The Past, Present and Future of Software Security

Perhaps no segment of the security industry has evolved more in the last decade than the discipline of software security. At the start of the 2000s, software security was a small, arcane field that often was confused with security software. But several things happened in the early part of the...

Microsoft Releases New Versions of Software Security Tools

Microsoft has released new versions of several of its software security tools, including its Threat Modeling Tool and a pair of fuzzers. All of the tools are part of the company’s Security Development Lifecycle program, which it has been sharing with external organizations for a few years now...

Nmap NSE net: dns-fuzz

This script launches a DNS fuzzing attack against any DNS server. The script induces errors into randomly generated but valid DNS packets. The packet template that we use includes one uncompressed and one compressed name. Use the 'dns-fuzz.timelimit' argument to control how long the fuzzing lasts...

Making an Application Security Program Succeed, Part Two

“Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, only this time more wisely,” is a quote attributed to legendary automaker Henry Ford. While it seemingly has nothing to do with secure application development, all you need to do is talk to a handful of enterprises who have tried to implement a...

Microsoft Cites Progress in SDL Report, Advocates More Adoption of ASLR, DEP

In the more than nine years since Bill Gates’s Trustworthy Computing email kicked off Microsoft’s comprehensive, company-wide security initiative, the company has not only committed a tremendous amount of money and resources to the project but also has been quite open and public about the process...

The Challenge of Starting an Application Security Program

Since organizations started opening their internal applications to the Web, a little more than a decade ago, it became clear that the security of those connected applications would be more complex – and critical to get right – than before. Unfortunately, through complacency, perhaps a feeling tha...

NSA: Our Development Methods Are in the Open Now

WASHINGTON–Despite its reputation for secrecy and technical expertise, the National Security Agency doesn’t have a set of secret coding practices or testing methods that magically make their applications and systems bulletproof. In fact, one of the agency’s top technical experts said that virtual...

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS10-087 - Critical Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2423930)

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS10-087 - Critical Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Could Allow Remote Code Execution 2423930 Published: November 09, 2010 Version: 1.0 General Information Executive Summary This security update resolves one publicly disclosed vulnerability and four privately...

security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2010:0817 Merged security bulletin from advisories: https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2010-November/079303.html Affected packages: Upstream details at: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010:0817...

RHEL 3 : redhat-release (EOL Notice) (RHSA-2010:0734)

This is the 1-month notification of the End Of Life plans for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. In accordance with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Errata Support Policy, the regular 7 year life cycle of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 will end on October 31, 2010. After this date, Red Hat will discontinue the...

SmarterMail 7.2.3925 - LDAP Injection

SmarterMail 7.2.3925 - LDAP Injection Vendor: smartertools.com SmarterMail 7.x 7.2.3925 Date: 2010-10-01 Author : David Hoyt sqlhacker – Hoyt LLC Contact : [email protected] Home : http://cloudscan.me Dork : insite: SmarterMail Enterprise 7.2 Bug : LDAP Injection + Cross Site Scripting STORED Test...

CVE-2010-1325

Cross-site request forgery CSRF vulnerability in the apache2-slms package in SUSE Lifecycle Management Server SLMS 1.0 on SUSE Linux Enterprise SLE 11 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of unspecified victims via vectors related to improper parameter quoting. NOTE: some sources...

Cross site request forgery (csrf)

Cross-site request forgery CSRF vulnerability in the apache2-slms package in SUSE Lifecycle Management Server SLMS 1.0 on SUSE Linux Enterprise SLE 11 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of unspecified victims via vectors related to improper parameter quoting. NOTE: some sources...

CVE-2010-1325

Cross-site request forgery CSRF vulnerability in the apache2-slms package in SUSE Lifecycle Management Server SLMS 1.0 on SUSE Linux Enterprise SLE 11 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of unspecified victims via vectors related to improper parameter quoting. NOTE: some sources...

CVE-2010-1325

Summary (CVE-2010-1325) : A CSRF vulnerability affects the apache2-slms package in SUSE Lifecycle Management Server (SLMS) 1.0 on SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 . The issue arises from improper parameter quoting, enabling remote attackers to hijack the authentication of unspecified victims. The availab...

CVE-2010-1325: Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Cross-site request forgery CSRF vulnerability in the apache2-slms package in SUSE Lifecycle Management Server SLMS 1.0 on SUSE Linux Enterprise SLE 11 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of unspecified victims via vectors related to improper parameter quoting. NOTE: some sources...

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS10-056 - Critical Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Word Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2269638)

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS10-056 - Critical Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Word Could Allow Remote Code Execution 2269638 Published: August 10, 2010 Version: 1.0 General Information Executive Summary This security update resolves four privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Offic...

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS10-053 - Critical Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer (2183461)

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS10-053 - Critical Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 2183461 Published: August 10, 2010 Version: 1.0 General Information Executive Summary This security update resolves six privately reported vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. The most severe...

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS10-046 - Critical Vulnerability in Windows Shell Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2286198)

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS10-046 - Critical Vulnerability in Windows Shell Could Allow Remote Code Execution 2286198 Published: August 02, 2010 Version: 1.0 General Information Executive Summary This security update resolves a publicly disclosed vulnerability in Windows Shell. The vulnerabili...

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS10-039 - Important Vulnerabilities in Microsoft SharePoint Could Allow Elevation of Privilege (2028554)

Microsoft Security Bulletin MS10-039 - Important Vulnerabilities in Microsoft SharePoint Could Allow Elevation of Privilege 2028554 Published: June 08, 2010 Version: 1.0 General Information Executive Summary This security update resolves one publicly disclosed and two privately reported...