Model Predicts Optimal Timing of a Cyber Conflict

Security researchers from the Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan have published a mathematical model they said will produce the proper timing for the delivery of offensive cyberweapons. Defenders can also make use of the model to understand attackers and when an targeted...

Wiper, the Destructive Malware possibly connected to Stuxnet and Duqu

Kaspersky Lab publishes research resulting from the digital forensic analysis of the hard disk images obtained from the machines attacked by the Wiper - a destructive malware program attacking computer systems related to oil facilities in Western Asia. Security researchers from Kaspersky Lab have...

Saudi Aramco Oil Producer's 30,000 workstations victim of Cyber Attack

Saudi Aramco, the world's biggest oil producer, has resumed operating its main internal computer networks after a virus infected about 30,000 of its workstations in mid-August. Immediately after the Aug. 15 attack, the company announced it had cut off its electronic systems from outside access to...

CVE-2010-5088

Multiple cross-site request forgery CSRF vulnerabilities in SilverStripe 2.3.x before 2.3.9 and 2.4.x before 2.4.3 allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of administrators via destructive controller actions, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-5087...

Shamoon Malware : Permanently wiping data from Energy Industry Computers

Malware researchers have uncovered an attack targeting an organization in the energy industry that attempts to wreak havoc by permanently wiping data from an infected computer's hard drive and rendering the machine unusable. Symantec would not name the victimized firm, and so far has seen the...

40th anniversary of the computer virus !

This year marks the 40th anniversary of Creeper, the world's first computer virus. From Creeper to Stuxnet, the last four decades saw the number of malware instances boom from 1,300 in 1990, to 50,000 in 2000, to over 200 million in 2010. Besides sheer quantity, viruses, which were originally use...

Ruby contains a vulnerability that prevents safe level 4 from functioning as a sandbox.

Overview Safe level is a security model provided by Ruby language that limits the operation of untrusted objects. A vulnerability that allows an attacker to bypass the safe level restrictions and execute inaccessible methods ex. destructive methods was confirmed. Impact An attacker may be able to...

XSS by setting img.src to javascript: URI — Mozilla

mozbugra4 reported that the src attribute of an IMG element loaded in a frame could be changed to a javascript: URI that was able to bypass the protections against cross-site script XSS injection. The injected script could steal credentials and financial data, or perform destructive actions on...

EZ Systems HTTPBench 1.1 - Information Disclosure

EZ Systems HTTPBench 1.1 - Information Disclosure source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6153/info An information disclosure vulnerability has been reported for httpbench. Reportedly, httpbench may disclose the contents of web server readable files to remote attackers. Information obtained in...

Problems with cons.saver

Hi, Many systems have a suid on cons.saver which is part of midnight commander package. Standard location of this binary is /usr/lib/mc/bin/cons.saver. There is a bug, which allows luser to write '0' char to any symlinkable file in system. So it can be very destructive, I wrote simple example of...