[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: nagios-3.5.0-5.fc18

Nagios is a program that will monitor hosts and services on your network. It has the ability to send email or page alerts when a problem arises and when a problem is resolved. Nagios is written in C and is designed to run under Linux and some other NIX variants as a background process,...

Heart of Blue Gold – Announcing New Bounty Programs

Our Philosophy At the heart of our community outreach programs, we’ve always had the same philosophy: help increase the win-win between Microsoft’s customers and the security research community. We have evolved and deepened our relationships with this community since the earliest days of...

New Bounty Program Details

Today we announced the upcoming Mitigation Bypass Bounty, the BlueHat Bonus for Defense, and the Internet Explorer 11 Preview Bug Bounty program. It’s very exciting to finally take the wraps off of these initiatives and we are anticipating some great submissions from the security research...

Announcing the Microsoft Bounty Programs

Over the years, weve put a lot of work into helping secure the computing ecosystem and limiting the number of issues in our products. The security researcher community is critical to these efforts, as they help us find vulnerabilities in our software that we may have missed. Now were taking it ev...

Fedora Update for ktimer FEDORA-2013-10182

Check for the Version of ktimer OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for ktimer FEDORA-2013-10182 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the ter...

[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: ktimer-4.10.4-1.fc17

KTimer is a little tool to execute programs after some time...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: community-mysql-5.5.31-7.fc19

MySQL is a multi-user, multi-threaded SQL database server. MySQL is a client/server implementation consisting of a server daemon mysqld and many different client programs and libraries. The base package contains the standard MySQL client programs and generic MySQL files...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: libguestfs-1.22.2-1.fc19

Libguestfs is a library for accessing and modifying guest disk images. Amongst the things this is good for: making batch configuration changes to guests, getting disk used/free statistics see also: virt-df, migrating between virtualization systems see also: virt-p2v, performing partial backups,...

Fedora Update for ktimer FEDORA-2013-10130

Check for the Version of ktimer OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for ktimer FEDORA-2013-10130 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the ter...

Edward Snowden, whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance Program leak

The individual responsible for one of the most significant leaks in US political history is Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old former technical assistant for the CIA and current employee of the defence contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. He's a high school dropout who worked his way into the most secretiv...

Most Sophisticated Android malware ever detected

A new piece of sophisticated Android malware has been discovered by security researchers at Kaspersky Labs. Dubbed as Backdoor.AndroidOS.Obad.a, it is the most sophisticated piece of Android malware ever seen. It exploits multiple vulnerabilities, blocks uninstall attempts, attempts to gain root...

Clappers Says NSA Programs Fully Authorized and Necessary

The top U.S. intelligence official addressed the recent revelations about the National Security Agency’s covert cell-phone and email data collection surveillance programs on Thursday, saying that the programs have been ongoing for years, are fully authorized under U.S. law and that the leaks...

CVE-2013-0136

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in the EditDocument servlet in the Frontend in Mutiny before 5.0-1.11 allow remote authenticated users to upload and execute arbitrary programs, read arbitrary files, or cause a denial of service file deletion or renaming via 1 the uploadPath parameter...

Directory traversal

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in the EditDocument servlet in the Frontend in Mutiny before 5.0-1.11 allow remote authenticated users to upload and execute arbitrary programs, read arbitrary files, or cause a denial of service file deletion or renaming via 1 the uploadPath parameter...

CVE-2013-0136

Mutiny Mutiny Frontend EditDocument servlet contains directory traversal weaknesses disclosed for the Mutiny 5 appliance. The vulnerability allows authenticated users to perform operations (UPLOAD, DELETE, CUT, COPY) via injected parameters (uploadPath, paths[], newPath) to read arbitrary files, ...

Google pays $31,336 bounty to hacker for reporting critical vulnerabilities in Chrome

Google has fixed a series of serious vulnerabilities in its Chrome OS, including three high-risk bugs that could be used for code execution on vulnerable machines. Bug bounties is the cash prizes offered by open source communities to anyone who finds key software bugs have been steadily on the ri...

Code injection

The SaveToFile method in a certain ActiveX control in TrendDisplay.dll in Canary Labs TrendLink 9.0.2.27051 and earlier does not properly restrict the creation of files, which allows remote attackers to download an arbitrary program onto a client machine, and execute this program, via a crafted w...

Study Shows Google Better than Bing at Filtering Malicious Web Sites

A German security company spent 18 months analyzing malware among millions of Web sites ranked by the world’s most popular search engines and concluded Google was safer than Bing. More than half of the 40 million Web sites analyzed by the AV-Test Institute in Magdeburg, Germany were provided...

[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: postgresql-9.1.9-1.fc17

PostgreSQL is an advanced Object-Relational database management system DBM S. The base postgresql package contains the client programs that you'll need to access a PostgreSQL DBMS server, as well as HTML documentation for the whole system. These client programs can be located on the same machine ...

[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: postgresql-9.2.4-1.fc18

PostgreSQL is an advanced Object-Relational database management system DBM S. The base postgresql package contains the client programs that you'll need to access a PostgreSQL DBMS server, as well as HTML documentation for the whole system. These client programs can be located on the same machine ...