Cacti 0.8.7 (RedHat High Performance Computing [HPC]) - 'utilities.php?Filter' Cross-Site Scripting

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/42575/info Cacti is prone to cross-site-scripting and HTML-injection vulnerabilities because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input before using it in dynamically generated content. Attacker-supplied HTML and script code would run in the contex...

Grid. Система распределенных вычислений.

Введение. Материал появился в результате анализа замечаний и предложений, поступивших от тех, кто прочитал статью “Процесс создания ПО для распределенных вычислений C++”. Отсутствие явного распределения задачи сервером между клиентами и отсутствие конкретной задачи в принципе заставили автора ина...

Chris Hoff: Cloud Computing

In this session from the SOURCE conference in Boston, Chris Hoff of Cisco Systems discusses the current state of cloud computing and what it can tell us about the future of cloud computing...

End of Support for XP SP2 is End of an Era

Microsoft’s announcement this week that it is preparing to end support for machines running Windows XP SP2 not only represents a challenge for the thousands of businesses still running SP2, but also is the end of an era for both Microsoft and its customers. By the time Microsoft drops support for...

Research Software Secures Hypervisor Behavior

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed new techniques and software that may be the key to resolving cloud computing and virtualization security concerns and boosting confidence in the sector. Read the full article. ScienceDaily...

Has Apple Gotten Religion on Software Security?

Information security is an unpredictable, fluid discipline. There are very few absolute truths, but for the last few years, one of those has been that Apple isn’t paying much attention to software security. At least that’s the received wisdom. This theory is based mainly on the fact that security...

RE-TRUST Solves Trusted Computing Weaknesses

European researchers are proposing a paradigm-shifting solution to trusted computing that offers better security and authentication with none of the drawbacks that exist in the current state of the art. Read the full article. Science Daily...

MS Discovers Over 1,800 Office 2010 Bugs

Microsoft uncovered more than 1,800 bugs in Office 2010 by tapping into the unused computing horsepower of idling PCs. Office developers found the bugs by running millions of “fuzzing” tests, said Tom Gallagher, senior security test lead with Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing group. Read the full...

Taher Elgamal on Encryption, SSL, The Cloud

In this wide ranging interview, cryptographer, Taher Elgamal, chief security officer of Axway Inc. and initial driving force behind SSL, explains how applications may be better adapted to defend against attacks and how cloud computing may alter data protection and authentication. Read the full...

RSA 2010: How Cloud Security Is the Wild West

Economic pressures are driving more businesses and governments to nervously eye cloud computing, despite myriad unanswered questions that swirl around a single central concern: security. This was backdrop for a panel discussion between CISOs at this week’s RSA Conference. Read the full article...

What If Bill Gates Never Wrote the Trustworthy Computing Memo?

The security industry has undergone massive changes in the last 15 years, and in some cases it’s hard to imagine what things would be like had these events not taken place. Think of a world in which Google focuses on security and privacy and Microsoft never started Trustworthy Computing, and you...

IEEE and Cloud Security Alliance Form Partnership

The Cloud Security Alliance CSA and IEEE are joining forces to ensure that best practices and standards are developed and available to provide security assurance for cloud computing. As a result of this collaboration, CSA and IEEE have been conducting a survey to identify and define the most...

OCS Inventory NG Server Administration Console Detection

The remote web server is hosting the OCS Inventory NG Server Administration console, a PHP application for managing computing assets. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc'; include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid44392; scriptversion"1.11";...

Cloud Computing's Inconvenient Truth

Google may have threatened to leave China in order to keep us all from concluding that “the cloud” can’t be secured. But isn’t that precisely what we should conclude based on the fact that Google chose to leave China? Read the full article. Computerworld...

Cloud Security Alliance Gives New Guidance

Version 2.1 of the Cloud Security Alliance’s “Guidance for Critical Areas of Focus in Cloud Computing” provides more concise and actionable guidance across all domains, and encompasses knowledge gained from real world deployments over the past six months. Read the full article. Help Net Security...

Amazon Moves to Mitigate Threats to Cloud Service

Amazon said today that it has taken steps to mitigate a security issue in its cloud computing infrastructure that was identified recently by researchers from MIT and the University of California at San Diego. The report described how attackers could search for, locate and attack specific targets ...

DEBIAN-CVE-2009-3616

Multiple use-after-free vulnerabilities in vnc.c in the VNC server in QEMU 0.10.6 and earlier might allow guest OS users to execute arbitrary code on the host OS by establishing a connection from a VNC client and then 1 disconnecting during data transfer, 2 sending a message using incorrect integ...

We Can't Afford Not to Secure the Cloud

There have been many disruptive innovations in the history of modern computing, each of them in some way impacting how we create, interact with, deliver, and consume information. The platforms and mechanisms used to process, transport, and store our information likewise endure change, some in...

Castle Rock Computing SNMPc Network Manager Community String Buffer Overflow (CVE-2008-2214)

SNMPc is a secure distributed network management system developed by Castle Rock Computing. SNMPc uses Simple Network Management Protocol SNMP to communicate with other network entities. A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in Castle Rock Computing SNMPc Network Manager. The vulnerability can b...

McAfee SmartFilter信息泄漏漏洞

Bugraq ID: 35756 CVE ID：CVE-2009-2312 CVE-2009-2429 CNCVE ID：CNCVE-20092312 CNCVE-20092429 McAfee SmartFilter是一款网站过滤解决方案。 McAfee SmartFilter存在设计问题，本地攻击者可以利用漏洞获得敏感信息。 用于proxy服务器验证的SmartFilter user ID的用户名和明文文本密码保存在c:\Program Files\Secure Computing\Smartfilter...