Threat Modeling, Legos and Dancing Babies

SAN FRANCISCO–The concept of threat modeling has evolved quite a lot in the last few years, moving from an activity that massive software companies such as Microsoft and Google use to anticipate and defend against potential threats to their products to something that many smaller organizations...

Microsoft EMET 5.0 Technical Preview Released

SAN FRANCISCO – Enterprises beat up by wave after wave of Java exploits and calls to disable the platform may soon have some relief in sight. Microsoft’s free Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit will soon have a new feature that allows users to configure where plug-ins, especially those target...

[Arachni v0.4.6 - Web User Interface v0.4.3] Open Source Web Application Security Scanner Framework

Arachni is a feature-full, modular, high-performance Ruby framework aimed towards helping penetration testers and administrators evaluate the security of web applications. Arachni is smart, it trains itself by learning from the HTTP responses it receives during the audit process. Unlike other...

PT-2013-1026 · Linux +4 · Linux Kernel +4

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Linux kernel versions through 3.11.4 Description: The issue is related to an off-by-one error in the get prng bytes function, which affects the management of the state of consumed data. This makes it easier for attackers to defeat cryptograph...

Moderate: Red Hat Enhancement Advisory: Red Hat Satellite Proxy 5.6.0 General Availability

Red Hat Satellite Proxy 5.6.0 is now available. Red Hat Satellite Proxy provides a package-caching mechanism that reduces the bandwidth requirements for Red Hat Satellite and enables custom package deployment. Red Hat Satellite Proxy customers are able to cache RPM packages, such as are provided ...

Patch Efficiently with Automated Patch Management

You've got to ask yourself one question. How much hassle does patching cause you? Is the second Tuesday of each month something you dread, or is it just another day for you? If you spend days and days testing and deploying patches; if you stay up until the wee hours of the morning one weekend eac...

P2PE Hybrid, the next best thing since the Prius

P2PE promises many things, the most coveted being scope reduction for the merchant and a shifting of the compliance burden from the merchant to the service provider. A properly implemented P2PE solution can indeed reduce the risk of compromise for a merchant as well as reduce the scope of what mu...

An In-Depth Look Into Data Stacking

Mandiant's Nick Bennett and Jake Valletta discussed data stacking at MIRcon™ last month. If you were unable to attend the talk, we will discuss this data analysis technique here on the M-Unition blog. What is Data Stacking? Data stacking is the application of frequency analysis to large volumes o...

Session-timeout not being respected

As per the following KB I made changes that should have seen timeout reduced to 2 minutes. https://confluence.atlassian.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=126910597 in /confluence/WEB-INF/web.xml code 2 code I can't force Confluence to have a session timeout. This issue has been reproduced on first...

CVE-2012-4432

Use-after-free vulnerability in opngreduc.c in OptiPNG Hg and 0.7.x before 0.7.3 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors related to "palette reduction."...

CVE-2012-4432

Use-after-free vulnerability in opngreduc.c in OptiPNG Hg and 0.7.x before 0.7.3 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors related to "palette reduction."...

Design/Logic Flaw

Use-after-free vulnerability in opngreduc.c in OptiPNG Hg and 0.7.x before 0.7.3 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors related to "palette reduction."...

CVE-2012-4432

Use-after-free vulnerability in opngreduc.c in OptiPNG Hg and 0.7.x before 0.7.3 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors related to "palette reduction."...

CVE-2012-4432

CVE-2012-4432 describes a use-after-free vulnerability in the palette reduction code (opngreduc.c) of OptiPNG Hg and 0.7.x prior to 0.7.3. The issue could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code, as indicated by multiple sources mentioning a palette reduction use-after-free vulnerability...

optipng -- use-after-free vulnerability

Secunia reports: A vulnerability has been reported in OptiPNG, which can be exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise a user's system. The vulnerability is caused due to a use-after-free error related to the palette reduction functionality. No further information is currently...

PYSEC-2012-16

PyCrypto before 2.6 does not produce appropriate prime numbers when using an ElGamal scheme to generate a key, which reduces the signature space or public key space and makes it easier for attackers to conduct brute force attacks to obtain the private key...

DoD Program Expanded, Designed to Share Threat Information

The Pentagon on Friday invited a slew of government contractors to meet and share classified information on cyber threats going forward, part of an initiative that the department hopes will reduce the risk of intrusions to government systems. The information sharing model that the Department of...

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS / 10.04 LTS / 10.10 / 11.04 / 11.10 : openssl vulnerabilities (USN-1357-1)

It was discovered that the elliptic curve cryptography ECC subsystem in OpenSSL, when using the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm ECDSA for the ECDHEECDSA cipher suite, did not properly implement curves over binary fields. This could allow an attacker to determine private keys via a timi...

USN-1357-1: OpenSSL vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the elliptic curve cryptography ECC subsystem in OpenSSL, when using the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm ECDSA for the ECDHEECDSA cipher suite, did not properly implement curves over binary fields. This could allow an attacker to determine private keys via a timi...

CVE-2011-4354

crypto/bn/bnnist.c in OpenSSL before 0.9.8h on 32-bit platforms, as used in stunnel and other products, in certain circumstances involving ECDH or ECDHE cipher suites, uses an incorrect modular reduction algorithm in its implementation of the P-256 and P-384 NIST elliptic curves, which allows...