Windows VSS Writers and Corresponding Service Names

Purpose This article documents VSS Writers and their corresponding Windows services. For more information, reference Microsoft's In-Box VSS Writers article. Solution VSS Writer Name | Service Name | Service Display Name ---|---|--- ASR Writer | VSS | Volume Shadow Copy BITS Writer | BITS |...

DEBIAN-CVE-2014-5117

Tor before 0.2.4.23 and 0.2.5 before 0.2.5.6-alpha maintains a circuit after an inbound RELAYEARLY cell is received by a client, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct traffic-confirmation attacks by using the pattern of RELAY and RELAYEARLY cells as a means of communicating...

Design/Logic Flaw

Tor before 0.2.4.23 and 0.2.5 before 0.2.5.6-alpha maintains a circuit after an inbound RELAYEARLY cell is received by a client, which makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct traffic-confirmation attacks by using the pattern of RELAY and RELAYEARLY cells as a means of communicating...

FreeBSD -- pam_ssh() does not validate service names

Problem Description: Some third-party applications, including KDE's kcheckpass command, allow the user to specify the name of the policy on the command line. Since OpenPAM treats the policy name as a path relative to /etc/pam.d or /usr/local/etc/pam.d, users who are permitted to run such an...

New Malware, JKDDOS, Targets Commodities Investment Firms

Researchers at Arbor Networks say they have discovered unique samples of a new family of malware that is targeting large investmen firms with holdings in the commodities markets, especially the mining industry. The malware, dubbed ‘JKDDOS,’ is used to launch distributed denial of service DDOS...

Conficker Detection

This host seems to be contaminated with infectious Conficker Worm. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2009 Greenbone AG 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-only ifdescription...