gstreamer-plugins-bad-free: Off-by-one read in gst_h264_parse_set_caps

An out-of-bounds heap read flaw was found in GStreamer's H.264 parser. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause an application using GStreamer to crash...

Commodity 'Exaspy' Spyware Targets High-Level Execs

Researchers say they have discovered commodity Android spyware called Exaspy being used to spy on executives. The spyware, according to Skycure Research Labs, is being sold as a $15-a-month turnkey service online and can be used to intercept nearly all phone-based communications including phone...

IC3 Warns of Extortion Email Schemes

The Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3 has issued an alert on extortion schemes that relate to recent high-profile data thefts. Fraudsters often use the news release of high-profile data breaches to scare victims into clicking on a link or paying a ransom. US-CERT encourages users and...

Clarke: Precedent-Seeking FBI Won't Ask NSA to Unlock Phone

The National Security Agency’s silence in the Apple-FBI story is probably not so surprising. But that hasn’t stopped people from dragging the NSA’s name into the conversation. The latest to do so is Richard Clarke, former counterterrorism chair under presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton...

Duqu Resurfaces With New Round of Victims, Including Kaspersky Lab

The Duqu attackers, who are considered by researchers to be at the top of the food chain of APT groups and are responsible for attacking certificate authorities and perhaps spying on Iran’s nuclear program, have resurfaced with a new platform that was used to compromise high-profile victims,...

Mozilla Thunderbird Linux Gstreamer Plugin H.264 Video Processing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Mozilla Thunderbird is a mail tool adapted from the mail widget of the Mozilla browser. The Linux Gstreamer plugin used by Mozilla Thunderbird to handle H.264 suffers from a buffer overflow vulnerability that allows remote attackers to exploit the vulnerability by submitting a special HTML messag...

US Central Command Social Media Accounts Hacked by ISIS Supporters

The official Twitter and YouTube accounts for the US military's Central Command CENTCOM that oversees operations in Central Asia and the Middle East were hacked on Monday by a hacker group claiming association with Islamic State militant group, also known as ISIS. The hacker group, appears to cal...

'Kyle and Stan' Malvertising Network Targets Windows and Mac Users

A malvertising network that has been operating since at least May has been able to place malicious ads on a number of high-profile sites, including Amazon and YouTube and serves a unique piece of malware to each victim. The network, dubbed Kyle and Stan by the Cisco researchers who analyzed its...

List of 8,000 FTP Credentials for Sale in Underground Forums

Hackers are targeting FTP upload sites with the hopes of redirecting victims to spam or even infecting webservers that rely on FTP applications for updates. Hold Security reported yesterday it had secured a list of credentials for close to 7,800 FTP sites being circulated in cybercrime forums. Th...

Infamous hacker "Guccifer" arrested in Romania; charged with multiple cyber crimes

"Guccifer" arrested in Romania, the infamous hacker who was responsible for breaching the social media and email accounts of numerous high profile US and Romanian Politicians. Romanian authorities collaborated with US services to catch him and the officers of the Directorate for Investigating...

Twitter Enables Two-Factor Authentication

Responding to a wave of high-profile account takeovers in recent months, Twitter has implemented a phone-based two-factor authentication scheme that will require a numerical code along with a username and password when users log in to their accounts. The feature, known as login verification, is...

Google Kenya domain defaced by TiGER-M@TE

On Monday morning, Google has been the victim of a cyber-attack. Defacement attack was launched by Bangladeshi hacker TiGER-M@TE, their Kenyan domain google.co.ke was defaced, instead the page splayed a black background€™ stamped in red across it. When a user visited the page the hacked screen...

World's largest Digital documents library 'Scribd' Hacked

World's largest Digital documents library 'Scribd' announced that, they were hacked in a recent attack and hacker potentially able to compromise general user information, which includes usernames, emails, and encrypted passwords of partial database. "Even though this information was accessed, the...

World's largest Digital documents library 'Scribd' Hacked

World's largest Digital documents library 'Scribd' announced that, they were hacked in a recent attack and hacker potentially able to compromise general user information, which includes usernames, emails, and encrypted passwords of partial database. "Even though this information was accessed, the...

Chinese Hackers hit New York Times and Wall Street Journal

The New York Times says Chinese hackers probably working for the military or Chinese government have carried out sustained attacks on its computer systems, breaking in and stealing the passwords of high-profile reporters and other staff members. For the last four months, Chinese hackers have...

FBI Warns Top Firms Of Anonymous Protest Hacks on May 25

The FBI Cyber Division has sent a warning to some of the world’s top corporations about a coordinated campaign of denial of service attacks and hacking, scheduled for Friday, May 25. Apple Computer, McDonald’s, ExxonMobil, Hewlett-Packard, Bank of China and Walmart are among the firms singled out...

Car Maker Nissan Admits To Virus Infection, Loss of Employee Accounts

Car maker Nissan became the latest high profile firm to acknowledge being hacked. The company issued a statement last week saying that it detected a virus infection on its network that resulted int he theft of employee login credentials from a company data store. The intrusion was detected on Apr...

Attacking 3G and 4G Mobile Tele-Communications Networks

Document Title: =============== Attacking 3G and 4G Mobile Tele-Communications Networks References: =========== Document: http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/resources/documents/320.pdf Speaker: http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2011kul/?pageid=1782 Original Mirror:...

Attacking 3G and 4G Mobile Tele-Communications Networks

Document Title: =============== Attacking 3G and 4G Mobile Tele-Communications Networks References: =========== Document: https://www.vulnerability-lab.com/resources/documents/320.pdf Speaker: https://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2011kul/?pageid=1782 Original Mirror:...

The Past, Present and Future of Software Security

Perhaps no segment of the security industry has evolved more in the last decade than the discipline of software security. At the start of the 2000s, software security was a small, arcane field that often was confused with security software. But several things happened in the early part of the...