Dozens of SCADA Exploits, Proof-of-concept Code Published

Exploits for scores of vulnerabilities in supervisory control and data acquisition software SCADA were made public on Monday, according to a report by The Register. 34 holes were published on Seclists.org’s Bugtraq mailing list for programs by Siemens, Iconics, 7-Technologies, Datac and Control...

RSA 2011: Winning the War But Losing Our Soul

There was lots of noise and distraction on the crowded Expo floor of the RSA Security Conference this year. After a grueling couple of years, vendors were back in force with big booths, big news and plenty of entertainment designed to attract visitor traffic. Wandering the floor, I saw – variousl...

Nokia under scanner of Indian Intelligence Agency for its Push Email service and SMS !

Department of Telecommunication DOT has been asked by The Intelligence Bureau IB0 to stop the messaging services of Nokia in India until they can be monitored. Once again security concerns have clouded Intelligence department's mind and the incident is not first of its kind. Earlier too similar...

Progress Crawls in Securing Critical Infrastructure

The US government is progressing at a snail’s pace in securing critical American infrastructure according to a Center for Strategic and International Studies CSIS commission on cybersecurity examining the first two years of the 44th presidency. Two years ago the CSIS published Securing Cyberspace...

Obama wants Internet ID for Every American !!

Everyone in the UK will already be familiar with this story with the New Labour's plan for biometric identity cards. That plan, which costs billions of pounds and was later shelved by the new coalition government, will now probably never happen in the UK. Now US President Barak Obama wants to...

Panda predicts malware creation and cyberwars will be key features of 2011 security landscape !

In its 2011 IT security predictions, Panda Security is predicting that a further rising tide of malware, along with an online cyberwar plus cyberprotests, will be the order of the day as the year progresses. According to Luis Corrons, Panda's technical director, during 2010 we have seen a...

Mozilla Disables WebSockets in Firefox 4 Over Security Concerns

Officials at Mozilla have decided to disable support for Web Sockets in future versions of Firefox because of concerns over the security of the the current version of the protocol.The group said that demonstrations of serious attacks against WebSockets have spurred the move. Mozilla said that the...

Experts Warn of Growing Data Theft as Government Lags in Cybersecurity

It will take several more years for the government to fully install high-tech systems to block computer intrusions. This prolonged timeline enables criminals to become more adept at stealing sensitive data, experts say. As the Department of Homeland Security DHS methodically works to secure the...

U.S. Adopts Military Tactics for Rising Cyberwar Threats

The increasing threats of cyberwar are keeping U.S. officials busy alongside ongoing wars on terror and drugs. Recent incidents highlight the rising cyberwarfare concerns: Google reported espionage attacks originating from China, mysterious Internet traffic activities related to China, the Stuxne...

New Rules Enable Military Assistance During Domestic Cyber-Attacks

The Obama administration has revised federal policy, enabling the military to assist during a domestic cyber-attack, reported the New York Times on Oct. 21. Typically, the military cannot deploy units within the country's borders, except for natural disasters, and even then, a presidential order ...

BACnet OPC Client Buffer Overflow Exploit

Exploit for windows platform in category local exploits ========================================= BACnet OPC Client Buffer Overflow Exploit ========================================= !/usr/bin/python bacnet.py BACnet OPC Client Buffer Overflow Exploit Jeremy Brown 0xjbrown41-gmail-com Sept 2010...

BACnet OPC Client Buffer Overflow Exploit

!/usr/bin/python bacnet.py BACnet OPC Client Buffer Overflow Exploit Jeremy Brown 0xjbrown41-gmail-com Sept 2010 After communicating via several emails with the vendor, sharing details about the vulnerability, as well as proof-of-concept code I also offered to send the exploit code for them to te...

GSM Network Weakness Exposed at DEFCON

A hardware hacking expert here at Defcon18 successfully faked several attendees’ cell phones into connecting to his phony GSM base station during a live demonstration that had initially raised concerns at the Federal Communications Commission FCC. Read the full article. Dark Reading...

Windows Zero Day Expected to Be Bad

A zero-day flaw being used in targeted attacks against organizations worldwide has security experts worried that the threat could spread further. Concerns about additional attacks using the “LNK” vulnerability in Windows machines prompted the SANS Internet Storm Center today to raise its Infocon...

Operating System Choice Does Not Equal Security

Yesterday while some of us in the USA were enjoying a day off Google made the news with this article in the Financial Times stating that they are moving away from Microsoft Windows due to security concerns. My first reaction was to question why a company with as many smart brains as Google would...

Google Cloud Print: Thinking Through the Security, Privacy Implications

Google’s plans to introduce a Cloud Print service that’s already being hailed as “printer voodoo” because it lets users print to any printer anywhere in the world, even from mobile phones. However, there are some privacy and security implications that need to be fleshed out before end users rush ...

Path for daily backup is configurable through WEB UI

It is possible to set the daily backup path and partial name through the web UI. This could mean that information can be obtained by a rouge admin. This issue addresses that by introducing a flag so concerned administrators can remove this feature. This flag is set to false by default meaning it ...

Debian DSA-2022-1 : mediawiki - several vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in mediawiki, a web-based wiki engine. The following issues have been identified : - Insufficient input sanitization in the CSS validation code allows editors to display external images in wiki pages. This can be a privacy concern on public wikis as it...

ANE CMD CRSF - Arbitrary Add Admin

ANE CMD CRSF - Arbitrary Add Admin ======================================================================= AneCMS CSRF Vulnerability ======================================================================= by Pratul Agrawal Vulnerability found in- Admin module email [email protected] company...

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...