The maintainers of the Drupal content management system are warning users that any site owners who haven’t patched a critical vulnerability in Drupal Core disclosed earlier this month should consider their sites to be compromised.
Tag Archives: Vulnerabilities
Microsoft Plans to Disable SSLv3 in IE, All Online Services
Microsoft is planning to disable support for the weak SSLv3 protocol in Internet Explorer at some undetermined point in the future, and also will remove support for it in the company’s online services soon. The security and utility of SSLv3 has been an issue for a long time, but it came into sharper focus earlier […]
Facebook Open Sources Host Monitoring Tool, Increases Internet Defense Prize
Facebook announced that it has released a host monitoring tool it developed to open source, and that it will increase its Internet Defense Prize payouts to $300,000 in 2015.
Dyreza Banker Trojan Attackers Exploiting CVE-2014-4114 Windows Flaw
The Dyreza Trojan is nothing if not ambitious. The malware has been spotted doing a variety of interesting things in the last year, including bypassing SSL and targeting users of specific business apps. Now the Trojan is exploiting the recently disclosed CVE-2014-4114 vulnerability in Windows that was first used by the Sandworm attackers. Researchers at […]
BlackEnergy Malware Used in Attacks Against Industrial Control Systems
Attackers are using BlackEnergy malware to attack HMI software running inside industrial control systems, according to an advisory from ICS-CERT.
Russian APT28 Group Linked to NATO, Political Attacks
APT28, a Russian hacking group, has been tied to attacks against the country of Georgia, Eastern European political and military organizations, and NATO, a report from FireEye said.
Shellshock Exploits Targeting SMTP Servers at Webhosts
SANS Internet Storm Center reports attacks against SMTP servers using Shellshock exploits to create a DDoS botnet.
NAT-PMP Protocol Vulnerability Puts 1.2 Million SOHO Routers At Risk
More than 1 million SOHO routers and embedded devices are vulnerable to a serious vulnerability in the NAT-PMP protocol that enables traffic hijacking and denial of service attacks.
Cisco Patches Three-Year-Old Telnet Remote Code Execution Bug in Security Appliances
There is a severe remote code execution vulnerability in a number of Cisco’s security appliances, a bug that was first disclosed nearly three years ago. The vulnerability is in Telnet and there has been a Metasploit module available to exploit it for years. The FreeBSD Project first disclosed the vulnerability in telnet in December 2011 […]
PHP Patches Vulnerabilities, Including Remote Code Execution Flaw
Developers at PHP recently patched a bug that can lead to a heap-based buffer overflow and remote code execution.