Secure Boot in Windows 8 Worries Researchers

Windows 8, like Windows 7 and Vista before it, is being touted as the most secure version of Windows ever. In past releases, many of the security improvements have come through exploit mitigations such as ASLR and DEP and better software security practices during development. In Windows 8, howeve...

BIOS based Virus discovered by Chinese Security Firm

BIOS based Virus discovered by Chinese Security Firm A Chinese AV company 360 discovered a new Trojan, the "BMW Virus" also called Mebromi, that can actually infect a computers BIOS: "BMW 360 Security Center virus is the latest catch of a high-risk virus, the virus that infected a chain BIOS...

BIOS based Virus discovered by Chinese Security Firm

BIOS based Virus discovered by Chinese Security Firm A Chinese AV company 360 discovered a new Trojan, the "BMW Virus" also called Mebromi, that can actually infect a computers BIOS: "BMW 360 Security Center virus is the latest catch of a high-risk virus, the virus that infected a chain BIOS...

Dell IT Assistant detectIESettingsForITA.ocx ActiveX Control

Exploit for windows platform in category remote exploits ob...

Dell IT Assistant - detectIESettingsForITA.ocx ActiveX Control

Dell IT Assistant - detectIESettingsForITA.ocx ActiveX Control object classid='clsid:6286EF1A-B56E-48EF-90C3-743410...

Dell IT Assistant detectIESettingsForITA.ocx ActiveX Control readRegVal() Remote Registry Dump Vulnerability

!-- Dell IT Assistant detectIESettingsForITA.ocx ActiveX Control readRegVal Remote Registry Dump Vulnerability download uri: ftp://ftp.us.dell.com/sysman/OM-ITAssistant-Dell-Web-WIN-6.5.0-2247A01.21.exe ActiveX settings: CLSID: 6286EF1A-B56E-48EF-90C3-743410657F3C ProgID:...

Dell IT Assistant detectIESettingsForITA.ocx Remote Registry Dump

x = obj.readRegVal"HKLM","HARDWARE\DE...

Low: Red Hat Security Advisory: kvm security and bug fix update

Updated kvm packages that fix one security issue and three bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having low security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, ...

PCSX2 0.9.7 beta Binary Denial of Service Vulnerability

Exploit for windows platform in category dos / poc ======================================================= PCSX2 0.9.7 beta Binary Denial of Service Vulnerability ======================================================= Exploit Title: PCSX2 v0.9.7 Crash Date: 08/11/2010 Author: 41.w4r10r Version:...

Persistent BIOS Infection (Устойчивый BIOS inj)

------ 0.- Предисловие Уважаемые пользователи, если вы читаете эту статью, мы можем предположить, что вы уже знаете, что такое BIOS и как он работает. Или, по крайней мере, вы имеете общtе представление о том, что делает BIOS, и его значение для нормальной работы компьютера. Основываясь на этом,...

CentOS 5 : kernel (CESA-2010:0398)

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. 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...

RHEL 5 : kernel (RHSA-2010:0398)

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. 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...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: kernel security and bug fix update

Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues and several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 Extended Update Support. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores...

AV Scans Slowing Down Your Machine? Think Again

By Roel Schouwenberg As a technology enthusiast — or geek — I always enjoy looking into new technologies. Although it’s no longer directly cutting edge, I recently started exploring the wonderful world of Solid State Disks SSDs. SSDs may, to some extent, influence how anti-virus AV programs use...

Intel® Desktop Boards Privilege Escalation

Summary: Software running administrative ring 0 privilege can under certain circumstances change code running in System Management Mode. Description: A new BIOS update is available for selected Intel desktop motherboards to ensure proper configuration settings. These changes would prevent a...

Intel Desktop Boards Privilege Escalation (INTEL-SA-00022)

The version of the Intel BIOS on the remote host is affected by an unspecified privilege escalation vulnerability. A local attacker with administrative ring 0 privileges could exploit this to execute arbitrary code in System Management Mode SMM. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc...

BIOS and Hardware Information Detection (Linux/Unix SSH Login)

SSH login-based gathering of various BIOS and Hardware related information. Copyright C 2010 Greenbone Networks GmbH 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-or-later This program is...

Intel Desktop Boards SMM Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (INTEL-SA-00022) - Linux

Intel Desktop Boards are prone to a local privilege escalation vulnerability. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2010 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...

Code injection

Unspecified vulnerability in the BIOS in Intel Desktop Board DB, DG, DH, DP, and DQ Series allows local administrators to execute arbitrary code in System Management Mode SSM via unknown attack vectors...

CVE-2010-0560

Unspecified vulnerability in the BIOS in Intel Desktop Board DB, DG, DH, DP, and DQ Series allows local administrators to execute arbitrary code in System Management Mode SSM via unknown attack vectors...