Rich Mogull on the Target Data Breach

Dennis Fisher talks with Rich Mogull of Securosis about the Target data breach, how the attack may have worked, why these breaches are still so common and what can be done to improve the situation...

[APKinspector] Powerful GUI tool to analyze the Android applications

The goal of this project is to aide analysts and reverse engineers to visualize compiled Android packages and their corresponding DEX code. APKInspector provides both analysis functions and graphic features for the users to gain deep insight into the malicious apps: CFG Call Graph Static...

World’s largest Bitcoin Poker website hacked, 42000 user passwords leaked

World’s largest Bitcoin poker website 'SealsWithClubs' has been compromised and around 42,000 users' credentials are at risk. Seals With Club has issued a Mandatory Password Reset warning to their users, according to a statement published on the website. The service admitted their database had be...

Moxie Marlinspike on TextSecure CyanogenMod integration

Moxie Marlinspike Moxie Marlinspike has published landmark research on SSL vulnerabilities, taken on certificate authorities and even built an alternative to CAs as we know them today called Convergence. But now that government surveillance and online privacy have been elevated to mainstream...

Oracle Linux 5 : kernel (ELSA-2013-1790)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2013-1790 advisory. - xen information leak via I/O instruction emulation Igor Mammedov 1009602 1009603 CVE-2013-4355 - xen x86: check segment descriptor read result in 64-bit OUTS...

phpThumb 1.7.12 Server Side Request Forgery

phpThumb 'phpThumbDebug' Server Side Request Forgery Google Dork: inurl:phpThumb.php Author: Rafay Baloch And Deepanker Arora Company: RHA InfoSEC Impact: High Vendor: http://phpthumb.sourceforge.net/download Version: 1.7.12 Status: Reported And Fixed =========== Description =========== A server...

NIST Publishes Preliminary Cybersecurity Framework

Following an Executive Order issued by U.S. President Barack Obama in February of this year, the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST yesterday made public a provisional copy of the government’s cybersecurity framework and says it will accept public comment on the draft for the nex...

What Does PCI 3.0 Mean to Security Practitioners?

Cybercrime, identity theft, and frauds are on the rise; and in most cases, the data breaches are associated with credit cards and cardholder data. The impact of data breach not only affects your organization, but also your customers. A common observation cites that organizations that are PCI...

Mailbox iPhone app vulnerability executes any Javascript from HTML mail body

Italian Researcher Michele Spagnuolo recently revealed a serious vulnerability in the popular Mailbox iPhone app. Mailbox is a tidy iOS the email app recently purchased by Dropbox, has a pretty wide-open hole that could allow bad actors to hijack your device. The flaw occurs in the latest version...

Mailbox App for iOS Automatically Executes Javascript

UPDATE – The popular Mailbox app for iOS suffers from a bit of a security nightmare. A security researcher in Italy recently discovered that the app automatically executes javascript contained in any HTML email. “It is just a bad design choice,” said researcher Michele Spagnulo, a computer...

Opera 16 Fixes Bugs, Improves HTML5 Performance

Norwegian software company Opera pushed out version 16 of its eponymous Internet browser this week, complete with what it’s calling “tons of bug fixes,” improved performance and a slew of new features and APIs. While the full changelog hasn’t been published yet, Ruarí Ødegaard, a member of Opera’...

Hack Windows 8.1 to earn $100,000 bounty from Microsoft

If you don’t know yet, Microsoft is offerings up to $100,000 in exchange for finding vulnerabilities and exploits in the upcoming Windows 8.1 Preview which is expected to launch on June 26, the same time as the Microsoft Build Developer Conference. Qualifying submissions with accompanying defensi...

[EMET v4.0] Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit

The Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit EMET is designed to help prevent hackers from gaining access to your system. Software vulnerabilities and exploits have become an everyday part of life. Virtually every product has to deal with them and consequently, users are faced with a stream of...

EMET 4.0 now available for download

We are pleased to announce that the final release of version 4.0 of the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit , best known as EMET, is now finally available for download. You can download it from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39273. We already mentioned some of the new...

WiFi Hacking software AirCrack-NG updated after 3 years

The Best WiFi hacking suite AirCrack-NG updated to 1.2 Beta 1 after three years from the last release. Aircrack-ng is a set of tools for auditing wireless networks. New version added a few new tools and scripts including distributed cracking tool. Aircrack-ng is an 802.11 WEP and WPA-PSK keys...

Evernote Two-Factor Authentication for Paid Accounts

Cloud-based note taking service Evernote this week pushed out three new security features including two-factor authentication for some users’ accounts in hopes of adding an extra layer of protection. The service is among the latest to hop on the two-step verification bandwagon, following Amazon...

Fedora Update for krb5 FEDORA-2013-8219

Check for the Version of krb5 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for krb5 FEDORA-2013-8219 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: krb5-1.11.2-6.fc19

Kerberos V5 is a trusted-third-party network authentication system, which can improve your network's security by eliminating the insecure practice of sending passwords over the network in unencrypted form...

Vulnerabilities Drop Per Site, Most Sites Remain Vulnerable

For at least the third year in a row, the number of serious vulnerabilities per website has fallen. That sounds like good news until you look at the numbers and realize that the average website carried an astonishing 56 holes in 2012, according to statistics compiled by WhiteHat Security...

libipa_hbac, libsss_autofs, libsss_idmap, libsss_sudo, sssd security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2013:0663 Updated sssd packages that fix one security issue and two bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CV...