Image On Monday, the OpenSSL project team announced new releases that would be available today to fix security issues in OpenSSL that have been discovered as part of a major security audit and code refactoring project.  When this announcement hit on Monday, there was a general panic in the IT and security community as it was mentioned...

Image   Information security professionals are all too familiar with the work of black hat hackers. These individuals seek to gain unauthorized access to enterprises’ computer networks by exploiting security vulnerabilities – malicious activity which frequently threatens the personal and/or financial information of millions of...

Image   The OpenSSL Project, a collaborative effort designed to develop an open source toolkit that implements SSL and TLS, has announced that it will be fixing a number of security flaws on Thursday, one of which it has labeled “high” severity. The initiative made the announcement in a message circulated yesterday. “The OpenSSL...

Image   Today’s VERT Alert addresses 14 new Microsoft Security Bulletins. VERT is actively working on coverage for these bulletins in order to meet our 24-hour SLA and expects to ship ASPL-605 on Wednesday, March 11. MS15-018 Multiple Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer MULTIPLE VBScript Memory...

Image The term APT (Advanced Persistent Threat), like many other acronyms in the world of IT/Information/Cyber Security entered our vocabulary some years ago, along with other partnering phrases, such as Advanced Evasion Techniques (AET), which at the time took the headlines as something new. Whilst these new outlined logical dangers...

Image Imagine coming into the office one day, and finding that visitors to your website are not only seeing messages and images posted by hackers, but that the attackers are also posting screenshots of private emails sent to your company on Twitter. That's the scenario Lenovo faces today—although there is no evidence that the PC...

Image For the past several months, the major threats to mobile security, especially within large enterprises, have relied on exploiting one thing—iOS Enterprise Certificates. With this part of Apple’s framework seemingly a significant source of danger, we’re taking a look at iOS Enterprise certificates from a mobile security...

Image According to a recent report, companies are failing to properly patch and update their systems despite the disclosure of threatening vulnerabilities. The 2015 Cyber Risk Report (PDF) produced by HP analyzing last year’s threat landscape found that as many as 44 percent of breaches were the result of attackers leveraging a...

Image   Updated Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015, 2:11 PM: Added content for Tripwire Enterprise customers to find Samba in their environment. A major vulnerability (CVE-2015-0240) has been discovered in Samba, which is a widely used and distributed SMB/CIFS Linux/Unix application for interoperability with Microsoft Windows. Samba provides...

Image Have you ever had your identity stolen? Or perhaps an identity crisis? I hope for your sake the answer is "no."  However, if it's yes, you are in good company. Computing devices, which I'll loosely refer to as "assets," often change their identity, and at times even have it stolen (as a side note, NIST has a much broader...

Image   Last summer, security researchers Karsten Nohl and Jakob Lell developed a malware program, dubbed ‘BadUSB,’ to prove the insecure development of USB devices. The pair of security researchers revealed how they managed to reprogram the firmware on removable USB drives to include malicious code, giving potential attackers the...

Image Last month, Michal Nemcok blogged about the lack of security in the Progressive Insurance diagnostic monitoring dongle. By hacking the monitoring device, someone may be able to gain access to and change the behavior of the car, itself. Now, this is serious stuff – vulnerabilities that might impact the operation of the thing that...

Image Anyone who has ever visited blog posts on the Forbes website has properly been irritated from time-to-time by its practice of displaying a "Thought of the Day" for a few seconds before it passes you onto the article that you actually wish to read. We all understand that Forbes has to make money like any other web publisher, but...

Image Attackers can use gaps in the X-Frame Options (XFO) support on Google’s Play Store web application to remotely install malware onto users’ Android devices. “A malicious user can leverage either a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in a particular area of the Google Play Store web application, or a Universal XSS (UXSS)...

Image In the face of the current wave of cyber threats, the U.S. government announced this week in Washington DC that as part of the Homeland Security initiative the current administration is creating a new agency called the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Centre (CTIIP) to monitor cybersecurity threats by acquiring, pooling and...

Image   Today’s VERT Alert addresses 9 new Microsoft Security Bulletins. VERT is actively working on coverage for these bulletins in order to meet our 24-hour SLA and expects to ship ASPL-601 on Wednesday, February 11. MS15-009 Multiple Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer MULTIPLE Multiple Elevation of...

Image   In February’s Patch Tuesday, Microsoft issued an update to fix a privately reported critical vulnerability in Group Policy that could  allow potential attackers to achieve remote code execution (RCE) in domain networks. If successfully exploited, an attacker could gain complete control of a vulnerable system, install programs,...

Image   With cybercrime and major hacking incidents reaching epidemic proportions, the importance of locating application-layer vulnerabilities is rising. Developers and companies are constantly striving to scan their code and improve code integrity in the early development stages, but no application is completely vulnerability-free...

Image Major cyber security incidents continue to hit the headlines. Security and privacy are top concerns for IT and security professionals, especially after 2014’s highly publicized data breaches. Companies around the globe were victim to malware, stolen data and exploited vulnerabilities. Big companies weren’t immune to this, with...

Image It seems only fitting that 2014 should have ended with the much publicized hacking of Sony as the American public was inundated all year with one sensational account after another of damaging data security breaches. Those surrounding Target, UPS, K-Mart, Staples, Dairy Queen and Home Depot have certainly received the full...