Mitre Tackles Its Critics: Set To Revamp CVE Vulnerability Reporting

Mitre Corporation will introduce a new pilot program for classifying Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVE in the coming weeks. The move is in response to a backlash in the security community where some critics contend Mitre is failing to keep pace with a massive influx in the number of report...

Happy 13th Birthday TaoSecurity Blog

Today, 8 January 2016, is the 13th birthday of TaoSecurity Blog! This is also my 3,000th blog post. I wrote my first post on 8 January 2003 while working as an incident response consultant for Foundstone. Kevin Mandia was my boss. Today I am starting my third year as Chief Security Strategist at...

KODExplorer Web File Manager Cross Site Scripting

================================================================================ KODExplorer web file manager - Cross Site Scripting ================================================================================ Vendor Homepage: https://github.com/kalcaddle/KODExplorer/ - http://kalcaddle.com/...

Census Project Identifies Open Source Projects at Risk

Heartbleed may have brought on a major case of heartburn last April for system admins worldwide, but a positive offshoot of the biggest of the Internet-wide bugs was that it opened a lot of eyes to the lack of support afforded even ubiquitous open source software projects. Shortly after Heartblee...

Hacking Team attack code analysis Part 1: Flash 0day-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

The recent special offers by attacks techniques for network monitoring hacking company Hacking Team is black, contains the company's email, documents, and the attack Code of 400G data leakage. 360Vulcan Team the first time to obtain the relevant information, and for which exploit code is analyzed...

WordPress Plugin MiwoFTP 1.0.5 - Arbitrary File Download (2)

Exploit Title : WordPress MiwoFTP Plugin 1.0.5 = Arbitrary File Download Exploit Author : Dadou Dz Software Link : Premium Dork Google: inurl:commiwoftp Affected version: 1.0.5 Vendor Homepage: http://miwisoft.com/wordpress-plugins/miwoftp-wordpress-file-managerchangelog Date : 2015-04-20 Tested ...

AppUse - Android Pentest Platform Unified Standalone Environment

AppUse Virtual Machine, developed by AppSec Labs, is a unique and free system, a platform for mobile application security testing in the android environment, and it includes unique custom-made tools. Faster & More Powerful The system is a blessing to security teams, who from now on can easily...

Microsoft Shuts Down Patch Tuesday Advanced Notifications

Microsoft today pulled the plug on its Advanced Notification Service ANS, offering it going forward only to paying Premier customers. ANS preceded the release of Microsoft’s monthly Patch Tuesday security bulletins; on the Thursday prior, Microsoft would provide users via its security website a...

All Seized Domains Returned to No-IP

Less than a week after Microsoft seized nearly two dozen domains owned by a small hosting provider as part of a takedown of a malware operation, all of those domains are back in the control of the provider, No-IP. When Microsoft announced the takedown on June 30, officials said that the company h...

Latest Microsoft Malware Takedown Causes Waves in Security Community

Microsoft’s latest takedown of a malware operation, announced Monday and involving the infrastructure of several malware families, has, like many of the company’s actions, elicited strong opinions on both sides of the issue from security researchers, activists and others with a stake in the game...

eCreo SQL Injection Vulnerability

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outreach project tool <= 1.2.6 - Remote File Inclusion Vulnerability

No description provided by source. Discovered by cr4wl3r \ Indonesian Hacker OPT Outreach Project Tool = 1.2.6 CRMpath Remote File Include Vulnerability Download Script : http://sourceforge.net/projects/outreach Dork : Adhan Handsome :D Vuln : ./OPT1-2-7MAX/opt/forums/ForumInclude/index.php line ...

Pinterest Launches Bug Bounty Program

Pinterest has become the latest major Web property to start a bug bounty program, joining the Bugcrowd platform and offering researchers rewards of up to…a shirt. The site, which enables users to post photos, recipes and other information, announced the new reward program Tuesday. Company officia...

Continuing with Our Community Driven, Customer Focused Approach for EMET

The Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit, best known as EMET, helps raise the bar against attackers gaining access to computer systems. Since the first release of EMET in 2009, our customers and the security community have adopted EMET and provided us with valuable feedback. Feedback both in...

NIST Removes Dual_EC_DRBG Random Number Generator from Recommendations

The National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST has announced to abandon the controversial Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generator, better known as DualECDRBG in the wake of allegations that the National Security Agency. Back in December, Edward Snowden leaks revealed that...

Full Disclosure List Rises From the Ashes For Fresh Start

When the Full Disclosure mailing list closed down last week, many in the security community wondered what, if anything, would fill the void. As it turns out, Full Disclosure will fill that void. John Cartwright, one of the creators of the list, announced on March 19 that he was shutting it down...

Charitable Prelude to Pwn2Own Not Without Its Critics

VANCOUVER – The prelude to the annual Pwn2Own contest between sponsor HP’s Zero Day Initiative and Pwnium contest sponsor Google produced not only zero-day exploits for Internet Explorer and Safari, but some skepticism about whether the exploits and details on the vulnerabilities were held for th...

NTP Amplification DDoS Attacks Increasing

An ever-shrinking number of vulnerable network time protocol NTP servers are being used with customized distributed denial of service DDoS toolkits to perform increasingly potent NTP amplification attacks. According to the DDoS mitigation specialists at Prolexic, who issued a high alert DDoS atta...

Surveillance Transparency Act Would Limit NSA Spying

There have been countless hearings in both the House and Senate since the Snowden leaks began in June, and there seems to be no end in sight. The latest committee to get in on the action was the Senate Committee on the Judiciary’s Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law, which held a...

Yahoo Revamps Bug Bounty Vulnerability Rewards Program

Yahoo has promised to put the finishing touches on a new vulnerability reporting and rewards policy by Halloween after finding itself in the throes of a mini scandal this week over two $12.50 Yahoo company store discount codes handed out to one researcher in thanks for turning in a pair of...