Ten Reasons The Diginotar Breach Will Be Bigger Than Stuxnet

by Roel Schouwenberg Editor’s note: This story was reposted from Securelist.com. In an almost unprecedented event the Dutch minister of internal affairs gave a press conference at 1:15 AM Friday to Saturday night. He announced the Dutch government was revoking trust in Diginotar. Diginotar...

Audit Report Shows Many Cracks in DigiNotar Security

A new report on the security of DigiNotar paints an ugly picture of the certificate authority’s safeguards and network infrastructure, showing that the company had all of its CA servers on one Windows domain and likely failed to separate the critical components on its network, making it easy for...

Comodo Hacker Claims Credit for DigiNotar Attack

The same attacker who claimed to have compromised Comodo in March is now claiming responsibility for the attack on DigiNotar, the Dutch certificate authority that issued fraudulent certificates for several hundred domains in he last few weeks, including Google, Yahoo, Mozilla Add-Ons and several...

Hacked WordPress Blogs Used to Poison Google Image Search

A researcher has found evidence of thousands of compromised WordPress blogs that are being used to insert malicious images into Google search results. The report, from the unmaskparasites.com blog, may be evidence of the after affects of a widespread attack on WordPress blogs reported last week, ...

IBM to Unveil Secure Open Wireless System at Black Hat

LAS VEGAS–Researchers from IBM’s ISS X-Force plan to unveil a new system for running an open wireless network in a secure mode at the Black Hat conference here this week. The system mimics the way that Web sites browsers use digital certificates to establish a trusted connection with one another...

Get Your New Video Codecs–and Scareware

Scareware gangs have been using pretty much the same tactics since the dawn of time. Or at least since 2005. They compromise Web sites, use them as jumping off points for pop-up boxes that aim to terrify the citizenry into thinking their PCs are infected and downloading fake security software. Bu...

Google Search Now Displaying Warning About Malware Infections

Google is taking the unusual step of displaying a message at the top of its search results pages for some users, alerting them to the fact that their computers may be infected with malware. The action is the result of an investigation in which the search giant discovered that some malware-infecte...

Buckshot Yankee

Then-U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense William J. Lynn III called it “the most significant breach of U.S. military computers ever” and “a network administrator’s worst fear” when, in 2008, a silently operating, rogue program infiltrated classified U.S. military networks. The infection began at a...

Scareware Takedown By FBI, Int'l Authorities Results in Two Arrests

The FBI has made a major dent in the huge scareware and rogue antivirus problem that has been plaguing Internet users for years now, arresting two people and seizing dozens of computers, servers and bank accounts as part of a large-scale coordinated operation in twelve countries. The operation,...

Fedora 13 : xorg-x11-server-utils-7.4-17.fc13 (2011-4879)

Fix CVE-2011-0465 root hole with rogue hostnames via xrdb Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional...

Anonymous Takes Down U.S. Chamber Of Commerce for PROTECT IP Act

Anonymous Takes Down U.S. Chamber Of Commerce for PROTECT IP Act Anonymous collective launches DDoS attack against the business lobbying group over it's support for the legislation to fight online infringement that many fear will great expand the govt's ability to filter the Internet. Anonymous...

Report: Google May Face $500m Fine Over Rogue Pharma Ads

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that search giant Google is close to reaching a settlement with the U.S. Justice Department over an investigation of the company’s policy of running ads from online pharmacies that operate outside U.S. borders and in violation of U.S. law. Google has not made ...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-2217-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

openSUSE Security Update : dhcpcd (openSUSE-SU-2011:0342-1)

This update fixes the following security issue : A rogue DHCP server could instruct clients to use a host name that contains shell meta characters. Since many scripts in the system do not expect unusal characters in the system's host name the DHCP client needs to sanitize the host name offered by...

openSUSE Security Update : dhcpcd (openSUSE-SU-2011:0385-1)

This update fixes the following security issue : A rogue DHCP server could instruct clients to use a host name that contains shell meta characters. Since many scripts in the system do not expect unusal characters in the system's host name the DHCP client needs to sanitize the host name offered by...

openSUSE Security Update : dhcp (openSUSE-SU-2011:0320-1)

A rogue dhcp server could instruct clients to use a host name that contains shell meta characters. Since many scripts in the system do not expect unusal characters in the system's host name the dhcp client needs to sanitize the host name offered by the server CVE-2011-0997. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C...

SuSE9 Security Update : dhcp6 (YOU Patch Number 12697)

A rogue DHCP server could instruct clients to use a host name that contains shell meta characters. Since many scripts in the system do not expect unusal characters in the system's host name the DHCP client needs to sanitize the host name offered by the server. CVE-2011-0996 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C...

Report: Vishing Attack Targets Skype Users

Skype users are being targeted in an ongoing voice-phishing, or “vishing,” attack, according to a report by ZDNet’s Zero Day blog. Skype users reported receiving a pre-recorded call informing them that their computer had been infected with malware. In order to remove this malware users are advise...

SuSE 10 Security Update : dhcp6 (ZYPP Patch Number 7464)

A rogue DHCP server could instruct clients to use a host name that contains shell meta characters. Since many scripts in the system do not expect unusal characters in the system's host name the DHCP client needs to sanitize the host name offered by the server. CVE-2011-0997 %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C...

SuSE 11.1 Security Update : dhcpcd (SAT Patch Number 4389)

A rogue DHCP server could instruct clients to use a host name that contains shell meta characters. Since many scripts in the system do not expect unusal characters in the system's host name the DHCP client needs to sanitize the host name offered by the server. CVE-2011-0996 Note this update is...