Timer overflow DoS vulnerability

ISSUE DESCRIPTION A guest which sets a VCPU with an inappropriate deadline can cause an infinite loop in Xen, blocking the affected physical CPU indefinitely. IMPACT A malicious guest administrator can trigger the bug. If the Xen watchdog is enabled, the whole system will crash. Otherwise the gue...

Group Claims to Have Stolen Romney Tax Records from Tennessee Offices

A group claiming to have stolen tax returns belonging to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney say they want $1 million in Bitcoins by September 28 or they’ll publicly release the records worldwide. News agencies report the U.S. Secret Service is investigating the alleged data theft at th...

Apple Pushes Back Deadline for Sandboxing OS X Apps

Apple has pushed back the deadline for developers to include a sandbox in all of the apps on the Mac App Store, giving them a reprieve until June 1. The deadline was set for March 1, but Apple has changed it in order to give developers more time to work with the new requirements. Apple originally...

Syrian president's e-mail hacked by Saudi hackers

Syrian president's e-mail hacked by Saudi hackers According to report received to THN editorial, A hacker based out of Saudi Arabia, identified as Salman Al Anzi, claims to have hacked the private email account of Syrian president Bashar Al Assad. He also hack a number of Syrian ministries, the...

Giveaway : Win a Backtrack or iPhone book

Giveaway: Win a Backtrack or iPhone book After the huge success of our earlier giveaway we have again teamed up with Packt Publishing and we are organizing a giveaway where Three lucky winners stand a chance to win a copy of their choice between two great selling books i.e iPhone Applications...

ICIMP 2012 Call For Papers

INVITATION: ================= Please, consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to ICIMP 2012. The submission deadline is set to January 5, 2012. In addition, authors of selected papers will be...

Vulnerability Broker Draws Line in Disclosure Sand

Looking to put pressure on software vendors who procrastinate on fixing security flaws, the world’s biggest broker of vulnerability data is drawing a line in the sand. Starting August 4, TippingPoint’s Zero Day Initiative ZDI will enforce a six-month deadline for patches on all vulnerabilities...

SSNs Staying on U.S. Military IDs For Now

The Defense Department will not meet its end-of-the-year deadline for removing Social Security numbers from military ID cards as they are issued or renewed, the Pentagon has confirmed. Read the full article. Stars & Stripes...