MOXA EDR-G903 Series Multiple Vulnerabilities

OVERVIEW This advisory provides mitigation details for vulnerabilities that impact Moxa EDR-G903 Series Routers. Independent researcher Neil Smith identified a hard-coded user account vulnerability and an insufficient entropy vulnerability in Moxa’s EDR-G903 series routers. By impersonating the...

Department of Energy Susceptible to Attack

An audit of the Department of Energy has shown that 29 new weaknesses emerged on the agency’s networks this year in addition to 10 existing that the DoE failed to fix after a 2012 audit. The audit, undertaken by the Office of Inspector General and the Office of Audits and Inspections, revealed...

McKesson ActiveX File/Environmental Variable Enumeration

Exploit for windows platform in category remote exploits McKesson Rad Station ActiveX File/Variable Enumeration McKesson Rad Station File Enumeration This proof of concept will check if a file exists on the victim's machine or display the contents of an environmental variable. It uses the member...

[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: nspr-4.9.5-2.fc17

NSPR provides platform independence for non-GUI operating system facilities. These facilities include threads, thread synchronization, normal file and network I/O, interval timing and calendar time, basic memory management malloc and free and shared library linking...

Red October Attackers Shutting Down C&C Infrastructure

It appears that the attackers behind the Red October cyberespionage campaign are taking their ball and going home. Since the attack came to light on Monday, the attackers have begun shutting down their infrastructure and the hosting providers and registrars involved with some of the...

Inside the 1,000 Red October Cyberespionage Malware Modules

The Red October espionage malware campaign is providing security researchers with a deep dive into the complexity of targeted attacks, which in this case made use of more than 1,000 malware modules for everything from reconnaissance on targets to exfiltration of data to command and control server...

New FERC Cybersecurity Office Has Lofty Oversight and Outreach Goals

When it comes to cybersecurity and critical infrastructure, there are generally more questions than answers. And for the last 10 months or so, the volume of concern and uncertainty has ramped up, largely because there’s little in the way of productive information sharing on threats, a serious lac...

Electromagnetic Pulse Attacks : Are we prepared ?

An electromagnetic pulse EMP attack is a threat few Americans are familiar with, yet one which could easily destroy their lives. What would you do if your electricity suddenly went out and didn't come back on for months or even years? How long would you last with the food in your pantry, the...

Wiper, the Destructive Malware possibly connected to Stuxnet and Duqu

Kaspersky Lab publishes research resulting from the digital forensic analysis of the hard disk images obtained from the machines attacked by the Wiper - a destructive malware program attacking computer systems related to oil facilities in Western Asia. Security researchers from Kaspersky Lab have...

Iran Acknowledges Hack Of Oil Ministry

The Iranian Oil Ministry has acknowledged that a virus outbreak has compromised servers and Web sites used by the Ministry, but denies that any non-public data was exposed. The notice, which was posted on the Web site for the Oil Ministry on Monday, quotes a Ministry of Petroleum spokesman as...

[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: nspr-4.9-1.fc16

NSPR provides platform independence for non-GUI operating system facilities. These facilities include threads, thread synchronization, normal file and network I/O, interval timing and calendar time, basic memory management malloc and free and shared library linking...

Video: Expert Proves Stuxnet's Link To Iran Nuclear Facilities

When Ralph Langner, an independent security researcher, presented his analysis of specialized code used by the Stuxnet worm to an audience of his peers at the S4 Conference in Miami last month, it was a chance to get down in the weeks with one of the world’s top experts on Stuxnet and threats to...

Iran will Develop their own security Software, No more foreign Solution

Iran will Develop their own security Software, No more foreign Solution According to latest report, Iran's Information and Communications Technology Minister announce that - Iran has prohibited import of foreign computer security software. Because International sanctions stopped Iran from obtaini...

US ,Israel or Russia , Who is Behind Stuxnet?

US ,Israel or Russia , Who is Behind Stuxnet ? Initially After Symantec did a little reverse engineering on the now infamous Stuxnet worm, many started pointing the finger at the US and Israel, especially since it was concluded that the piece of malware was designed to target a specific version o...

Duqu - Next Major Cyber Weapon like Stuxnet

Duqu - Next Major Cyber Weapon like Stuxnet The Stuxnet cyberworm could soon be modified to attack vital industrial facilities in the US and abroad, cybersecurity experts warned Wednesday at a Senate hearing. Computer security companies agree that these virus is unprecedented and it means the daw...

Ubuntu Update for linux USN-1167-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1167-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN11671.nasl 7964 2017-12-01 07:32:11Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux USN-1167-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This...

Attackers Target PNNL, Force Lab Off the Web

An attack against the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has forced the lab to shut off access to the Internet, and the lab’s external Web site also is inaccessible right now. The attack on the lab, which conducts national security and cybersecurity research among other things, is the latest i...

Ubuntu Update for linux vulnerabilities USN-1105-1

Ubuntu Update for Linux kernel vulnerabilities USN-1105-1 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN11051.nasl 7964 2017-12-01 07:32:11Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for linux vulnerabilities USN-1105-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH,...

USN-1105-1: Linux kernel 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...

Exposing SCADA Systems With Shodan

Editor’s Note: The U.S.’s Industrial Control System Computer Emergency Response Team ICS-CERT recently issued a warning to its members about the ability of attackers to discover ICS systems using a simple search on Shodan, a public search engine that is used to locate systems accessible from the...