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Protecting Critical Infrastructure: Input Data
Kaspersky Lab is always working to develop new technologies for protecting critical computer systems from cybercriminals. In July, I had the opportunity to represent Kaspersky at a symposium sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST, focused on the national Cybersecurit...
Obehotel CMS SQL Injection Vulnerability
Obehotel CMS suffers from denial of service, insecure transit, directory listing, and remote SQL injection vulnerabilities. OBEHOTEL Spanish CMS Blind SQLinjection / Apache httpd Remote Denial of Service / Directory Listing / Insecure transition from HTTPS to HTTP in form post I-VULNERABILITY...
Pakistan Army site and Facebook pages compromised by Indian hacker Godzilla
Pakistan Army site pakistanarmy.gov.pk and Three Facebook pages hacked by an Indian hacker 'Godzilla'. Hacker told 'The Hacker News' that, using a CMS vulnerability they got access into the Pakistan army website using credentials i.e. Username: magadmin password: $%modern! . Then they left a...
ICS, SCADA Attacks Targeted and Disruptive
Honeypots and honeynets have long been used as enticements to lure hackers into a false network in order to study attacks. While long a favorite of many high-end enterprises and security researchers studying attacks against traditional IT infrastructures, a number of industrial control system...
U.S. Department of Defense Officials are potential target of cyber espionage via social networking sites
In the recent months I had the opportunity to conduct an interesting study on the use of Social Media in the Military Sector, large diffusion of media platforms makes them very attractive for governments and intelligence agencies. Social media platforms reveal enormous potentiality that could be...
Researchers uncovered new malware used by Chinese cyber criminals
Trend Micro researchers have uncovered a new backdoor pieces of malware from the Winnti family, which are mainly used by a Chinese cyber criminal group to target South East Asian organizations from the video gaming sector. Winnti malware used by hackers to hijack control of web users systems usin...
Fraud-as-a-Service of Zeus Malware advertised on social network
Cyber crime enterprise is showing a growing interest in monetization of botnets, the most targeted sector in recent months is banking. One of most active malware that still menaces Banking sector is the popular Zeus. Zeus is one of the oldest, it is active since 2007, and most prolific malware th...
CMS Cameron McKenna 2013 Cross Site Scripting Vunlerability
CMS Cameron McKenna 2013 suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability. The vendor has been notified of this issue. Note that this advisory has site-specific information. Product: CMS Cameron McKenna Web:http://www.cms-cmck.com Versions: CMS 2013 Date: 25/04/2013 Vendor Notified: 24/04 - 25/0...
Shortage of Skilled People Could Hamper Military's Offensive Security Capabilities
MIAMI BEACH–The U.S. military has been attempting to build up the offensive cybersecurity capabilities in its various services for several years now, but is running into the same obstacles and challenges that private sector firms in the same space are: a shortage of skilled workers and not enough...
Alstom Grid S1 Agile Improper Authorization
OVERVIEW This advisory provides mitigation details for a vulnerability affecting the Alstom Grid MiCOM S1 Agile and S1 Studio Software. Note: Alstom Grid MiCOM S1 Studio Software is its own software suite. A user could have MiCOM S1 Studio Software from a different vendor. This advisory only...
Experts Tell Congress Serious Deterrence Needed to Impede Foreign Cyber Attacks
The House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats typically is more concerned with economics and political issues than cyber attacks, but the members spent this morning in a hearing trying to come up with an answer to a fairly straightforward, but thorny question: Wh...
Obama Cybersecurity Executive Order Expected Tomorrow
This week figures to be a high-profile time for cybersecurity on Capitol Hill. Reports say President Barack Obama will issue a long-awaited executive order shortly after tonight’s State of the Union address, while another stab at getting the controversial CISPA cybersecurity bill signed into law...
Galil RIO-47100 Improper Input Validation
Overview This advisory provides mitigation details for a vulnerability affecting the Galil RIO-47100 “Pocket PLC.” Researcher Jon Christmas of Solera Networks has identified an improper validation vulnerability in the Galil RIO-47100 PLC, which can result in a loss of availability. Galil has...
Senate Introduces Cybersecurity Bill that Prioritizes Information Sharing
The United States Senate says it will prioritize the passage of a comprehensive cybersecurity bill designed to fortify the nation’s public and private IT systems in this session of Congress. Senators John D. Rockefeller IV D-WV, Chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation...
University of Michigan Health Systems Admits Patient Data Stolen
UPDATE – Some 4,000 University of Michigan Health Systems patients had their medical data compromised last month when a vendor’s laptop containing medication log files was stolen from a vehicle. That medication management provider, Mountain View, Calif.-based Omnicell, admits it violated both its...
Lenovo Hui shields 5. x password leak-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net
Lenovo Hui shields Lenovo's hard drive protection system 5. x is the Beijing Sea of light the company cooperation to launch the product in the school room can often be seen. Due to product design flaws, allowing any user in the hard disk protection system to enable state read administrator...
Squiz CMS 11654 File Path Traversal Vulnerability
Exploit for php platform in category web applications ======= Summary ======= Name: Squiz CMS - File Path Traversal Release Date: 30 November 2012 Reference: NGS00330 Discoverer: Robert Ray Vendor: Squiz Vendor Reference: 11846 Systems Affected: Squiz CMS V11654 Risk: High Status: Published...
A Sample Security Agenda for Obama's Second Term
When Barack Obama was sworn in four years ago for his first term, there was genuine optimism that he would make meaningful improvements to the security of the nation’s critical infrastructure as well as the policies that govern security and privacy in the private sector. After the Bush...
Capitol Hill Rhetoric Takes Aim at Wrong Cybersecurity Targets
Defense secretary Leon Panetta couldn’t resist, could he? He couldn’t fight the urge to dig deep into the information security cliché handbook and yank out that old chestnut about a Cyber Pearl Harbor. Seriously, is there a more cringe-inducing, FUD-filled phrase than Cyber Pearl Harbor? Never mi...
