Key Flaw Enables Recovery of Files Encrypted by TorrentLocker

Crypto ransomware, a relatively unknown phenomenon a couple of years ago, has exploded into one of the nastier malware problems for Internet users. Variants such as CryptoLocker and CryptoWall have been siphoning money from victims for some time, and now researchers have dissected a newer variant...

Software defense: mitigating common exploitation techniques

In our previous posts in this series, we described various mitigation improvements that attempt to prevent the exploitation of specific classes of memory safety vulnerabilities such as those that involve stack corruption, heap corruption, and unsafe list management and reference count...

Going Back to the Future in the Name of Better Security

NEW YORK–If Bill Cheswick had his way, the future of computing and computer security would look a lot like the distant past, with trusted platforms, small programs, applications that can’t affect the operating system and resistance to user mistakes. Cheswick, a former Bell Labs computer scientist...

Software Defense: mitigating heap corruption vulnerabilities

Heap corruption vulnerabilities are the most common type of vulnerability that Microsoft addresses through security updates today. These vulnerabilities typically occur as a result of programming mistakes that make it possible to write beyond the bounds of a heap buffer a spatial issue or to plac...

SDCMS background to bypass directly into the,A not common design mistakes case study-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Brief description: SDCMS background to bypass directly into the: test version 2. 0 beta2 other versions not tested Detailed description: Islogin //determine login method sub islogin if sdcms. strlenadminid=0 or sdcms. strlenadminname=0 then dim t0,t1,t2 t0=sdcms. getintsdcms. loadcookie"adminid",...

Thinking About Software Security Holistically

While assessing software systems of all types a few common mistakes regularly come up. These aren’t mistakes that lead directly to vulnerabilities, but mistakes in how some software companies think about security, that can lead to invalid assumptions, and ultimately which can allow real security...

Costin Raiu on Duqu, Stuxnet and Targeted Attacks

Dennis Fisher talks with malware researcher Costin Raiu about the investigation into Duqu, the likelihood that it was written by the same team as Stuxnet, whether a government is behind its development and what mistakes the authors made. Podcast audio courtesy of sykboy65 Subscribe to the Digital...

RIM Exec Says Blackberry Service Wasn't Hacked…Really!

Research in Motion CTO David Yach said that the rolling service outages that its Blackberry mobile phone system has experienced in the last few days wasn’t due to a security compromise, but to an unsuccessful fail over following a core switch failure in Europe. “I know there’s often speculation i...

Fake IRS Spam Campaign Pushing Zeus Bot

There is a large scale spam campaign underway right now in which attackers are using fairly well-crafted emails that appear to come from the IRS to infect victims with the Zeus bot. The attack has been ongoing for a couple of weeks now, and researchers say that although the attackers have taken...

Common Security Mistakes Can Lead to Major Compromises

SAN FRANCISCO–Security is hard and getting it right all the time is nearly impossible. But many of the mistakes that people make are simple, avoidable ones that can lead to serious intrusions and major network compromises. “Maintaining network defenses by hand is difficult,” Mike Lloyd, chief...

Stuxnet Authors Made Several Basic Errors

ARLINGTON, VA–There is a growing sentiment among security researchers that the programmers behind the Stuxnet attack may not have been the super-elite cadre of developers that they’ve been mythologized to be in the media. In fact, some experts say that Stuxnet could well have been far more...

Google Releases Web App Security Course

Google has released a new online training course for Web application developers designed to teach them how to avoid common programming mistakes that lead to vulnerabilities such as cross-site scripting, cross-site request forgery and others. The course, which is part of the company’s Google Code...

The Story of the First Internet Worm

Robert Tappan Morris was the first person convicted by a jury under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986. The story of the worm he created and what happened to him after it was released is a tale of mistakes, infamy, and ultimately the financial and professional success of its author. Read th...

Beware these telecommuting security mistakes

By Joan Goodchild, CSO Whether it is employees who travel frequently for their job or staff that work out of a home office full or part-time, their mobility poses serious security risks to your organization. Here are the common mistakes employees often make csoonline.com while telecommuting some...

inetmedia.txt

Description: ============ Multiple XSS and SQL injection vulnerabilities were found in Inetmedia's web services cityinfo.pl and cityaz.de, which my be exploited by attackers to gain confidential information and/or modify datebase. These flaws are due to PHP programming mistakes in:...

UUCP - File CreationOverwriting Symlinks

UUCP - File CreationOverwriting Symlinks / root exploit: multiple subsystem errors allowing root exploit bashack.c - Thu Nov 30 21:50:50 NZDT 2000 redhat 6.1 /etc/rc.d/ and scripts that are trusting the untrustworthy. /bin/sh acts silly when u get it to use the include define FNAME...