Facebook Apps Promise Change but In Reality Phish Your Information

Spammy Facebook apps are nothing new, the web giant has been dealing with suspicious behavior apps since the website launched the Facebook Platform for developers in 2007. As an open source app development tool, anyone can create an app, including people who really just want to steal your...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Storage 2.0 security, bug fix, and enhancement update #4

Updated Red Hat Storage 2.0 packages that fix multiple security issues, several bugs, and add enhancements are now available. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed...

Microsoft Internet Explorer saveHistory Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Microsoft Internet Explorer. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page. The specific issue is due to the way Internet Explorer handle...

Scientific Linux Security Update : qt on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20130321)

It was discovered that the QSharedMemory class implementation of the Qt toolkit created shared memory segments with insecure permissions. A local attacker could use this flaw to read or alter the contents of a particular shared memory segment, possibly leading to their ability to obtain sensitive...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for java-1_6_0-openjdk (openSUSE-SU-2013:0378-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2013 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...

Creative Ideas for Replacing Passwords

Passwords have been the de facto manner of providing security for IT systems. Theyve got a bad reputation, but its not the passwords themselves that deserve the reputation - its the individuals using them and the weak standards to which these passwords are managed. In fact, a password system...

java-1_7_0-openjdk: update to 2.3.6 (critical)

java-170-openjdk was updated to icedtea-2.3.6 bnc803379 containing various security and bugfixes: Security fixes - S6563318, CVE-2013-0424: RMI data sanitization - S6664509, CVE-2013-0425: Add logging context - S6664528, CVE-2013-0426: Find log level matching its name or value given at constructi...

ipa security, bug fix and enhancement update

3.0.0-25.el6 - Filter generated winbind dependencies so the right version of samba can be installed. 905594 3.0.0-24.el6 - Add certmonger condrestart to server post scriptlet 903758 - Make certmonger a pre Requires 903758 - Add selinux-policy to Requirespre to avoid post scriptlet AVCs 903758 - S...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : java-1.6.0-openjdk (MDVSA-2013:014)

Multiple security issues were identified and fixed in OpenJDK icedtea6 : - S8006446: Restrict MBeanServer access - S8006777: Improve TLS handling of invalid messages - S8007688: Blacklist known bad certificate - S7123519: problems with certification path - S8007393: Possible race condition after...

Study Shows One in Four Who Receive Data Breach Letter Become Fraud Victims

A study released Wednesday shows one in four consumers who receive a data breach letter become the victim of identity fraud. That statistic represented 12.6 million victims last year — one million more than the year before, according to the 2013 Identity Fraud Report released by Javelin Strategy ...

Fedora 17 : java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.9-2.3.7.0.fc17 (2013-2813)

8004937 - MethodHandles proxy fix 8006439 - MethodHandles, fix 8006446 - JMX. CreateMBeanServerTest.java fails due to missing MBeanServerImpl. 8006777 - SSL/TLS more info 8007611 - Logging behavior in applet changed 8007688 - Certificate Blacklist more info 8007393 - Possible race condition after...

SuSE 11.2 Security Update : Java 1.6.0 (SAT Patch Number 7332)

java-160-openjdk based on Icedtea6-1.12.2 was released, fixing various security issues : New in release 1.12.2 2012-02-03 : - Security fixes - S6563318, CVE-2013-0424: RMI data sanitization - S6664509, CVE-2013-0425: Add logging context - S6664528, CVE-2013-0426: Find log level matching its name ...

Fedora 18 : java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.9-2.3.7.0.fc18 (2013-2764)

8004937 - MethodHandles proxy fix 8006439 - MethodHandles, fix 8006446 - JMX. CreateMBeanServerTest.java fails due to missing MBeanServerImpl. 8006777 - SSL/TLS more info 8007611 - Logging behavior in applet changed 8007688 - Certificate Blacklist more info 8007393 - Possible race condition after...

Defence develop Software that can track people on Social media

A multinational security firm 'Raytheon' has secretly developed software called 'RIOT', capable of tracking people's movements and predicting future Behavior by mining data from social networking websites. The multi billion dollar company, didn't want its concept video revealed, but the Guardian...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : java-1.6.0-openjdk (MDVSA-2013:010)

Multiple security issues were identified and fixed in OpenJDK icedtea6 : - S6563318, CVE-2013-0424: RMI data sanitization - S6664509, CVE-2013-0425: Add logging context - S6664528, CVE-2013-0426: Find log level matching its name or value given at construction time - S6776941: CVE-2013-0427: Impro...

Fedora 16 : java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.9-2.3.5.3.fc16 (2013-2188)

The update contains the following security fixes : - S6563318, CVE-2013-0424: RMI data sanitization - S6664509, CVE-2013-0425: Add logging context - S6664528, CVE-2013-0426: Find log level matching its name or value given at construction time - S6776941: CVE-2013-0427: Improve thread pool shutdow...

SuSE 11.2 Security Update : LibreOffice (SAT Patch Number 6804)

LibreOffice was updated to SUSE 3.5 bugfix release 13 based on upstream 3.5.6-rc2 which fixes a lot of bugs. The following bugs have been fixed : - polygon fill rule. bnc759172 - open XML in Writer. bnc777181 - undo in text objects fdo36138 - broken numbering level. bnc760019 - better MathML...

The use of passwords in a technological evolution

Every day we read about an incredible number of successful attacks and data breaches that exploited leak of authentication mechanisms practically in every sector. Often also critical control system are exposed on line protected only by a weak password, in many cases the default one of factory...

The use of passwords in a technological evolution

Every day we read about an incredible number of successful attacks and data breaches that exploited leak of authentication mechanisms practically in every sector. Often also critical control system are exposed on line protected only by a weak password, in many cases the default one of factory...

App-ID Cache Poisoning

An evasion technique that takes advantage of the App-ID cache function has recently been published. In certain circumstances, a knowledgeable user can bypass security policy that restricts the use of certain applications by sending numerous specially crafted requests over the network in order to...