Researchers Investing in EMET Bypasses More than Hackers

Exploits bypassing Microsoft’s Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit, or EMET, are quickly becoming a parlor game for security researchers. With increasing frequency, white hats are poking holes in EMET, and to its credit, Microsoft has been quick to not only address those issues but challenge a...

[security bulletin] HPSBST02937 rev.1 - HP StoreVirtual 4000 and StoreVirtual VSA Software dbd_manager, Remote Execution of Arbitrary Code

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Note: the current version of the following document is available here: https://h20564.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/ docDisplay?docId=emrna-c03995204 SUPPORT COMMUNICATION - SECURITY BULLETIN Document ID: c03995204 Version: 1 HPSBST02937 rev....

APPLE-SA-2014-02-25-3 QuickTime 7.7.5

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 APPLE-SA-2014-02-25-3 QuickTime 7.7.5 QuickTime 7.7.5 is now available and addresses the following: QuickTime Available for: Windows 7, Vista, XP SP2 or later Impact: Playing a maliciously crafted movie file may lead to an unexpected application...

Avaya to Patch one-X IP phone zero-day vulnerability

SAN FRANCISCO — Two zero-day vulnerabilities in Avaya’s latest one-X 9608 IP telephones have been discovered and are expected to be patched on Friday by the provider. Researcher Ang Cui, a Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University and chief scientist at Red Balloon Security, will demonstrate an...

Microsoft EMET 5.0 Technical Preview Released

SAN FRANCISCO – Enterprises beat up by wave after wave of Java exploits and calls to disable the platform may soon have some relief in sight. Microsoft’s free Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit will soon have a new feature that allows users to configure where plug-ins, especially those target...

Complete Microsoft EMET Bypass Developed

SAN FRANCISCO — Researchers at Bromium Labs are expected to announce today they have developed an exploit that bypasses all of the mitigations in Microsoft’s Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit EMET. Principal security researcher Jared DeMott is scheduled to deliver a presentation this morning...

Adobe releases another Emergency Security Patch for Flash Player

Security Firm FireEye has uncovered yet another critical zero-day vulnerability in widely used Adobe Flash Software and Adobe has been forced to issue a second emergency patch update in less than a month. All versions of Adobe Flash Player released before today's patch are vulnerable to the...

Emergency Adobe Flash Update Handles Zero Day Under Attack

Adobe rushed out an unscheduled Flash Player update today to counter exploits of a zero-day vulnerability in the software. A number of national security, foreign policy and public policy websites are hosting exploits that redirect to espionage malware, including the Peter G. Peterson Institute fo...

Microsoft Ships IE 10 Zero Day Fix-It Tool

Microsoft last night released a Fix-It tool as a temporary mitigation for a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer 10 being exploited by two hacker groups against the Veterans of Foreign Wars in the U.S. as well as a French aerospace manufacturer. IE 9 also contains the same use-after free...

Second Group Seen Using IE 10 Zero Day

There are at least two different groups running attacks exploiting the recently published zero day vulnerability in Internet Explorer 10, and researchers say one of the groups used the bug to impersonate a French aerospace manufacturer and compromise victims visiting the spoofed Web page. The...

CVE-2014-0322: Internet Explorer zero-day exploit targets US Military Intelligence

Hackers are using a zero day vulnerability in Microsoft's Internet Explorer IE web browser and targeting US military personnels in an active attack campaign, dubbed as 'Operation Snowman'. FireEye Researchers have discovered that a U.S. veterans website was compromised to serve a zero day exploit...

New IE Zero Day Found Targeting Military Intelligence

Attackers were able to compromise the U.S. Veterans of Foreign Wars’ website this week and serve up a previously unknown zero day exploit in Internet Explorer 10, and while motivation behind the campaign is still unclear, experts are speculating its aim was to procure military intelligence...

New APT Campaign Dubbed The Mask Called Most Sophisticated Seen to Date

PUNTA CANA–A group of high-level, nation-state attackers has been targeting government agencies, embassies, diplomatic offices and energy companies with a cyber-espionage campaign for more than five years that researchers say is the most sophisticated APT operation they’ve seen to date. The attac...

Kaspersky Provides Details on Latest Adobe Flash Zero Day

Exploits for a newly reported zero-day vulnerability in Adobe’s Flash Player drop a password-grabbing Trojan that targets the email and social media accounts of users and organizations in China, researchers at Kaspersky Lab said today. The attacks appear to be an isolated campaign and there is no...

Adobe issues Emergency Flash Player update to patch critical zero-day threat

Adobe is recommending that users update their Flash Players immediately. The company has published an emergency security bulletin today, that addresses vulnerabilities the Flash Player and released a patch to fix a vulnerability which is currently being exploited in a sophisticated cyber espionag...

Use-after-free with imgRequestProxy and image processing — Mozilla

Security researcher Arthur Gerkis, via TippingPoint's Zero Day Initiative, reported a use-after-free during image processing from sites with specific content types in concert with the imgRequestProxy function. This causes a potentially exploitable crash...

HP Data Protector Backup Client Service opcode 42 directory traversal

Added: 01/28/2014 CVE: CVE-2013-6194 BID: 64647 OSVDB: 101630 Background HP OpenView Storage Data Protector is a backup solution for enterprise and distributed environments. Problem A vulnerability in the Backup Client Service OmniInet.exe allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to write files t...

Model Predicts Optimal Timing of a Cyber Conflict

Security researchers from the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan have published a mathematical model they said will produce the proper timing for the delivery of offensive cyberweapons. Defenders can also make use of the model to understand attackers and when an targeted...

Microsoft to Patch Zero Day in January 2014 Security Updates

Microsoft announced Thursday that it plans to release four bulletins next week as part of the year’s first batch of Patch Tuesday security updates, none of which are rated critical. Despite the relatively light load, the patches do address a zero-day vulnerability in Windows XP and Windows Server...

OpenSUSE Forums Hacked, User Email Addresses Compromised

The forums for the Linux-based operating system openSUSE remain down today and for the foreseeable future following a hack earlier this week that appears to have compromised some of its users’ email addresses. OpenSUSE claims the hacker was able to exploit a vulnerability in the forum’s software,...