Would EMV Help?

With the spate of cyber attackers on US retailers recently, Coalfires European Managing Director, Andrew Barratt considers how the attacks on retailers differ outside the US and what the potential impact of similar attacks is in a world where chip and pin technology is more widely deployed...

CCID: Arbitrary code execution

Background CCID is a generic USB Chip/Smart Card Interface Devices driver. Description CCID contains an integer overflow vulnerability in ccidserial.c. Impact A physically proximate attacker could execute arbitrary code via a smart card with a specially crafted serial number. Workaround There is ...

Pills and Tattoos to Replace Passwords for Authentication

Motorola’s Regina Dugan suggested at the Wall Street Journal’s D11 conference that pills and tattoos could replace passwords as the radical solutions to the perennial authentication problem. Dugan was formerly the head of the Pentagon’s forward-looking Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency...

Samsung Galaxy S4 Android Bootloader Unlocked

Those of you who like to tinker and jailbreak Android phones should take notice of some new research conducted on Samsung Galaxy S4 Android devices shipped by AT&T and Verizon. Both device makers ship the Galaxy S4 smartphones with a locked down bootloader that prevents users from uploading custo...

CentOS Update for ccid CESA-2013:0523 centos6

Check for the Version of ccid OpenVAS Vulnerability Test CentOS Update for ccid CESA-2013:0523 centos6 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the...

VUPEN Researchers Say They Have Zero-Day Windows 8 Exploit

Controversial bug hunters and exploit sellers VUPEN claimed to have cracked the low-level security enhancements featured in Windows 8, Microsoft’s latest operating system. VUPEN CEO and head of research Chaouki Bekrar sent out a pair of ominous Tweets yesterday claiming to have developed the firs...

The Broadcom LAN chip BCM4325 AND BCM4329 denial of service vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

This vulnerability is the Broadcom Wireless card firmware, the model for the BCM4325 and the BCM4329, the attacker can send specific wireless network packets causing a denial of service attack. A major influence on the equipment: BCM4325 Apple iPhone 3GS Apple iPod 2G HTC Touch Pro 2 HTC Droid...

TPM Chip in Windows 8 Lays Foundation for Widespread Enhancements to Hardware-Based Security

Today’s release of the Microsoft Windows 8 operating system brings embedded hardware-level security to the forefront. Microsoft, going forward, will require the Trusted Platform Module TPM chip on Windows PCs, phones and tablets, moving security checks to the platoform’s lowest level. TPM isn’t...

Chip and PIN payment card system vulnerable to Card cloning

At a cryptography gathering in Leuven, Belgium, on Tuesday, Cambridge University researchers made it known that they do not like what they see in chip and pin systems. The chip and PIN system employed by most European and Asian banks is definitely more secure than the magnetic strip one, but it...

Charlie Miller Takes on NFC, Charlie Miller Wins

LAS VEGAS–Do not stand near Charlie Miller. Actually, you might not even want to let him walk past you. It’s not that Miller is a bad person, you understand. The problem is that Miller has figured out a couple of methods that enable him–or an attacker–to use the NFC chip in some phones to exploit...

kernel: kvm: irqchip_in_kernel() and vcpu->arch.apic inconsistency

The KVM implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.3.6 allows host OS users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and host OS crash by making a KVMCREATEIRQCHIP ioctl call after a virtual CPU already exists...

181000 records compromised in Utah Security Breach

181000 records compromised in Utah Security Breach Utah health officials said that hackers who broke into state computers last weekend stole far more medical records than originally thought, and the data likely includes Social Security numbers of children who have received public assistance. The...

UBUNTU-CVE-2012-1601

The KVM implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.3.6 allows host OS users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference and host OS crash by making a KVMCREATEIRQCHIP ioctl call after a virtual CPU already exists...

Avi Rubin on Hacking All Sorts of Devices

Avi Rubin is the technical director of the Information Security Institute at Johns Hopkins University, and in this talk from the TEDxMidAtlantic conference in November he discusses the history of hacks on various devices, including implanted medical devices, cars and virtually anything else with ...

HITB2011KUL - Chip & PIN - Protocol Analysis EMV POS

Document Title: =============== HITB2011KUL - Chip & PIN - Protocol Analysis EMV POS References: =========== Download: http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/resources/videos/399.wmv View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zFlqMFWYhc Release Date: ============= 2012-01-25 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-I...

HITB2011KUL - Chip & PIN - Protocol Analysis EMV POS

Document Title: =============== HITB2011KUL - Chip & PIN - Protocol Analysis EMV POS References: =========== Download: http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/resources/videos/399.wmv View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zFlqMFWYhc Release Date: ============= 2012-01-25 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-I...

Absinthe Jailbreak for iPhone 4S Released

Less than three weeks after releasing a new jailbreak for iPhones running iOS 5.01, a team of researchers has now published a similar tool for jailbreaking the iPhone 4S and iPad2. The Absinthe jailbreak tool will allow users to run unsigned code on their devices and load apps from places other...

Apple Laptop Batteries Can Be Bricked, Firmware Hacked

Security researcher Charlie Miller, widely known for his work on Mac OS X and Apple’s iOS, has discovered an interesting method that enables him to completely disable the batteries on Apple laptops, making them permanently unusable, and perform a number of other unintended actions. The method,...

[ MDVSA-2011:014 ] ccid

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDVSA-2011:014 http://www.mandriva.com/security/ Package : ccid Date : January 20, 2011 Affected: Corporate 4.0 Problem Description: A vulnerability has been found and corrected in ccid: Signedness error in ccidserial....

CVE-2010-4530

Signedness error in ccidserial.c in libccid in the USB Chip/Smart Card Interface Devices CCID driver, as used in pcscd in PCSC-Lite 1.5.3 and possibly other products, allows physically proximate attackers to execute arbitrary code via a smart card with a crafted serial number that causes a negati...