Zero-Day Vulnerability in Symantec PGP Whole Disk Encryption

Symantec product PGP Whole Disk Encryption which is used to encrypt all the contents on the disk on a block-by-block basis having Zero-Day Vulnerability, according to a pastebin note. Note was posted on 25th Dec by Nikita Tarakanov, claiming that pgpwded.sys kernel driver distributed with Symante...

Zero-Day Vulnerability in Symantec PGP Whole Disk Encryption

Symantec product PGP Whole Disk Encryption which is used to encrypt all the contents on the disk on a block-by-block basis having Zero-Day Vulnerability, according to a pastebin note. Note was posted on 25th Dec by Nikita Tarakanov, claiming that pgpwded.sys kernel driver distributed with Symante...

CFR watering hole attack also target Capstone Turbine Corporation

Last week Council on Foreign Relations website was compromised and recently hit by a drive-by attack using a zero day Internet Explorer 6 vulnerability for Cyber Espionage attack, suspected by Chinese Hackers. Later Microsoft confirmed that Internet Explorer 6, 7, and 8 are vulnerable to remote...

Chrome Zero-Day Presentation Gives Way to Mandatory Military Service

The saga of the latest zero-day vulnerability and exploit for the Google Chrome browser took another mysterious turn over the weekend. The 19-year-old Georgian security researcher who found the vulnerability in the browser was called up for compulsory military duty in his country and was unable t...

Window 8 will get its first critical patch this Friday

The Windows 8 and Windows RT security updates will be the first shipped since those operating systems' launch on Oct. 26. The latest vulnerabilities include three critical security vulnerabilities for Windows 8, and one critical security vulnerability for the Surface-based Windows RT operating...

First Windows 8 and Windows RT Security Updates Due Next Week

Plenty is happening on the Microsoft patch management front. First, Adobe agreed to sync up its patch release cycles with Microsoft’s on the second Tuesday of every month, moving away from quarterly releases. And now on Tuesday, Microsoft will release its first security updates since the release ...

Adobe Reader zero-day vulnerability with modified Blackhole Exploit-Kit

Group-IB, a Russian cybercrime investigation company has discovered a zero-day vulnerability, affects Adobe Reader X and Adobe Reader XI. The vulnerability is also included in new modified version of Blackhole Exploit-Kit, which is used for the distributing the banking Trojans Zeus, Spyeye,...

ImageShack Server and Symantec Database hacked and Dumped

Hackers hack into ImageShack server and expose all the files online, moreover Antivirus Company Symantec's portal also hacked by them and complete database of all 1000's of researchers dumped in a pastebin File. One of the hacker behind this hack avilable on twitter at @Doxbin. Hacker expose...

Large-Scale Water Holing Attack Campaigns Hitting Key Targets

A new APT-style espionage campaign launched this summer targeting organizations tied to financial services, government agencies and the defense industry used a technique dubbed water holing to entice victims and silently redirect them to sites hosting zero-day exploits. Researchers at RSA Securit...

Another IE Exploit Targeting Defense Industry Discovered

Another malicious website has been discovered hosting an exploit for the zero-day vulnerability Internet Explorer patched by Microsoft last week. This site, like the other exploits discovered, targets the defense and space industries, and is dropping an unknown payload, according to Barracuda Lab...

Microsoft Will Patch IE Zero-Day on Friday; Fixit Available as Stopgap

Microsoft announced last night it would issue an out-of-band patch on Friday for a zero-day Internet Explorer vulnerability disclosed earlier this week. In the meantime, Microsoft made a FixIt available on Wednesday that would temporarily mitigate the threat posed by active exploits found in the...

Microsoft FixIt Will Address IE Zero-Day Vulnerability

With Internet Explorer users still exposed to as many as four active exploits of a zero-day vulnerability in the browser, Microsoft Tuesday night said it will release a FixIt in the next couple of days that will address the issue. A FixIt is an automated tool provided by Microsoft that diagnoses...

Researcher Finds Three New Exploits Targeting Latest IE Zero-Day

A researcher at AlienVault has discovered three new servers delivering exploits targeting the latest zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer. Jamie Blasco, AlienVault Labs manager, said the one of the servers is delivering a new malware payload, and all of them appear to be targeting defense...

US-CERT Alert TA12-240A - Oracle Java 7 Security Manager Bypass Vulnerability

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 National Cyber Awareness System US-CERT Alert TA12-240A Oracle Java 7 Security Manager Bypass Vulnerability Original release date: August 27, 2012 Last revised: -- Systems Affected Any system using Oracle Java 7 1.7, 1.7.0 including: Java Platform...

Microsoft Windows OpenType Font - File Format Denial of Service

Microsoft Windows OpenType Font - File Format Denial of Service OpenType font file format remote client-side DoS exploit for Windows By Oleksiuk Dmytro aka Cr4sh http://twitter.com/dolex http://blog.cr4.sh mailto:[email protected] INFO: Zero day vulnerability exists in kernel-mode library ATMFD.DL...

Researchers to Detail WebKit Zero-Day on Android Phones at RSA Conference

Security researchers will be demonstrating an end-to-end phishing attack on Google Android phones that utilizes a zero-day vulnerability in Apple’s WebKit technology at the upcoming RSA Conference. The presentation, slated for Feb. 29, will be a coming-out party of sorts for new security firm...

Mobile Based Wireless Network MiTM Attack Illustration

Mobile Based Wireless Network MiTM Attack Illustration Bilal Bokhari from zer0byte.com Illustrated perfect example of Mobile Based Wireless Network MiTM Attack on his blog. Bilal want to share this article with our Readers at THN, Have a look : If we look at the history of computer development, t...

Critical Zero-day Vulnerability in Adobe Reader

Critical Zero-day Vulnerability in Adobe Reader Researchers at the Lockheed Martin Computer Incident Response Team CRT and members of the Defense Security Information Exchange informed Adobe that their products were being exploited by hackers. The exploit affects all versions of Adobe Reader and...

Critical Zero-day Vulnerability in Adobe Reader

Critical Zero-day Vulnerability in Adobe Reader Researchers at the Lockheed Martin Computer Incident Response Team CRT and members of the Defense Security Information Exchange informed Adobe that their products were being exploited by hackers. The exploit affects all versions of Adobe Reader and...

Microsoft Mum On Duqu Fix In November

Microsoft said that its looking into a reported zero day vulnerability in Windows that was used by the Duqu malware to spread, but isn’t committing to a patch for the problem in time for this months scheduled update. “Microsoft is collaborating with our partners to provide protections for a...