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...

Indusoft Thin Client ISSymbol ActiveX Control InternationalSeparator buffer overflow

Added: 11/13/2012 CVE: CVE-2011-0340 BID: 47596 OSVDB: 72865 Background Indusoft Thin Client allows access to Indusoft Web Studio projects without requiring Web Studio to be installed. It includes the ISSymbol ActiveX control, which is also included in Indusoft Web Studio and Advantech Studio...

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 ...

Update: Adobe Working to Confirm New Reader Zero-Day Sandbox-Bypass Exploit

Adobe said today it has been in contact with the Russian security company Group-IB, which discovered a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Reader and yesterday reported the existance of a pricey exploit circulating on the black market. The exploit, according to Group-IB, bypasses Adobe’s sandbox...

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...

VUPEN Researchers Say They Have Zero-Day Windows 8 Exploit

Controversial bug hunters and exploit sellers VUPEN claimed to have cracked the low-level security enhancements featured in Windows 8, Microsoft’s latest operating system. VUPEN CEO and head of research Chaouki Bekrar sent out a pair of ominous Tweets yesterday claiming to have developed the firs...

Zero-Day Exploit released for Vulnerability in Novell ZENworks

Rapid7 researcher Juan Vazquez recently uncovered a zero-day security flaw in Novell ZENworks Asset Management 7.5. This Vulnerability CVE-2012-4933 gives access to any files with system privileges and could also allow an attacker to grab configuration parameters, including the backend credential...

Apple update removes Java plugin from OS X browsers

Apple has discontinued its own Java plugin, issuing an 'update' that removes it from MacOS and encourages users to instead download Oracle's version of the software. Its another step by Apple towards making OS X safer on the web. Mac users may have noticed that Java-based websites are displaying ...

Zero-Day Attacks Thrive for Months Before Disclosure

Zero-day vulnerabilities and exploits dominate headlines and most heated information security discussions. In truth, however, there are relatively few of these attacks hitting a small number of hosts, according to new research on the subject. The reason zero days eat up so much bandwidth is becau...

New Internet Explorer zero-day, Can trigger malware automatically

The new zero day exploit has been discovered and being exploited in the wild. This can be used to load malicious application on victim machines running fully patched Windows XP SP3 along with the latest editions of the IE 7 and IE 8 browser and Adobe's Flash software. Eric Romang was examining on...

ReVuln Emerges as New Player in Vulnerability Sales Market

It’s getting difficult these days to keep track of all of the companies, public and otherwise, that are buying and selling vulnerabilities or information on bugs, and now there’s another group on the scene: ReVuln. But, unlike other companies in the industry, ReVuln is mostly focusing its efforts...

Novell File Reporter NFRAgent.exe VOL tag buffer overflow

Added: 10/12/2012 BID: 55268 OSVDB: 85503 Background Novell File Reporter is software that allows network administrators to identify files stored on the network and generates reports regarding the size of individual files, file type, when files were last accessed, and where duplicates exist...

Businesses Remain Scared of Spear-Phishing as Attackers Study Behavior

Scared is a strong word, but the reality, according to a Websense analysis by Patrik Runald, is that spear-phishers, like the ones that compromised a White House network last week, are implementing new evasion tactics, fundamentally changing their attack strategies, and revolutionizing the target...

HP Application Lifecycle Management - 'XGO.ocx' ActiveX 'SetShapeNodeType()' Remote Code Execution (Metasploit)

This file is part of the Metasploit Framework and may be subject to redistribution and commercial restrictions. Please see the Metasploit Framework web site for more information on licensing and terms of use. http://metasploit.com/framework/ require 'msf/core' class Metasploit3 HttpClients::IE,...

[security bulletin] HPSBMU02813 SSRT100712 rev.1 - HP Operations Orchestration, Remote Execution of Arbitrary Code

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Note: the current version of the following document is available here: https://h20566.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/ docDisplay?docId=emrna-c03490339 SUPPORT COMMUNICATION - SECURITY BULLETIN Document ID: c03490339 Version: 1 HPSBMU02813...

Security Experts Recommend Long, Hard Look at Disabling Java Browser Plug-In

Is the Java browser plug-in the IT equivalent of the human appendix? Would you miss it if it were gone? Probably not, experts say, especially now that attackers are beating the Java sandbox with a rash of zero-day exploits. “It’s simply safer to have the Java plug-in disabled in the browser knowi...

What's the Meaning of This: Adobe Certificate Attack

The news yesterday that Adobe had been compromised and that the attackers were able to get valid Adobe signatures on a pair of malware utilities is one of the more worrisome and troubling stories in what has become a year of huge hacks and historic change in the security industry. Adobe was...

HP Intelligent Management Center uam.exe Stack Buffer Overflow

Added: 09/26/2012 BID: 55271 OSVDB: 85060 Background HP Intelligent Management Center, also known as HP iNode Management Center, is a comprehensive management platform for delivering integrated, modular network management capabilities. The User Access Manager UAM module uam.exe manages the...