New Fileless Attack Using DNS Queries to Carry Out PowerShell Commands

A unique attack called DNSMessenger uses DNS queries to carry out malicious PowerShell commands on compromised computers, a method that researchers said makes it difficult to detect that a remote access Trojan is being dropped onto targeted systems. According to experts at Cisco’s security resear...

JDK: unspecified vulnerability fixed in 6u141, 7u131, and 8u121 (Deployment)

Vulnerability in the Java SE component of Oracle Java SE subcomponent: Deployment. Supported versions that are affected are Java SE: 6u131, 7u121 and 8u112. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise Java SE...

OpenJDK: URLClassLoader insufficient access control checks (Networking, 8151934)

Vulnerability in the Java SE, Java SE Embedded component of Oracle Java SE subcomponent: Networking. Supported versions that are affected are Java SE: 6u131, 7u121 and 8u112; Java SE Embedded: 8u111. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via multiple...

kio: Information Leak when accessing https when using a malicious PAC file

Albert Astals Cid reports: Using a malicious PAC file, and then using exfiltration methods in the PAC function FindProxyForURL enables the attacker to expose full https URLs. This is a security issue since https URLs may contain sensitive information in the URL authentication part...

[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: quagga-0.99.24.1-5.fc24

Quagga is free software that operates TCP/IP-based routing protocols. It ta kes a multi-server and multi-threaded approach to resolving the current complex ity of the Internet. Quagga supports Babel, BGP4, BGP4+, BGP4-, IS-IS experimental, OSPFv2, OSPFv3, RIPv1, RIPv2, and RIPng. Quagga is intend...

[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: bind-9.10.4-3.P6.fc24

BIND Berkeley Internet Name Domain is an implementation of the DNS Domain Name System protocols. BIND includes a DNS server named, which resolves host names to IP addresses; a resolver library routines for applications to use when interfacing with DNS; and tools for verifying that the DNS server ...

Oracle Java SE and JRockit Remote Vulnerabilities

Oracle Java SE and JRockit are both products of Oracle Corporation. Java SE Java Platform Standard Edition is used for the development and deployment of Java applications on desktops, servers, and embedded devices and real-time environments; JRockit is a Java virtual machine built into Oracle...

Universal Radio Hacker: URH

Universal Radio Hacker investigate wireless protocols like a boss The Universal Radio Hacker is a software for investigating unknown wireless protocols. Features include hardware interfaces for common Software Defined Radios easy demodulation of signals assigning participants to keep overview of...

OpenJDK: URLClassLoader insufficient access control checks (Networking, 8151934)

Vulnerability in the Java SE, Java SE Embedded component of Oracle Java SE subcomponent: Networking. Supported versions that are affected are Java SE: 6u131, 7u121 and 8u112; Java SE Embedded: 8u111. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via multiple...

St. Jude Patches Additional Cardiac Device

St. Jude Medical has patched a vulnerability in another Merlin@home Transmitter medical device vulnerable to a man-in-the-middle attack. The medical device maker issued an update on Monday for its Merlin@home Transmitter “inductive” models, expanding the number of devices impacted by a...

Reverse Engineering Communication Protocols: Netzob

Reverse Engineering Communication Protocols Netzob is an open source tool for reverse engineering, traffic generation and fuzzing of communication protocols. It allows to infer the message format and the state machine of a protocol through passive and active processes. The model can afterward be...

StoreFront Events : the authentication protocols could not be enumerated because there is no challenge process

Issue : Cannot Complete Your Request From External Access Gateway With Event Logs as "the authentication protocols could not be enumerated because there is no challenge process "...

CVE-2017-5341

Multiple out of bounds read and integer overflow vulnerabilities were found in tcpdump affecting the decoding of various protocols. An attacker could create a crafted pcap file or send specially crafted packets to the network segment where tcpdump is running in live capture mode without -w which...

Printing and Marketing Firm Leaks High-Profile Customers' Data

Franchise Services, the parent company of a number of large print and design companies, said it is investigating claims that sensitive customer data stored by one of its franchisees is accessible online. The data dates back to 2010 and ranges from sensitive health records belonging to a former...

SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : java-1_8_0-openjdk (SUSE-SU-2017:0346-1)

This update for java-180-openjdk fixes the following issues: Oracle Critical Patch Update of January 2017 bsc1020905 Upgrade to version jdk8u121 icedtea 3.3.0 : - S8138725: Add options for Javadoc generation - S8140353: Improve signature checking - S8151934, CVE-2017-3231: Resolve class resolutio...

SUSE-SU-2017:0346-1 Security update for java-1_8_0-openjdk

This update for java-180-openjdk fixes the following issues: Oracle Critical Patch Update of January 2017 bsc1020905 Upgrade to version jdk8u121 icedtea 3.3.0: - S8138725: Add options for Javadoc generation - S8140353: Improve signature checking - S8151934, CVE-2017-3231: Resolve class resolution...

Cyber Probe - Capturing, Analysing and Responding to Cyber Attacks

Cyberprobe is a distributed software architecture for monitoring of networks against attack. It consists of two components: cyberprobe, which collects data packets and forwards them over a network in standard streaming protocols; and cybermon which decodes protocols, and invokes user-defined logi...

Many Android VPN Apps Breaking Privacy Promises

An alarming number of Android VPNs are providing a decidedly false sense of security to users, especially those living in areas where communication is censored or technology is crucial to the privacy and physical security. A study published recently identified a number of shortcomings common to...

CVE-2017-3319

Vulnerability in the MySQL Server component of Oracle MySQL subcomponent: Server: X Plugin. Supported versions that are affected are 5.7.16 and earlier. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows low privileged attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise MySQL Server...

CVE-2017-3323

Vulnerability in the MySQL Cluster component of Oracle MySQL subcomponent: Cluster: General. Supported versions that are affected are 7.2.25 and earlier, 7.3.14 and earlier and 7.4.12 and earlier. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via multiple...