway in rebuilding itself. Research published today from Arbor Networks demonstrates that cybercriminals behind GameOver Zeus, which was taken down by law enforcement in early June, have renewed the botnet with at least...

Hacker Hijacks ISP Networks to steal $83,000 from Bitcoin Mining pools

Till now, he have heard about “Bitcoin digital wallet hacked” or “Bitcoin website hacked”, but now a hacker has stolen cryptocurrency from mining pools and generated $83,000 in digital cash in more than four months by gaining access to a Canadian Internet provider. Bitcoin is a virtual currency...

Hurray! Unlocking Your Cell Phone is Officially Legal Again

President Barack Obama signed a bill into law Friday that aims to make it legal for consumers to “unlock” their cell phones in order to change their cell phone service providers without paying for a new phone. The bill is known as the Unlocking Consumer Choice and Wireless Competition Act, which...

Freelancers Marketplace Script Persistent XSS Vulnerability

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WebTitan 4.01 (Build 68) - Multiple Vulnerabilities

SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab Security Advisory ======================================================================= title: Multiple critical vulnerabilities product: WebTitan vulnerable version: 4.01 Build 68 fixed version: 4.04 impact: critical homepage: http://www.webtitan.com found:...

Hackers targeting non-browser applications with Fake SSL Certificates

Having SSL Certification doesn't mean that the website you are visiting is not a bogus website. SSL certificates protect web users in two ways, it encrypts sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, or credit card numbers and also verify the identity of websites. But today hackers and...

Wah all the system stored xss vulnerability can be comfortably back impact thousands of hosting service providers-vulnerabilities and early warning-the black bar safety net

Brief description: Hua Zhong system discoveredXSSvulnerability, affecting thousands of hosting service providers Detailed description: Hua Zhong, the WinIIS, star outside AMAXSSvulnerability is proof many times, the estimates are now fixed. But Hua all the following vulnerabilities, the estimate ...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Service Providers Notification Email Messages on January 28, 2014

Medium Alert ID: 32616 First Published: 2014 January 29 17:21 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a service provider notification for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the...

MIRcon 2013 – Day 2 Highlights

Thanks for another wonderful MIRcon®, everyone! It's been an honor to bring together so many leading minds in cybersecurity, and to foster conversations about what we can all do to safeguard the information and innovationson which so much of us rely on. The second and final day of MIRcon 2013...

NSA's Alexander Appeals For Threat Information Sharing

WASHINGTON– While Congress and the technology community are still debating and discussing the intelligence gathering capabilities of NSA revealed in recent months, the agency’s director, Gen. Keith Alexander, is not just defending the use of these existing tools, but is pitching the idea of shari...

Agencies to report progress with FedRAMP

The FedRAMP PMO recently conducted webinars on April 23 and 25 regarding Agencies requirement to report their progress on compliance with FedRAMP. The discussion covered the FedRAMP progress to date, the reporting requirements and process for moving services to FedRAMP authorized cloud service...

NSA Director Alexander: US Building Cyberattack Teams

More rhetoric is coming out of Washington regarding the use of malware as an auxiliary weapon to bombs and bullets. National Security Agency leader Gen. Keith Alexander told a House Armed Services Committee yesterday that his new Cyber Command will be ready to retaliate should the United States...

'Six Strikes' System Flags P2P Piracy and Throttles Broadband Connections

The entertainment industry is teaming with five major Internet service providers to this week launch a new Copyright Alert System that will first warn online pirates and then start to strangle bandwidth of repeat offenders. Dubbed “Six Strikes,” the new system began roll out Monday, putting...

Regulator Warns Banks About DDoS Attacks, Encourages Information Sharing

In an alert issued by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency OCC, Deputy Comptroller for Operational Risk Carolyn G. DuChene warned financial and other critical institutions about the wave of ongoing distributed denial of service DDoS attacks targeting their networks. DuChene is urging the...

Cisco Scientific Atlanta D20 and D30 Based Cable Modem Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

Cisco Scientific Atlanta cable modems D20 and D30 based products contain a vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct cross-site scripting attacks. The vulnerability is due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied input to the web wizard setup web page. An...