MIRcon Preview: Why C-Level Executives Should Attend

Security conferences come and go and most are well attended by information security practitioners for professional development and networking. But what about the executives who are responsible for strategy and who hold the budgets - what conferences should they attend? With MIRcon 2013, Nov. 5-6,...

Experts Petition NSA Review Board to Include Technologist

A long list of influential security, privacy and technology experts, largely from academic circles, has petitioned the NSA review board to include a technologist among its ranks. The board, established on Aug. 12 by Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper upon the orders of the...

APPLE-SA-2013-09-12-1 OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.5 and Security Update 2013-004

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 APPLE-SA-2013-09-12-1 OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.5 and Security Update 2013-004 OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.5 and Security Update 2013-004 is now available and addresses the following: Apache Available for: Mac OS X 10.6.8, Mac OS X Server 10.6.8, OS X Lio...

RSS Macro should not trust all content from the origin server by default.

The RSS feed macro currently appears to be enabled by default in Confluence. This is contrary to the information contained in the following Confluence documentation: https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/RSS+Feed+Macro While a whitelist is enforced by default, as confluence implicitly trus...

APPLE-SA-2013-09-18-2 iOS 7

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 APPLE-SA-2013-09-18-2 iOS 7 iOS 7 is now available and addresses the following: Certificate Trust Policy Available for: iPhone 4 and later, iPod touch 5th generation and later, iPad 2 and later Impact: Root certificates have been updated Description:...

Dropbox Requests National Security Letter Transparency

Dropbox, as LinkedIn did a week ago, filed an amicus brief yesterday with the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court FISC requesting permission to publish the number of National Security Letter requests the cloud storage company receives. Dropbox followed LinkedIn’s lead, arguing i...

Code injection

The WS-Security implementation in IBM WebSphere Application Server WAS 6.1 before 6.1.0.47, 7.0 before 7.0.0.31, 8.0 before 8.0.0.8, and 8.5 before 8.5.5.1, and WAS Feature Pack for Web Services 6.1 before 6.1.0.47, when a trust store is configured for XML Digital Signatures, does not properly...

The Sky is Not Falling--It's Fallen

It’s no fun being a cynic, thinking that everything is bad and getting worse. It’s easy–especially in the security community–but it’s not fun. But, in light of the latest in the interminable string of revelations about the NSA’s efforts to eat away at the foundation of the security industry, the...

Experts Worry About Long-Term Implications of NSA Revelations

With all of the disturbing revelations that have come to light in the last few weeks regarding the NSA’s collection methods and its efforts to weaken cryptographic protocols and security products, experts say that perhaps the most worrisome result of all of this is that no one knows who or what...

Apple iOS < 7 Multiple Vulnerabilities

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LinkedIn Asks for Transparency on National Security Letters

LinkedIn on Tuesday joined the fray of Internet companies requesting permission from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to publish data on the number of National Security Letters it receives. Unlike Google, Microsoft and others that have petitioned the FISA court to lift its ban on the...

Researchers Build Undetectable Dopant Hardware Trojans

Is it so outlandish anymore to consider that an attacker interested in military, political or corporate espionage would be able to infiltrate a supply chain and drop malware onto an integrated circuit? Evidence of hardware-based Trojans is anecdotal at best, and experts believe a change in...

Apple Fixes 30 Bugs With Mountain Lion Update

Apple pushed a handful of patches late last week and updated its OS X Mountain Lion to 10.8.5, improving “stability, compatibility and security” issues and fixing 30 different vulnerabilities in the operating system. The update fixes multiple vulnerabilities in Apache that could have led to a...

Mac OS X 10.8.x < 10.8.5 Multiple Vulnerabilities

The remote host is running a version of Mac OS X 10.8.x that is prior to 10.8.5. The newer version contains multiple security-related fixes for the following components : - Apache - Bind - Certificate Trust Policy - CoreGraphics - ImageIO - Installer - IPSec - Kernel - Mobile Device Management -...

Bruce Schneier on the NSA, Cryptography and Trust

Dennis Fisher talks with cryptographer Bruce Schneier about the revelations of the NSA’s capabilities to subvert and weaken cryptographic algorithms, security products and standards, and what it will take to help defeat these capabilities. Download: digitalunderground125.mp3 Subscribe to the...

Can we Trust Google ? Company Speeding up Strong Encryption Program in response to NSA surveillance

Trust is something that's earned, not given. We trusted tech companies with our data because they promised to keep it secure. That trust was called into question after former NSA contractor Edward Snowden revealed that NSA is snooping on us with the help of same tech companies. Today Google...

Can we Trust Google ? Company Speeding up Strong Encryption Program in response to NSA surveillance

Trust is something that’s earned, not given. We trusted tech companies with our data because they promised to keep it secure. That trust was called into question after former NSA contractor Edward Snowden revealed that NSA is snooping on us with the help of same tech companies. Today Google...

Cisco IP Communicator Certificate Trust List Manipulation

The version of Cisco IP Communicator is 8.61. Such versions are potentially affected by a data modification vulnerability. By performing a Man-in-the-Middle attack, a remote, unauthenticated attacker could replace the original Certificate Trust List with a modified one. C Tenable Network Security...

Java Code-Signing, Security Prompts Fail with Developers

Why would a software company require developers to sign code, thereby ensuring a modicum of trust—but not security—and then shatter that trust by allowing signed applets to bypass their own application sandbox? Welcome to the world of Oracle and Java, where a once healthy programming language has...

Features Gem for Ruby /tmp/out.html Local XSS

Features Gem for Ruby contains a flaw that allows a local cross-site scripting XSS attack. This flaw exists because the application does not validate certain input upon submission to /tmp/out.html. This may allow an attacker to create a specially crafted request that would execute arbitrary scrip...