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...

Oracle Releases Critical Patch Update for February 2012

Oracle released its February Critical Patch Update CPU containing 14 security fixes for the following products: JDK and JRE 7 Update 2 and earlier JDK and JRE 5 Update 30 and earlier JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 33 and earlier SDK and JRE 1.4.235 and earlier JavaFX 2.0.2 and earlier US-CERT encourages...

Mozilla Releases Firefox 10.0.1

The Mozilla Foundation has released Firefox 10.0.1 to address a vulnerability. This vulnerability may cause a denial-of-service condition or potentially allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review the Mozilla Foundation Advisory for Firefox...

Cia.gov Tango Down - #FuckFBIFriday by Anonymous

FuckFBIFriday by Anonymous, cia.gov Tango Down ! Anonymous has struck again at Central Intelligence Agency, The site went down about 3:10 p.m. apparently under a massive distributed denial of service DDOS attack. No specific reason for the attack was announced, nor were any specific groups or...

Microsoft Releases February Security Bulletin

Microsoft has released updates to address vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer, .Net Framework, Silverlight, Office, and Server Software as part of the Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for February 2012. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code o...

Apple Releases Multiple Security Updates

Apple has released security updates for Apple OS X Lion 10.7 to 10.7.2, OS X Lion Server 10.7 to 10.7.2, Mac OS 10.6.8, and Mac OS X Server v 10.6.8 to address multiple vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, cause a denial-of-service condition,...

FAA US Academy SQL Injection

Title: ====== FAA US Academy AFS - Auth Bypass Vulnerability Date: ===== 2012-01-28 References: =========== http://vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=171 VL-ID: ===== 171 Introduction: ============= This is a FAA computer system. FAA computer systems are provided for the processing of Offici...

Court: Forced Hard Drive Decryption Doesn't Violate Fifth Amendment

In what may become a precedent setting digital rights ruling, Judge Robert Blackburn of the United States District Court of Colorado ruled that compelling an individual to provide access to the encrypted contents of a device does not violate the US Constitution’s prohibition of self incrimination...

Symantec pcAnywhere Hotfix

Symantec has released an update for pcAnywhere to address multiple vulnerabilities for the following software versions running on Windows: pcAnywhere 12.5 SP3 pcAnywhere Solutions 7.1 GA, SP 1, and SP 2 US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review the Symantec pcAnywhere hot fix and appl...

Google Releases Chrome 16.0.912.77

Google has released Chrome 16.0.912.77 for Linux, Mac, Windows, and 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 the Google Chro...