Koler Android Ransomware Infrastructure Complex and Agile

While the Koler ransomware may be a simplistic money-generating malware scam, the infrastructure standing up its campaigns is anything but. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab published a report today that not only explained details of how the attackers—possibly the group behind the Reveton...

Siemens Patches Five Vulnerabilities in SIMATIC System

Siemens released an update for two builds of its SIMATIC automation system this week, addressing a quintet of vulnerabilities, four of which are remotely exploitable. The German company’s SIMATIC WinCC, a SCADA system and SIMATIC PCS7, a distributed control system DCS are directly affected by the...

Zenoss Monitoring System 4.2.5-2108 64bit - Stored XSS

No description provided by source. Exploit Title: Stored XSS vulnerability in Zenoss core open source monitoring system Date: 12/05/2014 Exploit author: Dolev Farhi dolevatopenflare.org Vendor homepage: http://zenoss.com Software Link: http://www.zenoss.com Version: Core 4.2.5-2108 64bit Tested o...

Trio of Flaws Haunts OleumTech Wireless Monitoring System

Researchers have identified several remotely exploitable vulnerabilities in a wireless remote monitoring product from OleumTech that is used in energy, water and other critical infrastructure sectors. Two of the three flaws are related to the encryption implementation in the affected products,...

RHEL 6 : MRG (RHSA-2012:0099)

Updated Grid component packages that fix multiple security issues, multiple bugs, and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common...

Siemens Working on Patches for OpenSSL Bugs Under Exploit

Siemens says it is working on patches for four critical vulnerabilities in the OpenSSL libraries it uses in a number of its industrial control products, flaws that are being exploited in the wild. The Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team ICS-CERT cautioned too that critical...

Havex, It’s Down With OPC

FireEye recently analyzed the capabilities of a variant of Havex referred to by FireEye as “Fertger” or “PEACEPIPE”, the first publicized malware reported to actively scan OPC servers used for controlling SCADA Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition devices in critical infrastructure e.g., wate...

International Authorities Take Down Shylock Banking Malware

Like most profitable criminal enterprises, the Shylock banking malware thrived because it was supported by a nimble infrastructure that allowed it to stay one step ahead of network and security monitoring capabilities, and the authorities. That race ended this week. Europol announced today that i...

Infosec A-Team to Launch NSA-Proof Invisible Messenger for Whistleblowers

If a whistleblower discloses an activity to the public, then there should be a trust-based mechanism that ensure the protection of truth-tellers on an international level by hiding their identities. In an effort to provide this kind of service and security, Security experts grouped together to...

Latest Microsoft Malware Takedown Causes Waves in Security Community

Microsoft’s latest takedown of a malware operation, announced Monday and involving the infrastructure of several malware families, has, like many of the company’s actions, elicited strong opinions on both sides of the issue from security researchers, activists and others with a stake in the game...

TANDBERG vF8.2, F8.0, F7.2, and F6.3 - Remote Denial of Service

No description provided by source. Security Advisory Platform : TANDBERG Date : November 6, 2009 Affected : All MXP FIPS140 Current as of December 8, 2009 Tested : F8.2, F8.0, F7.2, F6.3 Unconf : VCS, BC, C90 Author : otokoyama Problem Description: Issues with the H.225 RAS implementation in...

Lucent 8.x VitalNet Password Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3784/info VitalNet is part of Lucent's VitalSuite SP product family. VitalNet allows users to monitor, analyze, manage and predict the performance of their network infrastructure. The implementation of VitalNet's...

CylantSecure 1.0 Kernel Module Syscall Rerouting Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2958/info CylantSecure is a commercial Linux hardening tool and security infrastructure available from Cylant Technology. A problem in the CylantSecure infrastructure could allow users to escape monitoring. A user with ro...

Nortel CVX 1800 Multi-Service Access Switch Default SNMP Community Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4507/info Nortel CVX 1800 Multi-Service Access Switch is a hardware modem bank. The device contains a default SNMP community string of public, which may allow enable a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive informati...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: zabbix-2.0.12-3.fc20

Zabbix is software that monitors numerous parameters of a network and the health and integrity of servers. Zabbix uses a flexible notification mechan ism that allows users to configure e-mail based alerts for virtually any event. This allows a fast reaction to server problems. Zabbix offers...

Kaspersky, Citizen Lab Uncover HackingTeam Mobile Malware

Controversial spyware commercially developed by Italy’s HackingTeam and sold to governments and law enforcement for the purpose of surveillance, has a global command and control infrastructure and for the first time, security experts have insight into how its mobile malware components work...

OpenSSL Heartbleed Patch Progress Slowing Two Months Later

It’s been more than two months since news broke of the Heartbleed vulnerability in OpenSSL one of the Internet’s most widely deployed cryptographic libraries. In the days and weeks that followed the emergence of the bug, which affected an unknown but arguably vast swath of the Web, vendors were...

Google Announces its BoringSSL OpenSSL Fork

In the year-plus since surveillance, privacy and Snowden became part of the daily security conversation, technologies that safeguard online communication and commerce have become Job 1 for experts anxious to plug gaping flaws and shore up other usability deficiencies. OpenSSL is probably at the t...

Google Unveils BoringSSL, Another Flavor of OpenSSL

The open source encryption protocol, OpenSSL, which is used by several social networks, search engines, banks and other websites to enable secure connections while transmitting data, came to everybody's attention following the Heartbleed vulnerability, a critical bug in the OpenSSL's implementati...

FTC Asking DEF CON to Help Catch Robocallers

The United States Federal Trade Commission is sick and tired of illegal robocalling, and it’s hosting a contest this year at the DEF CON hacker conference in Las Vegas in an attempt to do something about it. The consumer protection agency’s weariness likely stems from the more than 150,000...