NIST Removes Dual_EC_DRBG Random Number Generator from Recommendations

The National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST has announced to abandon the controversial Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generator, better known as DualECDRBG in the wake of allegations that the National Security Agency. Back in December, Edward Snowden leaks revealed that...

Desktop Viruses Coming to Your TV and Connected Home Appliances

Smart Devices are growing at an exponential rate and so are the threats to them. After your Computers, Servers, Routers, Mobiles and Tablets, now hackers are targeting your Smart TVs, warns Eugene Kaspersky the co-founder and chief executive of Kaspersky Lab. As the increase in the manufactures o...

MS14-017: Description of the security update for Word 2010 Service Pack 1 and Service Pack 2: April 8, 2014

Resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office that could allow remote code execution if a specially crafted file is opened in an affected version of Microsoft Office.IntroductionThis update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office that could allow remote code execution if a specially crafted...

Halon Security Router (SR) 3.2-winter-r1 - Multiple Vulnerabilities

Halon Security Router SR 3.2-winter-r1 - Multiple Vulnerabilities ADVISORY INFORMATION Advisory Name: Multiple Security Vulnerabilities in Halon Security Router Date published: 2014-04-07 Vendors contacted: Halon Security http://www.halon.se Researcher: Juan Manuel Garcia...

Worst Data Breach in German History, 18 Million Email Passwords Compromised

Germany has confirmed its biggest Data theft in the country's history with usernames and passwords of some 18 million email accounts stolen and compromised by hackers. The Story broke by the German press, Der Spiegel on Thursday, when German Authorities revealed another mass hacking of private da...

Windows XP End of Life Breeding FUD, Legit Concerns

For those of you anticipating the start of a Walking Dead-style malware apocalypse next Tuesday, calm yourselves. The official end of security support for Windows XP is upon us, but it’s important to check some anxiety at the door and keep some perspective. “I’ve been a forensics investigator 14...

Advance Notification Service for the April 2014 Security Bulletin Release

Today we provide advance notification for the release of four bulletins, two rated Critical and two rated Important in severity. These updates address issues in Microsoft Windows, Office and Internet Explorer. The update provided through MS14-017 fully addresses the Microsoft Word issue first...

Hacker's Dome - Gamification the Information Security

When it comes to Information Security, there's a great way to learn, train and keep sharp your skills. This can be done using gamification mechanics to speed up the learning curve and improve retention rate. Capture The Flag competitions use gamification mechanics and represent one of the best wa...

Nagios XI - The industry standard for IT infrastructure monitoring

Nagios XI is a system and network monitoring application. It watches hosts and services that you specify, alerting you when things go bad and when they get better. Some of its many features include monitoring of network services SMTP, POP3, HTTP, NNTP, ICMP, etc., monitoring of host resources...

Poster Software PUBLISH-iT PUI File Processing Buffer Overflow (CVE-2014-0980)

A stack buffer overflow vulnerability exists in Poster Software PUBLISH-iT. The vulnerability is due to insufficient validation on the length of entry names in a "styl" record when processing PUI files. A remote unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability by enticing a user to open a...

Microsoft Word RTF文件解析错误代码执行漏洞

CVE ID:CVE-2014-1761 Microsoft Word 是微软公司的一个文字处理软件。 因Microsoft Word在解析畸形的RTF格式数据时存在错误导致内存破坏，使得攻击者能够执行任意代码。当用户使用Microsoft Word受影响的版本打开恶意RTF文件，或者Microsoft Word是Microsoft Outlook的Email Viewer时，用户预览或打开恶意的RTF邮件信息，攻击者都可能成功利用此漏洞，从而获得当前用户的权限。值得注意的是，Microsoft Outlook 2007/2010/2013默认的Email Viewer都是Microso...

Microsoft Releases Security Advisory

Microsoft has released a security advisory for Microsoft Word. A vulnerability exists for remote code execution which could allow an attacker to gain user rights by opening a specifically crafted Rich Text Format file. Applying the Microsoft Fix it solution will disable the opening of RTF content...

Microsoft Advisory Warns of Word Zero-Day Attacks

Targeted attacks have been spotted against a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Word 2010, leading Microsoft to issue a special security advisory and produce a Fix-it solution for users until a patch is ready. Microsoft also said that its Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit EMET is a temporar...

CVE-2013-0805

Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in the search feature in iTop aka IT Operations Portal 2.0, 1.2.1, 1.2, and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the 1 text parameter to pages/UI.php or 2 expression parameter to pages/runquery.php. NOTE: some ...

Cross site scripting

Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in the search feature in iTop aka IT Operations Portal 2.0, 1.2.1, 1.2, and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the 1 text parameter to pages/UI.php or 2 expression parameter to pages/runquery.php. NOTE: some ...

CVE-2013-0805

CVE-2013-0805 covers multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) flaws in the iTop (IT Operations Portal) search feature. The vulnerabilities allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary HTML/script via the text parameter to pages/UI.php or the expression parameter to pages/run_query.php. Affected versions...

Is It Time for Certified ICS Security Specialists?

The information security field is full of certifications – CompTIA, GIAC, CHE, ISC2 CISSP, CISM, with a vast number of areas and directions within these families. In the industrial space, the most “unsecured” enterprise sector compared to well-established information security practice in most...

AlienVault Unified Security Management: Real-Time Threat Detection Starting on Day 1

IT Infrastructure of organizations is growing ever more distributed, complex and difficult to manage. To manage such networks, a log management solution is not enough. The AlienVault Unified Security Management™ USM platform is the perfect solution to help manage the flood of information and...

Ubee EVW3200 - Multiple Persistent Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

Ubee EVW3200 suffers from multiple persistent cross site scripting vulnerabilities. Exploit Title: Ubee EVW3200 - Multiple Persistent Cross Site Scripting Google Dork: N/A Date: 02-03-2014 Exploit Author: Jeroen - IT Nerdbox Vendor Homepage: http://www.ubeeinteractive.com/ Software Link:...

Microsoft Internet Explorer内存破坏漏洞(CVE-2014-0298)

BUGTRAQ ID: 66025 CVECAN ID: CVE-2014-0298 Internet Explorer是微软公司推出的一款网页浏览器。 Internet Explorer 没有正确访问内存对象，在实现上存在远程代码执行漏洞，成功利用后可破坏内存，在当前用户权限下执行任意代码。 0 Microsoft Internet Explorer 6-11 临时解决方法： 如果您不能立刻安装补丁或者升级，NSFOCUS建议您采取以下措施以降低威胁： 设置互联网和内联网安全区域设置为“高” 配置IE在运行活动脚本之前提示或直接禁用。 应用Microsoft Fix...