Vulnerabilities

Team Ghostshell Allegedly Dumps 1.6 M Aerospace, Nanotechnology Records

Hacktivist collective Team Ghostshell is claiming this morning to have spilled 1.6 million accounts from a handful of companies in the aerospace, nanotechnology, banking, law, education and government realm, a hack the group deems Project White Fox.The group claims White Fox is its “final stand” this year in a lengthy diatribe posted to  Pastebin. The post goes on about internet freedom, espionage and trolling before addressing the actual leak.

Microsoft Fixing 11 Vulnerabilities for December Patch Tuesday

Microsoft announced today that it plans on shipping seven bulletins, five critical, two important, for the December edition of its monthly patch Tuesday security bulletin release cycle.The year’s last scheduled batch of patches will address 11 vulnerabilities in all currently supported operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer (IE 6-10), Office and the company’s Server Software.

Trusteer: More Chrome, 64-bit Windows Malware to Come in 2013

Tis the season for predictions and security firm Trusteer checks in today with a handful for the upcoming New Year. In a post on the company’s blog, CTO Amit Klein distills Trusteer’s top ideas into an infographic,. The company predicts the security landscape will see more exploits, specifically Man-in-the-Browser malware, targeting Google’s Chrome browser, the further emergence of native 64-bit Windows malware and what the firm claims will be a more drawn out malware lifecycle.

Six Security Flaws Fixed in BIND 9.9.2

by Dennis Fisher

A new version of the BIND DNS server software is available, fixing six security vulnerabilities and a long list of other bugs. BIND 9.9.2-P1 is mainly a security update and most of the issues it fixes are crashes and not remote code execution flaws.

Twitter Downplays SMS-Spoofing Issue

by Dennis Fisher

Twitter officials say that a researcher’s claims that the service is open to an SMS-spoofing vulnerability are not completely accurate, and that Twitter users in the United States are not vulnerable to the attack. Moxie Marlinspike of Twitter’s security team said that the company in August had stopped allowing users to post messages using SMS longcodes in countries, such as the U.S., where posting via a shortcode is available.

Bug Hunter Finds ‘Blended Threat’ Targeting Yahoo Web Site

by Anne Saita

A Romanian bug hunter has discovered a “blended threat” targeting Yahoo’s Developer Network Web site that allows unauthorized access to Yahoo users’ emails and private profile data.At a security conference Sunday, Sergiu Dragos Bogdan demonstrated an abbreviated version of an attack using the YQL console on developer.yahoo.com. Yahoo Query Language is the company’s proprietary programming language and used to test queries against Yahoo databases. Authenticated users also can access tables with their own Yahoo account data, such as e-mails and profile data, to mount queries.

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