[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: openstack-nova-2012.2.2-1.fc18

OpenStack Compute codename Nova is open source software designed to provision and manage large networks of virtual machines, creating a redundant and scalable cloud computing platform. It gives you the software, control panels, and APIs required to orchestrate a cloud, including running instances...

[Watcher v1.5.6] Web Security Testing Tool and Passive Vulnerability Scanner

Watcher is a runtime passive-analysis tool for HTTP-based Web applications. Being passive means it won't damage production systems, it's completely safe to use in Cloud computing, shared hosting, and dedicated hosting environments. Watcher detects Web-application security issues as well as...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: openshift-origin-node-util security update

An updated openshift-origin-node-util package that fixes two security issues is now available for Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 1.0. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detaile...

Researchers Exploit Cloud Browsers to do Anonymous, Large-Scale Computing

Researchers from two U.S. universities have created a way to anonymously use cloud-based Web browsers to perform large-scale computing tasks – a feat that also demonstrates how hackers might secretly harness massive computing power to launch attacks. Using the MapReduce technique developed by...

400 million new variants of malware created in a year

Symantec provide overview and analysis of the year in global threat activity via its Internet Security Threat Report ISTR, with a exclusive details that 400 million new variants of malware were created in 2011, which is an average of 33 million new variants of malware a month, or an average of on...

Attorneys Warn of Increased Risk of Big Data Breach Lawsuits

Two attorneys for a prominent law firm warn that courts are starting to look more favorably on class-action lawsuits brought by data breach victims, who historically have had trouble proving actual damages from the thefts. “A recent survey of data breach litigation found that the average settleme...

Infographic: Veracode on Mobile Security and Protecting Your Device

Veracode have put out another snazzy infographic, this time to help illustrate the mobile computing boom of the last few years. To accompany the BYOD Bring Your Own Device policy that’s becoming commonplace in offices around the world, the web security firm uses two characters, Joe Worker and Joe...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Enterprise MRG Messaging 2.2 update

Updated Messaging component packages that fix two security issues, multiple bugs, and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.2 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common...

Fedora Update for trousers FEDORA-2012-12973

Check for the Version of trousers OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for trousers FEDORA-2012-12973 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the...

Fedora Update for openstack-nova FEDORA-2012-11756

Check for the Version of openstack-nova OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for openstack-nova FEDORA-2012-11756 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify ...

Fedora Update for openstack-nova FEDORA-2012-9550

Check for the Version of openstack-nova OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for openstack-nova FEDORA-2012-9550 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify i...

Cisco Unified Computing System Fabric Interconnect SNMP Message Processing Denial of Service Vulnerability

Cisco Unified Computing System contains a vulnerability that could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service DoS condition. The vulnerability is due to errors in processing malicious Simple Network Management Protocol SNMP messages by the affected software. An...

[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: openstack-nova-2012.1.1-15.fc17

OpenStack Compute codename Nova is open source software designed to provision and manage large networks of virtual machines, creating a redundant and scalable cloud computing platform. It gives you the software, control panels, and APIs required to orchestrate a cloud, including running instances...

Cisco Unified Computing System Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability

Cisco Unified Computing System contains a vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service DoS condition on a targeted system. The vulnerability is due to the improper handling of user-supplied SSH requests by affected software. An unauthenticated,...

CVE-2012-1339

The Fabric Interconnect component in Cisco Unified Computing System UCS 2.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service process crash via an attempted SSH session, aka Bug ID CSCtt94543...

Cross site request forgery (csrf)

Cisco Unified Computing System UCS 1.4 and 2.0 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service device reload via a malformed SNMP request to a Fabric Interconnect FI device, aka Bug ID CSCts32463...

CVE-2012-1364

Cisco Unified Computing System UCS 1.4 and 2.0 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service device reload via a malformed SNMP request to a Fabric Interconnect FI device, aka Bug ID CSCts32452...

CVE-2012-1365

Cisco Unified Computing System UCS 1.4 and 2.0 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service device reload via a malformed SNMP request to a Fabric Interconnect FI device, aka Bug ID CSCts32463...

Q&A: Adrian Stone of the BlackBerry Security Team

LAS VEGAS–Here’s something that you might not know about RIM: it has a rather large security response and research team. The maker of the BlackBerry phones–once the must-have fashion accessory for executives and Barack Obama–historically has been almost silent on the way that it handles product...

Microsoft Publishes Workaround for Oracle Outside In Vulnerability

Microsoft gave its users steps earlier this week to sidestep a vulnerability in one of Oracle’s Outside In libraries. The company published some mitigations for the bug, but said it isn’t aware of any active attacks against it yet. The Oracle technology is licensed by software developers like...