[LinEnum] Scripted Local Linux Enumeration & Privilege Escalation Checks

High-level summary of the checks/tasks performed by LinEnum: Kernel and distribution release details System Information: Hostname Networking details: Current IP Default route details DNS server information User Information: Current user details Last logged on users List all users including uid/gi...

Race condition

Race condition in the post-installation script mysql-server-5.5.postinst for MySQL Server 5.5 for Debian GNU/Linux and Ubuntu Linux creates a configuration file with world-readable permissions before restricting the permissions, which allows local users to read the file and obtain sensitive...

EHACK : The Largest Information Security Awareness Marathon Globally

More than 9000+ participants enter the Guinness book of World Records for the largest congregation for information Security. E-Hack, world largest Ethical Hacking workshop was organized by InfySEC at SRM University on July 27 and 28,2013 . The expected participant count was 4500+ but on the day o...

EHACK : The Largest Information Security Awareness Marathon Globally

More than 9000+ participants enter the Guinness book of World Records for the largest congregation for information Security. E-Hack, world largest Ethical Hacking workshop was organized by InfySEC at SRM University on July 27 and 28,2013 . The expected participant count was 4500+ but on the day o...

Fedora Update for marble FEDORA-2013-13112

Check for the Version of marble OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for marble FEDORA-2013-13112 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the ter...

[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: marble-4.10.5-1.fc17

Marble is a Virtual Globe and World Atlas that you can use to learn more about Earth: You can pan and zoom around and you can look up places and roads. A mouse click on a place label will provide the respective Wikipedia article. Of course it's also possible to measure distances between locations...

[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: ksirk-4.10.5-1.fc17

The goal of KSirk is to conquer the World. It is done by attacking your neighbors with your armies...

[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: marble-4.10.5-1.fc18

Marble is a Virtual Globe and World Atlas that you can use to learn more about Earth: You can pan and zoom around and you can look up places and roads. A mouse click on a place label will provide the respective Wikipedia article. Of course it's also possible to measure distances between locations...

[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: ksirk-4.10.5-1.fc18

The goal of KSirk is to conquer the World. It is done by attacking your neighbors with your armies...

Oracle Linux 5 : acpid (ELSA-2009-1642)

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2009-1642 advisory. 1.0.4-9.el54.1 - Resolves: 515062 CVE-2009-4033 acpid: log file created with random permissions Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Document Sharing Email Messages on July 3, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 29948 First Published: 2013 July 5 13:18 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to Portuguese-language spam email messages that claim to contain documents for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the recipient ...

MGASA-2013-0169 Updated qemu packages fix security vulnerability

It was found that QEMU Guest Agent the "qemu-ga" service created certain files with world-writable permissions when run in daemon mode the default mode. An unprivileged guest user could use this flaw to consume all free space on the partition containing the qemu-ga log file, or modify the content...

Updated qemu packages fix security vulnerability

It was found that QEMU Guest Agent the "qemu-ga" service created certain files with world-writable permissions when run in daemon mode the default mode. An unprivileged guest user could use this flaw to consume all free space on the partition containing the qemu-ga log file, or modify the content...

Fedora Update for ksirk FEDORA-2013-10182

Check for the Version of ksirk OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for ksirk FEDORA-2013-10182 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms...

[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: marble-4.10.4-1.fc17

Marble is a Virtual Globe and World Atlas that you can use to learn more about Earth: You can pan and zoom around and you can look up places and roads. A mouse click on a place label will provide the respective Wikipedia article. Of course it's also possible to measure distances between locations...

Fedora Update for ksirk FEDORA-2013-10130

Check for the Version of ksirk OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for ksirk FEDORA-2013-10130 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms...

[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: marble-4.10.4-1.fc18

Marble is a Virtual Globe and World Atlas that you can use to learn more about Earth: You can pan and zoom around and you can look up places and roads. A mouse click on a place label will provide the respective Wikipedia article. Of course it's also possible to measure distances between locations...

[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: ksirk-4.10.4-1.fc18

The goal of KSirk is to conquer the World. It is done by attacking your neighbors with your armies...

samba -- Private key in key.pem world readable

The Samba project reports: Samba 4.0.x before 4.0.11 and 4.1.x before 4.1.1, when LDAP or HTTP is provided over SSL, uses world-readable permissions for a private key, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading the key file, as demonstrated by access to the local filesyst...

Threat, Attack Data Intelligence Sharing Efforts Fall Short

DENVER – When it comes to information sharing, are companies too scared or too selfish to trade attack data? A number of information security officers from high-profile companies debated the topic this week at the NG Security Summit and came to the conclusion that it’s a little bit of both. Shari...