Senators Question Intelligence Officials About Snowden, Domestic Surveillance

In a hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee to discuss the public portions of a new national security threat assessment, top intelligence and law enforcement officials said that attacks against financial networks and the critical infrastructure are major threats to the United States’...

Updated xml-security package fixes security vulnerability

James Forshaw discovered that Apache XML Security for Java incorrectly validated CanonicalizationMethod parameters. An attacker could use this flaw to spoof XML signatures CVE-2013-2172...

Microsoft Mitigation Bypass Bounty Winner James Forshaw

Give James Forshaw a good logic bug over a memory-corruption vulnerability any day of the week. The British researcher says he would rather manipulate weaknesses in code to climb out of an application sandbox than turn a fuzzer against a piece of software and spot a memory leak. But incentivized ...

Congratulations to James Forshaw Recipient of Our First $100,000 Bounty for New Mitigation Bypass Techniques!

Congratulations to James Forshaw for coming up with a new exploitation technique to get our first ever $100,000 bounty. A security vulnerability researcher with Context Information Security, James already came in hot with design level bugs he found during the IE11 Preview Bug Bounty, and we’re...

House Rejects Amendment to Sever NSA Data Collection Funding

By a narrow dozen votes, the U.S. House of Representatives yesterday failed to pass an amendment to the Department of Defense Appropriations Act of 2014 that would have severed funding for the NSA’s phone record surveillance program turned out by Edward Snowden. The amendment, put forth by Rep...

EFF, Eclectic Group of Organizations Sue NSA Over Data Collection

If politics makes strange bedfellows, as the saying goes, wholesale government surveillance takes that to an entirely new level. The clearest evidence yet of the broad and diverse set of groups opposed to the NSA’s domestic spying programs came Tuesday when the EFF said that is representing a...

DNI Clapper Says Statement to Congress About NSA Data Collection Was 'Erroneous'

In a highly unusual move, James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, said Tuesday that he misspoke when he told a Congressional committee in March that the National Security Agency does not assemble dossiers on Americans. Clapper said at the time that the agency does not do so...

CVE-2013-2153: Apache Santuario C++ signature bypass vulnerability

CVE-2013-2153: Apache Santuario XML Security for C++ contains an XML Signature Bypass issue Severity: Critical Vendor: The Apache Software Foundation Versions Affected: Apache Santuario XML Security for C++ library versions prior to V1.7.1 Description: The implementation of XML digital signatures...

Stellar Wind Surveillance program under Obama administration

According to secret documents obtained by the Guardian, Obama administration permitted the National Security Agency to surveillance the Emails and Internet metadata of all Americans. This secret warrant less surveillance program, collectively known by the NSA code name Stellar Wind, was launched ...

Clappers Says NSA Programs Fully Authorized and Necessary

The top U.S. intelligence official addressed the recent revelations about the National Security Agency’s covert cell-phone and email data collection surveillance programs on Thursday, saying that the programs have been ongoing for years, are fully authorized under U.S. law and that the leaks...

XSS vulnerabilities in ZeroClipboard

Hello 3APA3A! These are Cross-Site Scripting vulnerabilities in ZeroClipboard. Last week I've made my research of these vulnerabilities and informed all developers previous and current of ZeroClipboard. When I've downloaded ZeroClipboard in September 2011, when I was writing my article Attacks vi...

DSA-2578-1 rssh - several

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QQPlayer 3.7.892 - m2p 'quartz.dll' Heap Pointer Overwrite (PoC)

Exploit Title: QQPlayer 3.7.892 m2p quartz.dll heap pointer overwrite PoC Date: 10/14/2012 Author: James Ritchey Vendor Homepage: www.qq-player.com Software Link: http://www.qq-player.com/downloaden.php Version: 3.7.892 Tested on: Windows XP SP3 l = 3315716 "A" s1 = 0,'\x00\x00\x01\xba', 2048,...

LeBron James, Advanced Attackers and the Best Man Theory

There is a line of thinking that pervades and pollutes the discussions of many sporting events, and it goes something like this: “You can’t let LeBron James/Derek Jeter/Lionel Messi beat you. You have to force someone else to beat you.” It’s a flawed strategy for a number of reasons, but it’s eve...

Hacker charged for hacking into U.S. Energy Department

Hacker charged for hacking into U.S. Energy Department Andrew James Miller, a 23-year-old resident of Devon, Pennsylvania, was arrested on Thursday and charged with one count of conspiracy, two counts of computer fraud, and one count of access device fraud, according to a statement issued by the...

[SECURITY] Fedora 15 Update: expat-2.1.0-1.fc15

This is expat, the C library for parsing XML, written by James Clark. Expat is a stream oriented XML parser. This means that you register handlers with the parser prior to starting the parse. These handlers are called when the parser discovers the associated structures in the document being parse...

[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: expat-2.1.0-1.fc16

This is expat, the C library for parsing XML, written by James Clark. Expat is a stream oriented XML parser. This means that you register handlers with the parser prior to starting the parse. These handlers are called when the parser discovers the associated structures in the document being parse...

SA-CONTRIB-2012-057 - Printer, email and PDF versions - Cross Site Scripting (XSS)

CVE: CVE-2012-2084 This module provides printer-friendly versions of content, including send by e-mail and PDF versions. The module doesn't sufficiently escape URL elements which are printed back to the user. Versions affected Printer, email and PDF versions 6.x-1.x versions prior to 6.x-1.15...

Sunway Forcecontrol SNMP NetDBServer.exe Opcode 0x57

Exploit for windows platform in category remote exploits This file is part of the Metasploit Framework and may be subject to redistribution and commercial restrictions. Please see the Metasploit Framework web site for more information on licensing and terms of use. http://metasploit.com/framework...

Sunway ForceControl - SNMP 'NetDBServer.exe' Opcode 0x57 (Metasploit)

This file is part of the Metasploit Framework and may be subject to redistribution and commercial restrictions. Please see the Metasploit Framework web site for more information on licensing and terms of use. http://metasploit.com/framework/ require 'msf/core' class Metasploit3 'Sunway Forcecontr...