[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: openstack-nova-2011.3-6.fc16

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...

CVE-2011-2569

Cisco Nexus OS aka NX-OS 4.2 and 5.0 and Cisco Unified Computing System with software 1.4 and 2.0 do not properly restrict command-line options, which allows local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors, aka Bug IDs CSCtf40008, CSCtg18363, CSCtr44645, CSCts10195, and CSCts10188...

Command injection

Cisco Nexus OS aka NX-OS 4.2 and 5.0 and Cisco Unified Computing System with software 1.4 and 2.0 do not properly restrict command-line options, which allows local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors, aka Bug IDs CSCtf40008, CSCtg18363, CSCtr44645, CSCts10195, and CSCts10188...

Microsoft Invents New Way To Measure Online Safety (And Finds That Consumers Stink At It)

Computer users are taking steps to mitigate online security threats, but still only score a paltry 34 out of 100 – a solid “F” – according to a new study by Microsoft. The study, sponsored by Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing Group TwC, introduces a new metric, the Microsoft Computing Safety Inde...

CVE-2011-2569

Cisco NX-OS (Nexus OS) 4.2 and 5.0 and Cisco UCS software 1.4 and 2.0 are affected by CVE-2011-2569 due to improper sanitization of user input in CLI options, enabling authenticated, local users to escalate privileges via unspecified vectors. Root cause: insufficient restriction of command-line o...

CVE-2011-2569

Cisco Nexus OS aka NX-OS 4.2 and 5.0 and Cisco Unified Computing System with software 1.4 and 2.0 do not properly restrict command-line options, which allows local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors, aka Bug IDs CSCtf40008, CSCtg18363, CSCtr44645, CSCts10195, and CSCts10188...

Walking Among Security Giants

If you were born anytime in the last 50 years, the personal computing age has comprised the majority of your life. Depending upon how you want to mark its beginning, the PC era started somewhere in the mid-1970s, and, remarkably, many of the people who were responsible for the founding of the...

ganglia-info NSE Script

Retrieves system information OS version, available memory, etc. from a listening Ganglia Monitoring Daemon or Ganglia Meta Daemon. Ganglia is a scalable distributed monitoring system for high-performance computing systems such as clusters and Grids. The information retrieved includes HDD size,...

The Past, Present and Future of Software Security

Perhaps no segment of the security industry has evolved more in the last decade than the discipline of software security. At the start of the 2000s, software security was a small, arcane field that often was confused with security software. But several things happened in the early part of the...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Enterprise MRG Grid 2.0 security, bug fix and enhancement update

Updated Grid component packages that fix one security issue, multiple bugs, and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.0 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Enterprise MRG Grid 2.0 security, bug fix and enhancement update

Updated Grid component packages that fix one security issue, multiple bugs, and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2.0 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common...

Former DHS Cybersecurity Chief Reitinger Named Sony CISO

Former Department of Homeland Security cyber-security chief Philip Reitinger has been named as the new executive vice president and Chief Information Security Officer of Sony Corporation. In his new position, Reitinger will be in charge of global information security and privacy at the electronic...

Qubes OS : An Operating System Designed For Security

Qubes OS : An Operating System Designed For Security Qubes is an open source operating system designed to provide strong security for desktop computing. Qubes is based on Xen, X Window System, and Linux, and can run most Linux applications and utilize most of the Linux drivers. In the future it...

Get Ready for Hacker Halted 2011, Miami 21-27 October

Get Ready for Hacker Halted 2011, Miami 21-27 October Hacker Halted returns to Miami for the 3rd year in a row. Following last year's success, we are expecting this year to be bigger and better. Hacker Halted will feature 4 focus tracks: 1.What's Hot – Featuring cutting-edge presentations on key...

Get Ready for Hacker Halted 2011, Miami 21-27 October

Get Ready for Hacker Halted 2011 , Miami 21-27 October Hacker Halted returns to Miami for the 3rd year in a row. Following last year's success, we are expecting this year to be bigger and better. Hacker Halted will feature 4 focus tracks: 1.What's Hot – Featuring cutting-edge presentations on key...

Google Acquires Device Maker Motorola Mobility for $12.5b

HED: Google Device Maker Motorola Mobility DEK: The company will double down on the mobile space with its $12.5b purchase of Motorola Mobility Search giant Google announced a major move into the mobile device space on Monday with a $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility Holdings. The deal,...

CentOS Update for vnc CESA-2009:0261 centos4 i386

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 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 scriptxrefname:"URL",...

How Facebook and Facial Recognition Are Creating a Minority Report-Style Privacy Meltdown

Researchers at the annual Black Hat Briefings in Las Vegas have demonstrated how cloud computing, facial recognition technology, Facebook, a freely available personal information can be used to match faces in a crowd to detailed online profiles. The demonstration brings us closer to the brink of ...

Durandal - Distributed CPU/GPU Hash Cracker v 0.5 released

Durandal - Distributed CPU/GPU Hash Cracker v 0.5 released Durandal is a distributed GPU/CPU computing software that aims to crack passwords. Mostly written in C++ with the Boost library, it works on many systems, however it is only built for Windows and GNU/Linux for the moment, on the x86 and x...

Attackers Target PNNL, Force Lab Off the Web

An attack against the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has forced the lab to shut off access to the Internet, and the lab’s external Web site also is inaccessible right now. The attack on the lab, which conducts national security and cybersecurity research among other things, is the latest i...