Suricata is a network intrusion detection and prevention engine developed by the Open Information Security Foundation and its supporting vendors. The engine is multi-threaded and has native IPv6 support. It’s capable of loading existing Snort rules and signatures and supports the Barnyard and Barnyard2 tools.

Mounting a crafted EXT4 image as read-only leads to a kernel panic. Since the mounting procedure is a privileged operation, an attacker is probably not able to trigger this vulnerability on the commandline. Instead the automatic mounting feature of the GUI via a crafted USB-device is required.

The Hack In The Box 2017 AMS Call For Papers is now open. The conference will be held at the NH Grand Krasnapolsky in Amsterdam from the 10th till the 14th of April.

Slackware Security Advisory – New x11 packages are available for Slackware 13.0, 13.1, 13.37, 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues.

Slackware Security Advisory – New mariadb packages are available for Slackware 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues.

Slackware Security Advisory – New php packages are available for Slackware 14.0, 14.1, 14.2, and -current to fix security issues.