Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1141-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

PlayStation Network hack launched from Amazon EC2 !

PlayStation Network hack launched from Amazon EC2 ! The hackers who breached the security of Sony's PlayStation network and gained access to sensitive data for 77 million subscribers used Amazon's web services cloud to launch the attack, Bloomberg News reported. The attackers rented a sever from...

Amazon: Faulty Upgrade Caused EC2 Outtage

Amazon’s multi day outtage on its Elastic Computer Cloud EC2 started with a faulty upgrade to one of its East Coast facility just after midnight on April 21, the company admitted in a blog post on Thursday. The network change, described as part of “normal AWS Amazon Web Services scaling activity,...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1089-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Ubuntu Update for linux-ec2 vulnerabilities USN-1086-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1086-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN10861.nasl 7964 2017-12-01 07:32:11Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux-ec2 vulnerabilities USN-1086-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1086-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

USN-1086-1: Linux kernel (EC2) vulnerabilities

Dan Rosenberg discovered that multiple terminal ioctls did not correctly initialize structure memory. A local attacker could exploit this to read portions of kernel stack memory, leading to a loss of privacy. CVE-2010-4075 Dan Rosenberg discovered that the socket filters did not correctly...

Ubuntu Update for linux-ec2 vulnerabilities USN-1080-2

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1080-2 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN10802.nasl 7964 2017-12-01 07:32:11Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux-ec2 vulnerabilities USN-1080-2 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1080-2)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

USN-1073-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Gleb Napatov discovered that KVM did not correctly check certain privileged operations. A local attacker with access to a guest kernel could exploit this to crash the host system, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2010-0435 Dan Jacobson discovered that ThinkPad video output was not correctly...

Ubuntu Update for linux, linux-ec2 vulnerabilities USN-1054-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1054-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN10541.nasl 7964 2017-12-01 07:32:11Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux, linux-ec2 vulnerabilities USN-1054-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1054-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1041-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-1023-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2010 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

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...

The Cloud Makes Short Work Of Strong Encryption

A German security researcher who used a new kind of hosted offering on Amazon’s EC2 to decipher password data encrypted using the SHA1 algorithm said that cloud computing is likely to upset long held assumptions about security: putting the tools required to crack encrypted passwords and data into...

Researchers Demo DDoS Attacks in the Cloud

Researchers at Def Con created a handful of virtual server instances on Amazon’s EC2 and used a homemade program to attack the network of a client — a small business that wanted its connectivity tested. They took the company off the Internet. The price? Six dollars. Read the full article. Dark...

ID Theft Gang Using Amazon's EC2 as Command and Control Server

Security researchers have intercepted a new variant of the Zeus crimeware using Amazon’s EC2 services to command and control the botnet. The cybercriminals appear to be using Amazon’s RDS managed database hosting service as a backend alternative in case they lose access to the original domain,...

PT-2013-6345 · Suse +4 · Suse Linux Enterprise Kernel-Ec2-Devel +8

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions prior to 3.13.4 SUSE Linux Enterprise kernel-pae-devel affected versions not specified SUSE Linux Enterprise kernel-xen-devel affected versions not specified SUSE Linux Enterprise gfs2-kmp-xen affected versions not...

PT-2012-6332 · Suse +3 · Suse Linux Enterprise Kernel-Ec2-Devel +7

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel version 3.7.4 and earlier SUSE Linux Enterprise kernel-pae-devel affected versions not specified SUSE Linux Enterprise kernel-xen-devel affected versions not specified SUSE Linux Enterprise gfs2-kmp-xen affected versions not...