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The Department of Homeland Security’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CLCR) has determined that the DHS’s warrantless, and often suspicion-less, search and seizure of electronics devices at U.S. borders does not violate the Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable search or seizure.
Virtualization software maker VMware issued an update last Thursday resolving a virtual machine communication interface (VMCI) vulnerability in its ESX Server, Workstation, Fusion and View products that could lead to a privilege escalation if unpatched.According to the VMware security advisory, a local attacker could potentially exploit a control code handling vulnerability in vmci.sys in order to tamper with memory allocation in the VMCI code and eventually obtain elevated privileges on Windows-based hosts and guest operating systems.
Microsoft announced yesterday it will ship 12 bulletins addressing 57 vulnerabilities in the February 2013 Patch Tuesday release of security updates. Five of the updates, which Microsoft will release Tuesday, received “critical” ratings while the remaining seven are considered “important.”
The latest version of a phone number harvesting tool offers its users the ability to trawl the public web and collect mobile phone numbers indexed on sites that ask visitors for them, according to a Webroot report.
Every year it seems that security-related news advances further from its roots in national security circles, IT departments, and the antivirus industry into the mainstream consciousness. From July to the end of year was no exception. However, despite a handful of flashy security stories, F-Secure claims that the second half of 2012 was really about things that rarely (if ever) come up in local and national news: botnets, ZeroAccess in particular, Java and other Web exploits, and the ubiquitous Zeus banking Trojan.
Are you a self-starter with little or no technical skills looking to join the rapidly expanding, ethically dubious cybercrime industry? If you answered yes to this question, then the do-it-yourself, HTTP-based botnet profiled on Webroot by Dancho Danchev may be just the opportunity you’ve been looking for.
As frequently targeted, high-value companies continue fortifying their defenses, FireEye researchers claim that attackers are increasingly setting their sights on the affiliated but not-as-well-protected third-party organizations that do business with them.
Hackers targeted and compromised computer networks at United States Department of Energy headquarters in Washington DC two weeks ago, according to a report published by the Washington Free Beacon earlier this morning.
A buffer overflow could occur in VideoLAN’s VLC cross-platform multimedia player when attempting to parse a specially crafted advanced systems format (ASF) movie, a researcher reported.
An unusual new strain of ransomware makes good on its threat, doing what the majority of other varieties only claim to do. The Trojan actually encrypts data on infected machines, effectively rendering certain files inaccessible to users on compromised computers in order to block removal.
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