High-Speed Packet Generator: MoonGen

MoonGen is a high-speed scriptable packet generator. The whole load generator is controlled by a Lua script: all packets that are sent are crafted by a user-provided script. Thanks to the incredibly fast LuaJIT VM and the packet processing library DPDK, it can saturate a 10 GBit Ethernet link wit...

Airties Air5650TT Modem Cross Site Scripting

Airties Air5650TT Modem Web Interface Reflected XSS Vulnerability My + Discovered by: KnocKout Contact : [email protected] HomePage : http://h4x0resec.blogspot.com Love to = KedAns-Dz & UnDeRTaKeR & BARCOD3 & Septemb0x & ZoRLu milw00rm.com Software info |Hardware/Web App : Airties |Affected...

BIOS Rootkit Implant Debuts at CanSecWest

When the National Security Agency’s ANT division catalog of surveillance tools was disclosed among the myriad of Snowden revelations, its desire to implant malware into the BIOS of targeted machines was unquestionable. While there’s little evidence of BIOS bootkits in the wild, the ANT catalog an...

USN-2529-1: Linux kernel (Utopic HWE) vulnerability

It was discovered that the Linux kernel's Infiniband subsystem did not properly sanitize its input parameters while registering memory regions from userspace. A local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of service system crash or to potentially gain administrative privileges...

Non-standard PCI device functionality may render pass-through insecure

ISSUE DESCRIPTION Devices with capabilities or defects that are undocumented or that virtualization software is unaware of may allow guests to control parts of the host that they shouldn't be in control of. Here are some examples of the kind of problem: While XSA-120 deals with standard PCI confi...

Rowhammer Hardware Exploit Poses Threat DRAM Memory in Many Laptops, PCs

Software, from web apps, to operating systems to firmware, has been abused and exploited every which way from Sunday for decades by both researchers and attackers. Now, it is hardware’s turn in the spotlight, as researchers have published details of a new method for exploiting a problem with some...

Windows 2012/2012R2 leaks memory when a hardware snapshot is created multiple times on a CSV

Challenge Windows 2012 / 2012 R2 Hyper-V hosts leak memory when a hardware snapshot is created/removed multiple times on a CSV with a hardware provider. Cause Windows 2012 / 2012 R2 Hyper-V hosts leak memory when a snapshot is created on a CSV using hardware provider. Due to the fact that only a...

Video: Vitaly Kamluk on The Equation Group APT

Kaspersky Lab’s global research and analysis team uncovered what they claim is the most sophisticated advanced persistent threat group yet known. Known as the Equation Group, researchers led by GReAT director Costin Raiu say the threat actors have been operating for 15 years or more and are known...

Trey Ford on Mapping the Internet with Project Sonar

Trey Ford from Project Sonar describes the group’s initiative at Kaspersky’s Security Analyst Summit. The Rapid7 service scans public networks for applications, software, and hardware, then analyzes that cache of information to learn trends and gain insight on common vulnerabilities. Trey Ford...

Encryption and Silence Can be Targets' Best Assets

CANCUN–Things are getting real these days for executives, researchers, journalists and others involved in the security community. Targeted surveillance is a reality for many in the community, and researchers and activists are trying now to help them assess and address that threat to their privacy...

Inside nls_933w.dll, the Equation APT Persistence Module

CANCUN – The names called out like beacons from the screen: Samsung; Seagate; Western Digital; Hitachi; Maxtor. Hardware makers were in the crosshairs of the Equation APT group and it was perhaps the worst possible scenario imagined by researchers looking at the frightening and extensive storehou...

CVE-2015-0268

The vgicv2tosgi function in arch/arm/vgic-v2.c in Xen 4.5.x, when running on ARM hardware with general interrupt controller GIC version 2, allows local guest users to cause a denial of service host crash by writing an invalid value to the GICD.SGIR register...

CVE-2015-0268

The vgicv2tosgi function in arch/arm/vgic-v2.c in Xen 4.5.x, when running on ARM hardware with general interrupt controller GIC version 2, allows local guest users to cause a denial of service host crash by writing an invalid value to the GICD.SGIR register...

arm: vgic-v2: GICD_SGIR is not properly emulated

ISSUE DESCRIPTION When decoding a guest write to a specific register in the virtual interrupt controller Xen would treat an invalid value as a critical error and crash the host. IMPACT By writing an invalid value to the GICD.SGIR register a guest can crash the host, resulting in a Denial of Servi...

Kali Linux 1.1.0 - The Best Penetration Testing Distribution

After almost two years of public development and another year behind the scenes, we are proud to announce our first point release of Kali Linux – version 1.1.0. This release brings with it a mix of unprecedented hardware support as well as rock solid stability. For us, this is a real milestone as...

openSUSE Security Update : vlc (openSUSE-SU-2015:0201-1)

vlc was updated to the current openSUSE Tumbleweed version. live555 was also updated to the current openSUSE Tumbleweed version as a dependency. Security issues fixed : - Fix various buffer overflows and null ptr dereferencing boo914268, CVE-2014-9625. Other fixes : - Enable SSE2 instruction set...

China Demands Tech Companies to give them Backdoor and Encryption Keys

A number of western companies are doing big business in China, but now they may have to pay a huge value for to do so. China has introduced strict new banking cyber security regulations on western companies selling technology to Chinese banks. The Chinese government wants backdoors installed in a...

Updated glibc packages fix security vulnerabilities

The vfprintf function in stdio-common/vfprintf.c in GNU C Library aka glibc 2.5, 2.12, and probably other versions does not "properly restrict the use of" the alloca function when allocating the SPECS array, which allows context- dependent attackers to bypass the FORTIFYSOURCE format-string...

DEBIAN-CVE-2015-0361

Use-after-free vulnerability in Xen 4.2.x, 4.3.x, and 4.4.x allows remote domains to cause a denial of service system crash via a crafted hypercall during HVM guest teardown...

Thunderstrike — Infecting Apple MacBooks with EFI Bootkit via Thunderbolt Ports

A security researcher has discovered an easy way to infect Apple’s Macintosh computers with an unusual kind of malware using its own Thunderbolt port. The hack was presented by programming expert Trammell Hudson at the annual Chaos Computer Congress 30C3 in Hamburg Germany. He demonstrated that i...