CVE-2013-1957

The clonemnt function in fs/namespace.c in the Linux kernel before 3.8.6 does not properly restrict changes to the MNTREADONLY flag, which allows local users to bypass an intended read-only property of a filesystem by leveraging a separate mount namespace...

CVE-2013-1957

The clonemnt function in fs/namespace.c in the Linux kernel before 3.8.6 does not properly restrict changes to the MNTREADONLY flag, which allows local users to bypass an intended read-only property of a filesystem by leveraging a separate mount namespace...

Malware More Globally Distributed, Still Made in China

In an attempt to better evade detection, cybercriminals are increasingly configuring their command and control infrastructure in such a way that initial malware callbacks communicate with a server located in the same country as the newly infected machines. This emerging trend is among the vast an...

Verizon DBIR 2013 Quantifies Cyberespionage Attacks

Targeted cyberespionage attacks have dominated discussions within the security community and outside of it from the mainstream media to the halls of the executive and legislative branches of government. But until now, discussions about attacks stemming from China that target intellectual property...

Flightgear 2.0/2.4 - Remote Format String

/ Exploit Title: Flightgear remote format string Date: 21/04/2013 Exploit Author: Kurono email: [email protected] Vendor Homepage: http://www.flightgear.org/ Software Link: http://www.flightgear.org/download/ Version: Tested on versions 2.0, 2.4. Tested on: Windows Linux user assisted CVE...

Flightgear 2.02.4 - Remote Format String

Flightgear 2.02.4 - Remote Format String / Exploit Title: Flightgear remote format string Date: 21/04/2013 Exploit Author: Kurono email: [email protected] Vendor Homepage: http://www.flightgear.org/ Software Link: http://www.flightgear.org/download/ Version: Tested on versions 2.0, 2.4...

Buffer overflow

Multiple buffer overflows in ActUWzd.dll 1.0.0.1 in Mitsubishi MX Component 3, as distributed in Citect CitectFacilities 7.10 and CitectScada 7.10r1, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long string, as demonstrated by a long WzTitle property value to a certain ActiveX control...

Cross-site scripting (XSS) using timed history navigations — Mozilla

Security researcher Mariusz Mlynski reported a method to use browser navigations through history to load an arbitrary website with that page's baseURI property pointing to another site instead of the seemingly loaded one. The user will continue to see the incorrect site in the addressbar of the...

SynConnect Pms - index.php?loginid SQL Injection

SynConnect Pms - index.php?loginid SQL Injection Title: ==== SynConnect - SQL Injection vulnerability Credit: ====== Name: Bhadresh Patel Company/affiliation: Cyberoam Technologies Private Limited Website: www.cyberoam.com CVE: ===== Date: ==== 01-03-2013 CRD: ==== CRD-2013-01 Vendor: ======...

SynConnect PMS - SQL Injection Vulnerability

Exploit for php platform in category web applications Synchroweb Technology is a provider of application software, hardware and other innovative enterprise technology. They strive in development, deployment, and management of Linux and open source solutions for Internet infrastructure ranging fro...

Tallinn Manual Interprets International Law in Cyberwar Context

When nations eventually adopt ground rules for conflict in cyberspace as they apply in an actual kinetic war, the Tallinn Manual on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Warfare, is likely to be their key reference material in doing so. The Tallinn Manual, officially released late last week, ...

Experts Tell Congress Serious Deterrence Needed to Impede Foreign Cyber Attacks

The House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats typically is more concerned with economics and political issues than cyber attacks, but the members spent this morning in a hearing trying to come up with an answer to a fairly straightforward, but thorny question: Wh...

OpenJDK: loadPropertyFile missing restrictions (JAXP, 8001235)

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment JRE component in Oracle Java SE 7 through Update 11, 6 through Update 38, 5.0 through Update 38, and 1.4.240 and earlier, and OpenJDK 6 and 7, allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality via vectors related to JAXP. NOTE: the previou...

OpenJDK: loadPropertyFile missing restrictions (JAXP, 8001235)

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment JRE component in Oracle Java SE 7 through Update 11, 6 through Update 38, 5.0 through Update 38, and 1.4.240 and earlier, and OpenJDK 6 and 7, allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality via vectors related to JAXP. NOTE: the previou...

OpenJDK: loadPropertyFile missing restrictions (JAXP, 8001235)

Unspecified vulnerability in the Java Runtime Environment JRE component in Oracle Java SE 7 through Update 11, 6 through Update 38, 5.0 through Update 38, and 1.4.240 and earlier, and OpenJDK 6 and 7, allows remote attackers to affect confidentiality via vectors related to JAXP. NOTE: the previou...

APT1-Themed Spear Phishing Campaign Linked to China

Researchers at Seculert have discovered a link between spear phishing campaigns targeting Japanese and Chinese journalists, post-Mandiant’s APT1 report, and domains connected to the Aurora attacks on Google and the Shady RAT campaign. In particular, in the attacks against the Japanese, the malwar...

U.K. Internet service providers ordered to block three filesharing websites

The UK High Court has ordered BSkyB, BT, Virgin Media and three other UK broadband providers to block access to three music and movie file-sharing websites Kickass Torrents, H33T and Fenopy. Judge Richard Arnold said that these websites infringed 10 music companies copyrights on an industrial...

UPDATE: Ongoing Malicious Cyber Activity Against U.S. Government and Private Sector Entities

UPDATE: The United States Department of Homeland Security, in collaboration with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other partners, has released a second Joint Indicator Bulletin JIB through secure channels. Confirmed members of the cybersecurity community of practice, which may include...

Malware attack on Apple employees by hackers who targeted Facebook

The same ring of hackers that are responsible for hacking into at least 40 companies including Facebook and Twitter are reportedly also infected the computers of some Apple employees, the company acknowledged Tuesday. The purpose of hack considered an effort to steal company secrets, research and...

Mandiant revealed Chinese APT1 Cyber Espionage campaign

Few weeks after the discovery of the sophisticated cyber espionage campaign against principal US media The Mandiant® Intelligence Center™ released an shocking report that reveals an enterprise-scale computer espionage campaign dubbed APT1. The term APT1 is referred to one of the numerous cyber...