Study: Three Of Four Energy Firms Had Data Breach In Last Year

Three quarters of global energy corporations have suffered one or more data breaches in the last 12 months, according to a new survey by The Ponemon Institute, which finds evidence of widespread shortcomings in the energy and utilities vertical. The report, “The State of IT Security: Study of...

NASA Computer Networks Have Potentially Catastrophic Security Holes !

NASA's internal computer network is full of holes and is extremely vulnerable to an external cyberattack, an audit by the Office of the Inspector General has found. Even worse, it appears several of the vulnerabilities have been known for months, yet remained unpatched. "Six computer servers...

Hacker Grrl Behind HBGary Attack?

Could a 16 year old girl named Kayla be the mastermind behind the breach of elite security firm HBGary? That’s the contention of Forbes blogger Parmy Olson, who has written up her online conversations with a purported member of the Anonymous hacker collective who goes by the online handle ‘k. ‘K...

IT Security Metrics: The Enterprise FUD Killer

One of the greatest knocks on the information security profession is that IT security is always asking for budget to spend against the latest threat, only to abandon the cause like harried firefighters, jumping from one conflagration to the next. Viruses, worms, spam, network access control, data...

Zombies, Baseball and IT Security

How is defending your network and users from sophisticated cyber attacks like fending off a zombie invasion? Funny you should ask! In an interview with Threatpost Editor Paul Roberts, Josh Corman, the Research Director in the Enterprise Security Practice at the 451 Group reprises a 2011 RSA...

Stephen Colbert Riffs On HBGary Breach

The controversy over the hack of D.C. security firm HBGary burst into the spotlight last week when comedian Stephen Colbert weighed in on the back and forth between HBGary Federal CEO Aaron Barr and the online mischief making group Anonymous. As Threatpost has noted, the incident, which began wit...

Bridging The Gap Between IT And Law Enforcement

One of the big impediments to prosecuting computer crimes is getting law enforcement to pursue computer crimes with the same intensity that they do traditional property and violent crimes. But that’s easier said than done. At the recent B-Sides San Francisco Conference, Threatpost.com sat down wi...

syslog-ng wrong file permission vulnerability

========================================================================== syslog-ng 2.0, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2 OSE and PE = Information leak, access prevention and possible priviledge escalation CVE-2011-0343 ========================================================================== 1. OVERVIEW Versions...

Amitabh Bacchan's fan website hacked by 'Cyber Stonepelters Force' !

A group of hackers, claiming to be from Kashmir, on Thursday night hacked a website dedicated to the Bollywood superstar, Amitabh Bacchan. The group calling itself 'Cyber Stone Pelters Force or Cyber Sangbaaz Force' hacked www. amitabhbachchanonline.com last night and posted pro-independence,...

December Top 10 Malware List !

GFI Software, a leading IT solutions provider for small and medium-sized enterprises, today revealed continuing high levels of Trojan and rogue malware circulating during December, with data revealing a surge in activity, boosted by themed activity around the Christmas and New Year holiday period...

Kerala Computer Emergency Response Team launches operations !

The Kerala Government has announced the launch of the Computer Emergency Response Team, Kerala CERT-K as the nodal agency for monitoring various cyber security related incidents in the State. Chief Minister Shri V S Achuthanandan formally announced the launch of operations today. The agency will...

LiveZilla Cross Site Scripting

Check Point Software Technologies - Vulnerability Discovery Team VDT http://www.checkpoint.com/defense/ LiveZilla Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability CVE-2010-4276 INTRODUCTION Accordingly to LiveZilla GmbH, "the Next Generation Live Help and Live Support System connects you to your website...

Hackers Plan Christmas Data Attacks via Social Media Apps

Hackers are planning to increase data security attacks via applications on social networking websites this Christmas, according to an expert. Earlier this month, IT security firm Sophos traced the history of malware and viruses created over the Christmas period from 1987 until 2009. The blog post...

Radius Manager 3.8.0 - Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities

Radius Manager 3.8.0 - Multiple Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities Check Point Software Technologies - Vulnerability Discovery Team VDT http://www.checkpoint.com/defense/ Radius Manager Multiple Cross Site Scripting Issues CVE-2010-4275 INTRODUCTION Radius Manager is a centralized way for...

VUPEN Security Research - RealPlayer RA5 Data Handling Heap Overflow Vulnerability (VUPEN-SR-2010-31)

VUPEN Security Research - RealPlayer RA5 Data Handling Heap Overflow Vulnerability VUPEN-SR-2010-31 http://www.vupen.com/english/research.php I. BACKGROUND --------------------- "RealPlayer is a media player available to play, manage and download all your mp3, flash and video files" from real.com...

Spree e-commerce JSON Hijacking Vulnerabilities - CVE-2010-3978

Dear List, I'm writing on behalf of the Check Point Vulnerability Discovery Team to publish the following vulnerability. Check Point Software Technologies - Vulnerability Discovery Team VDT http://www.checkpoint.com/defense/ Spree e-commerce JSON Hijacking Vulnerabilities CVE-2010-3978 INTRODUCTI...

cforms WordPress Plugin Cross Site Scripting

Check Point Software Technologies - Vulnerability Discovery Team VDT http://www.checkpoint.com/defense/ cforms WordPress Plugin Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability CVE-2010-3977 INTRODUCTION According to Delicious Days, "cforms is a powerful and feature rich form plugin for WordPress, offering...

Moroccan Hacktivists Target Foreign Sites, Sparking International Cyber Conflicts

Hacktivists are militant hackers attacking sites in Egypt, Morocco, Spain, and Israel. Their screen messages resemble banners used in protests, supporting various political, social, or religious ideologies. Active in Morocco, they often hack sensitive security systems. Behind their computer...

FreeBSD : horde-base -- XSS and CSRF vulnerabilities (8fc55043-cb1e-11df-9c1b-0011098ad87f)

The Horde team reports : Thanks to Naumann IT Security Consulting for reporting the XSS vulnerability. Thanks to Secunia for releasing an advisory for the new CSRF protection in the preference interface The major changes compared to Horde version 3.3.8 are : Fixed XSS vulnerability in...

SecTor

Toronto, Ontario, Canada Billed as “Canada’s Premiere IT Security Conference” they might want to ask the CanSecWest folks about that, SecTor is an annual security confab that draws some of the top security researchers and IT professionals from the Great White North and the U.S. to Toronto for...