Watching a Botnet From the Inside

When you hear about botnets such as Rustock, Mariposa or Grum being taken down, one of the tactics that’s usually involved is sinkholing. The technique, which involves pointing the infected machines to a server controlled by good guys rather than attackers, often is used as one of the last steps ...

php security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2012:1046 Updated php packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base...

Medium: postgresql8

Issue Overview: A flaw was found in the way the crypt password hashing function from the optional PostgreSQL pgcrypto contrib module performed password transformation when used with the DES algorithm. If the password string to be hashed contained the 0x80 byte value, the remainder of the string w...

CVE-2012-2098

Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in the sorting algorithms in bzip2 compressing stream BZip2CompressorOutputStream in Apache Commons Compress before 1.4.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service CPU consumption via a file with many repeating inputs...

RedHat Update for php RHSA-2012:1046-01

Check for the Version of php OpenVAS Vulnerability Test RedHat Update for php RHSA-2012:1046-01 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of...

RHEL 5 : php53 (RHSA-2012:1047)

Updated php53 packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are...

RedHat Update for php53 RHSA-2012:1047-01

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription scriptxrefname:"URL",...

php53 security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2012:1047 Updated php53 packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: php security update

Updated php packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are...

CentOS 5 / 6 : postgresql / postgresql84 (CESA-2012:1037)

Updated postgresql84 and postgresql packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 respectively. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which...

postgresql, postgresql84 security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2012:1037 Updated postgresql84 and postgresql packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 respectively. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common...

postgresql security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2012:1036 Updated postgresql packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base...

Last.fm, Mum On Breach, Adopts 'More Rigorous' Password Security

Last.fm, the online music streaming service, said it has implemented ‘more rigorous’ security for customer account passwords in the wake of reports that some of those passwords had been leaked online. In a post on the company’s Website, Last.fm said that its investigation of reports that hashed o...

How The Flame Malware Stayed Hidden For So Long

The past week has brought to light more revelations about the mysterious Flame or sKyWIper worm that was first identified at the end of May. Among them: the eye-popping admission from Microsoft that the malware’s authors found a way to use that company’s Windows Update feature to distribute the...

LinkedIn Confirms Millions of Account Passwords Hacked

LinkedIn Confirms Millions of Account Passwords Hacked LinkedIn Wednesday confirmed that at least some passwords compromised in a major security breach correspond to LinkedIn accounts. Norweigan IT website Dagens IT first reported the breach, noting that "Two days ago a package on the 6.5 million...

US-CERT Alert TA12-156A -- Microsoft Windows Unauthorized Digital Certificates

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 National Cyber Alert System Technical Cyber Security Alert TA12-156A Microsoft Windows Unauthorized Digital Certificates Original release date: June 04, 2012 Last revised: -- Source: US-CERT Systems Affected All supported versions of Microsoft Windows...

RedHat Update for openssl RHSA-2011:0677-01

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription scriptxrefname:"URL",...

Flame Attackers Used Collision Attack to Forge Microsoft Certificate

The attackers behind the Flame malware used a collision attack against a cryptographic algorithm as part of the method for gaining a forged certificate to sign specific components of the attack tool. Microsoft officials said on Tuesday that it’s imperative for customers to install the update issu...

CVE-2011-2082

The vulnerable-passwords script in Best Practical Solutions RT 3.x before 3.8.12 and 4.x before 4.0.6 does not update the password-hash algorithm for disabled user accounts, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to determine cleartext passwords, and possibly use these passwords...

Design/Logic Flaw

The vulnerable-passwords script in Best Practical Solutions RT 3.x before 3.8.12 and 4.x before 4.0.6 does not update the password-hash algorithm for disabled user accounts, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to determine cleartext passwords, and possibly use these passwords...