IT-Grundschutz M4.332: Sichere Konfiguration der Zugriffssteuerung bei einem Samba-Server

IT-Grundschutz M4.332: Sichere Konfiguration der Zugriffssteuerung bei einem Samba-Server ACHTUNG: Dieser Test wird nicht mehr unterstützt. Er wurde ersetzt durch den entsprechenden Test der nun permanent and die aktuelle EL angepasst wird: OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.94239 Stand: 13...

IT-Grundschutz M4.135: Restriktive Vergabe von Zugriffsrechten auf Systemdateien

IT-Grundschutz M4.135: Restriktive Vergabe von Zugriffsrechten auf Systemdateien. ACHTUNG: Dieser Test wird nicht mehr unterstützt. Er wurde ersetzt durch den entsprechenden Test der nun permanent and die aktuelle EL angepasst wird: OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.94215 Stand: 13. Ergänzungslieferung 1...

CTF365 Capture The Flag - The Next Generation IT Security Training Platform

For years, the Capture the Flag platform has been a common and very popular part of the hacker convention scene. Teams come from all over the world to show their skill and technique in various competitions. The CTF365 team took that interest, passion and excitement and went to a new level in thei...

IE Zero Day Patch Already in November Patch Tuesday Updates

Microsoft announced this afternoon that the zero-day vulnerability being exploited in a watering hole attack against an unnamed U.S.-based NGO website was already scheduled to be patched in a cumulative Internet Explorer update tomorrow. The zero-day was reported publicly on Friday by FireEye...

CTF365 Capture The Flag - The Next Generation IT Security Training Platform

For years, the Capture the Flag platform has been a common and very popular part of the hacker convention scene. Teams come from all over the world to show their skill and technique in various competitions. The CTF365 team took that interest, passion and excitement and went to a new level in thei...

Microsoft set to deliver Patches for three Critical flaws, but no patch for Office Zero-day vulnerability

Microsoft has released advanced notification for the November 2013 security updates that are scheduled to be released on November 12, 2013. The company plans to deliver eight security bulletins for Windows 8.1, three of them are rated critical and five are important. But there's no relief in sigh...

Microsoft set to deliver Patches for three Critical flaws, but no patch for Office Zero-day vulnerability

Microsoft has released advanced notification for the November 2013 security updates that are scheduled to be released on November 12, 2013. The company plans to deliver eight security bulletins for Windows 8.1, three of them are rated critical and five are important. But there's no relief in sigh...

CVE-2013-3906 : Zero Day Vulnerability in Microsoft Graphics Component

Microsoft has issued a temporary fix for a 0day vulnerability that can be exploited to install malware via infected Word documents. A Zero-day Remote code execution flaw, which has been dubbed CVE-2013-3906, exploits a vulnerability in a Microsoft graphics component, to target Microsoft Office...

CVE-2013-3906: a graphics vulnerability exploited through Word documents

Recently we become aware of a vulnerability of a Microsoft graphics component that is actively exploited in targeted attacks using crafted Word documents sent by email. Today we are releasing Security Advisory 2896666 which includes a proactive Fix it workaround for blocking this attack while we...

IT Security Horror Story #2: A Tale of Spooky Hosted Images

Image manipulation madness causes a near disaster for a popular web site. READ MORE…IF YOU DARE -...

DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge Offers $2M to Winners

The bug bounty continues to be turned on its ear. Microsoft began the wave of paying premium money for mitigation technologies via its Blue Hat prizes, and now DARPA has gone all-in to the tune of $2 million for the development of an automated network defense system that not only scans for and...

NIST Publishes Preliminary Cybersecurity Framework

Following an Executive Order issued by U.S. President Barack Obama in February of this year, the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST yesterday made public a provisional copy of the government’s cybersecurity framework and says it will accept public comment on the draft for the nex...

DDoS Attacks : A Serious unstoppable menace for IT security communities

It should be the busiest day of the year for your business, but your website has just disappeared off the Internet and orders have dried up. If this happens to you, then you likely just become yet another victim of a distributed denial of service DDoS attack. By now, everyone who uses the Interne...

DDoS Attacks : A Serious unstoppable menace for IT security communities

It should be the busiest day of the year for your business, but your website has just disappeared off the Internet and orders have dried up. If this happens to you, then you likely just become yet another victim of a distributed denial of service DDoS attack. By now, everyone who uses the Interne...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: zabbix-2.0.8-3.fc19

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...

[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: zabbix-2.0.8-3.fc18

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...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: zabbix-2.0.8-3.fc19

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...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: zabbix-2.0.8-3.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...

CVE-2013-5028

Kwoksys Kwok Information Server vulnerable to SQL injection in IT/hardware-list.dll (versions before 2.8.5). Affected component is the search command handling (hardwareType, hardwareStatus, hardwareLocation) with remote-authenticated access leading to arbitrary SQL execution. Root cause is improp...

BlackBerry Fixes Remote Code Vulnerability in BES10

Microsoft and Adobe weren’t the only companies releasing security updates yesterday. BlackBerry piled on the patch parade with an update for its BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 mobile device management product, fixing a remote code execution vulnerability. The problem lies in the Universal Devic...