DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge Finale Set For DEF CON 2016

DARPA’s announcement last October that it would sponsor a $2 million contest, challenging academics and security industry stalwarts to come up with an automated network defense system, has already attracted 35 entrants and a high-profile venue to stage the tournament finale. The final stage of th...

Linux Worm targets Internet-enabled Home appliances to Mine Cryptocurrencies

Could a perfectly innocent looking device like router, TV set-top box or security cameras can mine Bitcoins? YES! Hackers will not going to spare the Smart Internet-enabled devices. A Linux worm named Linux.Darlloz, earlier used to target Internet of Things IoT devices, i.e. Home Routers, Set-top...

Cisco Grand Challenge to Fix Internet of Things Security

As seemingly every new gadget and electronic device is coming retrofitted with an Internet connection these days – appliances, cars and medical devices a few chief examples, the floodgates have opened ever wider for an alarming number of new attack vectors. The burgeoning evolution of “Internet o...

Debian DSA-2867-1 : otrs2 - several vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in otrs2, the Open Ticket Request System. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems : - CVE-2014-1694 Norihiro Tanaka reported missing challenge token checks. An attacker that managed to take over the session of a...

[SECURITY] [DSA 2867-1] otrs2 security update

------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-2867-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso February 23, 2014 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...

DSA-2867-1 otrs2 - several

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2867-1 (otrs2 - several vulnerabilities)

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in otrs2, the Open Ticket Request System. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems: CVE-2014-1694 Norihiro Tanaka reported missing challenge token checks. An attacker that managed to take over the session of a logge...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-2867-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014 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...

FreeBSD : otrs -- CSRF issue in customer web interface (080c5370-886a-11e3-9533-60a44c524f57)

The OTRS Project reports : An attacker that managed to take over the session of a logged in customer could create tickets and/or send follow-ups to existing tickets due to missing challenge token checks. %NASLMINLEVEL 999999 @DEPRECATED@ This script has been deprecated as the associated patch has...

kernel security and bug fix update

kernel 2.6.18-371.4.1 - char ipmi: fix message handling during panics Tony Camuso 1049731 995293 - net igb: Use 32bit mask calculating the flow control watermarks Stefan Assmann 1041694 1036115 - fs NTLM auth and sign - Use appropriate server challenge Sachin Prabhu 1029865 1018286 - xen gnttab:...

FreeBSD : otrs -- multiple vulnerabilities (c7b5d72b-886a-11e3-9533-60a44c524f57)

The OTRS Project reports : SQL injection issue An attacker that managed to take over the session of a logged in customer could create tickets and/or send follow-ups to existing tickets due to missing challenge token checks. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text...

NSA Bulk Telephony Metadata Collection Program Legal

A federal court today shot down a challenge by the American Civil Liberties Union ACLU to the National Security Agency’s bulk phone metadata collection program, determining that the spy agency’s actions are legal. The ruling by U.S. District Court judge William Pauley contradicts a Dec. 16 D.C...

DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge Offers $2M to Winners

The bug bounty continues to be turned on its ear. Microsoft began the wave of paying premium money for mitigation technologies via its Blue Hat prizes, and now DARPA has gone all-in to the tune of $2 million for the development of an automated network defense system that not only scans for and...

Yahoo Transparency Report Reveals More Than 12K U.S. Government Data Requests

Following the lead of Google, Twitter and other major Internet companies, Yahoo has issued its first transparency report, revealing that it received more than 12,000 requests for user data from the U.S. government in the first half of 2013. The company disclosed user content in nearly a third of...

Modsecurity Cross Site Scripting Bypass Vulnerability

Modsecurity suffers from a cross site scripting bypass vulnerability. Product: Modsecurity Author: Rafay Baloch Company: RHAINFOSEC Website: http://services.rafayhackingarticles.net Reported: 8/8/2013 Fixed: 25/8/2013 Status: Fixed ============ Introduction ============ The ModSecurity firewall i...

Try something new – Beat the BlueHat Challenge!

August 2014 Update: The BlueHat Challenge is on hold. We will make an announcement on this blog when we re-start the BlueHat Challenge. Thanks for your interest! --- We were inspired by the Matasano Crypto Challenges. So we built a similar series of fun challenges to exercise reverse engineering,...

Are you prepared for the BlueHat Challenge?

Today we are kicking off a new challenge so you can showcase your security prowess and, if we can, help you build some more. Our BlueHat Challenge is a series of computer security questions, which increase in difficulty as you progress. Only the rare and talented engineer will be able to finish t...

Design/Logic Flaw

LeftHand OS aka SAN iQ 10.5 and earlier on HP StoreVirtual Storage devices does not provide a mechanism for disabling the HP Support challenge-response root-login feature, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain administrative access by leveraging knowledge of an unused one-time...

PT-2013-3688

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions HP StoreVirtual Storage devices running LeftHand OS aka SAN iQ versions 10.5 and earlier Description The issue is related to the lack of a mechanism for disabling the HP Support challenge-response root-login feature. This makes it easier for...

Microsoft is sponsoring the Cyber Security Challenge UK

The global adoption of computing continues to draw attackers toward ever-richer targets. The latest data from the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report shows that although industry-wide vulnerability disclosures are down and computer defenses are improved, exploit activity has actually increased...