Turning your iPhone or Android camera into Microscope

Have you ever been wanting to take a picture of something you're looking at under your microscope but you just can't? Well, but now the Microphone Lens turns your iPhone or Android camera phone into a portable handheld microscope. By attaching a lightweight, inexpensive device to the back of a...

FDA Issues Security Guidelines For Medical Device Manufacturers

Hoping to strengthen the security of medical devices, the Food and Drug Administration today issued a new series of guidelines for manufacturers. The document was released to encourage companies to mitigate viruses and malware on devices such as defibrillators, insulin pumps and pacemakers before...

Fedora 18 : mediawiki-1.19.4-2.fc18 (2013-3265)

Bring mediawiki up to date to fix multiple bugs, security holes, and bring new features. The package should automatically attempt to upgrade your wiki, but please make sure to perform backups before updating. Special care may be required for MySQL based wikis. See bug 845818. Read the main...

University of Michigan Health Systems Admits Patient Data Stolen

UPDATE – Some 4,000 University of Michigan Health Systems patients had their medical data compromised last month when a vendor’s laptop containing medication log files was stolen from a vehicle. That medication management provider, Mountain View, Calif.-based Omnicell, admits it violated both its...

Small Medical Offices Biggest Risk to Patient Data Security, Privacy

Small physician practices, much like their small commercial business counterparts, have been the primary source of health care related data breaches, according to an analysis of breaches from 2009 to October 2012 released today by the Health Information Trust Alliance HITRUST. These smaller medic...

Verizon DBIR Analysis: Opportunistic Attacks Crushing Certain Industries

Regardless of the market or industry, the majority of attacks are financially motivated. Even in data-rich environments such as health care, attackers are still after profits and exploit the same weaknesses and transaction processing systems that are vulnerable in other industries such as hotels...

Info of 55K Patients Stolen from Indianapolis Cancer Practice

The Cancer Care Group, an oncology practice based in Indianapolis, claims it will improve its storage and data security practices going forward after a laptop containing the sensitive information of about 55,000 of its patients was stolen last month. The laptop, which contained backup media from...

Data Breach Reports Remain Spotty, Study Finds

In a twist on Tolstoy’s famous observation that “all happy families are alike,” the Identity Theft Resource Center ITRC is warning that the public is being told that ‘all data breaches are alike,’ as corporations paint a worryingly bland portrait of breaches and other data loss incidents affectin...

HP Easy Printer Care ActiveX Control Directory Traversal (CVE-2011-4786)

A directory traversal vulnerability has been reported in HP Easy Printer Care. The vulnerability is due to a lack of sanitization in the HPESPRIT.XMLCacheMgr.1 ActiveX control. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by enticing a target user to visit a specially crafted web-page...

Phone Phreaking using Bluebox Demonstrated in India

Phone Phreaking using Bluebox Demonstrated in India Christy Philip Mathew, an Indian Information Security Instructor and Hacker demonstrated Phone Phreaking using Bluebox in his lab. This time we have something really special that would remind us the phone phreaking. Actually Phone Phreaking...

HP Easy Printer Care XMLCacheMgr Class ActiveX Control Remote Code Execution

Added: 01/26/2012 CVE: CVE-2011-4786 BID: 51396 OSVDB: 78306 Background HP Easy Printer Care Software is a tool to control and monitor up to 20 HP printers. Problem HP Easy Printer Care Software 2.5 and prior versions are vulnerable to remote code execution. The CacheDocumentXMLWithId method from...

HP Easy Printer Care XMLCacheMgr Class ActiveX Control Remote Code Execution

Added: 01/26/2012 CVE: CVE-2011-4786 BID: 51396 OSVDB: 78306 Background HP Easy Printer Care Software is a tool to control and monitor up to 20 HP printers. Problem HP Easy Printer Care Software 2.5 and prior versions are vulnerable to remote code execution. The CacheDocumentXMLWithId method from...

HP Easy Printer Care XMLCacheMgr Class ActiveX Control Remote Code Execution

Added: 01/26/2012 CVE: CVE-2011-4786 BID: 51396 OSVDB: 78306 Background HP Easy Printer Care Software is a tool to control and monitor up to 20 HP printers. Problem HP Easy Printer Care Software 2.5 and prior versions are vulnerable to remote code execution. The CacheDocumentXMLWithId method from...

HP Easy Printer Care XMLCacheMgr Class ActiveX Control Remote Code Execution

Added: 01/26/2012 CVE: CVE-2011-4786 BID: 51396 OSVDB: 78306 Background HP Easy Printer Care Software is a tool to control and monitor up to 20 HP printers. Problem HP Easy Printer Care Software 2.5 and prior versions are vulnerable to remote code execution. The CacheDocumentXMLWithId method from...

HP Easy Printer Care - XMLCacheMgr Class ActiveX Control Remote Code Execution (Metasploit)

This file is part of the Metasploit Framework and may be subject to redistribution and commercial restrictions. Please see the Metasploit Framework web site for more information on licensing and terms of use. http://metasploit.com/framework/ require 'msf/core' class Metasploit3 'HP Easy Printer...

HP Easy Printer Care Software ActiveX unauthorized access

Files write access is possible...

ZDI-12-014 : HP Easy Printer Care XMLSimpleAccessor Class ActiveX Control Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ZDI-12-014 : HP Easy Printer Care XMLSimpleAccessor Class ActiveX Control Remote Code Execution Vulnerability http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-12-014 January 12, 2012 - -- CVE ID: CVE-2011-4787 - -- CVSS: 9, AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:C -...

CVE-2011-4787

A certain ActiveX control in HPTicketMgr.dll in HP Easy Printer Care Software 2.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to download an arbitrary program onto a client machine, and execute this program, via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-2404 and CVE-2011-4786...

Design/Logic Flaw

A certain ActiveX control in HPTicketMgr.dll in HP Easy Printer Care Software 2.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to download an arbitrary program onto a client machine, and execute this program, via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-2404 and CVE-2011-4786...

CVE-2011-4786

A certain ActiveX control in HPTicketMgr.dll in HP Easy Printer Care Software 2.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to download an arbitrary program onto a client machine, and execute this program, via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-2404 and CVE-2011-4787...