The vulnerability of the ntpd implementation of the Network Time Synchronization Protocol allows a attacker to cause a service failure.

The vulnerability of the ntpd implementation of the Network Time Synchronization protocol is related to insufficient control over the amount of network messages transmitted. Exploiting this vulnerability allows a malicious actor to cause service failures by sending specially crafted REQMONGETLIST...

Scientific Linux Security Update : glibc on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20150421)

A buffer overflow flaw was found in the way glibc's gethostbynamer and other related functions computed the size of a buffer when passed a misaligned buffer as input. An attacker able to make an application call any of these functions with a misaligned buffer could use this flaw to crash the...

[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: jenkins-1.606-1.fc22

Jenkins is an award-winning application that monitors executions of repeated jobs, such as building a software project or jobs run by cron. Among those things, current Jenkins focuses on the following two jobs: - building/testing software projects continuously. In a nutshell, Jenkins provides an...

glibc, nscd security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2015:0863 Updated glibc packages that fix two security issues and one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base...

Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: glibc security and bug fix update

Updated glibc packages that fix two security issues and one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: tcpdump-4.5.1-4.fc20

Tcpdump is a command-line tool for monitoring network traffic. Tcpdump can capture and display the packet headers on a particular network interface or on all interfaces. Tcpdump can display all of the packet headers, or just the ones that match particular criteria. Install tcpdump if you need a...

[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: jenkins-1.590-3.fc21

Jenkins is an award-winning application that monitors executions of repeated jobs, such as building a software project or jobs run by cron. Among those things, current Jenkins focuses on the following two jobs: - building/testing software projects continuously. In a nutshell, Jenkins provides an...

CVE-2015-0700

Cross-site request forgery CSRF vulnerability in the Dashboard page in the monitoring-and-report section in Cisco Secure Access Control Server Solution Engine before 5.50.46.5 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users, aka Bug ID CSCuj62924...

Cross site request forgery (csrf)

Cross-site request forgery CSRF vulnerability in the Dashboard page in the monitoring-and-report section in Cisco Secure Access Control Server Solution Engine before 5.50.46.5 allows remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users, aka Bug ID CSCuj62924...

USB Defense: Stop Data Walking Out The Door

The bad news is that internal data breaches are on the rise. And one of the biggest culprits? USB devices. In the past few years, there has been many organizations tracking down the loss of sensitive/confidential information due to the usage of USB drives and other mass storage media...

Android IMSI-Catcher Detector: AIMSICD

AIMSICD is an app to detect IMSI-Catchers . IMSI-Catchers are false mobile towers base stations acting between the target mobile phones and the real towers of service providers. As such they are considered a Man-In-The-Middle MITM attack. In the USA the IMSI-Catcher technology is known under the...

Cisco Secure Access Control Server Dashboard Page Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the Dashboard page in the monitoring and report section of Cisco Secure Access Control Server could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to perform a cross-site request forgery CSRF attack. The vulnerability is due to the improper generation and validation of the CSRF toke...

DigiCert Offers Continuous Monitoring of Digital Certificates to Defeat Fraud

It’s an interesting time for certificate authorities. On the one hand, interest has never been higher in Web encryption, privacy and transport security, thanks to Edward Snowden. But on the other hand, the last few years has seen a steady stream of compromises of CAs, mis-issued certificates and...

Open-Source Host-Based Intrusion Detection System: OSSEC

OSSEC is a platform to monitor and control your systems. It mixes together all the aspects of HIDS host-based intrusion detection, log monitoring, and Security Incident Management SIM/Security Information and Event Management SIEM together in a simple, powerful, and open source solution. Key...

Vulnerability Forces Mozilla to Disable Opportunistic Encryption in Firefox

Less than a week after introducing the new opportunistic encryption feature in Firefox, Mozilla has had to disable it because of a security vulnerability in the browser’s implementation of the HTTP Alternative Services specification. The bug puts a kink in the new feature, which was designed to...

Cisco IOS XE Common Flow Table DoS

The Cisco IOS XE software running on the remote device is affected by a denial of service vulnerability in the Common Flow Table CFT feature due to improper processing of IPv6 packets encapsulated inside IPv4 UDP packets. An unauthenticated, remote attacker, using malformed packets, can exploit...

Little Change in Online Behavior Following Snowden Revelations

Some 30 percent of American adults say they have altered their digital behavior in the wake of Edward Snowden’s NSA spying revelations in order to hide information from the government. In Spring 2013, Snowden, a then NSA contractor working for Booz Allen Hamilton, remotely accessed the NSA’s Ft...

[SECURITY] Fedora 22 Update: tcpdump-4.7.3-1.fc22

Tcpdump is a command-line tool for monitoring network traffic. Tcpdump can capture and display the packet headers on a particular network interface or on all interfaces. Tcpdump can display all of the packet headers, or just the ones that match particular criteria. Install tcpdump if you need a...

Satellite-Based Monitoring Constitutes a Fourth Amendment Search

The Supreme Court has weighed in on a series of lower court decisions, issuing a summary opinion that satellite-based monitoring is in fact a Fourth Amendment search. What remains to be decided is whether GPS-based tracking constitutes an unreasonable search and is thus a violation of the Fourth...

[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: tcpdump-4.7.3-1.fc21

Tcpdump is a command-line tool for monitoring network traffic. Tcpdump can capture and display the packet headers on a particular network interface or on all interfaces. Tcpdump can display all of the packet headers, or just the ones that match particular criteria. Install tcpdump if you need a...