Did A Decade-Long Hack Trigger Nortel's Demise?

A day after it was announced that Canadian telecommunications firm Nortel had been hacked for nearly 10 years, a prominent expert on sophisticated cyber attacks says the lengthy breach may have contributed to the company’s eventual collapse. The loss of intellectual property, coupled with sharper...

2013 Federal Budget Includes Nearly $800M For Cybersecurity

President Obama is asking for $769 million to fund information security initiatives via the Department of Homeland Security in 2013. That amount is nearly twice what DHS asked for last year to fund its cybersecurity work. “The Administration proposes $769 million to support the operations of the...

Ongoing Targeted Attack Campaign Going After Defense, Aerospace Industries

Researchers have identified a strain of malware that’s being used in a string of targeted attacks against defense contractors, government agencies and other organizations by leveraging exploits against zero-day vulnerabilities. The attacks may have been going on since 2009 in some form and the...

CVE-2012-0065

Heap-based buffer overflow in the receivepacket function in libusbmuxd/libusbmuxd.c in usbmuxd 1.0.5 through 1.0.7 allows physically proximate attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long SerialNumber field in a property list...

Know who you're dealing with

The EFF has some advice for interacting with border agents. First: don’t lie to them. This is a punishable crime regardless of whether you are lying to cover something up or not. It is always better to decline answering than it is to give a false answer. Don’t obstruct an Agent’s investigation or...

Buffer overflow

Multiple buffer overflows in the 1 GUIControls, 2 BatchObjSrv, and 3 BatchSecCtrl ActiveX controls in Invensys Wonderware InBatch 9.0 and 9.0 SP1, and InBatch 8.1 SP1, 9.0 SP2, and 9.5 Server and Runtime Clients, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long string in a property...

Microsoft Sues British Electronic Dealer in Alleged Counterfeit Scam

Microsoft announced today it is suing Britain’s second-largest electronics retailer Comet for allegedly creating and selling more than 94,000 back-up discs of its Windows Vista and Windows XP product. Comet Group PLC allegedly produced counterfeit versions of the software in a factory in Hampshir...

CPLC Chief says 'Pakistan a safe heaven for cyber criminals'

CPLC Chief says 'Pakistan a safe heaven for cyber criminals' The cyber crimes of multiple kinds in Pakistan have increased by five times over the past four years. Pakistan Daily Times News today reported that, Citizen Police Liaison Committee CPLC Chief through a letter on Saturday, apprised the...

CVE-2011-3400

Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3 and Server 2003 SP2 do not properly handle OLE objects in memory, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted object in a file, aka "OLE Property Vulnerability."...

CVE-2011-3400

Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3 and Server 2003 SP2 do not properly handle OLE objects in memory, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted object in a file, aka "OLE Property Vulnerability."...

CVE-2011-3400

CVE-2011-3400 is a Windows OLE handling vulnerability affecting XP SP2/SP3 and Windows Server 2003 SP2. The issue stems from improper in-memory handling of OLE objects, allowing remote code execution when a crafted file containing an OLE object is opened. Public references and exploits/documentat...

FreeBSD : chromium -- multiple vulnerabilities (68ac6266-25c3-11e1-b63a-00262d5ed8ee)

Google Chrome Releases reports : 81753 Medium CVE-2011-3903: Out-of-bounds read in regex matching. Credit to David Holloway of the Chromium development community. 95465 Low CVE-2011-3905: Out-of-bounds reads in libxml. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team Inferno. 98809 Medium CVE-2011-3906:...

Microsoft Windows OLE Property CVE-2011-3400 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Description Microsoft Windows is prone to a remote code-execution vulnerability. Attackers can exploit this issue by enticing an unsuspecting user to open a specially crafted file. Successful exploits can allow attackers to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the...

CVE-2011-4349

Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in 1 cd-mapping-db.c and 2 cd-device-db.c in colord before 0.1.15 allow local users to execute arbitrary SQL commands via vectors related to color devices and a device id, b property, or c profile id...

Sql injection

Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in 1 cd-mapping-db.c and 2 cd-device-db.c in colord before 0.1.15 allow local users to execute arbitrary SQL commands via vectors related to color devices and a device id, b property, or c profile id...

CVE-2011-4349

Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in 1 cd-mapping-db.c and 2 cd-device-db.c in colord before 0.1.15 allow local users to execute arbitrary SQL commands via vectors related to color devices and a device id, b property, or c profile id...

CVE-2011-4349

Multiple SQL injection vulnerabilities in 1 cd-mapping-db.c and 2 cd-device-db.c in colord before 0.1.15 allow local users to execute arbitrary SQL commands via vectors related to color devices and a device id, b property, or c profile id...

Symantec Traces Attacks on Chemical Industry To 20 Year Old Chinese Hacker-For-Hire

A report from Symantec Corp. details a roving campaign of intellectual property theft controlled by a 20 year-old hacker for hire that relied on phishing e-mail, some old malware and command and control operations based in China. The company on Tuesday unveiled research on the targeted attacks,...

Oracle Hyperion Financial Management Code Execution

Oracle Hyperion Financial Management TList6 ActiveX Control Remote Code Execution Vulnerability tested against: Internet Explorer 8 Microsoft Windows Server 2003 r2 sp2 download url: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/epm/downloads/index.html files tested: SystemInstaller-11121-win32.zi...

Joomla! Component Vik Real Estate 1.0 - Multiple Vulnerabilities

Joomla! Component Vik Real Estate 1.0 - Multiple Vulnerabilities Vik Real Estate 1.0 Component Joomla Multiple Blind Sql Injection Release Date Bug. 27-Oct-2011 Date Added. 30-Sep-2011 Vendor Notification Date. Never Product. Vik Real Estate Platform. Joomla Affected versions. 1.0 Type. Commercia...