Threat, Attack Data Intelligence Sharing Efforts Fall Short

DENVER – When it comes to information sharing, are companies too scared or too selfish to trade attack data? A number of information security officers from high-profile companies debated the topic this week at the NG Security Summit and came to the conclusion that it’s a little bit of both. Shari...

UPDATE: Ongoing Malicious Cyber Activity Against U.S. Government and Private Sector Entities

UPDATE: The United States Department of Homeland Security, in collaboration with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other partners, has released a second Joint Indicator Bulletin JIB through secure channels. Confirmed members of the cybersecurity community of practice, which may include...

An In-Depth Look Into Data Stacking

Mandiant's Nick Bennett and Jake Valletta discussed data stacking at MIRcon™ last month. If you were unable to attend the talk, we will discuss this data analysis technique here on the M-Unition blog. What is Data Stacking? Data stacking is the application of frequency analysis to large volumes o...

Making an Application Security Program Succeed, Part Two

“Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, only this time more wisely,” is a quote attributed to legendary automaker Henry Ford. While it seemingly has nothing to do with secure application development, all you need to do is talk to a handful of enterprises who have tried to implement a...

USN-878-1: Firefox 3.5 and Xulrunner 1.9.1 regression

USN-874-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox and Xulrunner. The upstream changes introduced a regression when using NTLM authentication. This update fixes the problem and adds additional stability fixes. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Jesse Ruderman, Josh Soref,...

USN-877-1: Firefox 3.0 and Xulrunner 1.9 regression

USN-873-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox and Xulrunner. The upstream changes introduced a regression when using NTLM authentication. This update fixes the problem and adds additional stability fixes. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Jesse Ruderman, Josh Soref,...

Ubuntu 9.10 : firefox-3.5, xulrunner-1.9.1 regression (USN-878-1)

USN-874-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Firefox and Xulrunner. The upstream changes introduced a regression when using NTLM authentication. This update fixes the problem and adds additional stability fixes. We apologize for the inconvenience. Jesse Ruderman, Josh Soref, Martijn Wargers, Jose Angel, Ol...

Ubuntu USN-874-1 (xulrunner-1.9.1)

The remote host is missing an update to xulrunner-1.9.1 announced via advisory USN-874-1. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: ubuntu8741.nasl 7969 2017-12-01 09:23:16Z santu $ $Id: ubuntu8741.nasl 7969 2017-12-01 09:23:16Z santu $ Description: Auto-generated from advisory USN-874-1 xulrunner-1.9.1...

Ubuntu 9.10 : firefox-3.5, xulrunner-1.9.1 vulnerabilities (USN-874-1)

Jesse Ruderman, Josh Soref, Martijn Wargers, Jose Angel, Olli Pettay, and David James discovered several flaws in the browser and JavaScript engines of Firefox. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious website, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary...

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 8.10 / 9.04 : firefox-3.0, xulrunner-1.9 vulnerabilities (USN-873-1)

Jesse Ruderman, Josh Soref, Martijn Wargers, Jose Angel, Olli Pettay, and David James discovered several flaws in the browser and JavaScript engines of Firefox. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious website, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary...

USN-874-1: Firefox 3.5 and Xulrunner 1.9.1 vulnerabilities

Jesse Ruderman, Josh Soref, Martijn Wargers, Jose Angel, Olli Pettay, and David James discovered several flaws in the browser and JavaScript engines of Firefox. If a user were tricked into viewing a malicious website, a remote attacker could cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary...

Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2009-69

Mozilla Foundation Security Advisory 2009-69 Title: Location bar spoofing vulnerabilities Impact: Moderate Announced: December 15, 2009 Reporter: Jonathan Morgan, Jordi Chancel Products: Firefox, SeaMonkey Fixed in: Firefox 3.5.6 Firefox 3.0.16 SeaMonkey 2.0.1 Description Security researcher...

Mozilla SSL spoofing with document.location and empty SSL response page

Mozilla Firefox before 3.0.16 and 3.5.x before 3.5.6, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.1, allows remote attackers to spoof an SSL indicator for an http URL or a file URL by setting document.location to an https URL corresponding to a site that responds with a No Content aka 204 status code and an empty...

AV Researcher Calls for Standard Threat Level Displays

GENEVA — A veteran security researcher today challenged the anti-malware industry to work on a standard way of assigning computer/Internet threat levels to present transparent helpful information to consumers and businesses. During a presentation at the Virus Bulletin 2009 conference here, Fortin...

SuSE 11 Security Update : Mozilla Firefox (SAT Patch Number 1200)

Mozilla Firefox was updated to the 3.0.13 release, fixing some security issues and bugs : - Security researcher Juan Pablo Lopez Yacubian reported that an attacker could call window.open on an invalid URL which looks similar to a legitimate URL and then use document.write to place content within...

openSUSE Security Update : MozillaFirefox (MozillaFirefox-1202)

MozillaFirefox was updated to the 3.0.13 release, fixing some security issues and bugs : MFSA 2009-44 / CVE-2009-2654: Security researcher Juan Pablo Lopez Yacubian reported that an attacker could call window.open on an invalid URL which looks similar to a legitimate URL and then use document.wri...

Design/Logic Flaw

WebKit in Apple Safari before 4.0 allows remote attackers to spoof the browser's display of 1 the host name, 2 security indicators, and unspecified other UI elements via a custom cursor in conjunction with a modified CSS3 hotspot property...

Ubuntu 5.10 / 6.06 LTS / 6.10 : firefox vulnerabilities (USN-428-1)

Several flaws have been found that could be used to perform Cross-site scripting attacks. A malicious website could exploit these to modify the contents or steal confidential data such as passwords from other opened web pages. CVE-2006-6077, CVE-2007-0780, CVE-2007-0800, CVE-2007-0981,...

Code injection

GUI overlay vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox 1.5.x before 1.5.0.10 and 2.x before 2.0.0.2, and SeaMonkey before 1.0.8 allows remote attackers to spoof certain user interface elements, such as the host name or security indicators, via the CSS3 hotspot property with a large, transparent, custom...

CVE-2007-0779

GUI overlay vulnerability in Mozilla Firefox 1.5.x before 1.5.0.10 and 2.x before 2.0.0.2, and SeaMonkey before 1.0.8 allows remote attackers to spoof certain user interface elements, such as the host name or security indicators, via the CSS3 hotspot property with a large, transparent, custom...