Fedora Update for php-ZendFramework FEDORA-2012-9979

Check for the Version of php-ZendFramework OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for php-ZendFramework FEDORA-2012-9979 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or...

As Bug Bounty Programs Mature, Still More Room For Growth

Google’s recent announcements that the company is doubling some of the rewards in its Chromium Vulnerability Reward Program and will also be committing up to $2 million for another round of the Pwnium contest in a couple of months brought a round of cheers from the security research community. Th...

.NET Framework - Tilde Character Denial of Service

Paper: http://www.exploit-db.com/docs/19527.pdf Security Research - .Net Framework Tilde Character DoS Website : http://soroush.secproject.com/blog/ I. BACKGROUND --------------------- "The .NET Framework is a software framework developed by Microsoft that runs primarily on Microsoft Windows. It...

ATA interface software may not properly handle ATA security features

Overview ATA interface software, including multiple system board BIOS implementations do not adequately manage the ATA hard drive security mode. An attacker may be able to manipulate this situation to completely lock a hard drive resulting in an almost unrecoverable denial-of-service condition...

VUPEN Says Rumors of Hack Are False

Claims surfaced earlier this week that the French security firm VUPEN, which is known for selling zero-day vulnerabilities to third parties, had been compromised and more than 100 of the company’s secret bugs had been leaked. However, VUPEN’s CEO said that the claims were totally false and there...

Moxie Marlinspike on TACK, Convergence and Trust Agility

Dennis Fisher talks with Moxie Marlinspike about his new IETF proposal, TACK, which lays out a way for sites to assert the authenticity of their public keys. They also discuss the Convergence system for replacing the CA infrastructure and the ways in which browser vendors can help enable better...

http-virustotal NSE Script

Checks whether a file has been determined as malware by Virustotal. Virustotal is a service that provides the capability to scan a file or check a checksum against a number of the major antivirus vendors. The script uses the public API which requires a valid API key and has a limit on 4 queries p...

Mozilla Proposes Change to Handling of Subordinate CA Certificates

Mozilla is considering a change to the way that it handles certificates issued by externally operated sub-CAs in an effort to gain more control of how these CAs issue certificates and what those certificates can do. The proposal would involve some new controls to help verify that certificates are...

Security Release: Symfony 2.0.11 released

Symfony 2.0.11 has just been released and it contains a security vulnerability fix for the Serializer Component. If you are using the Serializer component, you should upgrade as soon as possible. The security vulnerability has been reported this morning by Sense of Security: "The XMLEncoder...

Hackers to release 0-days in comics

Hackers to release 0-days in comics Hackers frequently disclose vulnerabilities in various products, but taking it to a whole new level, now hackers and malware coders are planning to release actual 0-days through their own comic books. The Malware conference, Malcon announced it on their groups...

Google: Bug Bounty Program Has Made Users Safer

In the 15 months since Google began offering rewards to researchers who report vulnerabilities in its Web applications, the company has paid out more than $400,000 in bug bounties. That’s a lot of money, even for Google, and the company is counting the program as a huge success. Google’s reward...

Privacy Fail: Is Uncle Sam Encouraging Bad Security?

CANCUN, MEXICO – A prominent privacy activist says that leading software vendors, and the U.S. government are failing the public when it comes to Internet privacy, and that big changes are needed to prevent consumers from criminals, advertisers and government spies. Christopher Soghoian, a...

Offensive Research Continuing to Advance

MIAMI BEACH–It’s the accepted wisdom these days that many of the traditional security defenses organizations depend on just aren’t effective at deterring attackers. But this glosses over the fact that the last few years have included some major advances in defensive technologies, including the...

Easy Router PIN Guessing with new WiFi Setup vulnerability

Easy Router PIN Guessing with new WiFi Setup vulnerability There is a newly discovered vulnerability in the WiFi Protected Setup standard that reduces the number of attempts it would take an attacker to brute-force the PIN for a wireless router's setup process. The flaw results in too much...

VxWorks Debugging Service Security-Bypass Vulnerability

VxWorks is prone to a remote security-bypass vulnerability. Successful exploits will allow remote attackers to perform debugging tasks on the vulnerable device. The issue affects multiple products from multiple vendors that ship with the VxWorks operating system. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id:...

VxWorks Debugging Service Security Bypass Vulnerability

VxWorks is prone to a remote security bypass vulnerability. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2011 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Linux Foundation Says UEFI Doesn't Have to Prevent Other OS Installations

The Linux Foundation has released a document outlining ways in which the UEFI secure boot specification can be used to support the installation of Linux and other open operating systems on UEFI-enabled hardware. As long as hardware vendors set up their systems in the proper way, UEFI should be no...

India Seizes Equipment Linked to Duqu Attack

Officials in India have seized components from a server as part of an investigation into the Duqu Trojan, according to a report. According to Reuters, two workers at Web Werks, a web hosting company based in Mumbai, said the country’s Department of Information Technology took the equipment after...

The Hacker's Choice releases SSL DOS Tool

The Hacker's Choice releases SSL DOS Tool German hacker group "The Hacker's Choice" officially released a new DDoS tool. The tool exploits a weakness in SSL to kick a server off the Internet. Establishing a secure SSL connection requires 15x more processingpower on the server than on the...

The Mystery of Duqu

First of all, we feel it necessary to clarify some of the confusion surrounding the files and their names related to this incident. To get a full understanding of the situation you only need to know that we’re talking about just two malicious programs here at a minimum – the main module and a...