openSUSE Security Update : kernel (openSUSE-SU-2013:1971-1)

The Linux Kernel was updated to fix various security issues and bugs. - sctp: Use correct sideffect command in duplicate cookie handling bnc826102, CVE-2013-2206. - Drivers: hv: util: Fix a bug in util version negotiation code bnc838346. - vmxnet3: prevent div-by-zero panic when ring resizing...

Ninth Grade Students Hack into ATM Machine during School Lunch Break

When I was in school, I used to play outdoor games like basketball and badminton. When I was in college, I started taking more interest in playing computer games rather going out. But nowadays, children have completely changed their hobbies to programming, hacking, bug bounties in such a ways tha...

Fraudsters Physically Deploy Malicious Software to Hack ATMs

Criminals will not let any way to cheat an ATM machine out of its cash, as it’s one of the easiest way for them to get the hands on cash. ATM skimmers have now discovered a new and high-tech approach to target cash machines directly by inserting a physical notorious device into it instead...

Chip and PIN EMV Protocol security vulnerabilities found

Chip-and-PIN payment cards are coming to the United States after a long head start as a standard card-present payment method in Europe and Asia. Already, retailer Target accelerated its plan to move its branded debit and credit cards to chip-and-PIN, also known as EMV Europay, MasterCard and Visa...

Pre-Play Vulnerability Allows Chip-and-PIN Payment Card Cloning

In March this year, we reported that the major card distributor companies, VISA and Mastercard are migrating to EMV chip cards, also known as PIN-and-Chip cards. Unlike traditional magnetic stripe payment cards, EMV chip cards generates a unique code for every transaction, making it nearly...

Regulators Planning Cybersecurity Assessments for Banks

A government agency in charge of developing standards for the nation’s banks announced last week that it will work harder to try to identify vulnerabilities in smaller community banks and that it’s planning to better raise awareness when it comes to cyber threats. The Federal Financial Institutio...

Vishing Attacks Targeting Dozens of Banks, Users' Card Data

A recent VoIP-based phishing campaign has been netting the payment card information of up to 250 Americans per day. Voice over IP phishing, or vishing, is a form of phishing that relies on users getting tricked into giving up their payment card information after receiving phone or SMS messages –...

Regulators To US Banks: Be Vigilant of ATM Fraud, DDoS

U.S. regulators are warning banks this week about a recent rash of “large dollar value” ATM fraud and the ongoing risks distributed denial of service DDoS attacks that target public bank websites can pose. Members of FFIEC, the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council, an interagency se...

CASH! CASH! Hacking ATM Machines with Just a Text Message

As we reported earlier, Microsoft will stop supporting the Windows XP operating system after 8th April, apparently 95% of the world’s 3 million ATM machines are run on it. Microsoft's decision to withdraw support for Windows XP poses critical security threat to the economic infrastructure...

Bluetooth enabled Credit Card Skimmers planted at Gas Station lead to $2 Million heist

Cyber Criminals will not let any way out without making Money. Another huge Credit Card theft and this time they targeted Gas Stations. 13 men were suspected and charged for stealing banking information, using Bluetooth enabled Credit Card Skimmers planted on the gas stations throughout the...

Design/Logic Flaw

The 1 IPv6 and 2 ATM ioctl request handlers in the kernel in FreeBSD 8.3 through 9.2-STABLE do not validate SIOCSIFADDR, SIOCSIFBRDADDR, SIOCSIFDSTADDR, and SIOCSIFNETMASK requests, which allows local users to perform link-layer actions, cause a denial of service panic, or possibly gain privilege...

CVE-2013-5691

The 1 IPv6 and 2 ATM ioctl request handlers in the kernel in FreeBSD 8.3 through 9.2-STABLE do not validate SIOCSIFADDR, SIOCSIFBRDADDR, SIOCSIFDSTADDR, and SIOCSIFNETMASK requests, which allows local users to perform link-layer actions, cause a denial of service panic, or possibly gain privilege...

Throwback Barnaby Jack: Jackpotting ATMs

Barnaby Jack always seemed to find a way to make the process of banging away on an application–or a pacemaker or an ATM–look like the most fun anyone has ever had. And he wanted all of his friends to join in the fun. Jack, a respected and much-admired security researcher at IOActive, died on July...

Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : unbreakable enterprise kernel (ELSA-2013-2537)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2013-2537 advisory. - Bluetooth: RFCOMM - Fix missing msgnamelen update in rfcommsockrecvmsg Mathias Krause Orabug: 17173824 CVE-2013-3225 - Bluetooth: fix possible in...

Oracle Linux 5 / 6 : unbreakable enterprise kernel (ELSA-2013-2538)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 / 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2013-2538 advisory. - Bluetooth: RFCOMM - Fix missing msgnamelen update in rfcommsockrecvmsg Mathias Krause Orabug: 17173830 CVE-2013-3225 - Bluetooth: fix possible in...

SuSE 11.3 Security Update : Linux kernel (SAT Patch Numbers 7991 / 7992 / 7994)

The SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Service Pack 3 kernel has been updated to 3.0.82 and to fix various bugs and security issues. The following security issues have been fixed : - The chaseport function in drivers/usb/serial/ioti.c in the Linux kernel allowed local users to cause a denial of service NUL...

unbreakable enterprise kernel security update

2.6.39-400.109.3 - Revert 'be2net: enable interrupts in probe' Jerry Snitselaar Orabug: 17179597 2.6.39-400.109.2 - be2net: enable interrupts in probe Jerry Snitselaar Orabug: 17080364 - Bluetooth: RFCOMM - Fix missing msgnamelen update in rfcommsockrecvmsg Mathias Krause Orabug: 17173830...

Kernel: atm: update msg_namelen in vcc_recvmsg()

The vccrecvmsg function in net/atm/common.c in the Linux kernel before 3.9-rc7 does not initialize a certain length variable, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted recvmsg or recvfrom system call...

Kernel: atm: update msg_namelen in vcc_recvmsg()

The vccrecvmsg function in net/atm/common.c in the Linux kernel before 3.9-rc7 does not initialize a certain length variable, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a crafted recvmsg or recvfrom system call...

Oracle Linux 5 : kernel (ELSA-2013-1034)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2013-1034 advisory. - Revert: kernel kmod: make requestmodule killable Frantisek Hrbata 858752 858753 CVE-2012-4398 - Revert: kernel kmod: avoid deadlock from recursive km...