NASDAQ, PNC Bank, Heartland Payment Systems, 7-Eleven, JC Penney hacked

Arstechnica has an old story that I thought was interesting: From 2005 – 2012 there were multiple break -ins thus the hacker “owned” the various company sites. The overwhelming attack vector sued was SQL -injection. Her is an excerpt that I want to emphasize: “NASDAQ is owned,” Aleksandr Kalinin, a 26-year-old resident of St. Petersburg, Russia, … Read more

Everything Matters – what is important? HP Loadrunner vulnerability

Managers have to make decisions as to what to focus on: HP Loadrunner vulnerability is one of those. specifically 11.52 and here is the money quote:   RESOLUTION HP has provided LoadRunnner patch 11.52 Patch 1 to resolve this issue. Download the patch from HP Software Support Online (SSO). Note: For LR versions before 11.52 … Read more

High exploit vulnerability: Alt-N Security gateway

IBM’s ISS explains the potential problem and with informative links: The problem is the software is vulnerable to a specially crafted HTTP request to SecurityGateway.dll using a long username parameter, a remote attacker can overflow a buffer and execute arbitrary code. This means that a system vulnerable will be potentially owned by hackers in no … Read more

malware hunting for port 32764

Internet Storm Center  has an important current status on a new malware.   It scans for port 32764 and port 23 (telnet) so it can propagate and create more. It also tries to “phone home”   With our help we can scan (Alpha Scan) for any machines that actually respond to this open port (32764) … Read more

Cisco Cloud Portal Software gives up too much information

According to the National Vulnerability Database Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud in Cisco Cloud Portal does not properly restrict the content of MyServices action URLs, which allows remote authenticated users to obtain sensitive information by reading (1) web-server access logs, (2) web-server Referer logs, or (3) the browser history ——————————————————————————————— This vulnerability is medium, and … Read more