Whether you are a large or small business, beware of these 5 common security problems

Every January, the trade press if full of new years resolution-like advice… things to do in the coming year, even Coalfire made a few predictions for 2013. I work at Coalfire Labs, and since our business is IT security and testing, we want to share some advice on how to avoid your systems and...

APT1-Themed Spear Phishing Campaign Linked to China

Researchers at Seculert have discovered a link between spear phishing campaigns targeting Japanese and Chinese journalists, post-Mandiant’s APT1 report, and domains connected to the Aurora attacks on Google and the Shady RAT campaign. In particular, in the attacks against the Japanese, the malwar...

[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: isync-1.0.6-1.fc18

isync is a command line application which synchronizes mailboxes; currently Maildir and IMAP4 mailboxes are supported. New messages, message deletions and flag changes can be propagated both ways. isync is suitable for use in IMAP-disconnected mode...

[Hashkill 0.3.1] Password Cracker Tool Released

Hashkill is an opensource hash cracker for Linux that uses OpenSSL. Currently it supports 4 attack methods dictionary, bruteforce, hybrid. Hashkill has 35 plugins for different types of passwords ranging from simple hashes like MD5 and SHA1 to passworded ZIP files and private SSL key passphrases...

mDNS New Client Detection

Binary data 7075.pasl...

Markey: GRID Act Passage Long Overdue

Representative Ed Markey D-MA is urging the Chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Fred Upton R-MI, to take immediate action toward passing the Grid Reliability and Infrastructure Defense GRID Act, which Markey calls a bipartisan bill aimed at hardening the nation’s electrical gr...

Samsung's new OS Tizen 2.0 source code released

The Tizen 2.0 source code and SDK has officially been released. Tizen is a Linux-based open-source software platform backed by Intel and Samsung Electronics, that is designed for smartphones, tablets, smart TVs and in-car systems and it’s designed to run apps written using web technologies...

Heartland Data Breach Suit Back from the Dead

For all intents and purposes, the Heartland Payment Systems data breach saga ended more than two years ago when the embattled payment processor finalized settlements paying out millions of dollars to various banks, credit card issuers and consumers. That is until a handful of banks reportedly...

Energy Department networks hit by major Cyber Attack

The Computer networks of Energy Department were attacked by unknown hackers in a major cyber attack two weeks ago and personal information on several hundred employees was compromised. The Washington Free Beacon reports that, FBI agents are investigating the attacks and 14 computer servers and 20...

Chinese Hackers hit New York Times and Wall Street Journal

The New York Times says Chinese hackers probably working for the military or Chinese government have carried out sustained attacks on its computer systems, breaking in and stealing the passwords of high-profile reporters and other staff members. For the last four months, Chinese hackers have...

Inside the Targeted Attack on The New York Times

The Chinese group behind the targeted attack on the New York Times was laser focused on accessing the email of a reporter and the newspaper’s former Beijing bureau chief to the point that it used an inordinate number of custom malware samples to get the job done. “In terms of statistics, 45 custo...

China, The New York Times and the Value of Self-Shaming

There aren’t many things that count as surprises anymore in the security industry. And the news today that The New York Times was penetrated by a team of Chinese attackers who apparently had access to large amounts of employee emails for several months certainly doesn’t fall into that category. I...

CVE-2013-0930

Buffer overflow in Drive Control Program DCP in EMC AlphaStor 4.0 before build 814 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving a new device name...

Kaspersky Cyber-Security Summit 2013

Kaspersky Lab convened a number of information security experts in New York City this week to discuss the effects of cyberespionage and targeted attacks on corporate America...

CVE-2013-0930

Buffer overflow in Drive Control Program DCP in EMC AlphaStor 4.0 before build 814 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors involving a new device name...

CVE-2012-6510

Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in NetArt Media Car Portal 3.0 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the 1 PWRS or 2 Description field when posting a new vehicle; 3 news title when creating news; 4 Name when creating a sub user; 5 group name when...

SuSE 10 Security Update : pcp (ZYPP Patch Number 8421)

pcp was updated to version 3.6.10 which fixes security issues and also brings a lot of new features. - Update to pcp-3.6.10. o Transition daemons to run under an unprivileged account. o Fixes for security advisory CVE-2012-5530: tmpfile flaws; bnc782967. o Fix pcp1 command short-form pmlogger...

Ubuntu Update for mysql-5.5 USN-1703-1

Check for the Version of mysql-5.5 OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: gbubuntuUSN17031.nasl 7958 2017-12-01 06:47:47Z santu $ Ubuntu Update for mysql-5.5 USN-1703-1 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 11.10 / 12.04 LTS / 12.10 : mysql-5.1, mysql-5.5, mysql-dfsg-5.1 vulnerabilities (USN-1703-1)

Multiple security issues were discovered in MySQL and this update includes new upstream MySQL versions to fix these issues. MySQL has been updated to 5.1.67 in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and Ubuntu 11.10. Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Ubuntu 12.10 have been updated to MySQL 5.5.29. In addition to security fixes, th...

Fedora 18 : sleuthkit-4.0.1-1.fc18 (2013-0320)

New Features: More DOS partition types are displayed. Added fcat tool that takes in file name and exports content equivalent to using ifind and icat together. performance improvements with FAT code maps and diradd performance improvements with NTFS code maps added AONLY flag to blockwalk Updated...