Department of Energy Compromised in Sophisticated Attack

Hackers targeted and compromised computer networks at United States Department of Energy headquarters in Washington DC two weeks ago, according to a report published by the Washington Free Beacon earlier this morning. DoE officials confirmed the attack and are currently investigating the incident...

Pakistan Domain Registrar PKNIC Hacked

PKNIC, The Pakistan domain registrar of .com.pk, .pk, org.pk and others domains has been reportedly hacked again yesterday. A hackers group named PakBugs has claimed that they have successfully penetrated PKNIC servers and gained control of around 23,000 domains which included some of the most...

Android malware with ability to install Backdoor on Computers

Kaspersky Lab has revealed a new type of malware that can infect your computer when connected smartphone or tablet. Two such application, Super Clean and DroidCleaner found in Google Play android market. These two are actually same application, just released with two different names. These...

Fedora 17 : axis-1.4-19.fc17 (2013-1194)

This update fixes a security vulnerability that caused axis not to verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's Common Name CN or subjectAltName field of the X.509 certificate, which allowed man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via andaarbitrary valid...

Fedora 17 : jakarta-commons-httpclient-3.1-12.fc17 (2013-1189)

This update fixes a security vulnerability that caused jakarta-commons-httpclient not to verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's Common Name CN or subjectAltName field of the X.509 certificate, which allowed man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via...

Fedora 18 : jakarta-commons-httpclient-3.1-12.fc18 (2013-1203)

This update fixes a security vulnerability that caused jakarta-commons-httpclient not to verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's Common Name CN or subjectAltName field of the X.509 certificate, which allowed man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via...

Fedora Update for proftpd FEDORA-2013-0483

Check for the Version of proftpd OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for proftpd FEDORA-2013-0483 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the...

[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: proftpd-1.3.4b-5.fc16

ProFTPD is an enhanced FTP server with a focus toward simplicity, security, and ease of configuration. It features a very Apache-like configuration syntax, and a highly customizable server infrastructure, including support for multiple 'virtual' FTP servers, anonymous FTP, and permission-based...

Multilayer DDoS Attacks Have Reset Stage for Network Attacks

Back in the dark days of dial-up connectivity, attackers wouldn’t bother compromising home computers as bots to be used in distributed denial-of-service. The lack of bandwidth made PCs persona non grata in the DDoS world. Instead, attackers targeted Web servers, the only machines with the...

Fedora Update for rubygem-rack FEDORA-2013-0837

Check for the Version of rubygem-rack OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for rubygem-rack FEDORA-2013-0837 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it...

Dissecting a mobile malware

The capillary diffusion of mobile devices, the lack of security systems on these platforms and low level of awareness on principal cyber threats made them a privileged target for cybercrime. We have assisted in the recent year to an explosion of malware designed to hit principal mobile OSs, in a...

[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: rubygem-rack-1.4.0-3.fc17

Rack provides a common API for connecting web frameworks, web servers and layers of software in between...

[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: rubygem-rack-1.4.0-4.fc18

Rack provides a common API for connecting web frameworks, web servers and layers of software in between...

[SECURITY] Fedora 16 Update: rubygem-rack-1.3.0-3.fc16

Rack provides a common API for connecting web frameworks, web servers and layers of software in between...

SuSE 11.2 Security Update : dhcp (SAT Patch Number 6606)

This update provides dhcp 4.2.4-p1, which fixes the dhcpv6 server crashing while accessing the lease on heap and provides the following additional fixes : - Security fixes : - Previously the server code was relaxed to allow packets with zero length client ids to be processed. Under some situation...

RedHat Update for ipa-client RHSA-2013:0189-01

Check for the Version of ipa-client OpenVAS Vulnerability Test RedHat Update for ipa-client RHSA-2013:0189-01 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under...

Three Charged with Creating, Distributing Gozi Banking Malware

Charges will be brought today in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against three men allegedly involved with creating and distributing the Gozi banking Trojan. Gozi infected more than a million computers worldwide, including a handful at NASA, leading to tens of millio...

ADP-Themed Phishing Emails Lead to Blackhole Sites

Scammers are spamming out malicious emails purporting to come from payroll processing company ADP, according Dancho Danchev of Webroot. The emails arrive under the subject line “ADP Immediate Notifications” and contain links to compromised websites hosting the latest iteration of the Blackhole...

Bank DDoS Attacks Using Compromised Web Servers as Bots

A rash of politically and socially motivated distributed denial-of-service attacks against major U.S. banks has been able to intermittently disrupt online and mobile banking services. The attackers have been able to fire unprecedented amounts of traffic at the likes of Wells Fargo, Bank of Americ...

Cool, BlackHole Exploit Kits Created by Same Hacker

If the relatively cheap, easily available, and totally reliable Blackhole exploit kit is the Toyota Camry of exploit kits, then the Cool exploit kit is the Lexus LS: both kits are reportedly developed by the same crew, but the latter is astronomically more expensive and presumably loaded with...