Announcing the new Security Engineering website

To meet users’ expectations for security when using a product or cloud service, security must be an integral part of all aspects of the lifecycle. We all know this, and yet time has proven that this is far easier said than done because there is no single approach nor silver bullet that works in...

Security Bulletin: IBM Cloud Functions is affected by two function runtimevulnerabilities

Summary IBM Cloud Functions has addressed the following vulnerabilities. Users of the IBM Cloud Functions service that are using docker actions https://console.bluemix.net/docs/openwhisk/openwhiskactions.htmlcreating-docker-actions are affected but only if the user's function has a general securi...

Google’s lessons in security: bring together security engineering and incident response

Last week during Google Next conference, we have heard an interesting talk where a google security PM, Andy Chang, explained what Google has learned from preventing, detecting and responding to cyber attacks over the years. Not surprisingly, Google is paying a lot of attention to securing the...

Mozilla Patching Firefox Certificate Pinning Vulnerability

Mozilla is expected tomorrow to patch a critical vulnerability in Firefox’s automated update process for extensions that should put the wraps on a confusing set of twists surrounding this bug. The flaw also affected the Tor Browser and was patched Friday by the Tor Project. The vulnerability firs...

Why a War Studies PhD?

When I begin receiving multiple questions on a topic, it's a signal that I should write a blog post. Several of you have asked me about my experience as a PhD candidate in the King's College London Department of War Studies. In this post I will try to answer your questions by explaining how I got...

Google releases Cloud-based Web App Vulnerability Scanner and Assessment Tool

Google on Thursday unleashed its own free web application vulnerability scanner tool, which the search engine giant calls Google Cloud Security Scanner, that will potentially scan developers' applications for common security vulnerabilities on its cloud platform more effectively. SCANNER ADDRESSE...

Advantech EKI-6340 - Command Injection

Core Security - Corelabs Advisory http://corelabs.coresecurity.com/ Advantech EKI-6340 Command Injection 1. Advisory Information Title: Advantech EKI-6340 Command Injection Advisory ID: CORE-2014-0009 Advisory URL: http://www.coresecurity.com/advisories/advantech-eki-6340-command-injection Date...

Mozilla to Support Key Pinning in Firefox 32

Mozilla is planning to add support for public-key pinning in its Firefox browser in an upcoming version. In version 32, which would be the next stable version of the browser, Firefox will have key pins for a long list of sites, including many of Mozilla’s own sites, all of the sites pinned in...

QQPlayer asx File Processing Buffer Overflow Exploit

No description provided by source. Title: QQPlayer asx File Processing Buffer Overflow Exploit Author: Li Qingshan of Information Security Engineering Center,School of Software and Microelectronics,Peking University Vendor: www.qq.com Platform: Windows XPSP3 Chinese Simplified Test: QQPlayer...

First Phase of TrueCrypt Audit Turns Up No Backdoors

A initial audit of the popular open source encryption software TrueCrypt turned up fewer than a dozen vulnerabilities, none of which so far point toward a backdoor surreptitiously inserted into the codebase. A report on the first phase of the audit was released today by iSEC Partners, which was...

U.S. Adopts Military Tactics for Rising Cyberwar Threats

The increasing threats of cyberwar are keeping U.S. officials busy alongside ongoing wars on terror and drugs. Recent incidents highlight the rising cyberwarfare concerns: Google reported espionage attacks originating from China, mysterious Internet traffic activities related to China, the Stuxne...

QQPlayer - .asx File Processing Buffer Overflow

QQPlayer - .asx File Processing Buffer Overflow Title: QQPlayer asx File Processing Buffer Overflow Exploit Author: Li Qingshan of Information Security Engineering Center,School of Software and Microelectronics,Peking University Vendor: www.qq.com Platform: Windows XPSP3 Chinese Simplified Test:...

QQPlayer Buffer Overflow

Title: QQPlayer asx File Processing Buffer Overflow Exploit Author: Li Qingshan of Information Security Engineering Center,School of Software and Microelectronics,Peking University Vendor: www.qq.com Platform: Windows XPSP3 Chinese Simplified Test: QQPlayer 2.3.696.400 Vulnerable: QQPlayer '''...

QQPlayer asx File Processing Buffer Overflow Exploit

Exploit for windows platform in category local exploits ==================================================== QQPlayer asx File Processing Buffer Overflow Exploit ==================================================== Title: QQPlayer asx File Processing Buffer Overflow Exploit Author: Li Qingshan of...

QQPlayer - '.asx' File Processing Buffer Overflow

Title: QQPlayer asx File Processing Buffer Overflow Exploit Author: Li Qingshan of Information Security Engineering Center,School of Software and Microelectronics,Peking University Vendor: www.qq.com Platform: Windows XPSP3 Chinese Simplified Test: QQPlayer 2.3.696.400 Vulnerable: QQPlayer '''...