June 3, 2016
Exposed! The tricks that ransomware plays
Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.
June 3, 2016
Debian: 3592-1: nginx: Summary Posted by Anthony Pell Security Report Summary – ————————————————————————- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3592-1 security@debian.org https://www.debian.org/security/ Moritz Muehlenhoff June 01, 2016 https://www.debian.org/security/faq – ————————————————————————- Package : nginx CVE ID : CVE-2016-4450 It was discovered that a NULL pointer dereference in the Nginx code responsible for saving client request bodies to a […]
June 2, 2016
Crouching Tiger, Hidden DNS
Working in customer care you get to see every kind of issue computer users can have. This can lead to extremely interesting situations. One particularly noteworthy issue we are seeing is an interesting DNS hijack that sets the victim’s computer to use specific DNS servers. While this attack might not sound that interesting and may […]
June 2, 2016
Judge Tosses Evidence Gathered by FBI’s Tor Exploit
June 2, 2016
Network ELOFANTS and other insider threat insights from the DBIR and beyond
If you’re concerned about the security of your organization’s data you should be looking out for elofants on your network. I’ve seen them myself and, if your organization’s network is statistically average, then it is statistically likely to be harboring at least one ELOFANT, otherwise known as: Employee Left Or Fired, Access Not Terminated. While […]
June 2, 2016
Code red: Health IT must fix its security crisis
June 2, 2016
Add-ons bring Windows Hello to all Windows 10 PCs
June 2, 2016
Discovered: June 2, 2016 Updated: June 2, 2016 11:39:43 AM Type: Trojan Systems Affected: Windows 2000, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows XP Trojan.Uverat.B is a Trojan horse that opens a back door on the compromised computer. It may also […]
June 2, 2016
University of Calgary Network Suffers Malware Attack
June 1, 2016
An update for chromium-browser is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact [More…] ===================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Important: chromium-browser security update Advisory ID: RHSA-2016:1190-01 Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Supplementary Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1190 Issue date: 2016-06-01 CVE Names: […]
June 1, 2016
Debian: 3591-1: imagemagick: Summary Posted by Anthony Pell Security Report Summary – ————————————————————————- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3591-1 security@debian.org https://www.debian.org/security/ Luciano Bello June 01, 2016 https://www.debian.org/security/faq – ————————————————————————- Package : imagemagick CVE ID : CVE-2016-5118 Debian Bug : 825799 Bob Friesenhahn from the GraphicsMagick project discovered a command injection vulnerability in ImageMagick, a program suite […]
June 1, 2016
Ubuntu: 2989-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities Posted by Anthony Pell Several security issues were fixed in the kernel. ========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2989-1 June 01, 2016 linux vulnerabilities ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: – Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Summary: Several security issues were fixed in the kernel. Software Description: […]
June 1, 2016
Debian: 3590-1: chromium-browser: Summary Posted by Anthony Pell Security Report Summary – ————————————————————————- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3590-1 security@debian.org https://www.debian.org/security/ Michael Gilbert June 01, 2016 https://www.debian.org/security/faq – ————————————————————————- Package : chromium-browser CVE ID : CVE-2016-1667 CVE-2016-1668 CVE-2016-1669 CVE-2016-1670 CVE-2016-1672 CVE-2016-1673 CVE-2016-1674 CVE-2016-1675 CVE-2016-1676 CVE-2016-1677 CVE-2016-1678 CVE-2016-1679 CVE-2016-1680 CVE-2016-1681 CVE-2016-1682 CVE-2016-1683 CVE-2016-1684 CVE-2016-1685 CVE-2016-1686 CVE-2016-1687 CVE-2016-1688 […]
June 1, 2016
Ubuntu: 2988-1: LXD vulnerabilities Posted by Anthony Pell Several security issues were fixed in LXD. ========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2988-1 May 31, 2016 lxd vulnerabilities ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: – Ubuntu 16.04 LTS – Ubuntu 15.10 Summary: Several security issues were fixed in LXD. Software Description: […]
June 1, 2016
Ubuntu: 2987-1: GD library vulnerabilities Posted by Anthony Pell The GD library could be made to crash or run programs if it processed aspecially crafted image file. ========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2987-1 May 31, 2016 libgd2 vulnerabilities ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: – Ubuntu 16.04 LTS – […]
June 1, 2016
Ubuntu: 2986-1: dosfstools vulnerabilities Posted by Anthony Pell dosfstools could be made to crash or run programs if it processed aspecially crafted filesystem. ========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2986-1 May 31, 2016 dosfstools vulnerabilities ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: – Ubuntu 16.04 LTS – Ubuntu 15.10 – Ubuntu […]
June 1, 2016
Myspace data breach: 360 million accounts affected
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June 1, 2016
Zero-days aren’t the problem — patches are
There’s a widely held view that our world is full of uber hackers who are too brilliant to stop. Thus, we should fear zero-day attacks because they’re our biggest problem. Nothing could be further from the truth. Most hackers follow the path created by a very few smart ones — and zero days make up […]
June 1, 2016
