BlackBerry Warns of Z10, PlayBook Security Vulnerabilities

BlackBerry’s security incident response team has issued two advisories warning Z10 smartphone and PlayBook tablet users to upgrade to the latest version of the operating system and software on both platforms. The patches address a remote code-execution vulnerability in the Adobe Flash Player...

Symbol DoS vulnerability in Active Record

When a hash is provided as the find value for a query, the keys of the hash may be converted to symbols. Carefully crafted requests can coerce params:name to return a hash, and the keys to that hash may be converted to symbols. All users running an affected release should either upgrade or use on...

CVE-2012-6355

IBM Maximo Asset Management 6.2 through 7.5, Maximo Asset Management Essentials 6.2 through 7.5, Tivoli Asset Management for IT 6.2 through 7.2, Tivoli Service Request Manager 7.1 and 7.2, Maximo Service Desk 6.2, Change and Configuration Management Database CCMDB 7.1 and 7.2, and SmartCloud...

CVE-2012-6355

IBM Maximo Asset Management 6.2 through 7.5, Maximo Asset Management Essentials 6.2 through 7.5, Tivoli Asset Management for IT 6.2 through 7.2, Tivoli Service Request Manager 7.1 and 7.2, Maximo Service Desk 6.2, Change and Configuration Management Database CCMDB 7.1 and 7.2, and SmartCloud...

FreeBSD : Ruby Activemodel Gem -- Circumvention of attr_protected (beab40bf-c1ca-4d2b-ad46-2f14bac8a968)

Aaron Patterson reports : The attrprotected method allows developers to specify a blacklist of model attributes which users should not be allowed to assign to. By using a specially crafted request, attackers could circumvent this protection and alter values that were meant to be protected. All...

Ruby Activemodel Gem -- Circumvention of attr_protected

Aaron Patterson reports: The attrprotected method allows developers to specify a blacklist of model attributes which users should not be allowed to assign to. By using a specially crafted request, attackers could circumvent this protection and alter values that were meant to be protected. All use...

Paypal hacker escaped jail

In London today, an 18-year-old anonymous hacker received an 18-month youth rehabilitation order and a 60-hour unpaid work requirement for his involvement in "Operation Payback". One strike against Paypal alone cost the site £3.5 million pounds. But Jake Birchall escaped jail today after the judg...

CVE-2012-5649 Apache CouchDB JSONP arbitrary code execution with Adobe Flash

CVE-2012-5649 JSONP arbitrary code execution with Adobe Flash Severity: Moderate Vendor: The Apache Software Foundation Affected Versions: JSONP is supported but disabled by default in all currently supported releases of Apache CouchDB. Administrator access is required to enable it. Releases up t...

New Linux Rootkit Attacks Internet Users

Security researchers have discovered what appears to be an experimental Linux rootkit designed to infect its highly select victims during a classic drive-by website attack. The malware allows hackers to inject code directly in any infected web page. The new malware, discovered on November 13 of...

Cross site request forgery (csrf)

Multiple cross-site request forgery CSRF vulnerabilities in unspecified services in IBM Rational Team Concert RTC 4.x before 4.0.0.1 allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users for requests that modify work items...

CVE-2012-0748

Multiple cross-site request forgery CSRF vulnerabilities in unspecified services in IBM Rational Team Concert RTC 4.x before 4.0.0.1 allow remote attackers to hijack the authentication of arbitrary users for requests that modify work items...

SAP Netweaver Dispatcher 7.0 EHP1/2 Multiple Vulnerabilities

Exploit for multiple platform in category dos / poc 1. Advisory Information Title: SAP Netweaver Dispatcher Multiple Vulnerabilities Advisory ID: CORE-2012-0123 Advisory URL: http://www.coresecurity.com/content/sap-netweaver-dispatcher-multiple-vulnerabilities Date published: 2012-05-08 Date of...

USN-1525-1: Calligra vulnerability

It was discovered that Calligra incorrectly handled certain malformed MS Word documents. If a user or automated system were tricked into opening a crafted MS Word file, an attacker could cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code with privileges of the user invoking the program...

LinkedIn Data breach costs $1 million

Business networking site LinkedIn has announced it took a hit of up to $1 million due to one of the year's largest reported data breaches. LinkedIn spent between $500,000 and $1 million on forensic work after a large number of passwords were breached, LinkedIn CFO Steve Sordello said on the...

SA-CONTRIB-2012-105 - Hashcash - Cross Site Scripting (XSS)

The Hashcash project is an implementation of a Proof Of Work POW or Puzzle scheme where users of a service have to do computational work to have their request granted. In the case of the Drupal Hashcash project, the service is 'form submission' and the Proof Of Work is a token that causes a parti...

Apache Tomcat: Multiple vulnerabilities

Background Apache Tomcat is a Servlet-3.0/JSP-2.2 Container. Description Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Apache Tomcat. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact The vulnerabilities allow an attacker to cause a Denial of Service, to hijack a session, ...

E-mail Trends Show Hackers Working Weekends Less and Less

While there are an increasing number of weekends catered to hacking, even hackers need a day off – and it shouldn’t surprise many that increasingly, that day is usually Sunday. Network security company FireEye reviewed statistics on email-based attacks for 2012 that suggest that Sunday has slowed...

C4B XPhone UC Web 4.1.890S R1 - Cross Site Vulnerability

Title: ====== C4B XPhone UC Web 4.1.890S R1 - Cross Site Vulnerability Date: ===== 2012-04-24 References: =========== http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=484 VL-ID: ===== 484 Introduction: ============= XPhone Unified Communications 2011 ist die leistungsstarkste Telefonie- und...

Talk to IT

Well in advance of your departure date, have a sit-down with IT to talk about your trip and about how to avoid exposing sensitive corporate assets and information to compromise. Your IT group will probably be able to help you find work arounds, secure a line back to the company network and even...

Minister's email hacked by Socialist Workers Party

Minister's email hacked by Socialist Workers Party The employment minister claims his email has been hacked by campaigners against a Government work experience scheme, which is continuing to attract controversy. Chris Grayling accused a group of socialist activists of pressuring firms to quit the...