Of Night Dragons and Silver Bullets

Reading the headlines today one could not help but notice the latest installment of “scary Chinese hacker press” making the headlines. And who can blame the news media for latching on to this story as it has all the right ingredients: foreign governments targeting U.S. interests, catchy nicknames...

Buffer overflow

Buffer overflow in nLDAP.exe in IBM Lotus Domino allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long string in an LDAP Bind operation, aka SPR KLYH87LMVX...

CVE-2011-0917

Buffer overflow in nLDAP.exe in IBM Lotus Domino allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long string in an LDAP Bind operation, aka SPR KLYH87LMVX...

President Ali Abdullah Saleh website hacked !

Yemen has denied that the website of President Ali Abdullah Saleh—the ambition of anti-government protests—was brought bottomward by hackers this accomplished week, its official account bureau said. "An official in the admiral of advice and advice technology denied letters claiming that the websi...

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 10.10 : linux, linux-ec2 vulnerabilities (USN-1054-1)

Gleb Napatov discovered that KVM did not correctly check certain privileged operations. A local attacker with access to a guest kernel could exploit this to crash the host system, leading to a denial of service. CVE-2010-0435 Dan Rosenberg discovered that the Linux kernel TIPC implementation...

CVE-2011-0635

Static code injection vulnerability in Simploo CMS 1.7.1 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to inject arbitrary PHP code into config/custom/base.ini.php via the ftpserver parameter FTP-Server field to the sicore/updates/optionssav operation for index.php...

CVE-2011-0635

CVE-2011-0635 affects Simploo CMS 1.7.1 and earlier. The vulnerability is a static code injection flaw where remote authenticated users can inject arbitrary PHP into config/custom/base.ini.php via the ftpserver parameter (FTP-Server field) to the sicore/updates/optionssav operation of index.php. ...

U.S. Needs Cybersecurity Skunk Works, Expert Says

ARLINGTON, VA–In order to address the fundamental questions surrounding the concept of cyberwar and what it might mean for both the government and the enterprise, the United States should develop a skunk works-type think tank comprising highly skilled private-sector security experts as well as...

New York Times: Stuxnet A Joint US-Israeli Operation

Details of the Stuxnet worm’s origins and functioning have been seeping into the media, tidbit by intriguing tidbit, since last Summer, when news of the worm went mainstream. But a new exclusive from the New York Times breaks the Stuxnet story wide open, confirming oft-cited theories that it was ...

kernel: missing tty ops write function presence check in hci_uart_tty_open()

The hciuartttyopen function in the HCI UART driver drivers/bluetooth/hcildisc.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.36, and possibly other versions, does not verify whether the tty has a write operation, which allows local users to cause a denial of service NULL pointer dereference via vectors related to the...

kernel: panic when submitting certain 0-length I/O requests

The blkrqmapuseriov function in block/blk-map.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service panic via a zero-length I/O request in a device ioctl to a SCSI device...

kernel: CAN minor heap overflow

Heap-based buffer overflow in the bcmconnect function in net/can/bcm.c aka the Broadcast Manager in the Controller Area Network CAN implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36.2 on 64-bit platforms might allow local users to cause a denial of service memory corruption via a connect operation...

'Anonymous' Hacktivists Attack African Government Sites !

"Anonymous," the shadowy hacktivist group that's attacked PayPal, the record industry and the Church of Scientology, has upped the ante: It's now taking on entire countries. The group launched massive distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks on at least eight Tunisian government websites...

FBI raids ISP in Anonymous DDoS investigation !

Authorities in the U.S. and Germany have raided Internet Service Providers in hopes of tracking down the hackers who launched distributed denial of service DDoS attacks against Web sites such as Visa.com, PayPal.com, and Mastercard.com earlier this month. In documents posted Wednesday to the...

'BitTorrent' exploit could be used to stage massive cyber attacks !

With the Federal Bureau of Investigations FBI treating successful cyber attacks by "Operation Payback" as criminal offenses, a new level of ambiguity is being introduced into the enforcement of cyber crime laws. The FBI was treating efforts by "Anonymous" and "4chan" as an "unauthorized and knowi...

4chan back online after being downed by DDoS attacks !

A coordinated DDoS attack from an unknown source temporarily knocked 4chan offline in the latest attack against the high-profile group. The 4chan forum helped to create and cultivate the Anonymous hacker group that has used DDoS attacks against numerous companies in recent months as part of...

CVE-2010-3874

Heap-based buffer overflow in the bcmconnect function in net/can/bcm.c aka the Broadcast Manager in the Controller Area Network CAN implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36.2 on 64-bit platforms might allow local users to cause a denial of service memory corruption via a connect operation...

CVE-2010-3874

Heap-based buffer overflow in the bcmconnect function in net/can/bcm.c aka the Broadcast Manager in the Controller Area Network CAN implementation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36.2 on 64-bit platforms might allow local users to cause a denial of service memory corruption via a connect operation...

Linux Kernel 2.6.37-rc2 - ACPI custom_method Local Privilege Escalation

Linux Kernel 2.6.37-rc2 - ACPI custommethod Local Privilege Escalation / american-sign-language.c Linux Kernel http://jon.oberheide.org Information: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-4347 This custommethod file allows to inject custom ACPI methods into the ACPI interpreter...

CVE-2009-5033

IBM Lotus Notes Traveler before 8.5.0.2 does not properly handle a " " argument sequence for a certain tell command, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain access to other users' data via a sync operation, related to storage of the data of multiple users within the same thread...