Schneider Electric Patches Buffer Overflow in ICS Products

There is a remotely exploitable buffer overflow in a handful of software products from Schneider Electric that could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable machines. The vulnerability lies in a DLL that’s installed with a Device Type Manager that is part of several Schneider...

Analysis of Flash Zero Day Shows Layers of Obfuscation

The Flash zero day that made its way into the Angler exploit kit was wrapped in multiple layers of obfuscation and has the ability to inject its malicious payload straight into users’ browsers. In the last week, since the news broke of the Adobe Flash zero-day flaw appearing in the Angler kit,...

Apple OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 Update to Patch years-old Thunderstrike vulnerability

Apple is preparing to release the second update to OS X Yosemite in the coming days to its customers. The upcoming beta update OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 contains a patch for the Thunderstrike vulnerability that allows malware to be injected into Macs via the Thunderbolt port. Earlier this month,...

Adobe Auto-Update Flash Player Zero Day Patch

Adobe on Saturday began patching a zero-day vulnerability in Flash Player, exploits for which have been included in the notorious Angler Exploit Kit. This is the second of two previously unreported critical flaws in the software that have been patched in the last five days. Adobe last Thursday se...

Adobe patches 2nd Flash Player Zero-day Vulnerability

Ready to patch your Adobe Flash software now. Adobe has patched one after one two zero-day vulnerabilities in its Adobe Flash that are being actively exploited by the cyber criminals. PATCH FOR FIRST ZERO-DAY On Thursday, the company released an emergency update for one of the critical...

Google reveals 3 Apple OS X Zero-day Vulnerabilities

After exposing three critical zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft's Windows operating systems, Google's Project Zero vulnerability research program has revealed the existence of three more zero-day vulnerabilities, but this time, on Apple's OS X platform. The team has published three zero-day...

Google Apps Flaw Allowed Hacker to Hijack Account and Disable Two-factor Authentication

A critical cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in the Google Apps administrator console allowed cyber criminals to force a Google Apps admins to execute just about any request on the domain. The Google Apps admin console allows administrators to manage their organization’s account...

Exploit for Flash Zero Day Appears in Angler Exploit Kit

The dangerous Angler exploit kit has a new piece of ammunition to use in its attacks: a fresh Adobe Flash zero-day vulnerability. The kit is exploiting the previously unknown vulnerability in several versions of Internet Explorer running on Windows 7 and Windows 8. French security researcher...

Google vs. Microsoft — Google reveals Third unpatched Zero-Day Vulnerability in Windows

Microsoft has heavily criticized Google and its 90-days security disclosure policy after the firm publicly revealed two zero-day vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s Windows 8.1 operating system one after one just days before Microsoft planned to issue a patch to kill the bugs. But, seemingly Google...

Corel Software DLL Hijacking Vulnerability Allows Hackers to Execute Malicious Code

Security researchers have disclosed local zero day DLL hijacking vulnerabilities in several applications developed by Corel Software that could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary commands on victims' computer, potentially affecting more than 100 million users. The security holes were publicly...

2015 Computer Security Risks and Trends to Watch

P4ssw0rds got you down? POODLEs Bashing you over the head giving you Heartbleed? Well, bad puns aside, 2014 was a rough year and you can surely expect more of the same in 2015—with a few new twists. Hackers will still chase credit card numbers and point-of-sale systems, but they’ve got their eye ...

Missing Two-Factor Authentication Led to JPMorgan Breach

The biggest U.S. banking breach of all time came down to the smallest of details. The New York Times, citing sources close to the ongoing investigation of the JPMorgan data breach, said hackers found a server unprotected by two-factor authentication to break in using a stolen user name and passwo...

HP's Zero Day Initiative Changes Bug-Buying Guidelines

HP’s Zero Day Initiative has decided to adjust its guidelines and criteria or buying some vulnerabilities in the future, eliminating some large classes of bugs from its menu. The group, which has been among the more visible and prominent of the vulnerability purchasing programs since its inceptio...

Critical Remotely Exploitable Bugs Found in Schneider Electric ProClima Software

There are a number of critical, remotely exploitable command injection vulnerabilities in Schneider Electric’s ProClima software, which is used in manufacturing and energy facilities. The ProClima application is a utility that customers use to design control panel enclosures in industrial...

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Honeywell OPOS suite Stack Buffer Overflow vulnerability

Overview The Honeywell OPOS OLE for Retail Point-of-Sale POS Suite is vulnerable to a stack buffer overflow attack. Description The Honeywell OPOS Suite provides a standard programming interface that allows POS hardware to be easily integrated into retail POS systems based on Microsoft Windows...

IPUX CL5452/CL5132 IP Camera (UltraSVCamX.ocx) ActiveX Stack Buffer Overflow

Summary The device is H.264 Wired/Wireless IP Camera with 1.3 Mega-pixel sensor. With high performance H.264 video compression, the file size of video stream is extremely reduced, as to optimize the network bandwidth efficiency. It has full Pan/Tilt function and 3X digital zoom feature for a larg...

MS14-064 Microsoft Windows OLE Package Manager Code Execution Through Python

This module requires Metasploit: http//metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework require 'msf/core' class Metasploit3 "MS14-064 Microsoft Windows OLE Package Manager Code Execution Through Python", 'Description' = %q This module exploits a vulnerabilit...

November 2014 Microsoft Patch Tuesday Security Bulletins

A busy Microsoft Patch Tuesday arrived today with an extra sense of urgency and a complication. Among 14 bulletins, four of which are rated critical by Microsoft, is a patch for the OLE zero-day vulnerability being used in a number of targeted attacks. The zero-day is being spread via email...

Darkhotel APT Malware Targets Global CEOs Using Hotel Internet

A seven-year-old cyber espionage campaign has targeted senior level executives from large global companies by using a specialized Advanced Persistent Threat APT, zero-day exploits, and well-developed keyloggers to extract information from them when they stay in luxury hotels during their business...