Realistic Risk Assessment Key to Security Management

PUNTA CANA – Although it may not be the most thrilling part of a security team’s job, the idea of operational risk assessment and management is perhaps the most important aspect of organizational security. Steve Adegbite, senior vice president in charge of enterprise information security program...

Siemens WinCC 7.0 SP3 Multiple Vulnerabilities

Overview This advisory provides mitigation details for vulnerabilities that impact the Siemens SIMATIC WinCC. Positive Technologies and Siemens ProductCERT have identified multiple vulnerabilities in the Siemens SIMATIC WinCC, which is used to configure SIMATIC operator devices. Siemens has...

Oracle Java SE CVE-2013-5838 Remote Security Vulnerability

Description Oracle Java SE is prone to a remote security vulnerability. The vulnerability can be exploited over multiple protocols. This issue affects the 'Libraries' sub-component. This vulnerability affects the following supported versions: Java SE 7u25, Java SE Embedded 7u25 Technologies...

User Authentication Vulnerability in Operational Management Function of Cosminexus

Overview The operational management function of Cosminexus does not properly require authentication for manipulation of an operational management portal, which allows remote attackers to delete and replace applications which other users attached. Impact A remote attacker could delete and replace...

FreeBSD Servers Compromised; Third-Party Software Packages Could be Impacted

FreeBSD is warning users of the open source UNIX-like operating system about a compromise of a pair of servers used to build third-party software. The organization said attackers had sufficient access to affect third-party packages distributed by the project and suggests that any software install...

Cross site scripting

Microsoft Internet Information Services IIS 7.5 uses weak permissions for the Operational log, which allows local users to discover credentials by reading this file, aka "Password Disclosure Vulnerability."...

[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: bcfg2-1.2.3-1.fc17

Bcfg2 helps system administrators produce a consistent, reproducible, and verifiable description of their environment, and offers visualization and reporting tools to aid in day-to-day administrative tasks. It is the fifth generation of configuration management tools developed in the Mathematics...

Mozilla Proposes Change to Handling of Subordinate CA Certificates

Mozilla is considering a change to the way that it handles certificates issued by externally operated sub-CAs in an effort to gain more control of how these CAs issue certificates and what those certificates can do. The proposal would involve some new controls to help verify that certificates are...

Comodo Hacker Claims Credit for DigiNotar Attack

The same attacker who claimed to have compromised Comodo in March is now claiming responsibility for the attack on DigiNotar, the Dutch certificate authority that issued fraudulent certificates for several hundred domains in he last few weeks, including Google, Yahoo, Mozilla Add-Ons and several...

The Next Security Scandal Will Be An Attack on High Frequency Trading Systems

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission voted on Tuesday to impose new rules to help oversee what experts warn is a burgeoning and little understood shadow market of ultra high-speed, computer based trading. But one security expert warns that new reporting rules are only part of the problem...

DOD Launches New Cyber Strategy Website

DOD Launches New Cyber Strategy Website The Department of Defense today launched a new website to highlight DoD's first unified strategy for cyberspace announced on July 14. The website is a tool to help explain and consolidate DoD's cybersecurity accomplishments and new way forward for military,...

DOD Launches New Cyber Strategy Website

DOD Launches New Cyber Strategy Website The Department of Defense today launched a new website to highlight DoD's first unified strategy for cyberspace announced on July 14. The website is a tool to help explain and consolidate DoD's cybersecurity accomplishments and new way forward for military,...

Extreme Exploits : Advanced Defenses Against Hardcore Hacks Ebook Download !

Extreme Exploits : Advanced Defenses Against Hardcore Hacks Ebook Download ! This cutting-edge volume takes network security professionals to the next level in protecting networks and web sites. Never-before-published advanced security techniques and concise explanations of core Internet...

Watcher 1.4.1 - latest version download

"Watcher is a runtime passive-analysis tool for HTTP-based Web applications. Being passive means it won't damage production systems, it's completely safe to use in Cloud computing, shared hosting, and dedicated hosting environments. Watcher detects Web-application security issues as well as...

Security Firms Scramble For SCADA Talent After Stuxnet

Three months after the world first learned of the sophisticated Stuxnet worm, insiders say that there’s a scramble to find and hire engineers with knowledge of both security and the industrial control systems that were Stuxnet’s intended target. Anti virus companies admit their research teams wer...

Inspector General Finds Vulns at US-CERT

A scan of IT systems at US-CERT, the Homeland Security Department’s primary operational cybersecurity agency, found hundreds of vulnerabilities that could allow someone to compromise data, according to a recent inspector general’s report. Read the full article. Government Computer News...

FBI Identifies Top 10 Jobs in Cybercrime

Criminal hacker organizations are operating with increasing corporate-life efficiency, specialization and expertise, said the FBI at FOSE conference. Here are the top ten operational positions in a cybercrime group. Read the full article. Computerworld...

PHP Live! Support v3.1 Multiple Remote File Include

No description provided by source. 籡 Author : Don Tukulesto [email protected] 籡 Date : November 23, 2009 籡 Homepage : http://www.indonesiancoder.com 籡 Method : Remote File Inclusion 籡 Location : INDONESIA 籡 Vendor : http://www.phplivesupport.com/ 籡 Describe : PHP Live! Support v3.1 c by OS...

Infrastructure attacks: A growing concern

In an essay published on his personal blog doxpara.com, security researcher Dan Kaminsky is starting to sound the alarm about “the extraordinary damage” we face from infrastructure attacks, warning that the industry needs to treat infrastructure with more security due diligence and care. “Forget...

[SECURITY] Fedora 7 Update: gallery2-2.2.4-3.fc7

The base Gallery 2 installation - the equivalent of upstream's -minimal package. This package requires a database to be operational. Acceptable database backends include MySQL v 3.x, MySQL v 4.x, PostgreSQL v 7.x, PostgreSQL v 8.x, Oracle 9i, Oracle 10g, DB2, and MS SQL Server. All given package...