Target Corp. Suffers Black Friday Data Breach

UPDATE – TJX and Heartland Payment Systems may soon have company atop the list of the worst retail data breaches in U.S. history after reports surfaced that Target Corp. was breached around Black Friday and millions of credit and debit cards were stolen. Target confirmed the breach this morning a...

[Volatility v2.3] The advanced memory forensics framework (Support of OSX)

The Volatility Framework is a completely open collection of tools, implemented in Python under the GNU General Public License, for the extraction of digital artifacts from volatile memory RAM samples. The extraction techniques are performed completely independent of the system being investigated...

Microsoft Changes Bug Bounty Program to Include Incident Responders, Forensics Specialists

Having found some initial success with its first foray into the bug bounty world, Microsoft is expanding the program to open up payments of up to $100,000 to incident response teams and forensics experts who come across active attacks in the wild that include new techniques that bypass exploit...

[Ghiro v0.1] Digital Image Forensic Analyzer

Sometime forensic investigators need to process digital images as evidence. There are some tools around, otherwise it is difficult to deal with forensic analysis with lot of images involved. Images contain tons of information, Ghiro extracts these information from provided images and display them...

[OS X Auditor] free Mac OS X computer forensics tool

OS X Auditor parses and hashes the following artifacts on the running system or a copy of a system you want to analyze: the kernel extensions the system agents and daemons the third party's agents and daemons the old and deprecated system and third party's startup items the users' agents the user...

DefCamp 2013 - International Hacking and Information Security Conference in Romania

The Fourth Edition of an International Information Security Conference hosted in Romania , The DefCamp 2013 is now open for Call for Papers. Over 300 Security experts, Researchers, and Enthusiasts from Romania and neighboring countries are expected to take part in the event in Bucharest, at the...

Sql injection

Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in AlienVault Open Source Security Information Management OSSIM 4.1 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the 1 sensor parameter in a Query action to forensics/baseqrymain.php; the 2 tcpflags or 3 tcpport04 parameter to...

UBUNTU-CVE-2013-5321

Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in AlienVault Open Source Security Information Management OSSIM 4.1 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the 1 sensor parameter in a Query action to forensics/baseqrymain.php; the 2 tcpflags or 3 tcpport04 parameter to...

National Security threats to be detailed at 'The Hackers Conference' 2013 | #THC2013

The recent "disconcerting" reports that India was being spied upon by American intelligence agencies has opened an all new chapter in the cyber security space. The revelation that the Indian embassy in the US was among the list of 38 diplomatic missions which were being spied upon by American...

National Security threats to be detailed at 'The Hackers Conference' 2013 | #THC2013

The recent “disconcerting" reports that India was being spied upon by American intelligence agencies has opened an all new chapter in the cyber security space. The revelation that the Indian embassy in the US was among the list of 38 diplomatic missions which were being spied upon by American...

Two Vulnerabilities in NetworkMiner : DLL Hijacking + Directory Traversal

Security Advisory ID: NETRESEC-1386968 http://netresec.com/?b=1386968 NetworkMiner version 1.4.1 and older is vulnerable to DLL hijacking and contains a directory traversal vulnerability. ==Description== NetworkMiner is a tool designed for network forensics and network security monitoring. It is...

Google WebLogin Tokens Expose Google Apps, User Data

An exposure in the way Google handles authentication is an illustration of the unintended consequences of trading security for a little bit of convenience. Craig Young, a researcher from security company Tripwire, demonstrated at Def Con over the weekend how an Android single sign-on token known ...

What to Look For in a SIEM Solution

Security Information & Event Management SIEM has evolved over the years to become one of the most trusted and reliable solutions for log management, security, and compliance. The demand for SIEM tools is constantly increasing within network and IT security teams. This is due particularly to the...

NIST Seeks Guidance on Incident Response and Forensics

The federal government is looking for some help in figuring out how to respond to security incidents. As attacks continue to escalate against both government agencies and private enterprises, NIST is developing a set of standards for best practices in incident response and computer forensics. The...

IRC Botnet Leveraging Unpatched Plesk Vulnerability

Researchers have found a botnet exploiting a vulnerability in the Plesk hosting control panel, ramping up calls from experts to upgrade to current versions of the product. A notice on the Plesk command injection vulnerability as well as exploit code was posted last week to the Full Disclosure lis...

Massive 167Gbps DDoS attacks against Banking and Financial Institutions

DDoS attackers attempted to bring down an Banking services earlier this week using one of the largest Distributed denial of service attack using DNS reflection technique. Prolexic, the global leader in Distributed Denial of Service DDoS protection services, announced that it has successfully...

Apple Decrypts Seized iPhones For The Police

The security features built into Apple’s iOS software are so good that the police are unable to gain access to defendant’s iPhones when they need to. Companies like Apple and Google are being asked by law enforcement officials to bypass these protections to aid in investigations. Apple receives s...

Mobile Forensics: Santoku

Santoku is a platform for mobile forensics, mobile malware analysis and mobile application security assessment. The free Santoku Community Edition is a collaborative project to provide a pre-configured Linux environment with utilities, drivers and guides for these areas. Boot into Santoku and get...

[Santoku 0.4] Distribution dedicated to mobile forensics, malware analysis and security testing

Santoku includes a number of open source tools dedicated to helping you in every aspect of your mobile forensics, malware analysis, and security testing needs, including: Development Tools: Android SDK Manager AXMLPrinter2 Fastboot Heimdall src | howto Heimdall GUI src | howto SBF Flash Penetrati...

[DEFT 7] Distribution with the best freeware Windows Computer Forensic tools

DEFT 7 is based on the new Kernel 3 Linux side and the DART Digital Advanced Response Toolkit with the best freeware Windows Computer Forensic tools. It’s a new concept of Computer Forensic system that use LXDE as desktop environment and WINE for execute Windows tools under Linux and mount manage...