Configure Citrix Profile Management through WEM

Instruct engineers in how to configure citrix profile management through WEM...

Using LabVIEW? Unpatched Flaw Allows Hackers to Hijack Your Computer

If you're an engineer and use LabVIEW software to design machines or industrial equipments, you should be very suspicious while opening any VI virtual instrument file. LabVIEW, developed by American company National Instruments, is a visual programming language and powerful system-design tool tha...

Is Continuing to Patch Windows XP a Mistake?

Last week, Microsoft issued a security patch for Windows XP, a 16-year-old operating system that Microsoft officially no longer supports. Last month, Microsoft issued a Windows XP patch for the vulnerability used in WannaCry. Is this a good idea? This 2014 essay argues that it's not: The zero-day...

High Severity BIND Vulnerability Can Lead to A Crash

The Internet Systems Consortium patched the BIND domain name system this week, addressing a remotely exploitable vulnerability it considers high severity and said could lead to a crash. The issue affects servers that use both the DNS64 and RPZ function simultaneously. DNS64 is a mechanism for...

Cisco Patches Authentication Bypass in Cisco Prime Home

Cisco has patched a critical vulnerability in its Cisco Prime Home remote management software used by service providers to oversee and provision subscribers’ home devices. The flaw, found by Cisco engineers, is in the product’s web-based GUI and allows remote attackers to bypass authentication an...

Announcing the Third Annual Flare-On Challenge

Let fall be the season for reverse engineering! On Sept. 23, 2016, the FireEye Labs Advanced Reverse Engineering FLARE team will be hosting its third annual Flare-On reverse engineering contest with a designated start time of 8pm ET. This is a CTF-style challenge for all active and aspiring rever...

engineersaustralia.org.au XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: https://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/portal/news?search=%20%22%3E%3Cimg%20src%3Dx%20onerror%3Dprompt%28/OPENBUGBOUNTY/%29%3E%22 Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| No Latest check for patch:| 27.07.2017 Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:| Publicly disclosed...

Reverse engineering DUBNIUM –Stage 2 payload analysis

Recently, we blogged about the basic functionality and features of the DUBNIUM advanced persistent threat APT activity group Stage 1 binary and Adobe Flash exploit used during the December 2015 incident Part 1, Part 2. In this blog, we will go through the overall infection chain structure and the...

BlueHat v16 Announced

Microsoft is pleased to announce our sixteenth BlueHat Security Conference set for November 3-4, 2016 at the Microsoft Conference Center here in Redmond. BlueHat is a unique opportunity for Microsoft engineers and the security community to come together learn about the current threat landscape an...

GEF - Multi-Architecture GDB Enhanced Features for Exploiters & Reverse-Engineers

GEF is aimed to be used mostly by exploiters and reverse-engineers. It provides additional features to GDB using the Python API to assist during the process of dynamic analysis or exploit development. GEF fully relies on GDB API and other Linux specific source of information such as /proc/pid . A...

Johns Hopkins Researchers: Crypto Flaws Endanger iMessage Integrity

When Apple released its iOS Security Guide for public consumption, it was an unprecedented look inside the security architecture behind its products. For cryptographer and professor Matthew Green and a team of four Johns Hopkins University graduate students, it was a road map to understanding not...

Binary Analysis IDE: BinDiff

BinDiff is a comparison tool for binary files that helps to quickly find differences and similarities in disassembled code. It is used by security researchers and engineers across the globe to identify and isolate fixes for vulnerabilities in vendor-supplied patches and to analyze multiple versio...

Apple Engineers say they may Quit if ordered to Unlock iPhone by FBI

Apple Vs. FBI battle over mobile encryption case is taking more twists and turns with every day pass by. On one hand, the US Department of Justice DOJ is boldly warning Apple that it might compel the company to hand over the source code of its full iOS operating system along with the private...

FBI Director — "What If Apple Engineers are Kidnapped and Forced to Write (Exploit) Code?"

What If Apple Engineers are Kidnapped and Forced to Write Exploit Code? Exactly this was what FBI Director James Comey asked in the congressional hearing on Tuesday. The House Judiciary Committee hearing on "The Encryption Tightrope: Balancing Americans' Security and Privacy" over the ongoing...

BlueHat v15 Announces Schedule and Registration

As we inch closer to the 15th BlueHat Security Conference, we are happy to announce the lineup of speakers and topics for this event. This year will continue with a solid speaker and topic selection that engage engineers, executives, and invited guests to discuss and tackle some of the hardest...

Google App Engine Java Vulnerabilities Disclosed

A Polish research group claims there are still several outstanding vulnerabilities in Google App Engines for Java, including three complete Java sandbox escapes. After three weeks of radio silence from Google, it decided to disclose on Friday the vulnerabilities, along with proof of concept code...

Netflix Open Source Security Tools Solve Range of Challenges

Few organizations experience the scale of Web-based application security challenges that Netflix engineers deal with on a regular basis. Sometimes the response to a threat requires a homespun tool that, more often than not, ends up being released to open source. “Our assumption is that we...

Buffer Overflows Patched in Yokogawa Control System Products

Patches for critical vulnerabilities in production control system software built by Yokogawa Electric Corp. of Japan are available, according to an advisory issued Tuesday by the Industrial Control System Cyber Emergency Response Team ICS-CERT. The advisory warns that there are publicly available...

OpenICS ICS Protocol Decoder Builds Data Dictionaries

Industrial control system security has been called archaic, laughable and even non-existent. Most ICS and SCADA systems weren’t built with the Internet in mind, much less security, but yet they are at the forefront of manufacturing, building automation and critical infrastructure operations...

Ensnare Web Application Attack Detection Utility Released

BOSTON – Two engineers from Netflix this week released to open source a security tool that detects attacks against web applications—and also reacts to those attacks with responses they hope will flummox a hacker to the point that he moves on to his next target. The utility is called Ensnare and i...