Hack of Attack-for-Hire Service vDOS Snares New Mexico Man

A New Mexico man is facing federal hacking charges for allegedly using the now defunct attack-for-hire service vDOS to launch damaging digital assaults aimed at knocking his former employer's Web site offline. Prosecutors were able to bring the case in part because vDOS got massively hacked last...

Introducing pywintrace: A Python Wrapper for ETW

Introduction Event tracing for Windows ETW is a lightweight logging facility first introduced with Windows 2000. Originally intended as a software diagnostic, troubleshooting and performance monitoring tool, it was greatly expanded in Windows Vista to create a lightweight debugging mechanism. The...

[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: potrace-1.15-1.fc25

Potrace is a utility for tracing a bitmap, which means, transforming a bitm ap into a smooth, scalable image. The input is a bitmap PBM, PGM, PPM, or BMP format, and the default output is an encapsulated PostScript file EPS. A typical use is to create EPS files from scanned data, such as company ...

[SECURITY] Fedora 26 Update: potrace-1.15-1.fc26

Potrace is a utility for tracing a bitmap, which means, transforming a bitm ap into a smooth, scalable image. The input is a bitmap PBM, PGM, PPM, or BMP format, and the default output is an encapsulated PostScript file EPS. A typical use is to create EPS files from scanned data, such as company ...

PT-2017-19221 · Sma Solar Technology · Sunny Tripower +2

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: SMA Solar Technology products affected versions not specified Sunny Boy versions TLST-21 and TL-21 Sunny Tripower versions TL-10 and TL-30 Description: An issue was discovered in SMA Solar Technology products, related to the Grid Guard system...

Fedora 24 : graphite2 (2017-e0a9e51dd5)

1.3.10 - Address floating point build parameters to give consistent positioning results across platforms - Various bug fixes 1.3.9 - Add Collision COLLISSPACE to allow for visible spaces in collision avoidance - Add segment and pass direction information to tracing output - Bug fix rule length...

CVE-2017-1284

IBM WebSphere MQ 9.0.1 and 9.0.2 could allow a local user with ability to run or enable trace, to obtain sensitive information from WebSphere Application Server traces including user credentials. IBM X-Force ID: 125145...

Fedora 25 : graphite2 (2017-03ef6281a8)

1.3.10 - Address floating point build parameters to give consistent positioning results across platforms - Various bug fixes 1.3.9 - Add Collision COLLISSPACE to allow for visible spaces in collision avoidance - Add segment and pass direction information to tracing output - Bug fix rule length...

CVE-2017-1117

IBM WebSphere MQ 8.0 and 9.0 could allow an authenticated user to cause a denial of service to the MQXR channel when trace is enabled. IBM X-Force ID: 121155...

Tracing Spam from E-mail Headers

Interesting article from Brian Krebs...

Tracing Spam: Diet Pills from Beltway Bandits

Reading junk spam messages isn't exactly my idea of a good time, but sometimes fun can be had when you take a moment to check who really sent the email. Here's the simple story of how a recent spam email advertising celebrity "diet pills" was traced back to a Washington, D.C.-area defense...

Gratipay: HTTP trace method is enabled on aspen.io

Hello, HTTP TRACE method is enabled on your server which should not be enabled. It can lead to cross site tracing ! I think this is not a critical issue but I thought I will still report because it is always better to fix it : Cross site tracing: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/CrossSiteTracing $...

Gratipay: HTTP trace method is enabled on gip.rocks

Hello, HTTP TRACE method is enabled on your server which should not be enabled. It can lead to cross site tracing ! Cross site tracing: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/CrossSiteTracing curl -X TRACE http://gip.rocks/ -vv Hostname was NOT found in DNS cache Trying 184.73.218.93... Connected to...

CVE-2016-0371

The Tivoli Storage Manager TSM password may be displayed in plain text via application trace output while application tracing is enabled...

PT-2017-7615 · Ibm · Ibm Tivoli Storage Manager

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Tivoli Storage Manager TSM affected versions not specified Description: The issue concerns the potential display of the Tivoli Storage Manager password in plain text through application trace output when application tracing is enabled...

CVE-2016-9962

RunC allowed additional container processes via 'runc exec' to be ptraced by the pid 1 of the container. This allows the main processes of the container, if running as root, to gain access to file-descriptors of these new processes during the initialization and can lead to container escapes or...

IBM Spectrum Protect Client VM Backup INCLUDE.VMTSMVSS Option Credentials Disclosure

The version of IBM Spectrum Protect Client installed on the remote host is 7.1.x prior to 7.1.6.4. It is, therefore, affected by an information disclosure vulnerability due to the application exposing obfuscated VMware vCenter User ID and Password information during the VM backup process using th...

Linux kernel local integer overflow vulnerability (CNVD-2017-00226)

The Linux kernel is the kernel used by the operating system Linux, released by the Linux Foundation in the United States. The 'ringbufferresize' function in the kernel/trace/ringbuffer.c file of the profiling subsystem in versions of the Linux kernel prior to 4.6.1 has a security vulnerability du...

DEBIAN-CVE-2016-9754

The ringbufferresize function in kernel/trace/ringbuffer.c in the profiling subsystem in the Linux kernel before 4.6.1 mishandles certain integer calculations, which allows local users to gain privileges by writing to the /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/buffersizekb file...

CVE-2016-9754

The ringbufferresize function in kernel/trace/ringbuffer.c in the profiling subsystem in the Linux kernel before 4.6.1 mishandles certain integer calculations, which allows local users to gain privileges by writing to the /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/buffersizekb file...