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the chromium web browser. CVE-2016-1667 Mariusz Mylinski discovered a cross-origin bypass. CVE-2016-1668 Mariusz Mylinski discovered a cross-origin bypass in bindings to v8. CVE-2016-1669 Choongwoo Han discovered a buffer overflow in the v8 javascript library. CVE-2016-1670 A race condition was found that could cause the renderer process to reuse ids […]
June 1, 2016
Bob Friesenhahn from the GraphicsMagick project discovered a command injection vulnerability in ImageMagick, a program suite for image manipulation. An attacker with control on input image or the input filename can execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the user running the application. This update removes the possibility of using pipe (|) in filenames to […]
June 1, 2016
It was discovered that a NULL pointer dereference in the Nginx code responsible for saving client request bodies to a temporary file might result in denial of service: Malformed requests could crash worker processes. For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1.6.2-5+deb8u2. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has […]
June 1, 2016
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in gdk-pixbuf, a toolkit for image loading and pixel buffer manipulation. A remote attacker can take advantage of these flaws to cause a denial-of-service against an application using gdk-pixbuf (application crash), or potentially, to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application, if a malformed image […]
May 31, 2016
An update for ntp is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact [More…] ===================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Moderate: ntp security update Advisory ID: RHSA-2016:1141-01 Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1141 Issue […]
May 31, 2016
Slackware: 2016-152-01: imagemagick: Security Update Posted by Anthony Pell New imagemagick packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix a security issue. [More Info…] [slackware-security] imagemagick (SSA:2016-152-01) New imagemagick packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, and -current to fix a security issue. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 […]
May 31, 2016
Slackware: 2016-152-02: mozilla-thunderbird: Security Update Posted by Anthony Pell New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 14.1 and -current to fix security issues. [More Info…] [slackware-security] mozilla-thunderbird (SSA:2016-152-02) New mozilla-thunderbird packages are available for Slackware 14.1 and -current to fix security issues. Here are the details from the Slackware 14.1 ChangeLog: +————————–+ patches/packages/mozilla-thunderbird-45.1.1-i486-1_slack14.1.txz: Upgraded. […]
May 31, 2016
An update for squid is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which [More…] ===================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Moderate: squid security update Advisory ID: RHSA-2016:1139-01 Product: Red Hat Enterprise […]
May 31, 2016
An update for squid is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which [More…] ===================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Moderate: squid security update Advisory ID: RHSA-2016:1138-01 Product: Red Hat Enterprise […]
May 31, 2016
An update for squid34 is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which [More…] ===================================================================== Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Moderate: squid34 security update Advisory ID: RHSA-2016:1140-01 Product: Red Hat Enterprise […]
May 31, 2016
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Firefox, Thunderbird, Network Security Services (NSS), and NetScape Portable Runtime (NSPR) with the worst of which may allow remote execution of arbitrary code. – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – […]
May 31, 2016
Gentoo: 201605-05 Linux-PAM: Multiple vulnerabilities Posted by Anthony Pell Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Linux-PAM, allowing remote attackers to bypass the auth process and cause Denial of Service. – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – […]
May 31, 2016
Gentoo: 201605-04 rsync: Multiple vulnerabilities Posted by Anthony Pell Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in rsync, the worst of which could allow remote attackers to write arbitrary files. – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – […]
May 31, 2016
Gentoo: 201605-03 libfpx: Denial of Service Posted by Anthony Pell A double free vulnerability has been discovered in libfpx that allows remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service. – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – […]
May 31, 2016
Debian: 3589-1: gdk-pixbuf: Summary Posted by Anthony Pell Security Report Summary – ————————————————————————- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3589-1 security@debian.org https://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso May 30, 2016 https://www.debian.org/security/faq – ————————————————————————- Package : gdk-pixbuf CVE ID : CVE-2015-7552 CVE-2015-8875 Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in gdk-pixbuf, a toolkit for image loading and pixel buffer manipulation. A remote attacker […]
May 31, 2016
Debian: 3588-1: symfony: Summary Posted by Anthony Pell Security Report Summary – ————————————————————————- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3588-1 security@debian.org https://www.debian.org/security/ Luciano Bello May 29, 2016 https://www.debian.org/security/faq – ————————————————————————- Package : symfony CVE ID : CVE-2016-1902 CVE-2016-4423 Two vulnerabilities were discovered in Symfony, a PHP framework. CVE-2016-1902 Lander Brandt discovered that the class SecureRandom might generate […]
May 31, 2016
Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.
