Navy Hires Contractor to Data-Mine Gaming Consoles

The U.S. Navy recently hired an outside contractor, Obscure Technologies, to develop computer forensics tools capable of analyzing network traffic and stored data on gaming consoles. The contract, valued at $177,237.50, calls on Obscure Technologies to create hardware and software tools that can ...

krb5 -- unkeyed PAC checksum handling vulnerability

The MIT Kerberos team reports: MIT krb5 incorrectly accepts an unkeyed checksum for PAC signatures. An authenticated remote attacker can forge PACs if using a KDC that does not filter client-provided PAC data. This can result in privilege escalation against a service that relies on PAC contents t...

SA-CONTRIB-2010-037 - Decisions - Access bypass

Decisions is a replacement for poll.module and provides advanced voting systems and decision-making tools. It aims to enable groups to take decisions online in a manner that replicates and augments what is possible in face-to-face meeting. In some listings, the Decisions module does not construct...

IS Decisions RemoteExec '.rec' Remote Buffer Overflow

The remote host is running IS Decisions RemoteExec, a computer- management application. The installed version is earlier than 4.0.5. Such versions are potentially affected by a buffer overflow vulnerability when processing specially crafted '.rec' files. An attacker, exploiting this flaw, could...

RSA 2010: Cryptographers Discuss Wisdom of 'Foolishness'

At the RSA conference in San Francisco, a panel of leading cryptographers reveal some of the lessons they have learned while making seemingly imprudent decisions. By going against the grain, new objectives can be made and boundaries overcome...

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...

CVE-2009-0034

parse.c in sudo 1.6.9p17 through 1.6.9p19 does not properly interpret a system group aka %group in the sudoers file during authorization decisions for a user who belongs to that group, which allows local users to leverage an applicable sudoers file and gain root privileges via a sudo command...

CVE-2009-0034

parse.c in sudo 1.6.9p17 through 1.6.9p19 does not properly interpret a system group aka %group in the sudoers file during authorization decisions for a user who belongs to that group, which allows local users to leverage an applicable sudoers file and gain root privileges via a sudo command...

CVE-2004-0063

The SPPVerifyPVV function in nCipher payShield SPP library 1.3.12, 1.5.18 and 1.6.18 returns a StatusOK value even if the HSM returns a different status code, which could cause applications to make incorrect security-critical decisions, e.g. by accepting an invalid PIN number...

CVE-2004-0063

The SPPVerifyPVV function in nCipher payShield SPP library 1.3.12, 1.5.18 and 1.6.18 returns a StatusOK value even if the HSM returns a different status code, which could cause applications to make incorrect security-critical decisions, e.g. by accepting an invalid PIN number...