January: Prime Month for Mail Theft and Identity Fraud

Checking the mail in December is typically a pleasant experience, filled with holiday cards and packages. Then comes January. Besides the Christmas bills, mailboxes begin to overflow with W-2s, 1099s, statements from financial institutions, and IRS forms. It's no wonder John Ulzheimer, president ...

Wikileaks: Controversial, But is it NSFW?

As government agencies and the military bar access to the WIkileaks documents, a poll of Web filtering providers finds most label the leak site more “newsy” than “naughty.” HED: Wikileaks: Controversial, But is it NSFW? DEK: As companies look to bar access to the WIkileaks documents or not Web...

CVE-2010-4547

IBM Lotus Notes Traveler before 8.5.1.3, when a multidomain environment is used, does not properly apply policy documents to mobile users from a different Domino domain than the Traveler server, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions by using credentials fr...

CVE-2010-4547

IBM Lotus Notes Traveler before 8.5.1.3, when a multidomain environment is used, does not properly apply policy documents to mobile users from a different Domino domain than the Traveler server, which allows remote authenticated users to bypass intended access restrictions by using credentials fr...

Julian Assange: The Man Behind WikiLeaks

Who is Julian Paul Assange? Julian Paul Assange is the lean, tall, and pale 39-year-old Australian hacker at the heart of WikiLeaks. This whistle-blowing website gained attention after revealing thousands of secret Afghan battlefield reports, making Assange a target for U.S. authorities. The Enig...

Week in Security: More Wikileaks Fallout, Cybersecurity Buzz and Browser Updates

The words “cyber war” were in the headlines this week, as controversy and debate about the leak of confidential diplomatic cables by Wikileaks reached a fever pitch. As speculation turned to the fallout from the ongoing publication of documents, the U.S. government laid the groundwork to prevent...

Man Arrested Selling Classified Documents to FBI

The Washington Post is reporting that Petty Officer Bryan Minkyu Martin was arrested sometime last week on suspicion of stealing classified documents from military networks and attempting to sell them to a foreign agent. Martin is a Navy specialist at the Joint Special Operations Command. He has...

Wikileaks Roundup: Assange Arrested, Visa, MC Cut Ties

OK. It’s been just over a week since information leaking Web site Wikileaks released the first installment of leaked U.S. diplomatic cables, with each day bringing new documents from the purported hoard of some 250,000 pages, and new developments from a range of very pissed off Western government...

WikiLeaks.org Down After EveryDNS.net Termination Due to DDOS Attacks

WikiLeaks' main website became inaccessible on Friday via its WikiLeaks.org domain after EveryDNS.net, a subsidiary of Dynamic Network Services, terminated its domain name service. EveryDNS.net terminated the WikiLeaks.org domain due to repeated Distributed Denial of Service DDOS attacks. These...

CVE-2010-4260

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in pdf.c in libclamav in ClamAV before 0.96.5 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF document, aka 1 "bb 2358" and 2 "bb 2396."...

CVE-2010-4260

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in pdf.c in libclamav in ClamAV before 0.96.5 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service application crash or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF document, aka 1 "bb 2358" and 2 "bb 2396."...

SuSE 11 Security Update : Acrobat Reader (SAT Patch Number 2320)

Specially crafted PDF documents could crash acroread or even lead to execution of arbitrary code. CVE-2010-0190 / CVE-2010-0191 / CVE-2010-0192 / CVE-2010-0193 / CVE-2010-0194 / CVE-2010-0195 / CVE-2010-0196 / CVE-2010-0197 / CVE-2010-0198 / CVE-2010-0199 / CVE-2010-0201 / CVE-2010-0202 /...

Image Of The Day: Wikileaks Cablegate By the Numbers

Its no surprise that the headlines this Monday that weren’t about the online shopping Bacchanal known as Cyber Monday were about the latest purge of confidential documents from Wikileaks. The Web site, which made a name for itself by publishing leaked documents concerning the wars in Iraq and...

Wikileaks, Dodging DDoS, Bounces Back to Amazon

The Web site of Wikileaks was moving quickly to stay out of the way of large scale denial of service attacks on Sunday and Monday, following the release of a trove of sensitive U.S. diplomatic cables. The controversial site, which has spent months trying to find a home secure from government...

Chinese National Stole Ford Secrets Worth More Than $50 Million

A ten year veteran of the U.S. automaker Ford Motor Company pleaded guilty in federal court on November 17 to charges that he stole company secrets, including design documents, worth more than $50 million and sharing them with his new employer: the Chinese division of a U.S. rival of Ford’s. Xian...

Internet Explorer CSS clip attribute memory corruption

Added: 11/16/2010 CVE: CVE-2010-3962 BID: 44536 OSVDB: 68987 Background Cascading Style Sheets CSS is a simple mechanism for adding style to web documents. Problem A memory corruption vulnerability allows command execution when a user loads a web page containing a CSS clip attribute with a specif...

Adobe Flash Player Flash Content Parsing Code Execution

Added: 11/16/2010 CVE: CVE-2010-3654 BID: 44504 OSVDB: 68932 Background Adobe Reader is free software for viewing PDF documents. Problem Adobe Reader 9.x is vulnerable to a remote code execution vulnerability as a result of parsing flash content by the bundled Adobe Flash Player. Resolution Apply...

CVE-2010-3899

IBM OmniFind Enterprise Edition 8.x and 9.x performs web crawls with an unlimited recursion depth, which allows remote web servers to cause a denial of service infinite loop via a crafted series of documents...

CVE-2010-3335

Microsoft Office XP SP3, Office 2003 SP3, Office 2007 SP2, Office 2010, Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac, Office for Mac 2011, and Open XML File Format Converter for Mac allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Office document that triggers memory corruption, aka "Drawing...

Cyber Criminal Underground: The Comics Edition

The criminal underworld is an insular community shrouded in secrecy. That’s helped lend an air of mystique to cyber crime. See also: Bruce Willis in “Die Hard 4: Live Free or Die Hard.”. But it turns out that, like so much else, real life cyber crime is… well… pretty dull. How dull? Comic artist...