U.S. Playing Catch Up in Security for Contactless Devices

AMHERST, MASS.– The U.S. may boast the world’s largest economy, richest technology companies and a lion’s share of its top research universities. But when it comes to the subject of security of RFID Radio Frequency ID and other contactless technologies, America is still playing catch-up. The U.S....

Tom Sawyer GET Extension Factory COM Object Instantiation Memory Corruption

Added: 06/19/2011 CVE: CVE-2011-2217 BID: 48099 Background Tom Sawyer Software produces a variety of data visualization, layout, and analysis tools. Problem Certain ActiveX controls in tsgetxu71ex552.dll and tsgetx71ex552.dll in Tom Sawyer GET Extension Factory 5.5.2.237, as used in VI Client...

Tom Sawyer GET Extension Factory COM Object Instantiation Memory Corruption

Added: 06/19/2011 CVE: CVE-2011-2217 BID: 48099 Background Tom Sawyer Software produces a variety of data visualization, layout, and analysis tools. Problem Certain ActiveX controls in tsgetxu71ex552.dll and tsgetx71ex552.dll in Tom Sawyer GET Extension Factory 5.5.2.237, as used in VI Client...

Critical Infrastructure Vulnerable to Holes in Chinese SCADA Software

The U.S. CERT has issued a security advisory firms using industrial control systems software from the Chinese firm Sunway in the U.S. after a researcher discovered remotely exploitable holes that could be used to knock out or take control systems running the company’s software. The ICS-CERT, the...

Time to Focus on Results-Oriented Security

The security industry is full of pernicious problems with no easy solutions. Take spam, for example. The current best defense is filtering out the obvious spam messages. Yet, the countermeasure is not a solution: As anti-spam technology gets better, spammers merely churn out more spam and achieve...

Memory corruption

Certain ActiveX controls in 1 tsgetxu71ex552.dll and 2 tsgetx71ex552.dll in Tom Sawyer GET Extension Factory 5.5.2.237, as used in VI Client aka VMware Infrastructure Client 2.0.2 before Build 230598 and 2.5 before Build 204931 in VMware Infrastructure 3, do not properly handle attempted...

CVE-2011-2217

The CVE-2011-2217 issue affects Tom Sawyer GET Extension Factory ActiveX controls (e.g., tsgetx71ex552/tsgetx71ex553.dll) installed with VMware VI Client and related Embarcadero ER/Studio bundles. The vulnerability stems from incorrect initialization in Internet Explorer, enabling remote attacker...

CVE-2011-2217

Certain ActiveX controls in 1 tsgetxu71ex552.dll and 2 tsgetx71ex552.dll in Tom Sawyer GET Extension Factory 5.5.2.237, as used in VI Client aka VMware Infrastructure Client 2.0.2 before Build 230598 and 2.5 before Build 204931 in VMware Infrastructure 3, do not properly handle attempted...

Fedora Update for libcgroup FEDORA-2011-2570

Check for the Version of libcgroup OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for libcgroup FEDORA-2011-2570 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2011 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under th...

China-Based Attacks Targeted Gmail of U.S. Officials, Activists

Search giant Google has again sounded the alarm about sophisticated attacks emanating from mainland China and targeting officials within the U.S. and Asian governments, as well as human rights activists and journalists. Samples of some of the messages posted on an independent researcher’s blog...

Pentagon Adds Cyber-Weapons to List of Arms

The Pentagon is compiling a list of offensive cyber-weapons capable of deliberately crippling or destroying an adversary’s critical infrastructure according to a recent report in the Washington Post. This collection of cyber weapons is part of a broader list of weapons approved by the Pentagon fo...

[SECURITY] Fedora 13 Update: libcgroup-0.35.1-5.fc13

Control groups infrastructure. The tools and library help manipulate, contr ol, administrate and monitor control groups and the associated controllers...

Data Breach Notification Bill Included in New White House Proposal

The White House on Thursday proposed a new federal data breach notification law in an attempt to clarify a mish-mash of laws already on record. The notification comes as part of a much-delayed cybersecurity legislative proposal unveiled on Capitol Hill this week. The sweeping reform comes nearly...

Serious SCADA Security Flaw Affects Critical Infrastructure Firms

The U.S.’s Computer Emergency Response Team CERT issued a warning to critical infrastructure firms on Wednesday about a serious security hole in products from Massachusetts firm Iconics that could leave critical systems vulnerable to remote attacks. U.S. companies in the electricity, oil and gas,...

HP Virtual Server Environment Detection

The remote Windows host contains HP Virtual Server Environment, an application for managing virtual server infrastructures. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description scriptid53623; scriptversion"1.10"; scriptsetattributeattribute:"pluginmodificationdate",...

[Onapsis Security Advisory 2011-009] Oracle JD Edwards JDENET SawKernel Remote Password Disclosure

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Onapsis Security Advisory 2011-009: Oracle JD Edwards JDENET SawKernel Remote Password Disclosure This advisory can be downloaded in PDF format from http://www.onapsis.com/. By downloading this advisory from the Onapsis Resource Center, you will gain...

ICANN Hires Def Con Founder Jeff Moss as Security Chief !

ICANN Hires Def Con Founder Jeff Moss as Security Chief ! Jeff Moss, the hacker better known as "The Dark Tangent," has been named Vice President and Chief Security Officer of ICANN, the non-profit corporation that manages the Internet's names and numbering infrastructure. He is the founder of DE...

Glass Dragon: China's Cyber Offense Obscures Woeful Defense

The official line in Washington D.C. is that there’s a new Cold War brewing, with an ascendant China in the place of the old Soviet Union, and cyberspace as the new theater of war. But work done by an independent security researcher suggests that the Chinese government is woefully unprepared to...

Database of China Foreign Affairs Experts Left Wide Open

A U.S. security expert has uncovered data on more than 10,000 job applicants for positions with China’s State Administration of Foreign Experts Affairs, including user names and passwords that could be used to gain access to other sensitive government systems. The discovery by Dillon Beresford, a...

Cyber jihadists could use Stuxnet worm to attack the west !

Cyber jihadists could use Stuxnet worm to attack the west ! ACCORDING TO Mikko Hypponen, F-Secure's chief security researcher, there has been a revolution in malware with Stuxnet. "The worst case scenario is that Al-Qaeda or another organisation could gain access to this type of knowledge and...