USPS Spam Campaign Drops Asprox Botnet Malware

A new spam campaign has emerged in support of the Asprox botnet. The scheme involves shipping receipt emails that contain malicious links and purport to come from the United States Postal Service USPS. Anyone who receives one of these emails and clicks on the link therein will have a zip file...

Threatpost News Wrap, May 23, 2014

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso discuss the US indictments of Chinese army officers for hacking, the Blackshades malware arrests, the new IE 8 zero day and the US prospects in the World Cup. Download: digitalunderground154.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...

May 2014 Apple Safari Browser Security Patches

Apple released an update to Safari yesterday patching 22 vulnerabilities in the WebKit browser engine that allow code execution or a browser crash. Safari 7.0.4 is available for OS X Mavericks 10.9 and Safari 6.1.4 for OS X Mountain Lion 10.8. The vulnerabilities could be exploited if the user wa...

VUPEN Discloses Details of Patched Firefox Pwn2Own Zero-Days

Contestants at this year’s Pwn2Own contest made no bones about it: they were going after browsers and as it turned out, Firefox had the biggest target on its back. Mozilla’s popular browser was popped four times during the Canadian hacker festival accounting for a quarter of the $800,000-plus in...

Threatpost News Wrap, May 9, 2014

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso discuss the major news stories of the last couple of weeks, including the proposal in TLS 1.3 to drop RSA key transport, the Snapchat FTC settlement and the end of Windows XP support. And no Heartbleed talk! Download: digitalunderground153.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalve...

Matthew Green on the NSA and Crypto Backdoors

Dennis Fisher talks with Matthew Green of Johns Hopkins University about the paper he co-authored on the Extended Random extension for Dual EC DRBG and whether it could be considered a backdoor. Download: digitalunderground149.mp3...

ICS Vulnerabilities Afffect Critical Infrastructure Security

Industrial control systems manufacturer, Siemens, has released new versions of its SIMATIC S7-1200 CPU family, resolving six security vulnerabilities in that product, and its SIMATIC S7-1200 PLC programmable logic controller, resolving an addition two vulnerabilities there. These patches are...

Ransomware Scam Plagued by Weak Crypto

A new piece of ransomware that emerged earlier this month is encrypting its victim’s files with an easily breakable cryptographic algorithm. BitCrypt, as it is known, purports to lock down files with 1024-bit RSA encryption but actually only deploys a much weaker 426-bit key. According to...

Zero Day Vulnerability Patched in SCADA HMI Software

Malaysian SCADA software company Ecava released a patch yesterday for a zero-day vulnerability in its flagship human machine interface HMI that was publicly disclosed at a conference this week. The patch repairs a buffer overflow vulnerability in the company’s IntegraXor Web-based HMI software. H...

Brian Donohue on the NSA Panel Report

Dennis Fisher talks with Brian Donohue, Threatpost’s Washington, D.C. writer, about the new report from the NSA reform panel and whether any of the recommended changes will ever be implemented...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso Discuss Truecrypt, iMessage Security and More

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso discuss the big stories of the last couple of weeks, including the grassroots effort to audit the TrueCrypt source code, the Apple iMessage security model and Yahoo enabling SSL by default. Download: digitalunderground129.mp3...

Ryan Naraine on Virus Bulletin 2013, Zero Days and Cyberwarfare

Dennis Fisher talks with Ryan Naraine about the news from the Virus Bulletin 2013 conference, whether the use of zero days is overrated and the collateral damage that can result from cyberwarfare attacks. Download: digitalunderground128.mp3...

Matthew Green on Crypto Advances, the BREACH Attack and Whether the Longevity of the RSA Algorithm

Dennis Fisher talks with Matthew Green of Johns Hopkins University about the crypto advances in recent years, the BREACH attack revealed at Black Hat and whether it’s time to start moving away from the RSA algorithm. Download: digitalunderground121 Subscribe to the Digital Underground podcast on...

Oracle's Java Security Plans Don't Address Sandbox Flaws

For all of Oracle’s bluster last Thursday about Java security enhancements, next to nothing was said about the real issue behind months of misery this year: the Java sandbox. Oracle broke its radio silence late last week with an out-of-the-blue blogpost full of promises about getting Java right...

How To: Chrome Browser Privacy Settings

youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY9hbsfEbaw The Web browser is the primary portal through which the vast majority of connected users access and interact with the Internet. Each browser has its own security and privacy settings and those settings have an enormous impact on the nature of the...

Research Outlines New Deep Freeze Data Recovery Technique on Android Phone

Hackers and data recovery specialists alike could soon be turning to a new technique that under the right conditions can allow for the harvesting of personal information from phones, even after they’ve been frozen. A group of German researchers from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg have...

Ryan Naraine on the Security Analyst Summit 2013

Dennis Fisher talks with Ryan Naraine, the founding editor of Threatpost, about the Security Analyst Summit in San Juan, the reason why so many talks at security conferences sound the same and why surprise talks are so valuable. Download: digitalunderground111 Podcast audio courtesy of sykboy65...

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More VMware ESX Source Code Posted Online

For the third time this year, VMware ESX source code has been posted online. A hacker known as Stun claiming to be affiliated with Anonymous tweeted a link to a torrent site hosting the stolen VMkernel source code. VMware director of platform security Iain Mulholland acknowledged the breach on...

Oracle Leaves Fix for Java SE Zero Day Until February Patch Update

Oracle will not patch a critical sandbox escape vulnerability in Java SE versions 5, 6 and 7 until its February Critical Patch Update, according to the researcher who discovered the flaw. Adam Gowdiak of Polish security firm Security Explorations told Threatpost via email that Oracle said it was...