Indian ISPs get court relief, Torrent Sites Unblocked

Indian ISPs get court relief, Torrent Sites Unblocked After weeks of confusion and frustration with blocked websites, the mess finally looks to be clearing. Indians are all heaving a sigh of relief because their ISPs have unblocked the access to the file-sharing, video-streaming BitTorrent sites...

Pressure Mounts For Cybersecurity Bill As Negotiations Stall

A joint letter from some of Washington D.C.’s leading minds in the areas of defense and diplomacy is urging Congress to pass a cyber security bill in some form this year, saying that the U.S. is urgently in need of a new policy and ill-prepared for cyber attacks. The letter, dated June 6, was...

Tumblr Users Should Beware of Cookie Thieves

Two researchers say they’ve found a security hole in Tumblr, one of the most popular sites on the Internet, that could steal users’ authentication cookies to break into their accounts. Aditya Gupta and Subho Halder say they’ve tried to contact Tumblr about the vulnerability by using mail and...

Anonymous takes down MTNL website

Anonymous India takes down MTNL website The hacker-group Anonymous has struck again in India. This time the victim is the MTNL website. The group posted on their website, saying, "We are against Internet Cencorship. Instead of blocking few URLs the ISP blocked the whole domain of various file...

RedHat Update for NetworkManager RHSA-2011:0930-01

Check for the Version of NetworkManager OpenVAS Vulnerability Test RedHat Update for NetworkManager RHSA-2011:0930-01 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 ...

RedHat Update for NetworkManager RHSA-2011:0930-01

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription scriptxrefname:"URL",...

Financial Industry Needs Government Supoport with Security, Not Regulation

Regulation is not the answer. That’s what the CISO of Regions Bank, Michele B. Cantley repeatedly responded with when asked what the government can do to improve the financial sector’s current security climate in a hearing hosted by the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets and...

FileMaker Pro Software Sharing Detection

Binary data 6897.prm...

Foncy is Dead, Long Live Mania

In the middle of January 2012 Foncy was updated: it started to spread together with an IRC bot and a root exploit. But the end of the Foncy story was very close because in February two suspected authors of this malware were arrested in Paris: you can read the story here in French and here in...

FBI Warns Top Firms Of Anonymous Protest Hacks on May 25

The FBI Cyber Division has sent a warning to some of the world’s top corporations about a coordinated campaign of denial of service attacks and hacking, scheduled for Friday, May 25. Apple Computer, McDonald’s, ExxonMobil, Hewlett-Packard, Bank of China and Walmart are among the firms singled out...

PacketVideo TwonkyServer Detection

The remote web server is running PacketVideo TwonkyServer. It is a media server used for making available digital media, such as music, photos, and videos. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid59241; scriptversion"1.3"; scriptcvsdate"Date: 2019/11/22";...

Another Cybersecurity Bill Runs Into Trouble on Capitol Hill

A U.S. Senator’s bill to broaden cybersecurity intelligence gathering is in trouble after other legislators question whether proposed protections comes at the expense of citizens’ privacy. The bill introduced by Sen. Joe Lieberman I-CT to strengthen cybersecurity through better public-private...

DoD Program Expanded, Designed to Share Threat Information

The Pentagon on Friday invited a slew of government contractors to meet and share classified information on cyber threats going forward, part of an initiative that the department hopes will reduce the risk of intrusions to government systems. The information sharing model that the Department of...

Pentagon boosts contractor cybersecurity program

Pentagon boosts contractor cybersecurity program The US Defense Department invited all of its eligible contractors on Friday to join a previously restricted information-sharing pact aimed at guarding sensitive Pentagon program data stored on private computer networks. The Pentagon predicts that a...

Fedora Update for cifs-utils FEDORA-2012-6398

Check for the Version of cifs-utils OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for cifs-utils FEDORA-2012-6398 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...

[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: samba-3.5.15-74.fc15.1

Samba is the suite of programs by which a lot of PC-related machines share files, printers, and other information such as lists of available files and printers. The Windows NT, OS/2, and Linux operating systems support this natively, and add-on packages can enable the same thing for DOS, Windows,...

[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: cifs-utils-5.4-1.fc17

The SMB/CIFS protocol is a standard file sharing protocol widely deployed on Microsoft Windows machines. This package contains tools for mounting shares on Linux using the SMB/CIFS protocol. The tools in this package work in conjunction with support in the kernel to allow one to mount a SMB/CIFS...

ip-forwarding NSE Script

Detects whether the remote device has ip forwarding or "Internet connection sharing" enabled, by sending an ICMP echo request to a given target using the scanned host as default gateway. The given target can be a routed or a LAN host and needs to be able to respond to ICMP requests ping in order...

[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: cifs-utils-5.4-1.fc16

The SMB/CIFS protocol is a standard file sharing protocol widely deployed on Microsoft Windows machines. This package contains tools for mounting shares on Linux using the SMB/CIFS protocol. The tools in this package work in conjunction with support in the kernel to allow one to mount a SMB/CIFS...

[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: cifs-utils-5.4-1.fc15

The SMB/CIFS protocol is a standard file sharing protocol widely deployed on Microsoft Windows machines. This package contains tools for mounting shares on Linux using the SMB/CIFS protocol. The tools in this package work in conjunction with support in the kernel to allow one to mount a SMB/CIFS...