OpenJDK: insufficient hardening of RSA-CRT implementation (JCE, 8071726)

It was found that the RSA implementation in the JCE component in OpenJDK did not follow recommended practices for implementing RSA signatures...

Dyre Wolf Banking Malware Stole More Than $1 Million

Security researchers have uncovered an active cyber attack campaign that has successfully stolen more than $1 Million from a variety of targeted enterprise organizations using spear phishing emails, malware and social engineering tricks. The campaign, dubbed "The Dyre Wolf" by researchers from...

Desert Falcons: First Arabic Cyberespionage Operation Uncovered

CANCUN, Mexico — A Middle Eastern cyberespionage gang is capitalizing on subpar security practices in the region to backdoor a mix of business, political and military targets. Dubbed Desert Falcons, the gang is thought to be the first Arabic APT operation, according to researchers at Kaspersky La...

Microsoft Publishes Information Sharing Framework

Microsoft earlier this week published a 25-page framework offering guidance on how to effectively share information and what kinds of information need to be shared in order to reduce overall risk. Information sharing has been an oft-repeated refrain in security and policy-making circles for the...

Fortinet FortiOS Denial Of Service / Man-In-The-Middle

, , . '.' '. ', . , '. , .', , / / / \ \ ==/ /\ \ / / \ / \ / / | \ \ Y Y \ / /| / \ /||| / / /.-. / /:wq x.0 '=.|w|.=' =''"''=. presents.. Fortinet FortiOS Multiple Vulnerabilities Affected Versions: Verified on FortiOS Firmware v5.0,build4457 GA Patch 7 PDF:...

Moonpig API Vulnerability Exposes Payment Card Data

Moonpig, a U.K.-based company that sells personalized greeting cards, mugs, t-shirts and other novelties, has been taken to the woodshed for poor security practices by a researcher who claims it’s simple to pilfer user and payment card data through a wonky mobile app API. The company this morning...

Symantec Web Gateway OS Authenticated Command Injection

SUMMARY Symantec's Web Gateway SWG Appliance management console is susceptible to operating system command injection by an authenticated but less-privileged user. AFFECTED PRODUCTS Product | Version | Solution ---|---|--- Symantec Web Gateway Appliance | 5.2.1 and prior | Symantec Web Gateway 5.2...

FTC Shutters $120 Million Tech Support, Bogus Software Scam

Earlier this week a federal court in Florida issued a temporary restraining order shutting down a series of organizations in the business of peddling fake software and nonexistent tech support services, temporarily freezing the assets of those companies’ and placing them under the control of a...

Automakers Move to Address Privacy Concerns

Several automakers have agreed on a set of privacy principles that they say will govern the way that they handle personal information generated by vehicles, geolocation data and other sensitive information that is being produced by in-car computers and networks. The principles are the result of...

Samsung Insists Find My Mobile Service Safe

Samsung this week tried to quell recent reports that its Find My Mobile service is vulnerable to hacking, firing back at NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology who warned last month that the feature could be exploited. In a blog post on the company’s global blog Tuesday, Samsung...

BMC Track-It! - Multiple Vulnerabilities

No description provided by source. Multiple critical vulnerabilities in BMC Track-It! Discovered by Pedro Ribeiro [email protected], Agile Information Security ================================================================================= The application exposes several .NET remoting services o...

Microsoft Internet Explorer CVE-2014-4109 Remote Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Description Microsoft Internet Explorer is prone to a remote memory-corruption vulnerability. Attackers can exploit this issue by enticing an unsuspecting user to view a specially crafted webpage. Attackers can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code in the context of the currently logged-in...

AlienVault Releases Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) Best Practices

Network security practitioners rely heavily on intrusion detection systems IDS to identify malicious activity on their networks by examining network traffic in real time. IDS are available in Network NIDS and Host HIDS forms, as well as for Wireless WIDS. Host IDS is installed via an agent on the...

Keeping your restaurant & hospitality Cardholder Data Environment safe

Reports of new credit card data breaches seem to be in the news daily. Recent high profile breaches within major retailers this year should serve as a wake-up call to the restaurant and hospitality industries. As a result of having high volumes of credit card transactions and decentralized securi...

Symantec Endpoint Protection Local Client Application Device Control Buffer Overflow

SUMMARY Symantec is aware of a local access Symantec Endpoint Protection SEP client buffer overflow exploit that has been released publicly which could potentially cause a BSOD on the client or possibly allow unauthorized local privilege elevation on Symantec Endpoint Protection SEP clients...

Harnessing the Power of an Android Cluster for Security Research

When the topic of mobile security comes up, users and researchers often discuss Android as if it’s one monolithic operating system like iOS is. But the fact is that there are nearly as many versions of Android as there are Android devices, which has led to plenty of confusion when it’s time to fi...

Privacy Badger Extension Blocks Tracking Through Social Icons

Online tracking has been a thorny problem for years, and as Web security companies, browser vendors and users have become more aware of the problem and smarter about how to defend themselves, ad companies and trackers have responded in kind. The advent of social networks has made it far easier fo...

[security bulletin] HPSBST03039 rev.1 - HP StoreVirtual 4000 Storage and StoreVirtual VSA, Remote Disclosure of Information, Elevation of Privilege

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Note: the current version of the following document is available here: https://h20564.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/ docDisplay?docId=emrna-c04281279 SUPPORT COMMUNICATION - SECURITY BULLETIN Document ID: c04281279 Version: 1 HPSBST03039 rev....

LibreSSL Portable Fork Of OpenSSL Released

After months of code cleanup and rewriting, the OpenBSD Foundation this weekend sent LibreSSL out the door. The slimmed down OpenSSL fork works on a number of platforms beyond OpenBSD, including several Linux flavors, Solaris, Mac OS X and Free BSD. “I firmly believe that LibreSSL is in a better...

Sophos Products - Multiple Vulnerabilities

No description provided by source. List, I've completed the second paper in my series analyzing Sophos Antivirus internals, titled Practical Attacks against Sophos Antivirus. As the name suggests, this paper describes realistic attacks against networks using Sophos products. The paper includes a...