CVE-2014-7000

The Paul Alexander Campaign aka hr.apps.n51261427 application 4.5.8 for Android does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate...

MIRcon 2014 – Day 1 Highlights

The first day of MIRcon 2014 is officially done and was packed with thought-provoking keynotes, presentations and a one-of-a-kind reception. While there's too much to fit into this blog post, I wanted to provide you with some of the highlights: FireEye's COO, Kevin Mandia kicked-off MIRcon and wa...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2.0 security update

Updated packages for Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.2.0 that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, and 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.2.4 security update

Updated Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.2.4 packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having Important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base...

dproxy <= 0.5 - Remote Buffer Overflow Exploit (meta 2.7)

No description provided by source. MetaSploit exploit for remote buffer overflow issue in dproxy Written in 2007 by Alexander Klink c 2007 Cynops GmbH released under the same license as MSF Artistic, GPL dual-licensed $Revision: 1.1 $ package Msf::Exploit::dproxy; use strict; use base...

Parnian Opendata CMS SQL Injection Vulnerability

No description provided by source. Exploit Title : Parnian Opendata CMS SQL Injection Vulnerability Date : 2011-04-15 Author : Alexander Software Link : http://www.parniansoft.com/ Test On : php CVE : Web Applications Google Dork : inurl:mpfn=pdview Exploit : mpfn=pdview&id=-1+union+select...

webSPELL <= 4.01 (title_op) Remote SQL Injection Exploit

No description provided by source. ? errorreportingEERROR; function xssinit if !extensionloaded'phpcurl' if !dl'curl.so' and !dl'phpcurl.so' and !dl'phpcurl.dll' die oo error - cannot load curl extension!; function xssheader echo...

The NSA, Snowden and the Internet's Offensive Future

Despite everything that has transpired in the last year, Edward Snowden sounded calm, reflective and in some ways wistful yesterday discussing the fallout and consequences of the multitude of NSA programs and methods he’s revealed. Snowden bemoaned the fact that the NSA specifically and the...

Snowden: Surveillance Has Damaged Internet, U.S. Economy

The mass surveillance programs that he revealed through media leaks in the last year have not only compromised the privacy and security of Americans, but have damaged the country’s economy, Edward Snowden said in an interview Monday. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who sto...

PT-2014-49: Stack-based buffer overflow in Honeywell EPKS

The specialists of the Positive Research center have detected a Stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in Honeywell EPKS. Stack-based buffer overflow was discovered in hscodbcn.exe module when using function unmarshallCharArray for copying data from packet in stack buffer of static size withou...

Navy's Cyberwar Expert - New Director of NSA, replacing Gen. Keith Alexander

It is very clear that when we talk about Intelligence and Surveillance, the first name comes to our mind is the U.S National Security Agency NSA and, the second is Gen. Keith Alexander, the Director of NSA..GEEK behind the massive surveillance Programs. Many documents revealed by the former NSA’s...

NSA Metadata Program Likely Not Cost-Effective, Researchers Say

While much of the coverage of the surveillance programs revealed by Edward Snowden have focused on the legality and constitutionality of the collection of metadata and Internet traffic in the name of counter-terrorism and national security, the question of whether these programs are actually cost...

NSA Director to Retain Cyber Command Role

Since its inception in 2009, the U.S. Cyber Command has been run by the director of the National Security Agency. The two organizations are intertwined and even share the same space in Maryland. The continuous leaks of NSA documents this year has led some politicians and critics to argue that the...

NSA Trying to Change the Surveillance Narrative

When things go badly in Washington, D.C., when a scandal breaks or damaging leaks begin to surface, there is an established and well-worn playbook that politicians and executives can turn to for solace. There’s a page for every conceivable situation, and it’s that playbook that the National...

Petition Seeks Removal of Alexander as NSA Director

It has been a rough few months for the National Security Agency, and specifically for its director, Gen. Keith Alexander. The leaks of details of NSA surveillance programs by former contractor Edward Snowden have taken over the news cycle this summer and put the agency’s business out in the open...

Scenes from Black Hat USA 2013

!More from Wednesday’s Legal Access Panel Briefinghttps://media.threatpost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/103/2013/08/07043123/panel.j...

Gen. Keith Alexander Black Hat Keynote

When Gen. Keith Alexander, the director of the National Security Agency and chief of U.S. Cyber Command, agreed to deliver the opening keynote at Black Hat USA 2013, he had no idea that by the time he took the stage many of the NSA’s most secret information-collection programs would be public...

NSA Director Alexander Defends Surveillance at Black Hat

LAS VEGAS –NSA director Gen. Keith Alexander’s keynote today at Black Hat USA 2013 was a tense confessional, an hour-long emotional and sometimes angry ride that shed some new insight into the spy agency’s two notorious data collection programs, inspired moments of loud applause in support of the...

EFF, Eclectic Group of Organizations Sue NSA Over Data Collection

If politics makes strange bedfellows, as the saying goes, wholesale government surveillance takes that to an entirely new level. The clearest evidence yet of the broad and diverse set of groups opposed to the NSA’s domestic spying programs came Tuesday when the EFF said that is representing a...

Oracle Linux 5 : kernel (ELSA-2008-0233)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2008-0233 advisory. - Update: fs fix race condition in dnotify Alexander Viro 439758 CVE-2008-1375 - Update: xen ia64: ftp stress test fixes between HVM/Dom0 Tetsu Yamamot...