FDA: Software Failures Responsible for 24% Of All Medical Device Recalls

Software failures were behind 24 percent of all the medical device recalls in 2011, according to data from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which said it is gearing up its labs to spend more time analyzing the quality and security of software-based medical instruments and equipment. The FDA...

FreeBSD : png -- memory corruption/possible remote code execution (262b92fe-81c8-11e1-8899-001ec9578670)

The PNG project reports : libpng fails to correctly handle malloc failures for text chunks in pngsettext2, which can lead to memory corruption and the possibility of remote code execution. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin...

Google Chrome Multiple Vulnerabilities (Linux) - Mar 12

This host is installed with Google Chrome and is prone to multiple vulnerabilities. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: secpodgooglechromemultvulnlinmar12.nasl 5963 2017-04-18 09:02:14Z teissa $ Google Chrome Multiple Vulnerabilities Linux - Mar 12 Authors: Madhuri D Copyright: Copyright c 2012 SecPo...

World Economic Forum Sees Dark Side To Connectivity

The latest edition World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report takes a dim view of our hyper connected world. At the group’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, members wrestled with the consequences of ubiquitous Internet connectivity, concluding that groups or individuals with few resources ar...

Repetitive POP3 Login Failures

An attacker may attempt to gain access to email accounts by repeatedly trying to log in using various passwords, eventually finding the correct one, a technique known as "Brute Force". Successful exploitation may result in an unauthorized access to an email account...

Repetitive SMTP Login Failures

An attacker may attempt to gain access to email accounts by repeatedly trying to log in using various passwords, eventually finding the correct one, a technique known as "Brute Force". Successful exploitation may result in an unauthorized access to an email account...

Thailand Prime Minister Twitter, Facebook accounts Hacked

Thailand Prime Minister Twitter, Facebook accounts Hacked Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's personal Twitter account was hacked yesterday in what officials said was possibly part of a conspiracy to embarrass the government. The false tweets accused her of cronyism and various failures. The fin...

SureBackup SQL Script Verification

A SureBackup job fails with "SQL Server script, path VmConnectionTester.exe, ErrCode 10061" due to port connection failures...

SuSE 11.1 Security Update : Xen (SAT Patch Number 4977)

Security / Collective Update for Xen Xen : - VUL-0: xen: VT-d PCI passthrough MSI trap injection. CVE-2011-1898. bnc702025 - update block-npiv scripts to support BFA HBA. bnc703924 - L3: Live migrations fail when guest crashes: domaincrashsync called from entry.S. bnc689954 - Bridge hangs cause...

CentOS Update for cyrus-imapd CESA-2009:1116 centos5 i386

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 scriptxrefname:"URL",...

USN-1140-2: PAM regression

USN-1140-1 fixed vulnerabilities in PAM. A regression was found that caused cron to stop working with a "Module is unknown" error. As a result, systems configured with automatic updates will not receive updates until cron is restarted, these updates are installed or the system is rebooted. This...

python security, bug fix, and enhancement update

python: 2.6.6-20 Resolves: CVE-2010-3493 2.6.6-19 Resolves: CVE-2011-1015 2.6.6-18 Resolves: CVE-2011-1521 2.6.6-17 - recompile against systemtap 1.4 Related: rhbz569695 2.6.6-16 - recompile against systemtap 1.4 Related: rhbz569695 2.6.6-15 - fix race condition that sometimes breaks the build wi...

Frontline Takes On Wikileaks Scandal

The Wikileaks scandal has dominated headlines for the better part of two years, with revelations about the leak of classified military documents, diplomatic cables and more. Now PBS’s award-winning investigative news show, Frontline, is taking a crack at Julian Assange, Bradley Manning and the...

[SECURITY] Fedora 14 Update: fail2ban-0.8.4-27.fc14

Fail2ban scans log files like /var/log/pwdfail or /var/log/apache/errorlog and bans IP that makes too many password failures. It updates firewall rules to reject the IP address...

[SECURITY] Fedora 13 Update: fail2ban-0.8.4-27.fc13

Fail2ban scans log files like /var/log/pwdfail or /var/log/apache/errorlog and bans IP that makes too many password failures. It updates firewall rules to reject the IP address...

[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: fail2ban-0.8.4-27.fc15

Fail2ban scans log files like /var/log/pwdfail or /var/log/apache/errorlog and bans IP that makes too many password failures. It updates firewall rules to reject the IP address...

Pandora Mobile App Transmits Gobs Of Personal Data

A popular free mobile application from online music service Pandora.com that is the subject of a Grand Jury investigation into loose data privacy practices in the mobile application market confirms that the application silently sends reams of sensitive data to advertisers. The analysis was...

pango security update

1.28.1-3.el60.5 - Prevent an integer overflow in hbbufferensure Related: 679693 1.28.1-3.el60.4 - Check for realloc failures in hbbufferensure CVE-2011-0064...

CGI Generic Fragile Parameters Detection (potential)

A web application hosted on the remote service returned 50x response codes when discovered CGIs were called with invalid values. These codes may have several origins : - A web application firewall or another defense mechanism may abruptly interrupt the request. - There could be a transient web...

[SECURITY] [DSA 1919-2] New smarty packages fix regression

------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-1919-2 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Thijs Kinkhorst August 17, 2010 http://www.debian.org/security/faq -...