Are you ready for PA-DSS 3.0?

Theres been a lot of chatter about PA-DSS 3.0 among several early-adopter application vendors. As of January 1, 2014 its permissible to validate against 3.0 in place of a 2.0 validation. Longevity of the 3.0 validation and the desire to be validated first on a new standard seem to be driving the...

Siemens Fixes Authentication Bugs in Scalance X-200 Switches

Researchers have discovered two serious vulnerabilities in industrial Ethernet switches manufactured by Siemens that could enable attackers to perform unauthorized actions on the switches without authentication. One of the bugs allows attackers to hijack Web sessions and the other enables them to...

Moving From Do Not Track to Can Not Track

NEW YORK–The movement in the security and privacy communities to push the Do Not Track standard as an answer to the problem of pervasive online tracking by ad companies and other entities has resulted in the major browser vendors including DNT as an option for users, giving them a method for...

Dual_EC_DRBG output using untrusted curve constants may be predictable

Overview Output of the Dual Elliptic Curve Deterministic Random Bit Generator DUALECDRBG algorithm may be predictable by an attacker who has chosen elliptic curve parameters in advance. Description NIST SP 800-90A defines three elliptic curves for use in DualECDBRG but does not describe the...

Paypal Inc BB #104 - Persistent Exception Vulnerability

Document Title: =============== Paypal Inc BB 104 - Persistent Exception Vulnerability References Source: ==================== http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=1038 PayPal Security UID: gJ1127yy Release Date: ============= 2013-10-25 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID:...

Paypal Inc #105 MOS - Multiple Print Layout Vulnerabilities

Document Title: =============== Paypal Inc 105 MOS - Multiple Print Layout Vulnerabilities References Source: ==================== http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=1039 PayPal Security UID: xE1128lV Release Date: ============= 2013-10-14 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID:...

[vFeed & vFeed API] The open source cross-linked local vulnerability database

vFeed is an open source naming scheme concept that provides extra structured detailed 3rd parties references for a CVE entry. While the emergence of the Open Standards helped undeniably to shape a new way to communicate about vulnerabilities1, the new vFeed is adding an intelligent structured xml...

NASDAQ Patches Reported XSS Vulnerability

A NASDAQ representative confirmed this morning that a cross-site scripting vulnerability on the exchange’s website discovered by an ethical hacker has been patched. The issue was reported on Sept. 2 by Ilia Kolochenko, chief executive of High-Tech Bridge, a Swiss penetration testing company...

Experts Urge ECC crytpo over RSA algorithm

LAS VEGAS – Cryptographic breakthroughs have accelerated in the past six months in areas such as discrete logarithm computations that lead experts to believe that breaking the stalwart RSA algorithm may be in the not-too-distant future. A team of crypto experts today at Black Hat USA 2013 present...

Microsoft Expands MAPP Program to Incident Response Teams

Microsoft is expanding its MAPP program that shares attack and protection information with other security vendors and will now be sharing some data with incident responders, as well. The new system will enable organizations such as CERTs and internal IR teams to exchange information on specific...

Bug Bounty Programs Pay Economic Rewards

Bug bounty programs can be as much as 100 times more cost-effective for finding security vulnerabilities than hiring full-time security researchers to do the same thing. New research from the University of California at Berkeley, which focused on bug bounty programs run by Google and Mozilla, fou...

Multiple Vendors IPMI 2.0 Authentication Bypass via Cipher 0

Authentication Bypass vulnerability have been reported in IPMI 2.0 Authentication. When using cipher type 0, it is an indicator that the client wants to use clear-text authentication,that allows access with any password...

Android Vulnerability Bypasses App's Digital Signature

A vulnerability exists in the Android code base that would allow a hacker to modify a legitimate, digitally signed Android application package file APK and not break the app’s cryptographic signature—an action that would normally set off a red flag that something is amiss. Researchers at startup...

o2micro debug.php 后门漏洞

网御神州、天融信、美国凹凸等vpn设备开发疑似源于同一套技术，其中有技术维护使用的后门文件debug.php没有删除，该后门文件可以执行任意php代码，SQL语句。 网御神州、天融信、美国凹凸等vpn设备...

Google sets 7 Day deadline For vulnerability disclosure

Google will release details of any zero-day flaws it finds in software, if the affected vendor fails to issue a patch or disclose the issue itself within a week. Now, Google is shortening that timeline a good bit to just 7 days. "Based on our experience...we believe that more urgent action within...

Google sets 7 Day deadline For vulnerability disclosure

Google will release details of any zero-day flaws it finds in software, if the affected vendor fails to issue a patch or disclose the issue itself within a week. Now, Google is shortening that timeline a good bit to just 7 days. “Based on our experience...we believe that more urgent action within...

Researchers, Vendors Await Google Disclosure Fallout

The endless loop that is the disclosure debate got a jolt of energy yesterday when Google said it would support researchers’ disclosure of details on actively exploited critical vulnerabilities just seven days after the researcher has notified the vendor in question. Google hopes the policy...

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : perl (MDVSA-2013:113)

Updated perl packages fix security vulnerability : It was discovered that Perl's 'x' string repeat operator is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow. An attacker could use this to execute arbitrary code CVE-2012-5195. The compile function in Maketext.pm in the Locale::Maketext implementation...

CERT Releases UPnP Security Advisory

Multiple vulnerabilities have been announced in libupnp, the open source portable SDK for UPnP devices. Libupnp is employed by hundreds of vendors for UPnP-enabled devices. Information is also available in CERT Vulnerability Note VU922681. US-CERT recommends that affected UPnP device vendors and...

Fake Turkish digital Certificates blocked by Browser vendors

It’s the news of the day, a fraudulent digital certificate that could be used for active phishing attacks against Google’s web properties. Using the certificate it is possible to spoof content in a classic phishing schema or perform a man-in-the-middle attack according Google Chrome Security Team...