Researchers Uncover 'TeamSpy' Attack Campaign Against Government, Research Targets

Researchers have uncovered a long-term cyber-espionage campaign that used a combination of legitimate software packages and commodity malware tools to target a variety of heavy industry, government intelligence agencies and political activists. Known as the TeamSpy crew because of its affinity fo...

The GNU/Linux kernel new features initiator to mention the right vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

SUSE security research members of the Sebastian Krahmer has published the GNU/Linux kernel to mention the right vulnerability, recent GNU/Linux kernel3.8+have introduced a In order to facilitate the container to achieve the new features: user-namespacesuser-ns, CLONENEWUSER flag, this feature...

[SE-2012-01] The "allowed behavior" in Java SE 7 (Issue 54)

Hello All, We decided to release technical details of Issue 54 that was reported to Oracle on Feb 25, 2013 and that was evaluated by the company as the "allowed behavior". As of Mar 18, 2013 we have no information that Oracle treats Issue 54 as a security vulnerability. We believe that 3 weeks fr...

AT&T Hacker Andrew Auernheimer sentenced to 3.5 Years in prison

Self-described troll and Grey hat AT&T Hacker Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer, 26, has been sentenced to 41 months in prison for exploiting an AT&T security hole three years ago, and releasing thousands of iPad owners email addresses. According to authorities, they obtained the ICC-ID and e-mail addres...

Chinese hackers infiltrate Indian Defence Research Organisation

According to an exclusive report published today by DNA news, the computers of highly sensitive Defence Research and Development Organisation DRDO have reportedly been hacked by Chinese hackers as biggest security breach in the Indian Defence ever. Infiltrate leading to the leak of thousands of t...

Slideshow: Scenes from CanSecWest 2013

VIEW SLIDESHOW Scenes from CanSecWest 2013 The CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver last week included technical presentations on bypassing ASLR and DEP and the intricacies of Android research, as well as a fascinating talk on the red team exercises Facebook’s security team runs. We put...

Multiple XSS vulnerabilities in Events Manager WordPress plugin

Advisory ID: HTB23139 Product: Events Manager WordPress plugin Vendor: Marcus Sykes Vulnerable Versions: 5.3.3 and probably prior Tested Version: 5.3.3 Vendor Notification: January 16, 2013 Vendor Patch: January 17, 2013 Public Disclosure: March 6, 2013 Vulnerability Type: Cross-Site Scripting...

Multiple NULL Pointer Dereference Vulnerabilities in Corel Quattro Pro X6

Advisory ID: HTB23112 Product: Corel Quattro Pro X6 Standard Edition Vendor: Corel Corporation Vulnerable Versions: 16.0.0.388, other versions may be also affected Tested Version: 16.0.0.388 on Windows 7 SP1 32 bits Vendor Notification: August 27, 2012 Public Disclosure: March 7, 2013 Vulnerabili...

Corel Quattro Pro X6 Standard Edition NULL Pointer Dereference

Advisory ID: HTB23112 Product: Corel Quattro Pro X6 Standard Edition Vendor: Corel Corporation Vulnerable Versions: 16.0.0.388, other versions may be also affected Tested Version: 16.0.0.388 on Windows 7 SP1 32 bits Vendor Notification: August 27, 2012 Public Disclosure: March 7, 2013 Vulnerabili...

Threats and Market Share Increase for Android, Decrease for Symbian

No real surprise that F-Secure’s fourth quarter threat report further accentuated the all-but-definite-reality that there is a direct correlation between a platform’s market share and the volume of threats targeting it. “As its market share declines,“ F-Secure researchers reasoned, “so does malwa...

Mudge on the CFT

Peiter Zatko, also known as Mudge, has run the DARPA Cyber Fast Track program for the last three years, but he said that the researcher program is ending on April 1. The CFT program funded a wide range of security research projects in its time, including Charlie Miller’s NFC work and Moxie...

WordPress Events Manager 5.3.3 Cross Site Scripting

Advisory ID: HTB23139 Product: Events Manager WordPress plugin Vendor: Marcus Sykes Vulnerable Versions: 5.3.3 and probably prior Tested Version: 5.3.3 Vendor Notification: January 16, 2013 Vendor Patch: January 17, 2013 Public Disclosure: March 6, 2013 Vulnerability Type: Cross-Site Scripting...

Groundbreaking Cyber Fast Track Research Program Ending

VANCOUVER–When Peiter Zatko, the security researcher and pioneering hacker known as Mudge, joined the federal government several years ago to help run a DARPA research program, some in the security industry wondered what effect someone with his background could have in an organization as famously...

VMware Virtual Machine Communication Interface (VMCI) - 'vmci.sys'

/ CVE-2013-1406 exploitation PoC by Artem Shishkin, Positive Research, Positive Technologies, 02-2013 / void stdcall FireShellDWORD dwSomeParam EscalatePrivilegeshProcessToElevate; // Equate the stack and quit the cycle ifndef AMD64 asm pop ebx pop edi push 0xFFFFFFF8 push 0xA010043 endif HANDLE...

VMware Virtual Machine Communication Interface (VMCI) - vmci.sys

VMware Virtual Machine Communication Interface VMCI - vmci.sys / CVE-2013-1406 exploitation PoC by Artem Shishkin, Positive Research, Positive Technologies, 02-2013 / void stdcall FireShellDWORD dwSomeParam EscalatePrivilegeshProcessToElevate; // Equate the stack and quit the cycle ifndef AMD64 a...

MiniDuke Espionage Campaign Began About a Year Earlier Than First Thought

Researchers have found an earlier version of the MiniDuke espionage malware that dates to June 2011 – almost a year ahead of the previously oldest variant designed to spy on NATO, European governments and U.S. research and think tanks. Unlike the cyberspyware discovered last week, this one embedd...

[Onapsis Security Advisory 2013-003] SAP Enterprise Portal Cross-Site-Scripting

Onapsis Security Advisory 2013-003: SAP Enterprise Portal Cross-Site-Scripting This advisory can be downloaded in PDF format from http://www.onapsis.com/. By downloading this advisory from the Onapsis Resource Center, you will gain access to beforehand information on upcoming advisories,...

[Onapsis Security Advisory 2013-004] SAP J2EE Core Service Arbitrary File Access

Onapsis Security Advisory 2013-004: SAP J2EE Core Service Arbitrary File Access This advisory can be downloaded in PDF format from http://www.onapsis.com/. By downloading this advisory from the Onapsis Resource Center, you will gain access to beforehand information on upcoming advisories,...

Costin Raiu on the Intricacies of the miniDuke Malware Campaign

With Dennis Fisher out of pocket at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, Ryan Naraine hijacks the Digital Underground podcast and gets on the phone with Kaspersky Lab research guru Costin Raiu to talk about the intricacies of the miniDuke malware campaign. Download: digitalunderground113 Subscrib...

Study Shows One in Four Who Receive Data Breach Letter Become Fraud Victims

A study released Wednesday shows one in four consumers who receive a data breach letter become the victim of identity fraud. That statistic represented 12.6 million victims last year — one million more than the year before, according to the 2013 Identity Fraud Report released by Javelin Strategy ...