Obama Administration to Review NSA Capabilities

President Barack Obama has initiated a review of the procedures and methods that the NSA uses to collect intelligence at home and overseas to ensure that the agency isn’t overstepping its bounds in phone and Internet data collection. The review comes at a time when Congress is set to consider...

New Bill Would End Mass Surveillance

UPDATE: Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner R-Wisc. is introducing a bill that would counteract many of the elements of the U.S. PATRIOT Act that enables the mass collection of data belonging to U.S. citizens. Sensenbrenner’s bill is called the USA FREEDOM Act, a quasi-acronym for Uniting and Strengthening...

CVE-2013-5596

The cycle collection CC implementation in Mozilla Firefox before 25.0, Firefox ESR 24.x before 24.1, Thunderbird before 24.1, and SeaMonkey before 2.22 does not properly determine the thread for release of an image object, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial ...

Writing to cycle collected object during image decoding — Mozilla

Mozilla community member Ezra Pool reported a potentially exploitable crash on extremely large pages. This was caused when a cycle collected image object was released on the wrong thread during decoding, creating a race condition...

CVE-2013-5601

Use-after-free vulnerability in the nsEventListenerManager::SetEventHandler function in Mozilla Firefox before 25.0, Firefox ESR 17.x before 17.0.10 and 24.x before 24.1, Thunderbird before 24.1, Thunderbird ESR 17.x before 17.0.10, and SeaMonkey before 2.22 allows remote attackers to execute...

EFF: Congress Has Opportunity to Stop Mass Surveillance

Since the leaks of NSA surveillance methods began in June, there has been a flurry of activity in Congress, with members scurrying to line up on either side of the issue, either defending the agency’s methods or condemning them. That mad scramble also has included the introduction of a number of...

Tomcat Application Manager Login Utility

This module simply attempts to login to a Tomcat Application Manager instance using a specific user/pass. This module requires Metasploit: https://metasploit.com/download Current source: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework require 'metasploit/framework/credentialcollection' require...

Snoopy Project mobile tracking and intelligence grows up

A year ago, the Snoopy Project was a neat research initiative that packaged a number of existing technologies into a framework to profile and track mobile devices. After a summer of Snowden revelations, something like Snoopy takes on a whole new meaning. Snoopy devices, called drones by researche...

Fedora Update for php-pecl-xhprof FEDORA-2013-18094

Check for the Version of php-pecl-xhprof OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for php-pecl-xhprof FEDORA-2013-18094 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 modif...

Fedora Update for php-pecl-xhprof FEDORA-2013-18049

Check for the Version of php-pecl-xhprof OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for php-pecl-xhprof FEDORA-2013-18049 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 modif...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: php-pecl-xhprof-0.9.4-1.fc20

XHProf is a function-level hierarchical profiler for PHP. This package provides the raw data collection component, implemented in C as a PHP extension. The HTML based navigational interface is provided in the "xhprof" package...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: php-pecl-xhprof-0.9.4-1.fc19

XHProf is a function-level hierarchical profiler for PHP. This package provides the raw data collection component, implemented in C as a PHP extension. The HTML based navigational interface is provided in the "xhprof" package...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Debt Collection Notification Email Messages on October 1, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 31067 First Published: 2013 October 1 14:40 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to Italian-language spam email messages that claims to contain a debt collection notification for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to...

Alexander: 'FISA is the Key to Connecting the Dots'

WASHINGTON–Faced with trying to accomplish its mission in an environment that suddenly has become quite hostile and inquisitive about its methods, the National Security Agency is becoming more and more public about the challenges that lie ahead and how the agency plans to address them. One of the...

FISC: No Phone Company Ever Challenged Metadata Collection Orders

A newly declassified opinion from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court from this summer shows the court’s interpretation of the controversial Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act that’s used to justify the National Security Agency’s bulk telephone metadata collections, and reveals that none ...

CVE-2013-1738

Use-after-free vulnerability in the JSGetGlobalForScopeChain function in Mozilla Firefox before 24.0, Thunderbird before 24.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.21 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by leveraging incorrect garbage collection in situations involving default compartments and...

Design/Logic Flaw

Use-after-free vulnerability in the JSGetGlobalForScopeChain function in Mozilla Firefox before 24.0, Thunderbird before 24.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.21 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by leveraging incorrect garbage collection in situations involving default compartments and...

CVE-2013-1738

Use-after-free vulnerability in the JSGetGlobalForScopeChain function in Mozilla Firefox before 24.0, Thunderbird before 24.0, and SeaMonkey before 2.21 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by leveraging incorrect garbage collection in situations involving default compartments and...

CVE-2013-1738

CVE-2013-1738 describes a use-after-free in Mozilla’s JS_GetGlobalForScopeChain, enabling remote code execution via mismanaged garbage collection in default compartments during frame-chain restoration. Affected products from the provided data include Mozilla Firefox (before 24.0), Thunderbird (be...

GC hazard with default compartments and frame chain restoration — Mozilla

Security researcher Nils reported a potentially exploitable use-after-free in an early test version of Firefox 25. Mozilla developer Bobby Holley found that the cause was an older garbage collection bug that a more recent change made easier to trigger...