Congressmen Call For DNI Clapper's Ouster

A group of six Congressmen have asked President Barack Obama to remove James Clapper as director of national intelligence as a result of his misstatements to Congress about the NSA’s dragnet data-collection programs. The group, led by Rep. Darrell Issa R-Calif., said that Clapper’s role as DNI “i...

Crypto Pioneers Write Letter on NSA Surveillance to Obama

Perhaps the biggest condemnation of President Obama’s address last Friday announcing reforms to the NSA’s surveillance programs was his failure to mention any of the agency’s alleged involvement in subverting cryptography standards and the impact that has had on the trustworthiness of products...

Cisco TelePresence System Software Command Execution Vulnerability

Cisco TelePresence System Software contains a vulnerability in the System Status Collection Daemon SSCD code that could allow an unauthenticated, adjacent attacker to execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the root user. Cisco has released software updates that address this...

Obama Orders NSA Bulk Metadata Surveillance Reforms

President Obama today announced reforms to the National Security Agency’s bulk metadata collection program under Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act, ordering a transition that would end the program as it exists today, and prohibit the government from storing and accessing the data without secret cour...

Metadata Program 'Not Uniquely Valuable'

In a mostly friendly and non-confrontational hearing on Tuesday, members of the Senate Judiciary Committee spent a couple of hours talking to members of the White House-appointed NSA review board about the extent of the agency’s surveillance and the panel’s recommendations for reform. The hearing...

SOL14907 - MySQL Server vulnerability CVE-2012-3163

Recommended action To eliminate this vulnerability, upgrade to a version that is listed in the Versions known to be not vulnerable column in the previous table. To mitigate this vulnerability on Enterprise Manager, you should not enable remote access to the statistics database. Remote access to t...

Former NSA Officials Detail Failures of Agency Programs in Letter to Obama

In the weeks and months leading up to 9/11, the National Security Agency had been working on a new information-gathering and analysis system known as THINTHREAD, a system that was built in-house and was meant to replace the uncountable number of stand-alone collection systems and attendant...

Mozilla Firefox New Function Garbage Collection Code Execution - Ver2 (CVE-2006-3803)

A code execution vulnerability has been reported in Mozilla Firefox. A remote attacker could trigger this vulnerability by causing the garbage collector to delete a temporary variable while it is still being used during the creation of a new Function object. Successful exploitation of this...

LimeSurvey ‘/admin/templates.php’脚本任意文件上传漏洞

LimeSurvey（前称PHPSurveyor）是LimeSurvey团队开发的一套开源的在线问卷调查程序，它支持调查程序开发、调查问卷发布以及数据收集等功能。 LimeSurvey中存在任意文件上传漏洞，该漏洞源于程序没有成充分过滤用户提交的输入。攻击者可利用该漏洞上传任意文件到受影响计算机，导致在受影响应用程序上下文中执行任意代码。 0 LimeSurvey 目前厂商还没有提供此漏洞的相关补丁或者升级程序，建议使用此软件的用户随时关注厂商的主页以获取最新版本： http://www.limesurvey.org/...

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...

Stanford Researchers Find Connecting Metadata With User Names is Simple

One of the key tenets of the argument that the National Security Agency and some lawmakers have constructed to justify the agency’s collection of phone metadata is that the information it’s collecting, such as phone numbers and length of call, can’t be tied to the callers’ names. However, some...

NSA Must Reform Practices, Organization

A presidentially appointed, five member panel issued a more than 300-page report yesterday calling for nearly 50 recommendations for changes in the way that the National Security Agency conducts its increasingly public and controversial sweeping surveillance programs. The entire report hinges on...

UN Adopts Resolution Protecting Privacy Online

On the same day that a panel of experts delivered a report to the United States president recommending sweeping changes to the way that the National Security Agency collects, handles and stores intelligence, the United Nations unanimously adopted a resolution calling for the protection of users’...

U.S. District Court Judge Rules NSA Metadata Collection Likely Violates Fourth Amendment

A United States District Court judge has ruled that the bulk metadata collection program maintained by the National Security Agency for years now likely is unconstitutional. The judge, ruling on a pair of law suits that claimed the NSA’s methods violated users’ privacy and civil rights, said that...

CVE-2013-6359

Munin::Master::Node in Munin before 2.0.18 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service abort data collection for node via a plugin that uses "multigraph" as a multigraph service name...

Flashlight App Settles with FTC

The makers of a popular Android flashlight application have settled with the Federal Trade Commission over allegations that they covertly tracked the locations of the “Brightest Flashlight Free” users and sold that information to advertising firms. The FTC’s charges stem primarily from the fact...

Mozilla: Use-after-free during Table Editing (MFSA 2013-109)

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsNodeUtils::LastRelease function in the table-editing user interface in the editor component in Mozilla Firefox before 26.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.2, Thunderbird before 24.2, and SeaMonkey before 2.23 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by...

CVE-2013-5618

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsNodeUtils::LastRelease function in the table-editing user interface in the editor component in Mozilla Firefox before 26.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.2, Thunderbird before 24.2, and SeaMonkey before 2.23 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by...

Design/Logic Flaw

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsNodeUtils::LastRelease function in the table-editing user interface in the editor component in Mozilla Firefox before 26.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.2, Thunderbird before 24.2, and SeaMonkey before 2.23 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by...

CVE-2013-5618

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsNodeUtils::LastRelease function in the table-editing user interface in the editor component in Mozilla Firefox before 26.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.2, Thunderbird before 24.2, and SeaMonkey before 2.23 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by...