Can Howard Schmidt Make a Difference?

At first glance, the selection of Howard A. Schmidt as the White House Cybersecurity Coordinator looks like little more than a safe and easy choice designed to quiet the critics who for seven months have been howling for action from the Obama administration. But a closer look shows that Schmidt’s...

Attackers Buying Own Data Centers for Botnets, Spam

The malware writers and criminals who run botnets for years have been using shared hosting platforms and so-called bulletproof hosting providers as bases of operations for their online crimes. But, as law enforcement agencies and security experts have moved to take these providers offline, the...

Hackers Target MS Police Software

Hackers have released software they say sabotages a suite of forensics utilities Microsoft provides for free to hundreds of law enforcement agencies across the globe known as Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor COFEE. Read the full article. The Register...

Federal Wiretaps Busted by Researchers

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania say they’ve discovered a way to circumvent the networking technology used by law enforcement to tap phone lines in the U.S.The flaws they’ve found “represent a serious threat to the accuracy and completeness of wiretap records used for both criminal...

U.S. Takes Down $9 Million RBS WorldPay Hacking Ring

U.S. and international prosecutors have taken down a criminal ring that they allege was responsible for an ATM scam last year that stole about $9 million from RBS WorldPay. The criminals were able to evade the company’s encryption system used on payroll debit cards and withdraw money from ATMs in...

Mozilla Firefox Chrome Page Loading Restriction Bypass (CVE-2005-2706)

The Firefox and Mozilla web browsers are applications designed for tasks related to browsing the web, such as displaying HTML encoded pages, downloading files, and so on. The web browser implements security restrictions on the execution of scripts and access to certain resources based on the orig...

MySQL CREATE FUNCTION Table Arbitrary Library Injection (CVE-2005-0710)

MySQL is an open-source implementation of a relational database management system supporting the SQL Structured Query Language database query language. MySQL allows users to create user-defined functions UDF through the CREATE FUNCTION command. A vulnerability exists in the user-defined function...

Nigeria Moving to Shut Down Scammers

It turns out Nigeria is taking measures to fight Internet scams—law enforcement there has shut down close to a thousand websites and made 18 arrests as part of a new initiative to save the nation’s reputation and crack down on Internet scammers. The program, called “Project Eagle Claw,” has only...

Free COFEE Helps Law Enforcement Forensics

Microsoft has announced plans to give away free versions of its COFEE Computer Online Forensic Evidence Extractor utility to help law enforcement agencies in cyber-crime investigations. COFEE uses digital forensic technologies to help investigators gather evidence of live computer activity at the...

Mandrake Security Advisory MDVSA-2009:277 (samba)

The remote host is missing an update to samba announced via advisory MDVSA-2009:277. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: mdksa2009277.nasl 6573 2017-07-06 13:10:50Z cfischer $ Description: Auto-generated from advisory MDVSA-2009:277 samba Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2009 E-Soft Inc...

PT-2009-2791 · Microsoft · .Net Framework

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Microsoft .NET Framework versions 2.0 through 3.5 Description: A remote code execution issue exists due to the improper enforcement of a type-equality constraint in .NET verifiable code. This allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code...

Stephen Toulouse on the MSRC, the Evolution of Security at Microsoft and Securing Xbox Live

Dennis Fisher talks with Stephen Toulouse, director of policy and enforcement for Xbox Live at Microsoft, about his years at the Microsoft Security Response Center, the evolution of security at Microsoft and the joy and pain of being the bad guy on Xbox Live. Download Subscribe to the Digital...

Hacking Services On the Rise

The last couple of years have seen a dramatic rise in the number and quality of malware-as-a-service and hacking-as-a-service providers, with many of them advertising their services on the Web. And while law enforcement officials are well aware of the problem, they’re not having much luck in...

CVE-2009-2208

FreeBSD 6.3, 6.4, 7.1, and 7.2 does not enforce permissions on the SIOCSIFINFOIN6 IOCTL, which allows local users to modify or disable IPv6 network interfaces, as demonstrated by modifying the MTU...

FBI, US Marshals hit by mystery malware

From the Associated Press Law enforcement computers were struck by a Mystery computer virus Thursday, forcing the FBI and the U.S. Marshals to shut down part of their networks as a precaution. The U.S. Marshals confirmed it disconnected from the Justice Department’s computers as a protective...

Unfixed XSS vulnerability at www.kronofogden.se

Security researcher DellNull, has submitted on 15/05/2009 a cross-site-scripting XSS vulnerability affecting www.kronofogden.se, which at the time of submission ranked 159295 on the web according to Alexa. We manually validated and published a mirror of this vulnerability on 03/07/2009. It is...

Forensic experts fuse technology, intelligence for investigations

From The New York Times John Markoff The small cadre of experts who spend their time doing the meticulous, painstaking work of tracing cyber attacks is increasingly relying on a combination of advanced technical tools and old-fashioned intelligence-gathering techniques to track down the people an...

CVE-2009-0579

Linux-PAM before 1.0.4 does not enforce the minimum password age MINDAYS as specified in /etc/shadow, which allows local users to bypass intended security policy and change their passwords sooner than specified...

Radical steps are needed to fix Internet security

The Internet as we know it today was designed to be a place where people could go about their business, whatever it happened to be, anonymously and without interference from other users. This model worked reasonably well for a long time, but it’s become painfully clear in recent months that some...

Security is about outcomes, not about process

By Adam Shostack, Emergent Chaos Nearly a decade ago Bruce Schneier wrote “Security is a process, not a product.” His statement helped us advance as a profession, but with the benefit of hindsight, we can see he’s only half right. Security isn’t about technology. Security is about outcomes, and o...