Research: Password 'secret question' woefully insecure

In research to be presented at the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy virginia.edu this week, researchers from Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University plan to show that the secret questions used to secure the password-reset functions of a variety of websites are woefully insecure. In a study...

Leadership needed on DNS security

From Arbor Networks Danny McPherson The DNS system is one of the key underpinnings of the Internet, but because the system isn’t owned by any one entity, no one is responsible for the security of the entire network. The owner of each DNS server secures it as he sees fit, but as the discussions at...

Immunity Canvas: WPSYMPOSIUM_RCE

Name| wpsymposiumrce ---|--- CVE| CWE-434 Exploit Pack| CANVAS Description| WP-Symposium RCE Notes| CVE Name: CWE-434 VENDOR: www.wpsymposium.com Notes: WP-Symposium is a social networking plugin for WordPress with 150k downloads as of 12/12/2014. This is an exceptionally straight forward shell...