Verizon Fios Actiontec model MI424WR-GEN3I router vulnerable to cross-site request forgery

Overview The Verizon FIOS Actiontec router model MI424WR-GEN3I is susceptible to cross-site request forgery attacks. CWE-352 Description The Verizon FIOS Actiontec router model MI424WR-GEN3I is susceptible to cross-site request forgery attacks. CWE-352 A remote attacker that is able to trick a us...

New Verizon Marketing Initiative May Violate Users' Privacy

Verizon has drawn the ire of its customers and privacy advocates this week because a new initiative launched by the telecom company may violate users’ privacy. A new marketing program dubbed Precision Market Insights extracts information about Verizon’s customers on Android and iOS platforms...

Stable Channel Update for Chrome OS

Update 5 Sept 10 am PDT - 21 Stable wifi issues are resolved, we are rolling out a new update to 21.0.1183.89 Platform version: 2268.142.0 The Google Chrome team is happy to announce the arrival of Chrome 21 to the Stable Channel for Chrome OS. More detailed updates are available on the Google...

Verizon Settles with FCC for $1.25 Million Over Tethering Block

In an unprecedented move, the Federal Communications Commission ended a 10-month investigation of Verizon Wireless with a $1.25 million settlement for restricting Android customer access to “tethering” software used to relay Internet signals to other devices. The federal probe was launched after...

Carrier IQ Hires a Chief Privacy Officer

Carrier IQ, a startup heavily bruised last fall by harsh criticism of its handset diagnostic software, today announced it’s hired a high-profile lawyer as its Chief Privacy Officer. According to a news release, Magnolia Mansourkia Mobley, a CIPP and former Verizon executive, will be tasked with...

Verizon: Hacktivists Steal Most Data In 2011

It can be hard to parse the results of the Verizon Data Breach Investigation Report DBIR, what with the shifts from year to year in the sources of breach data collected. Last year’s report, if you recall, found a stunning drop in incidents of data theft in 2010, even as tracking sites like...

Stable Channel Update for Chromebooks

The Google Chrome team is happy to announce the release of Chrome 17 on the Stable Channel for Chromebooks Acer AC700, Samsung Series 5, and Cr-48. You can read more about the Chrome version 17.0.963.54 Platform version: 1412.186.0 Release highlights: Read about improvements to Chrome over on the...

Game On: Gamma Ray Scanners To Guard 'Most Technologically Secure' Super Bowl Ever

Gamma ray scanners? Night vision cameras? bomb-proof manhole covers? G-Men? It must be Super Bowl time again, and Marion County, Indiana says that they’ve gone where no other municipality has gone before: a permanent, $18 million regional operation center yes – ROC that will manage security at th...

Debian DSA-2343-1 : openssl - CA trust revocation

Several weak certificates were issued by Malaysian intermediate CA'Digicert Sdn. Bhd.' This event, along with other issues, has lead to Entrust Inc. and Verizon Cybertrust to revoke the CA's cross-signed certificates. This update to OpenSSL, a Secure Sockets Layer toolkit, reflects this decision ...

DSA-2343-1 openssl - CA trust revocation

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Oracle, other companies hacked by Social Engineering attack in #DefCon 19

Oracle, other companies hacked by Social Engineering attack in DefCon 19 A weekend contest from 4th August to 7th August , at the world's largest hacking convention in Las Vegas showed one reason why big corporations seem to be such easy prey for cyber criminals : their workers are poorly trained...

Sitecore CMS 6.4 Open URL Redirect Vulnerability

Product Name: Sitecore CMS 6.4 Vendor: http://www.sitecore.net Date: 28 July, 2011 Author: [email protected] [email protected] Original URL: http://www.tomneaves.com/SitecoreCMSOpenURLRedirect.txt Discovered: 30 June, 2011 Disclosed: 28 July, 2011 I. DESCRIPTION Sitecore is a CMS system used wide...

Verizon: RSA Hackers Using Trojans, Keyloggers In Second Wave Attacks

Customers of EMC’s RSA Security division that are worried about being the victim of an attack following the theft of sensitive data relating to that company’s SECURID tokens may not need to rush out and replace those tokens, according to security consulting firm Verizon Business. Efforts to stop...

Epsilon Ups Ante on Security Following Breach

Nearly three months after marketing services firm Epsilon had its system breached, the company has begun to rebuild the security of its e-mail marketing platform. The firm has unveiled an array of enhancements they claim will mitigate “electronic crimes in motion” according to a press release...

SpyEye Trojan Targeted Verizon's Online Billing Site

Attackers used the infamous SpyEye Trojan to target Verizon’s online billing page for nearly a week earlier this month, trying to nab users’ sensitive personal and financial information, researchers say. The Trojan used a method of attack known as HTML injection to modify the pages presented in a...

Weird Science: Verizon Finds Stunning Drop in Data Theft

If there’s one thing that scientists and statisticians both hate, its weird data. And that’s what the folks at Verizon were dealing with when they tallied the results of their 2011 Data Breach Report which found a stunning 97% drop in the number of lost records, even as the number of reported...

Verizon 2011 Data Breach Investigations Report Released !

Verizon 2011 Data Breach Investigations Report Released ! Data loss through cyber attacks decreased sharply in 2010, but the total number of breaches was higher than ever, according to the " Verizon 2011 Data Breach Investigations Report ." These findings continue to demonstrate that businesses a...

Alex Hutton on the 2011 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report

Dennis Fisher talks with Alex Hutton of Verizon about the 2011 Data Breach Investigations Report, the massive decrease in the number of records breached, the increase in the number of incidents and the clues to the cover challenge that may or may not be embedded in the report. Podcast audio...

Checkpoint VPN - Priviledge Escalation

It appears this bug has gone unoticed to vulnerability databases maintainers, very likely due to the lack of disclosure/publication. This usually means it's also not in compliance/patching systems and exposes customers to unecessary risk. To counteract I'd like to drop this note. Checkpoint SNX...

Alex Hutton on the VERIS Community App and Data Breaches

Dennis Fisher talks with Alex Hutton of Verizon Business about the company’s release of the VERIS Community Application and the need for better data in the security community on attacks and incidents. Podcast audio courtesy of sykboy65 Subscribe to the Digital Underground podcast on...