encfs: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Encfs is an implementation of encrypted filesystem in user-space using FUSE. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in encfs. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact A local attacker can utilize a possible buffer overflow in the...

BSIMM6 Data Shows Poor Health Care Software Security

The folks behind the Building Security in Maturity Model BSIMM, its sixth iteration available today, tout the project as an intersection between science and computer security. “It’s more like a science experiment that escaped the test tube,” said Gary McGraw, chief technology officer of Citigal,...

Hackers Backdooring Cisco WebVPN To Steal Customers’ Passwords

Virtual Private Networks VPNs, which is widely used by many businesses and organisations to provide secure access to their workers, are being abused to pilfer corporate user credentials. Researchers from security firm Volexity discovered a new attack campaign that targets a widely used VPN produc...

IRCCloud: Inadequate input validation on API endpoint leading to self denial of service and increased system load.

Summary A security researcher discovered an API payload that would send invalid data to their own user process, which would repeatedly fail to be handled correctly. This error handling loop prevented further access to their user account. Details The payload was a JSON object containing an empty...

RFPs and Needs Assessments for Higher Education

In this blog post, I will be discussing RFP best practices for Higher Education Institutions. Having worked with higher education organizations for a number of years, Ive noticed some trends that could be useful as you and your department or institution head into another year of projects that may...

Hotel Chain Hilton Worldwide Investigating Potential POS Breach

Hilton Hotels and Resorts is reportedly looking into claims that some of its point-of-sale devices were compromised, some potentially as far back as November 2014. Security blogger Brian Krebs notes that Visa sent alerts to financial institutions warning of a breach from April 21 to July 27, but...

Yahoo Transparency Report Shows Requests for Data Up

Yahoo this week published its transparency report for the first six months of the year and the numbers indicate that government requests for data on its users are up slightly after sharp dropoff for the report covering the last six months of 2014. Yahoo said that it received 5,221 government data...

Core Infrastructure Initiative Open Source Security Badge Program

The Core Infrastructure Initiative CII, a consortium of technology companies guided by The Linux Foundation, has thrown good money at solving the security woes of open source software. Since its inception last year, it has provided funding for the OpenSSL project allowing it to hire full-time hel...

Best Practices to Protect You, Your Network, and Your Information

The National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center NCCIC and its partners responded to a series of data breaches in the public and private sector over the last year, helping organizations through incident response actions, conducting damage assessments, and implementing restoration...

Lynis 2.1.1 - Security Auditing Tool for Unix/Linux Systems

Lynis is an open source security auditing tool. Commonly used by system administrators, security professionals and auditors, to evaluate the security defenses of their Linux/Unix based systems. It runs on the host itself, so it can perform very extensive security scans. Supported operating system...

600TB MongoDB Database 'accidentally' exposed on the Internet

System administrators have reportedly exposed almost 600 Terabytes TB of MongoDB database due to running outdated and unpatched versions of the NoSQL MongoDB database. The open source MongoDB is the most popular NoSQL database used by companies of all sizes, from eBay and Sourceforge to The New...

Bitcoin Cloud Mining Service Hacked; Database On Sale for Just 1 Bitcoin

Bitcoin Cloud Mining service Cloudminr.io has been hacked and its whole users database is on sale for 1 Bitcoin. The unknown hackers have successfully taken full control of the website's server and defaced the homepage of the website. Users visiting the website are greeted with a defaced homepage...

U.S. Government Wades Into Vulnerability Disclosure

Security researchers and software vendors have spent decades trying to work out the process of vulnerability disclosure, with limited success. Now the federal government is joining the fray in hopes of getting the two sides to play nice. The National Telecommunications and Information...

Major Carriers AT&T, Comcast Continue to Lag in EFF Privacy Report

While many companies have made strides when it comes to how they handle transparency and government requests post-Snowden, major telecoms such as AT&T and Verizon continue to lag behind. Despite publishing transparency reports within the last year, the two companies scored the lowest on the...

The Internet Scanner: ZMap

The Internet Scanner: ZMap ZMap is an open-source network scanner that enables researchers to easily perform Internet-wide network studies. With a single machine and a well provisioned network uplink, ZMap is capable of performing a complete scan of the IPv4 address space in under 45 minutes,...

Federal Agencies to Move to HTTPS-Only Connections

Following the lead of many major Web services, the White House on Monday announced that it would move all of the federal government’s public sites and services to HTTPS-only. Tony Scott, the federal CIO, has issued a memorandum to all federal agencies and departments instructing them to move all ...

Innominate mGuard VPN Vulnerability

OVERVIEW Innominate mGuard has self identified a denial-of-service DoS vulnerability in the Innominate mGuard device. Inominate has produced a patch to mitigate this vulnerability. This vulnerability could be exploited remotely. AFFECTED PRODUCTS The following mGuard versions are affected:...

XML External Entity (XXE) Vulnerability

An XML parsing vulnerability exists in PAN-OS allowing a malicious user within PAN-OS to inject malicious XML data into the web-based device management front-end allowing the user to retrieve arbitrary content from the device. The user must be an authenticated user issuing the request. Ref 71273...

Graudit - Find potential security flaws in source code using grep

Graudit is a simple script and signature sets that allows you to find potential security flaws in source code using the GNU utility grep. It's comparable to other static analysis applications like RATS, SWAAT and flaw-finder while keeping the technical requirements to a minimum and being very...

USN-2574-1: OpenJDK 7 vulnerabilities

Several vulnerabilities were discovered in the OpenJDK JRE related to information disclosure, data integrity and availability. An attacker could exploit these to cause a denial of service or expose sensitive data over the network. CVE-2015-0460, CVE-2015-0469 Alexander Cherepanov discovered that...