UK Cryptographers Call For Publication of Deliberately Weakened Protocols, Products

A group of cryptographers in the UK has published a letter that calls on authorities in that country and the United States to conduct an investigation to determine which security products, protocols and standards have been deliberately weakened by the countries’ intelligence services. The letter,...

Solaris 10 (sparc) : 150400-59 (deprecated)

Vulnerability in the Solaris component of Oracle Sun Systems Products Suite subcomponent: Kernel. The supported version that is affected is 10. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via ICMP to compromise Solaris. Successful attacks of this...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: Fuse Message Broker 5.5.1 security update

An update for the Apache ActiveMQ component of Fuse Message Broker 5.5.1 that fixes one security issue is now available from the Red Hat Customer Portal. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base...

Protecting Critical Infrastructure: Input Data

Kaspersky Lab is always working to develop new technologies for protecting critical computer systems from cybercriminals. In July, I had the opportunity to represent Kaspersky at a symposium sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST, focused on the national Cybersecurit...

Prevent Veeam from locking tape drives

Challenge Veeam periodically rescans the tape drives. This locks the drives and prevents other tape software from writing to them. Cause The refresh rate on the automatic rescan is too frequent if using third party tape backup software. Solution The registry keys below prevent Veeam Backup &...

Poison Ivy RAT Spotted in Three New China Attacks

The Poison Ivy remote access Trojan may be old, but it’s not losing favor with nation states that continue to make it the center piece of targeted attacks. Three groups of hackers, reportedly all with ties to China and possibly related in terms of their funding and training, are currently managin...

Scanning the Internet in 45 Minutes

The Internet is a big thing. Or, more accurately, a big collection of things. Figuring out exactly how many things, and what vulnerabilities those things contain has always been a challenge for researchers, but a new tool released by a group from the University of Michigan that is capable of...

CiscoWorks Common Services Installed

CiscoWorks Common Services, the foundation of application infrastructure for CiscoWorks network management solutions, is installed on the remote Windows host. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if description scriptid69468; scriptversion"1.9";...

Black Hat 2013: What Have We Learned

LAS VEGAS–The Black Hat conference is one of the best opportunities each year to see new and innovative research, commune with some of the smartest folks in the industry and generally get a sense of where things stand and where they’re going. This year’s conference was one of the larger in histor...

Chinese Hackers Caught by US water control system Honeypots

A notorious Chinese hacker collective known as APT1 or Comment Crew, possibly linked to the Chinese Army, have been caught red handed breaking into a fake United States water control system i.e. known as a Honeypot. Kyle Wilhoit, a researcher with security company Trend Micro has just revealed th...

Online Ad Networks Leverages to Launch Javascript Attacks

LAS VEGAS – Researchers have figured out how to leverage the reach of online advertising networks to distribute javascript of their choosing, creating the equivalent of a botnet of ad impressions capable of crashing underlying webservers or distributing malware on a massive scale for pennies on t...

CVE-2013-3746

Unspecified vulnerability in the Solaris Cluster component in Oracle and Sun Systems Products Suite 3.2, 3.3, and 4 prior to 4.1 SRU 3 allows local users to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors related to Zone Cluster Infrastructure...

Design/Logic Flaw

Unspecified vulnerability in the Solaris Cluster component in Oracle and Sun Systems Products Suite 3.2, 3.3, and 4 prior to 4.1 SRU 3 allows local users to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors related to Zone Cluster Infrastructure...

CVE-2013-3746

Unspecified vulnerability in the Solaris Cluster component in Oracle and Sun Systems Products Suite 3.2, 3.3, and 4 prior to 4.1 SRU 3 allows local users to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability via unknown vectors related to Zone Cluster Infrastructure...

Oracle Linux 5 : Important: / kernel (ELSA-2008-0089)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2008-0089 advisory. 2.6.18-53.1.6.0.1.el5 - NET Add entropy support to e1000 and bnx2 John Sobecki ORA 6045759 - NET Fix msi issue with kexec/kdump Michael Chan ORA 621936...

Updated opera packages replace code signing certificate

Opera 12.16 contains a replaced code signing certificate. Opera Software recently experienced an attack on the internal infrastructure. Following best practices, Opera Software is replacing signing certificates in Opera with newly issued certificates. Certificates in Opera include the code signin...

Replaced code signing certificate

Opera Software recently experienced an attack on the internal infrastructure. Following best practices, Opera Software is replacing signing certificates in Opera with newly issued certificates. Certificates in Opera include the code signing certificate for desktop binaries and the signing...

General Talks Security at Brookings Institution

General Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, made clear yesterday in a speech to the Brookings Institution that the military, government, and private sector each has a role to play in hardening the U.S. against cyberattacks. General Dempsey also called out the maintainers of...

Stolen Opera Code-Signing Certificate Used to Sign Malware

Opera Software said it was able to contain the impact of a security breach that resulted in the theft of an expired code-signing certificate used to sign malware distributed to Windows users during a 36-minute stretch on June 19. Opera developer Sigbjorn Vik said the browser maker was victimized ...

Chinese Hackers group 'Comment Crew' is still active and operating under cover

Security experts are confident that the Chinese hackers group known as Comment Crew is still operating under cover. “The Comment Crew is back again” this is the rumor within Intelligence community, researchers suspect the involvement of the group of hackers in the recent cyber dispute between U.S...