POS Malware Tool "Treasurehunt' Targets Small US-Based Banks, Retailers

As more US companies snuff out point of sale malware by deploying chip-and-PIN bankcard technology, attackers are rushing to exploit existing magnetic strip card systems still vulnerable to malware. A group of hackers that go by the name Bears Inc. are behind the latest barrage of attacks with a...

Report from the PCI SSC North American Community Meeting

The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council held their 2015 North American Community Meeting this year in Vancouver, BC, from September 29 - October 1. Coalfire was well represented at the meeting, with Dan Fritsche, Managing Director, Application Security, making two presentations at th...

How To Use WhatsApp Web Client on iPhone and Other iOS Devices

WhatsApp Web client support is now available for iOS users. That's right, now iOS users can access their instant messaging facility on the web; without taking the other route via jailbreaking. Eight months ago, on January 21, 2015, WhatsApp was made available on web browsers, and let Android,...

What the PCI Council’s Point-to-Point-Encryption (P2PE) Update Means for You

Last week, the PCI Security Standards Council PCI SSC published the updated P2PE v2.0 standard. The Summary of Changes from v1.1 to v2.0, the updated P2PE Glossary and the PIM template are available in the PCI SSC documents library. According to the announcement, the highlights of the new version...

NIST Drops Weak Dual_EC RNG From Official Recommendations

NIST officially has removed the controversial and compromised DualECDRBG from its list of recommended algorithms for generating random numbers. The DualEC random number generator was at the center of a controversy in the security community two years ago after revelations that the National Securit...

Moderate: Red Hat Bug Fix Advisory: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform Bug Fix and Enhancement Advisory

Updated packages that resolve various issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5.0 Icehouse for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform provides the facilities for building a private or public infrastructure-as-a-service IaaS cloud...

IT-Grundschutz M4.015: Gesichertes Login

IT-Grundschutz M4.015: Gesichertes Login Stand: 14. Ergaenzungslieferung 14. EL. Copyright C 2015 Greenbone Networks GmbH 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-or-later This progra...

SEC Consult SA-20150113-0 :: Multiple critical vulnerabilities in all snom desktop IP phones

SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab Security Advisory 20150113-0 ======================================================================= title: Multiple critical vulnerabilities product: snom IP phones vulnerable version: all firmware versions 8.7.5.15, all firmware branches of all snom desktop IP phon...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: wss4j-1.6.17-1.fc20

The Apache WSS4J project provides a Java implementation of the primary security standards for Web Services...

Community Health Systems APT Data Breach Medical Espionage

At first blush, the Community Health Systems data breach by Chinese hackers seems to be an anomaly. State-sponsored attackers generally target intellectual property for the purposes of military or economic gain; stealing healthcare credentials and personal patient records seems incongruous. But...

Mozilla Network Security Services 'p12creat.c'内存破坏漏洞

Bugtraq ID:66366 CVE ID:CVE-2014-1492 NSS实现SSL v2/v3, TLS, PKCS5, PKCS7, PKCS11, PKCS12, S/MIME, X.509v3证书和其他安全标准。 Network Security Services "secpkcs12newasafe"函数security/nss/lib/pkcs12/p12creat.c存在错误，允许攻击者利用漏洞破坏内存，使应用程序崩溃或执行任意代码。 0 Network Security Services NSS 3.x Network Security Services...

The PCI DSS 3.0 SAQs are here!

The Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council PCI SSC released Data Security Standards DSS 3.0 in November 2013 and has just released the related Self-Assessment Questionnaires SAQ. There are two new SAQs, SAQ A-EP and SAQ B-IP...

Institute for Electric Grid Cybersecurity Girds Utilities

Critical infrastructure policymakers are advocating the foundation of a new entity, the Institute for Electric Grid Cybersecurity, along with a new set of guidelines, to better protect the North American electric grid from cyber-attacks and determine how to respond if the grid is ever compromised...

Cisco Systems Cross Site Scripting

. / \ | |/ / / /\ | |\ \ / | \ |/ \ | // / / / Corporation c 2014 CISCO Systems Inc. Security Report ============================================================ Published Report: 19/02/2014 Credits: Advanced Information Security Corporation, USA Severity: High/Critical OWASP TOP 10 CVSS: 7.0...

HVAC Vendor: Data Connection to Target was Billing System

The heating, ventilation and air conditioning contractor linked to the Target breach said its data connection to the giant retailer was “exclusively for electronic billing, contract submission and project management,” the company’s president and owner said yesterday. Ross E. Fazio said in a...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: nss-3.15.3.1-1.fc19

Network Security Services NSS is a set of libraries designed to support cross-platform development of security-enabled client and server applications. Applications built with NSS can support SSL v2 and v3, TLS, PKCS 5, PKCS 7, PKCS 11, PKCS 12, S/MIME, X.509 v3 certificates, and other security...

[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: nss-3.15.3.1-1.fc20

Network Security Services NSS is a set of libraries designed to support cross-platform development of security-enabled client and server applications. Applications built with NSS can support SSL v2 and v3, TLS, PKCS 5, PKCS 7, PKCS 11, PKCS 12, S/MIME, X.509 v3 certificates, and other security...

USN-2028-1: Apache XML Security for Java vulnerability

James Forshaw discovered that Apache XML Security for Java incorrectly validated CanonicalizationMethod parameters. An attacker could use this flaw to spoof XML signatures...

[vFeed & vFeed API] The open source cross-linked local vulnerability database

vFeed is an open source naming scheme concept that provides extra structured detailed 3rd parties references for a CVE entry. While the emergence of the Open Standards helped undeniably to shape a new way to communicate about vulnerabilities1, the new vFeed is adding an intelligent structured xml...

Highlights of Newly Released PCI DSS 3.0 Information

The standards are coming! The PCI SSC has finally let loose with some much needed information regarding the upcoming releases of the PCI DSS 3.0 and PA DSS 3.0 standards. Available on the PCI SSC website; the document titled "Version 3.0 Change Highlights" contains information on what PCI...