Schneider Electric SCADA Expert ClearSCADA Vulnerabilities (Update A)

OVERVIEW This updated advisory is a follow-up to the original advisory titled ICSA-14-259-01 Schneider Electric SCADA Expert ClearSCADA Vulnerabilities that was published September 16, 2014, on the NCCIC/ICS-CERT web site. Independent researcher Aditya Sood has identified a weak hashing algorithm...

Student Decrypts Simplocker Android Ransomware that Encrypts Files

In a previous story, I reported about a new ransomware threat known as Simplocker discovered by researchers at the security firm ESET, targeting Android users in the UK, Switzerland, Germany, India and Russia, for ransom. Simplocker Android/Simplocker.A is the latest Android ransomware that has...

DeviantArt Malwaretising Campaigns lead to Potentially Unwanted Apps

Today, the estimated number of known computer threats like viruses, worms, backdoors, exploits, Trojans, spyware, password stealer, and other variants of potentially unwanted software range into millions. It has the capability to create several different forms of itself dynamically in order to...

DarunGrim - A Patch Analysis and Binary Diffing Tool

DarunGrim is a binary diffing tool. DarunGrim is a free diffing tool which provides binary diffing functionality. Binary diffing is a powerful technique to reverse-engineer patches released by software vendors like Microsoft. Especially by analyzing security patches you can dig into the details o...

Please make sure you have offline backups

This ransomware has hit not only personal computers, but also organizations, including a town in New Hampshire. This particular attack was carried out when an employee opened a seemingly legitimate email attachment, once again reminding us of the ever-present danger of social engineering...

SOL15325 - OpenSSL vulnerability CVE-2014-0224

Client-side componentsProduct| Versions known to be vulnerable| Versions known to be not vulnerable| Vulnerable component or feature ---|---|---|--- BIG-IP LTM| 11.0.0 - 11.5.1 10.0.0 - 10.2.4| 12.0.0 11.6.0 11.5.1 HF3 11.5.0 HF4 11.2.1 HF15| Host-initiated SSL connections COMPAT SSL ciphers BIG-...

Iranian Campaign Snooped on U.S. and Israeli Officials

Iranian spies have carried out an intelligence gathering campaign since at least 2011 by targeting U.S. military, diplomats, D.C. journalists, and government emissaries, just to name a few, a via social media. According to iSIGHT Partners, a cyber threat intelligence firm, attackers have long bee...

CVE-2014-2349

Emerson DeltaV 10.3.1, 11.3, 11.3.1, and 12.3 uses hardcoded credentials for diagnostic services, which allows remote attackers to bypass intended access restrictions via a TCP session, as demonstrated by a session that uses the telnet program...

Design/Logic Flaw

Emerson DeltaV 10.3.1, 11.3, 11.3.1, and 12.3 allows local users to modify or read configuration files by leveraging engineering-level privileges...

CVE-2014-2349

CVE-2014-2349 affects Emerson DeltaV versions 10.3.1, 11.3, 11.3.1, and 12.3. Local attacker with engineering-level privileges can read/modify DeltaV configuration files via hard-coded credentials in diagnostic services (through a TCP session). ICS-CERT notes a patch mitigates these vulnerabiliti...

IETF To Mitigate Pervasive Monitoring In Future Protocols

The Internet Engineering Task Force IETF has defined pervasive monitoring, otherwise known as unwarranted surveillance and analysis of Internet traffic and even the subversion of cryptographic keys, as an attack and wants future versions of IETF-sponsored protocols to be designed to mitigate it...

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-3127

dpkg 1.15.9 on Debian squeeze introduces support for the "C-style encoded filenames" feature without recognizing that the squeeze patch program lacks this feature, which triggers an interaction error that allows remote attackers to conduct directory traversal attacks and modify files outside of t...

UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3127

dpkg 1.15.9 on Debian squeeze introduces support for the "C-style encoded filenames" feature without recognizing that the squeeze patch program lacks this feature, which triggers an interaction error that allows remote attackers to conduct directory traversal attacks and modify files outside of t...

CVE-2014-3127

dpkg 1.15.9 on Debian squeeze introduces support for the "C-style encoded filenames" feature without recognizing that the squeeze patch program lacks this feature, which triggers an interaction error that allows remote attackers to conduct directory traversal attacks and modify files outside of t...

Directory traversal

dpkg 1.15.9 on Debian squeeze introduces support for the "C-style encoded filenames" feature without recognizing that the squeeze patch program lacks this feature, which triggers an interaction error that allows remote attackers to conduct directory traversal attacks and modify files outside of t...

CVE-2014-3127

dpkg 1.15.9 on Debian squeeze introduces support for the "C-style encoded filenames" feature without recognizing that the squeeze patch program lacks this feature, which triggers an interaction error that allows remote attackers to conduct directory traversal attacks and modify files outside of t...

CVE-2014-3127

CVE-2014-3127 concerns dpkg 1.15.9 on Debian squeeze where enabling the C-style encoded filenames feature, without the corresponding patch in the squeeze patch program, can trigger an interaction error allowing directory traversal via a crafted source package. The note ties this to release engine...

Device-Locking Ransomware Moves to Android

UPDATE–Ransomware has been wreaking havoc on desktops for many years now, with attackers demanding that victims pay a fee to unlock the infected system. This kind of malware hasn’t been a huge issue yet on mobile devices, but that’s beginning to change, albeit slowly. A new piece of mobile malwar...

Police Ransomware Malware Targeting Android Smartphones

After hacking PCs, Cyber criminals have now begun targeting Smartphones with a special piece of malicious software that locks up the devices until the victims pay a ransom to get the keys to unlock the phone, called Ransomware. Ransomware typically targets users' personal computers and has become...

[CVE-2013-6232] Persistent Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) in SpagoBI v4.0

Advisory Information Title: Persistent Cross-Site Scripting XSS in SpagoBI Date published: 2014-03-01 Date of last update: 2014-03-01 Vendors contacted: Engineering Group Discovered by: Christian Catalano Severity: High 02. Vulnerability Information CVE reference: CVE-2013-6232 CVSS v2 Base...