detect_reverse_proxy

This plugin tries to determine if the remote end has a reverse proxy installed. The procedure used to detect reverse proxies is to send a request to the remote server and analyze the response headers, if a Via header is found, chances are that the remote site has a reverse proxy. Plugin type...

zone_h

This plugin searches the zone-h.org defacement database and parses the result. The information stored in that database is useful to know about previous defacements to the target website. In some cases, the defacement site provides information about the exploited vulnerability, which may be still...

dns_wildcard

This plugin compares the contents of www.site.com and site.com and tries to verify if the target site has a DNS wildcard configuration or not. Plugin type Infrastructure Options This plugin doesnt have any user configured options. Source For more information about this plugin and the associated...

Data Sharing, Cooperation Key to Critical Infrastructure Security

WASHINGTON–The topic of critical infrastructure security may be the prettiest girl at the dance right now for both politicians and technology companies, but the problem of attackers going after these targets is one that security people have been dealing with for some time. But that doesn’t mean...

Politics, Uncertainty Slowing Down U.S. Response to Cyber Threats

WASHINGTON–The shift in the last few years to cyberespionage and online attacks against the nation’s critical infrastructure have left the United States government lagging behind, and “a day late and a dollar short”, the former director of the National Security Agency said. The ongoing campaigns...

CVE-2013-1247

Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in the wireless configuration module in Cisco Prime Infrastructure allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an SSID that is not properly handled during display of the XML windowing table, aka Bug ID CSCuf04356...

Cross site scripting

Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in the wireless configuration module in Cisco Prime Infrastructure allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an SSID that is not properly handled during display of the XML windowing table, aka Bug ID CSCuf04356...

CVE-2013-1247

CVE-2013-1247 affects Cisco Prime Infrastructure; XSS in the wireless configuration module allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to inject scripts via a rogue SSID displayed in the XML windowing table (Bug CSCuf04356). Exploitation requires access to the rogue AP listing; Cisco notes software...

CVE-2013-1247

Cross-site scripting XSS vulnerability in the wireless configuration module in Cisco Prime Infrastructure allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an SSID that is not properly handled during display of the XML windowing table, aka Bug ID CSCuf04356...

Cisco Prime Infrastructure Rogue AP SSID Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the wireless configuration module of Cisco Prime Infrastructure could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to insert scripts into the listing of rogue access points. The vulnerability is due to a failure to properly sanitize SSIDs before inserting them into the XML windowi...

Grid Utilities Critical Infrastructure Protection Lacking

It would seem that what spurs private and public electric grid utility operators to action with regard to cybersecurity isn’t the Chinese or Iranians attacking them, but the word “mandatory”. A paper published yesterday by two U.S. legislators revealed that when there are mandatory cybersecurity...

USN-1831-1: OpenStack Nova vulnerability

Loganathan Parthipan discovered that Nova did not verify the size of QCOW2 instance storage. An authenticated attacker could exploit this to cause a denial of service by creating an image with a large virtual size with little data, then filling the virtual disk...

Internet Explorer 8 zero-day attack spreads on 9 other sites

Watering hole Internet Explorer 8 zero-day attack on the US Department of Labor website last week has spread to 9 more global websites over the weekend, including those run by a big European company operating in the aerospace, defense, and security industries as well as non-profit groups and...

Obama Expands Surveillance to Critical Infrastructure

A little-known policy through which the Departments of Justice, Defense, and Homeland Security offered prosecutorial immunity to companies that helped the U.S. military monitor Internet traffic on the private networks of defense contractors has reportedly been expanded by Executive Order to inclu...

Brad Arkin Named Adobe CSO

Adobe has named Brad Arkin to the newly created position of CSO, a major expansion of responsibilities for Arkin, who has been leading the company’s product security and privacy initiatives. Adobe has been in the security spotlight for several years now, as attackers have focused their attention ...

HD Moore: Hackable Serial Port Servers Lack Authentication

Serial port servers are admittedly old school technology that you might think had been phased out as new IT, SCADA and industrial control system equipment has been phased in. Metasploit creator HD Moore cautions you to think again. Moore recently revealed that through his Critical IO project...

Malware More Globally Distributed, Still Made in China

In an attempt to better evade detection, cybercriminals are increasingly configuring their command and control infrastructure in such a way that initial malware callbacks communicate with a server located in the same country as the newly infected machines. This emerging trend is among the vast an...

CALL FOR PAPERS - The Hackers Conference 2013

The call for papers for The Hackers Conference 2013 is now open. THC2013 is a hacker conference taking place in New Delhi, India on August 25th, 2013. The Hackers Conference is an unique event, where the best of minds in the hacking world, leaders in the information security industry and the cybe...

Cisco TelePresence Infrastructure Denial of Service Vulnerability

Cisco TelePresence multipoint control unit MCU and Cisco TelePresence Server contain a vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to trigger the reload of an affected system. Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. Workarounds that mitigate thi...

Shylock Trojan Going Global with New Features, Resilient Infrastructure

The prolific, credential-stealing Shylock banking Trojan is growing increasingly sophisticated as its creators continue adding new modules and functionalities to the man-in-the-browser malware, according to a Symantec report. To this point, Shylock has made its money via man-in-the-browser attack...