Cisco Hardware Counterfeiters Caught By Feds

A joint investigation by federal agencies leads to the conviction of several individuals trading in counterfeit Cisco network hardware. Read the full article. eWEEK...

AVCON Buffer Overflow

Exploit for windows platform in category local exploits ===================== AVCON Buffer Overflow ===================== !/usr/bin/perl Exploit Title: AVCON Buffer Overflow Date: 5/7/10 Author: Dillon Beresford URL: http://www.avcon.com.cn/ Version: 4.6.8.7 Tested on: XP SP2 and SP3 CVE : NONE...

AVCON 4.6.8.7 Buffer Overflow

!/usr/bin/perl Exploit Title: AVCON Buffer Overflow Date: 5/7/10 Author: Dillon Beresford URL: http://www.avcon.com.cn/ Version: 4.6.8.7 Tested on: XP SP2 and SP3 CVE : NONE Code : exploit.pl Twitter: http://twitter.com/D1N Dork: site:gov.cn "AVCON" There are other bugs... This is just for fun ;-...

VUPEN Security Research - Sun Java JDK/JRE AWT Library Invalid Index Vulnerability

VUPEN Security Research - Sun Java JDK/JRE AWT Library Invalid Index Vulnerability http://www.vupen.com/english/research.php I. BACKGROUND --------------------- "Java is a programming language and computing platform released by Sun Microsystems. It is the underlying technology that powers...

Aris AGX agXchange ESM Open Redirection Vulnerability

========================================= Yaniv Miron aka "Lament" Advisory March 12, 2010 Aris AGX agXchange ESM Open Redirection Vulnerability ========================================= ===================== I. BACKGROUND ===================== E2B safety submissions module. When it comes to the...

Aris AGX agXchange ESM Open Redirection

========================================= Yaniv Miron aka "Lament" Advisory March 12, 2010 Aris AGX agXchange ESM Open Redirection Vulnerability ========================================= ===================== I. BACKGROUND ===================== E2B safety submissions module. When it comes to the...

Why Bob Maley's Firing is Bad for All of Us

The news that Pennsylvania CISO Bob Maley lost his job for publicly discussing a security incident at last week’s RSA Conference really shouldn’t come as a surprise, but it does. Even for a government agency, this kind of lack of understanding of what actually matters is appalling and it is a...

Congress Under Constant Barrage of Malware

Congress and other government agencies are under a cyber attack an average of 1.8 billion times a month, a number that has been growing exponentially since President Barack Obama took office. In 2008, security events caused by vectors including worms, Trojan horses and spybots averaged 8 million...

Malware Open Season on Taxpayers

As any reader of this site knows, cybercriminals can steal your money not just by putting malware on your machine, but by phishing attacks too. Phishing attacks don’t just target online banking and e-payment systems, but almost any site which asks the user to input sensitive data. Sites run by...

Jobs Fighting Cybercrime Are In Demand

Banks, military contractors and software companies, along with federal agencies, are looking for “cyber ninjas” to fend off a sophisticated array of hackers, from criminals stealing credit card numbers to potential military adversaries. Read the full article. NY Times...

Attackers Buying Own Data Centers for Botnets, Spam

The malware writers and criminals who run botnets for years have been using shared hosting platforms and so-called bulletproof hosting providers as bases of operations for their online crimes. But, as law enforcement agencies and security experts have moved to take these providers offline, the...

U.S. Takes Down $9 Million RBS WorldPay Hacking Ring

U.S. and international prosecutors have taken down a criminal ring that they allege was responsible for an ATM scam last year that stole about $9 million from RBS WorldPay. The criminals were able to evade the company’s encryption system used on payroll debit cards and withdraw money from ATMs in...

Two Data Breach Notification Bills Advance in Senate

Two separate bills that would require organizations to notify consumers when their personal information has been compromised have made their way out of committee in the Senate, a critical step toward the creation of a national data-breach notification bill. A variety of technology vendors, consum...

Apathy Creeps In as Cybersecurity Czar Search Drags On

It’s been five months since President Obama announced his plan to appoint a cybersecurity coordinator, and his failure to fill the position has created something worse than anger: apathy. Immediately following the announcement in May, there was tremendous optimism in the security industry and in...

Taking a Page From Singapore's Cybersecurity Playbook

We could all learn a thing or two about developing an effective cyber security strategy from the government of Singapore. I was recently in Singapore to do a keynote for Singapore GovWare on the Changing State of the Endpoint and, while I was out there, I witnessed something interesting the...

Abdicating on a Cyber Security Czar?

In May, President Obama completed his long-awaited “cyberspace policy review,” concluding that cyberspace is a strategic asset that must be safeguarded from attack as a national security priority. The president promised to appoint a permanent “cyber czar” who would coordinate the work of federal...

DHS Wants You: 1,000 Security Jobs to Be Filled

The Department of Homeland Security is planning a major hiring spree, looking to fill as many as 1,000 cybersecurity positions over the course of the next three years. The department announced the new initiative Thursday, marking DHS’s first real push to hire a large number of information securit...

30,000 legit websites hit by malware infection

From The Register Dan Goodin A nasty infection that attempts to install a potent malware cocktail on the machines of end users has spread to about 30,000 websites run by businesses, government agencies and other organizations, researchers warned Friday websense.com. The infection sneaks malicious...

Obama cybersecurity plan has a familiar ring

President Obama on Friday presented his long-awaited cybersecurity plan, which included the establishment of a new White House office headed by a cybersecurity “coordinator” who would oversee and advise Obama on this issue. He also proposed hiring a separate official dedicated to privacy and civi...

Battle brewing over cybersecurity in Washington

There is a good old-fashioned backroom brawl shaping up in Washington over the cybersecurity issue, and the forces are aligning in some interesting ways on a variety of different sides of the debate. The latest installment in this long-running drama involves not just the fight over which, if any,...