Security Metrics Are Useless Without a Plan

WASHINGTON–There has been a big push in recent years in the security community toward metrics, and measurements of all types have become a hot topic in certain corners of the industry. But measurement for measurement’s sake is useless-and perhaps even counterproductive–if the security team in an...

MindSculpt CMS SQL Injection

MindSculpt's new CMS™ Content Management System SQL injection vulnerability - cid0 Author : kaMtiEz [email protected] Homepage : http://www.indonesiancoder.com Date : September 23, 2009 //////\ ///////\ //////\ //////\ //////\ -=- KILL-9 CREW -=- INDONESIANCODER -=-...

What's the cost of fixing an application vulnerability?

From DarkReading Kelly Jackson Higgins The cleanup cost for fixing a bug in a homegrown Web application ranges anywhere from $400 to $4,000 to repair, depending on the vulnerability and the way it’s fixed. Security experts traditionally have been hesitant to calculate the actual cost associated...

Microsoft to unveil patch management metrics project

Microsoft on Wednesday plans to launch a new research effort to determine the total cost of the patch-management cycle, from testing and distributing a fix to user deployment of the patch. The end result of the project, which will be completely open and transparent to outsiders, will be a full...

PostgreSQL 8.3.6 - Low Cost Function Information Disclosure

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34069/info PostgreSQL is prone to an information-disclosure vulnerability. Local attackers can exploit this issue to obtain sensitive information that may lead to further attacks. PostgreSQL 8.3.6 is vulnerable; other versions may also be affected. CREATE...

Fedora Update for emacspeak FEDORA-2008-8423

Check for the Version of emacspeak OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for emacspeak FEDORA-2008-8423 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2009 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under th...

Fake valid SSL certificate creation attack was successfully demonstrated

Valid fake SSL certificate creation attack was demonstratedby exploiting MD5 collisions and RapidSSL certificate generation procedures. The cost of attack is appoximately $2000...

Joomla Low Cost Hotels Component Blind SQL Injection

Joomla Component comlowcosthotels id Blind SQL Injection Vulnerability Author: Hussin X Home : www.IQ-TY.com & www.TrYaG.cc script : http://www.joomlahbs.com/ DorK : inurl:index.php?option=comlowcosthotels Demo :...

Joomla Low Cost Hotels Component SQL Injection Exploit

!/usr/bin/perl Joomla comlowcosthotels Sql injection Author : Lovebug www.rbt-4.net ModuleName: comlowcosthotels ScriptName: Joomla use LWP::UserAgent; print "\n Target : http://wwww.site.com/path/ : "; chompmy $target=; $cn="concatusername,0x3a,password"; $tablename="josusers"; $br =...

[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: emacspeak-28.0-3.fc9

Emacspeak is a speech interface that allows visually impaired users to interact independently and efficiently with the computer. Emacspeak has dramatically changed how the author and hundreds of blind and visually impaired users around the world interact with the personal computer and the Interne...

Further understanding of USB Key security vulnerabilities-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

1, as long as the digital certificate and private key stored in the computer medium, or may be read into memory, and then are unsafe. For example, China merchants Bank, the hard disk version of the digital certificate is unsafe. Because of its private key and the digital certificate has been Troj...

Information displayed in the security field should be approached with caution. – Opera Security Advisories

Information displayed in the security field should be approached with caution. – Opera Security Advisories OPCOM Team | February 9, 2007 Summary Even though a Certificate Authority has verified and signed it, a usershould not trust the Organization name without checking the domain name.A fraudule...

NetSniper network pioneer works-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

NetSniper network tip of the soldiers is in Shanghai on a large lake network system Co., Ltd. developed the network access detection and a controller. It can automatically detect the network without permission the erection of a proxy server is system or an illegal router, and through the illegal...

Cyberguard FW Silliness

Hey guys, Not an extremely huge issue, however one I think worth noting. Cyberguard claims that their FW software runs atop 'hardened' versions of SCO/Unixware comes bundled w/ the FW package. However, on a default installation of the latest version of the Cyberguard FW on SCO, there are a number...

ntmail3relay.txt

NTMail version 3 relay problem NTmail3 appears to have a small hole that allows anyone to use an NTmail3 server as a relay mail server. Basically here is how it works. NTmail3 is set to not allow relay either the TO or FROM address must be local JUCE a $500 antispamming add-on from the makers of...

Microsoft FlexGo

Microsoft FlexGo makes it possible to lower the entry cost of PCs and let people pay for computers as they use them. This technology supports two models today: a pay-as-you-go model enabled by prepaid cards or a subscription model with monthly payments...