Is There Value in Paying for Vulnerabilities?

Andy Zmolek of Avaya reports on VoIP security research company VoIPshield‘s new policy requiring vendors to pay for full details of bugs in their products. He quotes from a letter VoIPShield sent him: “I wanted to inform you that VoIPshield is making significant changes to its Vulnerabilities...

Short list emerges for cybersecurity czar job

The first reports of the short list for the job of federal cybersecurity coordinator are beginning to trickle out, and while some of the names are all too familiar, many others are quite new to the national scene. The most well-known name on the list, as reported by Reuters, is that of Scott...

Prediction: Apple will recommend security software

From CNet Jon Oltsik As an analyst, it is my job to follow the industry, internalize trends, and then use this information to make predictions. OK, here goes: Within the next 18 months, Apple will begin recommending that Macintosh users install Internet security software on all systems. Now I...

Can social networking be secure at work?

From CIO C.G. Lynch As more workers spend a greater part of their days on social networks like Facebook and Twitter, hackers have turned their energies toward spreading their malware across those services, harming workstations and company networks. That’s the contention of a recent report measuri...

Toney Jennings on Application Whitelisting, the History of the IDS and Racing Ferraris

Dennis Fisher talks with Toney Jennings, CEO of Core Trace, about the history of the commercial IDS, the changes to the security industry in the last 15 years, the advantages of application white listing and the rush of racing a $300,000 Ferrari. Download Subscribe to the Digital Underground...

Hathaway, Obama administration swing and miss at RSA

Much of the talk at the RSA Conference last week centered on the lack of the unifying theme or big-time story that usually emerges to take over the show by mid-week. But there was, in fact, a major story, and it was the abject failure of the Obama administration, in the person of Melissa Hathaway...

Electrical grid attacks have been ongoing for years

The supposedly new attacks on the electrical grid and other portions of the country’s critical infrastructure that came to light this week are in fact not new at all and have been ongoing for several years. Attackers have been making serious inroads into U.S. government, utility and military...

Inside the Conficker Working Group

From the Internet Storm Center The mere existence of the Conficker Working Group also known as the Conficker Cabal is something of a minor miracle. Security vendors do not have a long history of cooperating with each other, aside from the perhaps the antivirus companies sharing samples. But, as a...

Senate bill proposes sweeping changes to U.S. cybersecurity

By Joby Warrick and Walter Pincus, Washington Post Federal legislators are working on a bill that would make major changes to the way that both government and private networks are protected. The Washington Post reports that the legislation not only will include more enforcement for regulations, b...

CanSecWest: Caution, community at play

CanSecWest, in beautiful Vancouver BC, is one of my favorite conferences each year. It’s a cozy little security con that brings together security researchers from all parts of the security ecosystem. Like a PhNeutral or a BlueHat, one never quite knows what to expect out of a CanSecWest, but we d...

Can social networks foster security?

It’s a departure from the stance that most people are taking these days when it comes to issues of social networking and security, but some industry players are pitching the idea eweek.com that the ever-more-popular communications applications could someday replace more traditional messaging...

Unfixed XSS vulnerability at www.learning2008.com

Security researcher xylitol, has submitted on 26/10/2008 a cross-site-scripting XSS vulnerability affecting www.learning2008.com, which at the time of submission ranked 11844287 on the web according to Alexa. We manually validated and published a mirror of this vulnerability on 03/07/2009. It is...

Unfixed XSS vulnerability at www.glassindustry.info

Security researcher skathgh420, has submitted on 13/10/2008 a cross-site-scripting XSS vulnerability affecting www.glassindustry.info, which at the time of submission ranked 872564 on the web according to Alexa. We manually validated and published a mirror of this vulnerability on 13/09/2009. It ...

Design/Logic Flaw

Unspecified vulnerability in the Industry Database aka Branchendatenbank proindustrydb extension 1.0.0 and earlier for TYPO3 has unknown impact and attack vectors related to "Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity."...

CVE-2008-3045

Unspecified vulnerability in the Industry Database aka Branchendatenbank proindustrydb extension 1.0.0 and earlier for TYPO3 has unknown impact and attack vectors related to "Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity."...

CVE-2008-3045

Unspecified vulnerability in the Industry Database aka Branchendatenbank proindustrydb extension 1.0.0 and earlier for TYPO3 has unknown impact and attack vectors related to "Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity."...

CVE-2008-3045

Technical details about CVE-2008-3045 are not publicly available in the provided documents. Monitor for updates; no confirmed affected product versions, root cause, impact, or fixes are listed here.

Unfixed XSS vulnerability at www.defenseindustrydaily.com

Security researcher Skunkfoot, has submitted on 25/10/2007 a cross-site-scripting XSS vulnerability affecting www.defenseindustrydaily.com, which at the time of submission ranked 55031 on the web according to Alexa. We manually validated and published a mirror of this vulnerability on 28/10/2007...

Cart32 Arbitrary File Download Vulnerability

======================================================================== = Cart32 Arbitrary File Download Vulnerability = = Vendor Website: = http://www.cart32.com = = Affected Version: = -- All releases prior to and including v6.3 = = Public disclosure on Thursday 4th October 2007 =...

WebDAV Directory Enumeration

WebDAV is an industry standard extension to the HTTP specification. It adds a capability for authorized users to remotely add and manage the content of a web server. If you do not use this extension, you should disable it. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; ifdescription...