May 31, 2016
Laptop updaters riddled with security holes
May 31, 2016
Ransomware or ransomworm? Beware of ZCryptor!
May 31, 2016
Review: Hot new tools to fight insider threats
May 31, 2016
Sorry, dad, security isn’t what it used to be
May 31, 2016
Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.
May 31, 2016
Discovered: May 31, 2016 Updated: May 31, 2016 11:35:23 AM Type: Trojan Systems Affected: Windows 2000, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows XP WSH.Downloader is a Trojan horse that downloads a malicious file to the compromised computer. Antivirus Protection Dates […]
May 31, 2016
Two vulnerabilities were discovered in Symfony, a PHP framework. CVE-2016-1902 Lander Brandt discovered that the class SecureRandom might generate weak random numbers for cryptographic use under certain settings. If the functions random_bytes() or openssl_random_pseudo_bytes() are not available, the output of SecureRandom should not be consider secure. CVE-2016-4423 Marek Alaksa from Citadelo discovered that it is […]
May 30, 2016
Anonymous Did Not Release Donald Trump’s Tax Returns
May 30, 2016
65 million Tumblr users should probably be careful…
Earlier this month, Tumblr revealed that it had recently become aware that user addresses and salted and hashed passwords dating back to 2013 had fallen into the hands of hackers. We recently learned that a third party had obtained access to a set of Tumblr user email addresses with salted and hashed passwords from early […]
May 30, 2016
How to protect your Hootsuite account from hackers
May 30, 2016
Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.
May 30, 2016
What the CISSP? 20 years as a Certified Information Systems Security Professional
CISSP stands for Certified Information Systems Security Professional, a qualification that I obtained on this day in 1996. Back then, very few people had heard of CISSP or the organization that created it, the International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium. This non-profit professional body is known as (ISC)2 which is pronounced “I-S-C-squared” (because the name […]
May 29, 2016
Researcher Pockets $30,000 in Chrome Bounties
May 28, 2016
Reddit forces password reset of 100,000 users
May 28, 2016
Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan, Worm.
May 28, 2016
Risk Level: Very Low. Type: Trojan.
May 28, 2016
Ubuntu: 2985-2: GNU C Library regression Posted by Anthony Pell USN-2985-1 introduced a regression in the GNU C Library. ========================================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2985-2 May 26, 2016 eglibc, glibc regression ========================================================================== A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: – Ubuntu 15.10 – Ubuntu 14.04 LTS – Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Summary: […]
May 27, 2016
Discovered: May 26, 2016 Updated: May 26, 2016 5:44:20 PM Type: Trojan Infection Length: Varies Systems Affected: Windows 2000, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows XP Trojan.Zekapab is a Trojan horse that downloads potentially malicious files and steals information from […]
May 27, 2016
Discovered: May 26, 2016 Updated: May 26, 2016 8:16:42 PM Type: Trojan Systems Affected: Windows 2000, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows XP Backdoor.Zekapab is a Trojan horse that opens a back door on the compromised computer and may perform […]
May 27, 2016
Government IT Systems Long Outdated In a recent study done by the Government Accountability Office, a large portion of the US government’s critical business systems have been found to be requiring an increasing amount for maintaining their basic operation, but also they are a major security risk. From defense systems to scientific research systems, these […]
May 27, 2016
Decision makers at banks ‘in the dark’ about data breaches
Decision makers at banks are in the dark when it comes to data breaches at their organization, according to KPMG’s 2016 Banking Outlook Survey. It revealed that this is especially the case when it comes to the second tier of senior management. For example, while 12% of CEOs were unaware as to whether their networks […]
May 27, 2016
5 active mobile threats spoofing enterprise apps
May 27, 2016
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in libgd2, a library for programmatic graphics creation and manipulation. A remote attacker can take advantage of these flaws to cause a denial-of-service against an application using the libgd2 library. For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in version 2.1.0-5+deb8u3. For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have […]
May 27, 2016
South Korean Air Force Website Faces Cyber Attack
May 26, 2016