[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: openstack-neutron-2013.2.3-7.fc20

Neutron is a virtual network service for Openstack. Just like OpenStack Nova provides an API to dynamically request and configure virtual servers, Neutron provides an API to dynamically request and configure virtual networks. These networks connect "interfaces" from other OpenStack services e.g.,...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: a2ps-4.14-23.fc19

The a2ps filter converts text and other types of files to PostScript. A2ps has pretty-printing capabilities and includes support for a wide number of programming languages, encodings ISO Latins, Cyrillic, etc., and medias...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: python-pillow-2.2.1-4.fc20

Python image processing library, fork of the Python Imaging Library PIL This library provides extensive file format support, an efficient internal representation, and powerful image processing capabilities. There are five subpackages: tk tk interface, qt PIL image wrapper for Qt , sane scanning...

SSL/TLS: IMAP 'STARTTLS' Command Detection

Checks if the remote IMAP server supports SSL/TLS with the Copyright C 2014 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 free software; yo...

DoD DIACAP transition to RMF approved

Welcome DIARMF! This has been a long time coming. From DITSCAP to DIACAP and now to DIARMF the Department of Defense approved the transition to a Risk Management Framework RMF approach developed by NIST on March 12. What does this mean for Information Systems and Platform Information Technology...

Popular Remote access Trojan njRAT fuels Middle East Cyber Crime

Again the sophisticated piece of malware, "njRAT" has come to picture targeting the government agencies and organizations in the Middle East, according to the research carried out by Symantec security researchers. The researchers analyzed 721 samples of malicious code ‘njRAT’ and revealed that a...

Government Surveillance Could Targeted Automated Updates

SAN FRANCISCO – As more Web-based services are encrypted, privacy advocates are concerned the next wave of aggressive surveillance activity could target automated update services that essentially provide Internet companies root access to machines. Chris Soghoian, principal technologist with the...

Apple's SSL Vulnerability might allow NSA to hack iOS Devices Remotely

Just two days before Apple has disclosed a critical Security flaw in the SSL implementation on the iOS software that would allow man-in-the-middle attacks to intercept the SSL data by spoofing SSL servers. Dubbed as CVE-2014-1266, the so-called ‘goto fail;’ vulnerability in which the secure...

WordPress <= 3.0.1 - BYPASS

wp-includes/capabilities.php does not require the Super Admin role for the deleteusers capability that allows remote authenticated administrators to bypass intended access restrictions via a delete action. Solution Update WordPress...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 2846-1 (libvirt - several vulnerabilities)

Multiple security issues have been found in Libvirt, a virtualisation abstraction library: CVE-2013-6458 It was discovered that insecure job usage could lead to denial of service against libvirtd. CVE-2014-1447 It was discovered that a race condition in keepalive handling could lead to denial of...

NSA Officials Say Snowden Used Legitimate Access to Steal Data

It’s taken more than six months, but top officials at the National Security Agency are finally discussing some of the details of how former agency contractor Edward Snowden got access to all of the documents he stole and what kind of damage they believe the publication of the information they...

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...

McAfee Email Gateway 7.6 Command Execution / SQL Injection

--047d7bd6c5d012977c04eca87ee7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable McAfee Email Gateway 7.6 multiple vulnerabilities http :// www . mcafee . com / us / products / email - gateway . aspx -- Has free trial Many instances of SQL injection were...

Fedora 20 : wireshark-1.10.3-3.fc20 (2013-20937)

fix subpackage requires Harden dumpcap capabilities - Ver. 1.10.3 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing...

USN-1981-1: HPLIP vulnerabilities

It was discovered that HPLIP incorrectly handled temporary files when using the fax capabilities. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to overwrite arbitrary files. This issue only applied to Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. CVE-2011-2722 Tim Waugh discovered that HPLIP incorrectly handled temporary...

Debian DSA-2757-1 : wordpress - several vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities were identified in Wordpress, a web blogging tool. As the CVEs were allocated from releases announcements and specific fixes are usually not identified, it has been decided to upgrade the Wordpress package to the latest upstream version instead of backporting the patches...

FBI compromised Tor hidden service to bust largest Child Pornography Ring

A few days before the servers of the largest provider of Ultra Anonymous hosting were found to be serving custom malware designed to identify visitors who were using the Tor service to hide their identity online. The javascript code exploited a security vulnerability in the open-source version of...

Frequently Unanswered Questions on the NSA Leaks

The flood of documents regarding the NSA’s collection methods and capabilities that have been leaked this summer has produced thousands of news stories and several metric tons of speculation about what it all means. But for all of the postulating, analysis and reporting, there are still a lot of...

DirtJumper Variant Drive Now Includes Mitigation Bypass

Drive, a variant of the do-it-yourself DDoS toolkit DirtJumper, holds a unique position among malware that organizations targeted by these debilitating attacks need to be aware of. Researchers at Arbor Networks revealed today that a new version of Drive has been spotted with features that enable ...

CrowdSource Tool Aims to Improve Automated Malware Analysis

When a new piece of malware surfaces, it’s typically analyzed eight ways from Sunday by a long list of antimalware and other security companies, government agencies, CERTs and other organizations who try to break it down and classify its capabilities. There’s a lot of duplicated effort there, and...