US Airways Spam Redirects to Blackhole, Zeus Infection

Cybercriminals are targeting US Airways customers with malicious spam emails containing a link that, once clicked, initiates a series of redirects, eventually leading users to a domain hosting the Blackhole exploit kit. The fraudulent email presents itself as a check-in notification from US...

Cisco Releases Multiple Security Advisories

Cisco has released nine security advisories to address multiple vulnerabilities affecting Cisco IOS software. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, operate at elevated privileges, or cause a denial-of-service condition. US-CERT encourages users and administrators ...

Adobe Releases Security Advisory for Adobe Flash Player

Adobe has released a Security Advisory for Adobe Flash Player to address multiple vulnerabilities affecting the following software versions: Adobe Flash Player 11.1.102.63 and earlier versions for Windows, Macintosh, Linux, and Solaris operating systems Adobe Flash Player 11.1.111.7 and earlier...

US Army's CECOM Data leaked by Hacker

US Army's CECOM Data leaked by Hacker Hacker Black Jester recently published contract information from a Web site connected to the U.S. Army Communications and Electronics Command CECOM. "30 record sets that include names, user IDs, physical addresses, email addresses, telephone numbers, and...

Mozilla Releases Multiple Updates

The Mozilla Foundation has released updates for the following products to address multiple vulnerabilities. Firefox 11 Firefox 3.6.28 Firefox ESR 10.0.3 Thunderbird 11 Thunderbird 3.1.20 Thunderbird ESR 10.0.3 SeaMonkey 2.8 These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code,...

Apple Releases Safari 5.1.4

Apple has released Safari 5.1.4 to address multiple vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, spoof a domain name, obtain sensitive information, or perform a cross-site scripting attack. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review Apple...

Fake Facebook Profile For NATO Senior Commander Used To Phish Senior Brass

A fake Facebook profile for NATO Senior Commander James Stavridis, a US Navy Admiral, was used to trick senior officers in both the U.S. and British military to becoming friends. The spear phishing attack is of unknown origin and is believed to have divulged a wide range of personal information o...

Google Releases Chrome 17.0.963.79

Google has released Chrome 17.0.963.79 for Linux, Macintosh, Windows, and Google Chrome Frame to address multiple vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial-of-service condition. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review th...

Apple Releases Multiple Security Updates

Apple has released security updates for Apple iOS, Apple TV, and iTunes to address multiple vulnerabilities for the following products. Apple TV 2nd generation iPhone 3GS iPhone 4 and 4S iPod Touch 3rd generation and later iPad and iPad 2 iTunes for Windows 7, Vista, and XP service pack 2 or late...

Smell You Later

In 2009, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security hatched a plan to use body-odor as a method of identifying individuals. The DHS wanted to establish odor based biometric signatures that could uniquely identify both friend and foe. It then might be able to determine if changes in odor could be us...

Microsoft Releases March Security Bulletin

Microsoft has released updates to address vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Visual Studio, and Express Design as part of the Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for March 2012. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, cause a denial-of-service condition, or opera...

Adobe Releases Update for Adobe Flash Player

Adobe has released a security bulletin for Adobe Flash Player to address multiple vulnerabilities affecting the following software versions: Adobe Flash Player 11.1.102.62 and earlier versions from Windows, Linux, and Solaris operating systems Adobe Flash Player 11.1.115.6 and earlier versions fo...

Google Releases Chrome 17.0.963.65

Google has released Chrome 17.0.963.65 for Linux, Macintosh, Windows, and Google Chrome Frame to address multiple vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial-of-service condition. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review th...

WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning nominated for Nobel Peace Prize 2012

WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning nominated for Nobel Peace Prize 2012 A spokesman for the Nobel Peace Prize jury says 231 nominations have been submitted for this year's award, with publicly disclosed candidates including WikiLeaks whistle-blower Bradley Manning may be among the hundreds of...

DNSChanger Malware

UPDATE: On March 5, 2012, a federal judge agreed to allow more time for organizations and individuals to clean systems of the DNSChanger malware and extended the deadline for shutting off servers that had been keeping infected computers connected to the internet. Although the new deadline is July...

Sunway ForceControl SNMP NetDBServer Data Chunk Copy Buffer Overflow

Added: 02/22/2012 BID: 49747 OSVDB: 75798 Background Sunway ForceControl is a Chinese SCADA/HMI software application widely used in China to help run weapons systems, utilities and chemical plants. It is also used to a lesser extent in other countries, including the US. SNMP NetDBServer is one of...

Anonymous Targets U.S. Makers of Crowd Control Tools

The Anonymous hacker collective lashed out against two companies it accuses of selling crowd control technologies to repressive regimes and to law enforcement, the Associated Press reports. Web sites belonging to Combined Systems Inc. CSI and Sur-Tec Inc. were both down on Friday. The...

Anonymous-Linked Attacks Hit US Stock Exchanges

The Websites of the NASDAQ and BATS stock exchanges as well as the Chicago Board Options Exchange CBOE were knocked offline for parts of Monday and Tuesday after coming under a sustained online attack by a group with links to Anonymous. Trading on the exchanges continued unabated on Monday and...

Anonymous leak 400 Mb Documents from US Army Intelligence Knowledge Network

Anonymous leak 400 Mb Documents from US Army Intelligence Knowledge Network Anonymous claim to hack Intelligence Knowledge Network IKN Portal of United States Army - ikn.army.mil. Hackers dump around 400 Mb of Data on Rapidshare in two parts : https://rapidshare.com/files/665225777/Documents1.zip...

Adobe Releases Security Bulletins for Adobe Shockwave Player and RoboHelp

Adobe has released a security bulletins for Adobe Shockwave Player and RoboHelp to address multiple vulnerabilities affecting the following software versions: Adobe Shockwave Player 11.6.3.633 and earlier versions for Windows and Macintosh Adobe RoboHelp 9 or 8 for Word on Windows Exploitation of...