Tageszusammenfassung - Montag 17-09-2012

End-of-Shift report

Timeframe: Freitag 14-09-2012 18:00 − Montag 17-09-2012 18:00 Handler: Stephan Richter Co-Handler: Otmar Lendl

Oracle BTM FlashTunnelService Remote Code Execution

Topic: Oracle BTM FlashTunnelService Remote Code Execution Risk: High Text:## # This file is part of the Metasploit Framework and may be subject to # redistribution and commercial restrictions. Please...

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/securityalert_database/~3/26umQooi1WY/WLB-2012090145


EFF Challenges Tracking-Services Patent Used to Threaten Cities Across the U.S.

"San Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is challenging a dangerous patent used to wrongfully demand payment from cities and other municipalities that employ public tracking systems to tell transit passengers if their bus or train is on time. Today, EFF with the help of the Samuelson Law, Technology, and Public Policy Clinic at Berkeley Law, filed a request with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), urging reexamination of the legitimacy of the ArrivalStar...

https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-challenges-tracking-services-patent-used-threaten-cities-across-us


Information Commissioner criticises dreamed up EU cookie directive

"The Information Commissioner Christopher Graham has questioned the effectiveness of the EU cookie directive, suggesting that it was "dreamed up by politicians in Brussels" without the appropriate market research to back it up. Speaking at the launch of a new report called The Data Dialogue by think tank Demos, Graham said that policies around the use of personal data by companies and public sector organisations need to be evidence-based...."

http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/information-commissioner-criticises-dreamed-up-eu-cookie-directive?opendocument&utm_source=topnews&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=topnews


Anonymous didnt steal from the FBI after all - new conspiracy theories needed!

"A techie named David Schuetz at security consultancy Intrepidus Group has done something so obvious, so simple, and so tellingly useful, that Im going to go all out and call it a stroke of genius. A week ago, a person called Anonymous published one-million-and-one stolen Apple device IDs. (Theres always room for numerological whimsy in hacking circles.)This Anonymous person then blamed the FBI - crimes are always someone elses fault if youre a hacker - by claiming that the data was stolen...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/09/11/fbi-data-leak-of-apple-udids-came-from-somewhere-elsanonymous-didnt-steal-from-fbi-after-all/


Vuln: ISC DHCP IPv6 Lease Expiration Handling Denial of Service Vulnerability

ISC DHCP IPv6 Lease Expiration Handling Denial of Service Vulnerability

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55530


Vuln: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent CVE-2012-0271 Remote Integer Overflow Vulnerability

Novell GroupWise Internet Agent CVE-2012-0271 Remote Integer Overflow Vulnerability

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55551