New Linux OS REMnux Designed For Reverse Engineering Malware

A security expert has released a stripped-down Ubuntu distribution designed specifically for reverse-engineering malware. The OS, called REMnux, includes a slew of popular malware-analysis, network monitoring and memory forensics tools the comprise a very powerful environment for taking apart...

SSH Brute Force Attacks Resurface

Security experts are warning about a fresh round of attacks against SSH implementations. The attacks are brute-force attempts to authenticate to remote SSH servers, a tactic that has been used quite often in the past in distributed attacks. The attacks, which the handlers at the SANS Internet Sto...

Palo Alto Network Vulnerability - Cross-Site Scripting

Palo Alto Network Vulnerability - Cross-Site Scripting Palo Alto Network Vulnerability - Cross-Site Scripting XSS ------------------------------ Class: Cross-Site Scripting XSS Vulnerability CVE: CVE-2010-0475 Remote: Yes Local: Yes Published: May 11, 2010 08:30AM Timeline:Submission to MITRE:...

Palo Alto Network Vulnerability - Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

Class: Cross-Site Scripting XSS Vulnerability CVE: CVE-2010-0475 Remote: Yes Local: Yes Published: May 11, 2010 08:30AM Timeline:Submission to MITRE: 1/18/2010 Vendor Contact: 2/18/2010 Vendor Response: 2/18/2010 Patch Available: 5/2010 Patched in maintenance releases 3.1.1 & 3.0.9 Credit: Jeromi...

Introduction to Malware Analysis

In this video, Lenny Zeltser, a SANS instructor, outlines the basic concepts of reverse engineering malware, describing the process of analyzing the code and the behavior of the malware...

Top 20 'Critical Controls' from SANS Institute

The SANS Institute has released critical security controls for cyber defense agreed to by a consortium of agencies including: “NSA, US Cert, DoD, DoD JTF-GNO, the Department of Energy Nuclear Laboratories, Department of State, DoD Cyber Crime Center plus the top commercial forensics experts and p...

SugarCRM x<5.5.0a and 5.2.0l cross site scripting Vulnerability

Exploit for unknown platform in category web applications =============================================================== SugarCRM x ;...

Microsoft Windows GP Trap Handler Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Microsoft Windows operating system is prone to a privilege escalation vulnerability. This VT has been deprecated and replaced by the VT with the OID: 1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.900740. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2010 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and ar...

WordPress Installations Under Brute-Force Attack

There is an ongoing attack against some WordPress implementations that is trying to brute-force the passwords for the administrator accounts on the installations. The attack is being driven by an automated PHP script that tries thousands of possible passwords. The SANS Internet Storm Center has...

Adobe Ships 29 Patches for Reader and Acrobat

On the same day that Microsoft unleashed a torrent of 34 patches on its customer base, Adobe on Tuesday published patches for 29 vulnerabilities in its Acrobat and Reader products as part of its new quarterly patch release program. The Adobe vulnerabilities patched yesterday include a remote...

Security Pros Are Focused on the Wrong Threats

From The New York Times Riva Richmond Corporate information technology departments are prioritizing the wrong threats to their computer systems, focusing on old problems and leaving their companies open to a raft of new cyberattacks targeting sensitive customer and corporate information. That is...

Windows WINS Attacks In The Wild

The “critical” WINS vulnerability that Microsoft issued a patch for last week is now being exploited actively in the wild, according to the SANS Institute sans.org. The Internet Storm Center ISC, which is operated by SANS, is receiving preliminary reports that hackers are targeting Microsoft’s WI...

WordPress Hit by Password-Reset Vulnerability

Researchers are sounding the alarm for a serious administrator password-reset vulnerability affecting the latest version of WordPress, the popular open-source blog publishing platform. The flaw, which can be exploited via the browser, gives an attacker a trivial way to compromise the admin accoun...

UPDATED: Mass Attacks Exploiting 0-Day in Microsoft Video DLL

There is a widespread attack underway against an unpatched vulnerability in the Msvidctl DLL, with attackers using thousands of newly compromised Web sites to exploit victims’ PCs via drive-by downloads. The attacks are using Internet Explorer as the attack vector and are pushing a Trojan...

Mitigating the Slowloris HTTP DoS Attack

Enterprise IT security staffs looking for some mitigation for the newly released HTTP DoS tool may have a few options. The analysts at the SANS Internet Storm Center are recommending that organizations running Web servers that are vulnerable to the tool’s attack make some basic configuration...

Serious new flaw found in IIS 6.0

A new remotely-exploitable vulnerability has been found in the Microsoft IIS 6.0 Web server. The flaw is quite similar to one that was discovered eight years ago in earlier versions of IIS, and exploitation of the weakness could enable an attacker to upload content to the vulnerable server. The...

[SECURITY] Fedora 9 Update: nessus-core-2.2.11-1.fc9

Nessus is the world's most popular vulnerability scanner used in over 75,000 organizations world-wide. Many of the world's largest organizations are realizing significant cost savings by using Nessus to audit business-critic al enterprise devices and applications. The "Nessus" Project was started...

imap-uw -- imap c-client buffer overflow

SANS reports: The University of Washington IMAP library is a library implementing the IMAP mail protocol. University of Washington IMAP is exposed to a buffer overflow issue that occurs due to a boundary error within the rfc822outputchar function in the c-client library. The University of...

DFLabs PTK <= 1.0 Local Command Execution Vulnerability

Exploit for unknown platform in category web applications ======================================================= DFLabs PTK = 1.0 Local Command Execution Vulnerability ======================================================= ==================================================== Security Research...

DFLabs PTK 1.0 - Local Command Execution

==================================================== Security Research Advisory Vulnerability name: DFLabs PTK Local Command Execution Vulnerability Advisory number: LC-2008-07 Advisory URL: http://www.ikkisoft.com ==================================================== 1 Affected Software DFLabs PT...