Rule 41 — FBI Gets Expanded Power to Hack any Computer in the World

Hacking multiple computers across the world just got easier for the United States intelligence and law enforcement agencies from today onwards. The changes introduced to the Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure by the United States Department of Justice came into effect on Thursday,...

B+B SmartWorx VESP211 Authentication Bypass Vulnerability

OVERVIEW Independent researcher Maxim Rupp has identified an authentication bypass vulnerability in B+B SmartWorx’s VESP211 serial servers. B+B SmartWorx has produced an implementation plan to mitigate this vulnerability. This vulnerability could be exploited remotely. AFFECTED PRODUCTS The...

Phoenix Contact ILC PLC Authentication Vulnerabilities

OVERVIEW Matthias Niedermaier and Michael Kapfer of HSASec Hochschule Augsburg have identified authentication vulnerabilities in Phoenix Contact’s ILC inline controller PLCs. Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KG has produced a mitigation plan that includes an update and recommended security practices to...

Windows Information Disclosure Vulnerability

An information disclosure vulnerability exists when Windows fails to properly validate NT LAN Manager NTLM Single Sign-On SSO requests during Microsoft Account MSA login sessions. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could attempt to brute force a user’s NTLM password hash. To...

[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: libreswan-3.18-1.fc24

Libreswan is a free implementation of IPsec & IKE for Linux. IPsec is the Internet Protocol Security and uses strong cryptography to provide both authentication and encryption services. These services allow you to build secure tunnels through untrusted networks. Everything passing through the...

STOP Rule 41 — FBI should not get Legal Power to Hack Computers Worldwide

We have been hearing a lot about Rule 41 after the US Department of Justice has pushed an update to the rule. The change to the Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure grants the FBI much greater powers to hack legally into any computer across the country, and perhaps anywhere in the...

Juniper Removes Dual_EC, ANSI X9.31 Algorithms

Juniper Networks announced late Friday it was removing the suspicious DualECDRBG random number generator from its ScreenOS operating system. And while that’s heralded as a positive move considering DualEC’s dubious origins, there remain important and unanswered questions about Juniper’s decision ...

ICONICS WebHMI Directory Traversal Vulnerability

OVERVIEW Independent researcher Maxim Rupp has identified a directory traversal vulnerability in the ICONICS WebHMI V9 application. ICONICS has produced recommendations to mitigate this vulnerability. This vulnerability could be exploited remotely. AFFECTED PRODUCTS The following ICONICS product ...

Innominate mGuard VPN Vulnerability

OVERVIEW Innominate mGuard has self identified a denial-of-service DoS vulnerability in the Innominate mGuard device. Inominate has produced a patch to mitigate this vulnerability. This vulnerability could be exploited remotely. AFFECTED PRODUCTS The following mGuard versions are affected:...

Reverse Shells With Terminal Support: revsh

revsh is a tool for establishing reverse shells with terminal support, reverse VPNs for advanced pivoting Pivoting , as well as arbitrary data tunneling. A reverse shell is a network connection that grants shell access to a remote host. As opposed to other remote login tools such as telnet and ss...

WebRTC Found Leaking Local IP Addresses

A recently publicized hole in WebRTC, a protocol for web communication, is revealing the local IP addresses of users, even those who go to extra lengths to hide theirs by using a virtual private network. Daniel Roesler, a San Francisco-based researcher who’s dabbled in encryption, posted a...

CSWorks Software SQL Injection Vulnerability

OVERVIEW Researcher John Leitch, working with HP’s Zero Day Initiative ZDI, has identified an SQL injection vulnerability in CSWorks’ CSWorks software framework. CSWorks has produced an updated version that mitigates this vulnerability. This vulnerability could be exploited remotely. AFFECTED...

IOServer Out of Bounds Read Vulnerability

OVERVIEW Chris Sistrunk of Mandiant and Adam Crain of Automatak have identified an out of bounds read vulnerability in IOServer’s OPC Server application. IOServer has released a new version that mitigates this vulnerability. The researchers have tested the new version to validate that it resolves...

Anonymity Tool Tor gains more than 1.2 Million new users since NSA PRISM scandal

Since Snowden came forward with details about the NSA's PRISM program in June, web users concerned about online privacy are increasingly turning toward privacy tools to protect their online data. U.S. Government project PRISM allows the government to tap phone calls, email, and web browsing of an...

Anonymity Tool Tor gains more than 1.2 Million new users since NSA PRISM scandal

Since Snowden came forward with details about the NSA's PRISM program in June, web users concerned about online privacy are increasingly turning toward privacy tools to protect their online data. U.S. Government project PRISM allows the government to tap phone calls, email, and web browsing of an...

Invensys Wonderware HMI Reports XSS and Write Access Violation Vulnerabilities

Overview Independent security researchers Billy Rios and Terry McCorkle have identified cross-site scripting XSS and write access violation vulnerabilities in the Invensys Wonderware HMI reports product. ICS-CERT has coordinated these two vulnerabilities with Invensys, which has produced a new...

I-GEN opLYNX Central Authentication Bypass

Overview This advisory provides mitigation details for a vulnerability that impacts the i-GEN opLYNX Central software. Exploitation of this vulnerability would allow partial leakage of information and access to system settings. Independent researcher Anthony Cicalla has identified an authenticati...

Siemens COMOS Database Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Overview Siemens has reported a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Siemens COMOS database application. Siemens has produced an update that fixes this vulnerability. This vulnerability could be exploited remotely. Affected Products Siemens reports that the vulnerability affects the followin...

New VPN Hunter Service Scans Domains For Remote-Access Systems

If there’s one thing attackers love, it’s readily accessible remote-connection services running on a target company’s network. Once an attacker knows that an organization is running a specific kind of VPN or has RDP enabled on a bunch of machines, he can then start looking for known vulnerabiliti...

ASLR Added to Android 4.0

The newest version of the Android mobile operating system includes a major security upgrade, the presence of address space layout randomization ASLR, which gives users some better protection against memory-corruption exploits. The inclusion of ASLR in Android 4.0, also known as “Ice Cream...